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18 | Amateur Rocket photographer | RGV Aerial Photography Pecan Island photographer | Mechanical Engineering Freshman

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Joined March 2022
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FLIGHT FIFTEEN CATCH OF BUST (headphones recommended)
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Trying to watch Starship flight 142 in the year 2059 (They are still trying to catch the ship) and it genuinley explodes on the pad but your 40 second lunch break at your unpaid OpenAI "job" is over so you kinda just gotta forget about it
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A sentence so beautiful that I actually cried tears of joy.
BREAKING: Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs, per the Guardian.
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I need to start mentally preparing for my trip to Starbase TX. Cant wait to see everyone there 😁
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It happened again
🚨 In response 🚨 China has published pictures taken on their spysats of the ISS and of a Maxar satellite, a similar one to the satellite that shot pictures of the Chinese secret spaceplane.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The images of a Maxar satellite (Sep 2025) and ISS (Oct 1 2025) were published by China's commercial Jilin-1 satellites, predating and unrelated to the recent US DIA spaceplane report. scmp.com/news/china/sci… universemagazine.com/en/vantors-res… theaviationist.com/2026/10/27/cle…
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I still don’t wanna get my hopes up too much, but it is looking extremely possible now that I go to Starbase for flight 15.
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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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They’ll never make me hate you, Ares I
ARES LAUNCH ANNIVERSARY!!! Since it’s the 17 year anniversary of the first and only launch in the Ares program wanted to share some of the more rare images I have saved of the Ares-1X
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I love your belt @astro_anil
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I haven’t had a break from college work in a week. My ADD meds are out. I missed my first class yesterday because I didn’t get enough rest and I missed my alarm.
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Ares I what if....
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First starship flight to use raptor 4
Replying to @XFreeze
Raptor 4 will be 300 tons of thrust at sea level and hopefully about the same mass
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An unstoppable air leak on the ISS' Zvezda module forces permanent closure of its compartment, in turn requiring redocking of all future Russian cargo ships between two ports for cargo delivery and orbit corrections. DETAILS: russianspaceweb.com/2026.htm…
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Here is a starbase recap featuring footage our live cameras caught in the past few days. Let's start off, of course, with today's Booster 22 static fire at the Launch Site. More clips in the replies ⬇️
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I have so many questions about this image and I’d like to know everyone’s thoughts about it. Why is there an office inside the prop transfer demo starship? Why does it have ventilation? Could ‘prop transfer demo’ not necessarily mean a tanker starship? If this is a crewed variant of starship, is it based off of HLS? What part of the upper ship is this in? If this is to be a prop transfer demo ship that actually flies, is it possible that it is the uncrewed HLS demo?
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Axiom personally giving me the perfect 360 rotating suit model to help make my replica in the future just because I asked a really long time ago
.@NASA and @Axiom_Space are advancing both the #AxEMU as well as a tailored configuration called the Sortie suit for moonwalkers to use during the early @NASAArtemis missions. The Sortie suit doesn’t replace the AxEMU but is a parallel effort to ensure flexibility in mission architecture. The Sortie configuration spacesuit is designed for short-duration lunar surface excursions.
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“Artemis Acceleration” more like accelerate this speech goddamn
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WHERE IS KASANE TETO
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Nine tools, built into one printer. A New Tech to Swap. Bambu Lab H3C · Nov 3, 9 AM EST Sign up to get notified first: share.bambulab.com/4zzOIqB
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Mocked up a Starship telemetry ui: Tries to retain the new aesthetic style but brings back the information offered by the OG Also retaining the new mission max alt/speed sliders and the 0.1km altitude inc. The only downside is it ate up a bunch of space from the timeline.
I miss the days of being able to gather meaningful data from Starship flight telemetry. 😞
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New Pecan Island Job listings. New jobs include: Environmental Health & Safety • Sr. Construction Safety Engineer • Sr. Environmental Engineer • Sr. Manager, Environmental Health & Safety Marketing & Communications • Communications Lead - Pecan Island Government Affairs • Sr. Government affairs manager spacex.com/careers/jobs?loca…
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