Propulsion Engineer building rockets for a living. @ISUnet & @UCNZ alum. Runner and traveler. Views are my own. Living the dream.

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Joined March 2009
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Freaking inconel Centaur, that is fully Just Corp shit right there.
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First time seeing a Jumo 004 jet engine, this of course powered the ME 262 and the Arado Ar 234. Though this one has seen better days...
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I knew the @Lilium test bed was saved and ended up in a museum, little did I know it would be the one I visited today!
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Iain Finer retweeted
๐— ๐—œ๐—จ๐—ฅ๐—” ๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—จ๐—ฝ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ: ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ฑ-๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ October is a milestone-packed month for our MIURA 5 program, as we continue turning our launch system into a reality. Hereโ€™s whatโ€™s taking shape across the program: โ–ช๏ธLauncher qualification: MIURA 5 is undergoing system-level qualification, with three units manufactured. โ–ช๏ธIndustrial scale-up: Advancing our production capabilities to accelerate production and prepare for the next phase. โ–ช๏ธLaunch infrastructure: Progressing ground systems, civil works, and launch operations to build the foundations for liftoff. The road to launch is taking shape. Every milestone advances MIURA 5 towards operational readiness. ๐ŸŽฅ Watch the full MIURA 5 Progress Update here: youtube.com/watch?v=Z6in6nupโ€ฆ
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Our Taiga team @Nord_Space is next level. Relentless beyond measure. Launch authorization seems imminent, a historic launch authorization for Canada no less ๐Ÿคซ Testing Taiga on the new NightFox test cell at Area 66 before shipping out to make sure she still likes to sing, and boy does she ever. Next stop SLC-02 Pad 2A at our Atlantic Spaceport Complex in beautiful Newfoundland and Labrador, later this year.
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Mojave Sphinx Heavy firing all boosters ๐Ÿ”ฅ Photo by @Pad33space
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To carry on with cool things, here is an ME 163 and its rocket engine, I tried to get a good picture of the engine injector.
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Bluestreak. Unfortunately, could not get any closer.
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MA-3 Atlas engine section falling footage. That's a really good tracking!
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World's first amateur turbopumped engine tested by OpenTurbopumps.
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โœ’๏ธSEBIT First Test Flight: Root-Cause Analysis Report Submitted and Joint Investigation Underway INNOSPACE has submitted its internal root-cause analysis report on the early termination of SEBITโ€™s first test flight, conducted on August 19 at the Alcรขntara Space Center in Brazil, to CENIPA and is currently participating in the joint investigation. Based on telemetry collected during the flight, INNOSPACE identified areas requiring improvement in the control algorithm governing the four fins mounted at the lower section of the vehicle, which control the rocketโ€™s attitude and direction. The company is now using actual in-flight data to refine the fin control algorithm as well as related design and test procedures. The flight also provided an opportunity to validate INNOSPACEโ€™s proprietary non-pyrotechnic Flight Termination System (FTS), which operated normally in accordance with its designed sequence. Building on the data and experience gained from this flight, INNOSPACE is preparing for a follow-on verification flightand will continue to enhance SEBITโ€™s flight performance and operational stability.โœ… โ€”โ€”โ€”โ€” โœ’๏ธSEBIT ์ฒซ ์‹œํ—˜๋น„ํ–‰ ์›์ธ๋ถ„์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ ์ œ์ถœ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๋™์กฐ์‚ฌ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ด๋…ธ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 8์›” 19์ผ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์งˆ ์•Œ์นธํƒ€๋ผ ์šฐ์ฃผ์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ SEBIT ์ฒซ ์‹œํ—˜๋น„ํ–‰ ์กฐ๊ธฐ์ค‘๋‹จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ž์ฒด ์›์ธ๋ถ„์„ ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ CENIPA์— ์ œ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ , ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ณต๋™์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„ํ–‰ ์ค‘ ํ™•๋ณดํ•œ ๊ณ„์ธก๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋น„ํ–‰์ฒด ํ•˜๋‹จ์˜ 4๊ฐœ ํ•€(fin)์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•œ ์ž์„ธยท๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์ œ์–ด ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์—์„œ ๋ณด์™„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹ค์ œ ๋น„ํ–‰ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•€ ์ œ์–ด ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜๊ณผ ์„ค๊ณ„ยท์‹œํ—˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ํ•˜์—ฌ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋น„ํ–‰์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด๋…ธ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋…์ž ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๋น„ํ™”์•ฝ์‹ ๋น„ํ–‰์ข…๋‹จ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(FTS)๋„ ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ •์ƒ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋…ธ์ŠคํŽ˜์ด์Šค๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋น„ํ–‰์—์„œ ํ™•๋ณดํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์™€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ›„์† ๊ฒ€์ฆ๋น„ํ–‰์„ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ , SEBIT์˜ ๋น„ํ–‰ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ๊ณผ ์šด์šฉ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋†’์—ฌ๊ฐˆ ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.โœ… #INNOSPACE #SEBIT #TestFlight #FlightData #FTS #Suborbital #SpaceTechnology
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Good flight today, almost 10min before the low batt warning. Autotune flights up next, then I can finally fly some missions. Anyone have camera reccomendations so I can watch the flight in the gnd station software? DJI O4 pro wld be good but $$$๐Ÿ˜ฌ
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Book 11 of 2026. Struggled with this one, maybe it was because I know a bit about space already, but found it hard to read.
Book 10 of 2026, kinda. Been reading this on and off for a while but finally finished it. The definitive source on the ME 262, everything is archive referenced, lots of cool things including my fav variants. Worth having on the shelf if you like jets and history!
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On the recent topic of technical intelligence evaluations, one very good aspect of the extremely thorough natuure of German WW2 intelligence reports, is that they were SO detailed and complete, I often use them to get information on British aircraft and engines because they contain information more detailed than many surviving British reports on our own equiptment. Like this Mosquito construction evaluation, Mosquitos were so fast it was incredibly difficult to intercept, but because they often did extremely dangerous low level operations, a large proportion of those which were lost, were caught by low level flak. No other allied aircraft in all of WW2 features more often in German Air Ministry discussions.
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