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Remote cam ops with NSF. Occasional Starbase helper. Lover of launch pads and rockets, bbq food and beer, sunsets and sunrises.

UK/TX
Joined April 2024
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Josh Platts retweeted
BREAKING: @SierraSpaceCo's Dream Chaser has received a Re-entry licence from the @FAAnews. This authorizes a return to Vandenberg Space Force Base from Earth orbit. Re-entry, however, requires Dream Chaser to launch, and when (or if) that happens is a very open question. 📷 @SierraSpaceCo
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I’m soooo ready to be back in NYC, Casey Neistat explains best how this city can just be so addicting. If you can make it here, you really can make it anywhere.
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Josh Platts retweeted
Raw material comes in. A spacecraft goes out. Take a walk through our structures fabrication area with AstroForge's Head of Spacecraft Systems and Lead Fabrication Technician to get a behind-the-scenes look into how the team makes it happen.
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Josh Platts retweeted
That is what's coming in November.
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Time to start getting properly excited! 😆
Slight move to the right for Flight 15. Vehicle readiness is looking good, so it's likely regulatory approval for the catches is coming into play.
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Josh Platts retweeted
Welcome to the team, Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman. Let’s Dare Mighty Things! 🚀
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Starship Update with Max Evans (@_MaxQ_) youtu.be/vKqb6w5FeEs
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Josh Platts retweeted
We're hiring a Media Resident at @AstroForge! You'll be working directly alongside myself and the team to craft and tell our story to the world. Check out the link below to learn more and apply. jobs.gem.com/astroforge-io/a…
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Josh Platts retweeted
Ship 42 static fires complete. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 performed a full duration, six-engine static fire, and fired a single Raptor engine to simulate a deorbit burn
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Just spectacular. I'm excited for the future!
The core stage of the Artemis III rocket is officially stacked.
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Josh Platts retweeted
SpaceX's Starbase Vehicle Roulette continued last night as Ship 43 returned to the Production Site following its visit to the pad for Chopstick testing. Meanwhile its potential Flight 16 partner Booster 23 made a return trip to Massey's potentially for more cryo testing, where Ship 42 (flight 15) is waiting following its static fire testing. @NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase
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Starship Flight 16: Ship 43 has returned to the production site from its Pad 2 chopstick tests, with Booster 23 set to head out to Massey's for cryotesting. This duo is expected to sail to KSC to be the first Starship flight from 39A. nsf.live/starbase
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Josh Platts retweeted
So...we expected Ship 43 to go back to Production during tonight's first delay. But we had assumed the second delay, to Massey's, was just for a stand. We may have been wrong. Cuz that's Booster 23 in the doorway. 🎥: nsf.live/starbase | @NASASpaceflight
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Josh Platts retweeted
Ship 42 just wrapped a full 6-engine static fire at Massey’s, following its single-engine test yesterday. Flight 15 gearing up quickly @NASASpaceflight
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Josh Platts retweeted
Ship 42 has conducted a 6 engine full-duration Static Fire ahead of Flight 14. Full Steam Ahead! @NASASpaceflight
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Starship Flight 15: Ship 42 conducts a six-engine static fire test. ➡️youtube.com/watch?v=C0lC4tb1…
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Josh Platts retweeted
Pegasus was originally designed to transport Space Shuttle external tanks and was later modified to carry SLS core stages and other related hardware. This time, however, it has been tasked with transporting a New Glenn GS-2 stage to the Stennis Space Center. You’ll Thank Me Later serves as SpaceX’s transportation workhorse for Starship hardware between Cape Canaveral and Starbase, Texas. It is designed to fit either a Super Heavy booster or a Ship.
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Josh Platts retweeted
Space freighters. Scenes from this morning at the Kennedy Space Center turn basin, where NASA’s Pegasus and SpaceX’s Marmac 31 "You’ll Thank Me Later" barges are docked. This is the first occasion they've been seen together in such close proximity, offering a rare opportunity to witness two vessels purpose-built to transport large spaceflight hardware. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/spacecoast
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