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It’s true! We lit KegRocket’s engine for the first time today, and the rocket performed great. It’s been a long road to get here!
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The path to launch is filled with obstacles and success is only possible through the tireless efforts of many working together towards a common goal. “Critical Path” continues the ongoing Starship series, following SpaceX engineers through the final days before launch of the first Starship V3 and the challenges that come with development of the world’s most powerful and fully reusable rocket.
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Excited to announce we flew our second mission, MicroBrew-2, on @SpaceX's Starfall Demo mission yesterday!
This launch carried a payload called the Brewery Archive Space Exposure Demonstrator which held dozens of different strains of brewing yeasts, distiller’s yeasts, and wine yeasts from around the world. (Hint: we miiiight be announcing some insanely cool new products soon...👀) We also included seeds from a bunch of native Texas plants, including Bluebonnets! Next we'll analyze the yeast strains and seeds to see how they adapted to the spaceflight environment.
This was the successor to our MicroBrew-1 and OASIS missions that were performed on the International Space Station last year. In MicroBrew-1, an astronaut combined wort and yeast (the same two ingredients using in brewing beer) so we could study alcohol fermentation in microgravity. The OASIS experiment successfully grew the first-ever crops in soil in space. Humanity is still in the early days of orbital manufacturing but we aim to stay at the forefront of it!
Huge shoutout to the SpaceX team for the incredible opportunity to fly on a new vehicle. And we have some more exciting announcements coming up related to this mission so stay tuned!
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For the past two months I’ve been building a liquid rocket engine AND test stand as cheap as possible WITHOUT compromising safety, reliability, or quality. In total I’ve spent ~ $1,000 to build a remotely operated modular stand, and robust rocket engine. Fired 6x yesterday!
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA
ALT Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters. Credit: NASA
ALT A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image. Credit: NASA
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind a hemisphere of the Moon. Credit: NASA
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Nominal translunar injection burn complete. The Artemis II crew is officially on the way to the Moon.
America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon. This time, farther than ever before.
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The Starship factory is stunning
SpaceX COO @Gwynne_Shotwell:
“I love working for @elonmusk.”
“He’s funny— he’s hilarious actually.”
“He focuses on things that I would never have thought were important.”
“One is— beautiful spaces.”
“This is one of the most beautiful factories I have ever seen.”
Via @TIME
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Watch Starship's tenth flight test → spacex.com/launches/starship… teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1yoKMPRje…
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This is nature's periodic reminder that we are responsible for running arbitrarily operationally effective space programs.
The last time something this large didn't miss us by a whisker it ended the dinosaurs.
They didn't have a space program. We do, but ours can't even figure out how to get back to the Moon or return samples from Mars. It only just *saw* this colossal hypervelocity space mountain.
Until we have the operational capacity to nullify threats like this, we're in the dinosaur space program category.
There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood!
Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does provide a rare opportunity to study an object that originated outside of our solar system: science.nasa.gov/blogs/plane…
ALT Diagram showing the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. Planetary orbits are depicted as colored circles around the Sun, with the comet’s path shown as a white arc entering from the bottom left and exiting toward the top right. Labels mark the orbits of Jupiter, Mars, Earth, and the Sun, with 3I/ATLAS making its closest approach to the Sun in October.
