Happy @SpaceX IPO day!
For the first time, everyday retail investors will be able to directly own a piece of a company whose mission is the most ambitious in human history. Congrats to the whole SpaceX team. Ad Astra! 🚀
@SpaceX@Starlink 24 @Starlink satellites deployed confirmed ✅
Real question: At what point do we stop calling it satellites
and start calling it "the sky internet"?🥱
Peek inside👀
The Electric Arc Shock Tube Facility at Ames is a one-of-a-kind facility that has two shock tubes that can generate some of the fastest shock waves in the world.
It simulates extremely hot, high-energy gas environments similar to what spacecraft experience during atmospheric re-entry on Earth and entry into other planetary atmospheres.
These tests give scientists insights into spacecraft heating data, helping advance thermal protection system designs for future deep space exploration.
@NASAAmes Me: Sir that's literally a spaceship oven
Because whatever NASA’s using for heat shields,
I need it for my pot of soup fr 😂
If it survives this tube, it survives coming home. 🔥
#OTD in 2008, our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launched to view the universe with its gamma-ray eyes, collecting the highest-energy form of light.
What’s Fermi been up to? Check out some recent news in this thread! ⬇️
@NASAUniverse Fermi telescope: *launches 2008*
Also Fermi 2026: Hold my gamma rays, watch this
Found a neutron star so magnetized it supercharged a supernova explosion.
Space is wild bro. 17 years and still cooking discoveries 🔥
What if we make the old ones last longer?
Katalyst mission = infrastructure mindset.
Like fixing bridges instead of building new ones every 5 years.
Swift gets more years. Taxpayers save billions. Science wins.🔥🔥🔥
We will hold a media teleconference at 11am ET on June 17 to preview the Katalyst Space mission to boost the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Learn how to listen in: https://t.co/mu6x0jmqUF
@WhiteHouse Bro they really named it "Fostering the Future Financial Initiative"
Could’ve just said "New Money Rules" 😂
We Will Begin Shortly = my anxiety beginning shortly
Someone translate this into English when it drops pls
@JackKuhr@shaunmmaguire If he’s right, everything changes. Internet, manufacturing, mining… all off Earth. If he’s wrong… well, SpaceX still lands rockets like it’s nothing.
Hype or real? 👇
On its final approach to Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured our first closeup of Phoebe OTD in 2004 at a distance of just 2,068 km.
Phoebe is unlike Saturn's other moons: It orbits Saturn at a distance almost four times greater than its nearest neighbor, has an inclined, retrograde orbit, and is very dark compared to other Saturnian moons. Scientists have concluded that Phoebe it is a captured centaur that originated in the Kuiper belt.