#  @DJSnM Scott Manley Scott Manley posts on X about elon musk, spacex, money, $7846t the most. They currently have [----------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::92356429/interactions)  - [--] Week [----------] +1,620% - [--] Month [----------] +488% - [--] Months [----------] +65% - [--] Year [-----------] -16% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::92356429/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -26% - [--] Month [---] +20% - [--] Months [---] +39% - [--] Year [-----] -11% ### Followers: [----------] [#](/creator/twitter::92356429/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +0.43% - [--] Month [-------] +1.70% - [--] Months [-------] +7.70% - [--] Year [-------] +12% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::92356429/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [us election](/list/us-election) [musicians](/list/musicians) **Social topic influence** [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk), [spacex](/topic/spacex) #662, [money](/topic/money), [$7846t](/topic/$7846t), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [starship](/topic/starship), [if you](/topic/if-you), [in the](/topic/in-the), [starlink](/topic/starlink), [the first](/topic/the-first) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@spacex](/creator/undefined) [@peterrhague](/creator/undefined) [@rookisaacman](/creator/undefined) [@sciguyspace](/creator/undefined) [@erdayastronaut](/creator/undefined) [@nasa](/creator/undefined) [@drchriscombs](/creator/undefined) [@nasaspaceflight](/creator/undefined) [@swiftonsecurity](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@cjhandmer](/creator/undefined) [@wingod](/creator/undefined) [@drphiltill](/creator/undefined) [@futurejurvetson](/creator/undefined) [@skdh](/creator/undefined) [@spacestation](/creator/undefined) [@jeffbezos](/creator/undefined) [@blueorigin](/creator/undefined) [@planet4589](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [StarShip (STARSHIP)](/topic/starship) [StarLink (STARL)](/topic/starlink) [Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)](/topic/tesla) [ORBIT (GRIFT)](/topic/orbit) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Oxygen (OXY)](/topic/oxygen) [Intuitive Machines, Inc. (LUNR)](/topic/intuitive-machines) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Polar SSO Datacenters starting at 500km and going to over 200km. And apparently I need to tell everyone that these are brighter than the real things because I want them to be visible. Unlike the people who need to be told this or feel the need to tell everyone thing" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021310699977289858) 2026-02-10T19:49Z 646.2K followers, 169.9K engagements "Observing negative correlation between spaceflight experience and height for the Artemis II crew" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018797693104255220) 2026-02-03T21:24Z 646.2K followers, 99.6K engagements "So I made the objects so hot they glow which seems suboptimal but this is all the starlink satellites currently in orbit using Universe Sandbox @UniverseSandbox" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020611903446458738) 2026-02-08T21:33Z 646.2K followers, 589.3K engagements "For all the people pointing out that the Starlink satellites in the video I posted are too large - here you go a visualization which is both factually correct and objectively useless" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020635885986075099) 2026-02-08T23:08Z 646.2K followers, 87.1K engagements "Please stop supporting terrible accounts like this" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020886286220108228) 2026-02-09T15:43Z 646.2K followers, 89.2K engagements "Taking some cues from SpaceX's datacenter submission to the FCC - here's [-----] satellites in a single shell with [--] degrees inclination - obviously this doesn't work at night they provide extra compute during daylight hours for people at work" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020942113236713798) 2026-02-09T19:25Z 646.2K followers, 149K engagements "NTSB Report on a [---] that hit turbulence on descent the trace shows -0.5g followed by 1.8g and [--] flight attendents who were preparing the cabin fell into the ceiling and back onto the ground: Good thing the passengers had all fastened their seatbelts when instructed" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021312541238960478) 2026-02-10T19:57Z 646.2K followers, 14.3K engagements "If the satellites were visible from the ground this is what sunset looks like with [------] satellites in a SSO halo" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021324095535841322) 2026-02-10T20:43Z 646.2K followers, 156K engagements "So based on the SpaceX FCC filing here's a SSO halo and multiple [--] degree LEO shells:" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021332723764429006) 2026-02-10T21:17Z 646.2K followers, 407.6K engagements "I did actually have a near mid air collision with a bunch of party balloons once was inbound to grass valley when and saw them about [--] seconds before they flew past. Cal Fire was operating from The field so I let them know. They laughed because they had bigger planes" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021763918042214701) 2026-02-12T01:50Z 646.2K followers, 28K engagements "If the failures are part of the plan the best way to stop people making a story out of nothing is to make your own story making highlight reels. Get the slow mo guys on site. "Eric you are trying to make a story out of nothing." https://t.co/tnEyvC8gGD "Eric you are trying to make a story out of nothing." https://t.co/tnEyvC8gGD" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021788348743045621) 2026-02-12T03:28Z 646.2K followers, 37.6K engagements "Great tracking shot from Max showing a not so great solid booster from Northrop Grumman. (Originally developed by Hercules) ULA fished boosters out of the ocean to help fix this issue but still we see almost the same nozzle burn through and separation. Tracking footage from this morning's launch of @ulalaunch's Vulcan rocket & the USSF-87 mission for @USSpaceForce - filmed from a perspective [---] miles to the west of SLC-41. SRM nozzle burn through plainly visible on the right-hand side of the vehicle protruding in the https://t.co/1oBpcRf3Ix Tracking footage from this morning's launch of" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021942868949315886) 2026-02-12T13:42Z 646.2K followers, 21.1K engagements "The core propelled by Blue Origins BE-4 engine handled the difference compensated and completed its mission. We had an observation early during flight on one of the four solid rocket motors the team is currently reviewing the data. The booster upper stage and spacecraftcontinued to perform on a nominal trajectory. https://t.co/lZ7HOsrit0 We had an observation early during flight on one of the four solid rocket motors the team is currently reviewing the data. The booster upper stage and spacecraftcontinued to perform on a nominal trajectory. https://t.co/lZ7HOsrit0" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021943699987710132) 2026-02-12T13:45Z 646.2K followers, 37.1K engagements "The GEM 63XL solid motors have had [--] in flight nozzle separations but the GEM63 used on the Atlas V have no issues. The XL versions are longer and that gives them 20% more thrust with a shorter burn time. Putting more stress on the throat and nozzle on the XL" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021948053830479907) 2026-02-12T14:02Z 646.2K followers, 22.6K engagements "@ToughSf Also its worth noting that since hydrogen is a moderator it increases the reactivity of the engine so reactor criticality depends on fuel flow" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2021990987145605231) 2026-02-12T16:53Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements "Once again respect to the GNC team. Remember a few years ago when a Soyuz launch failed because the angle of the launch pad was [---] degrees different from what the guidance system expected @ABernNYC @mdcainjr The Vulcan vehicle rolls during its wild ride to orbit in this tracking video captured south of the launch site by Max Q Productions @CarstensPete https://t.co/FvmkrvJYnz @ABernNYC @mdcainjr The Vulcan vehicle rolls during its wild ride to orbit in this tracking video captured south of the launch site by Max Q Productions @CarstensPete https://t.co/FvmkrvJYnz" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022029780829540837) 2026-02-12T19:27Z 646.2K followers, 76.8K engagements "A couple of weeks ago I did the math on the energy content of donuts for launching rockets. Heres a more down to earth version of the same math. A Polish YouTuber just heated his house by burning [---] Lidl donuts in his stove. 14C22C. Burned for 5+ hours. Donuts have almost the same energy value as wood pellets - but at [------] per donut they're insanely cheaper. Fat Thursday in Poland just solved energy crisis.🍩 https://t.co/ZPSAkWbeoz A Polish YouTuber just heated his house by burning [---] Lidl donuts in his stove. 14C22C. Burned for 5+ hours. Donuts have almost the same energy value as wood" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022358599637610910) 2026-02-13T17:13Z 646.2K followers, 69.8K engagements "@brookeofstars I love that her daughter is dressed for the occasion" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022358894576832744) 2026-02-13T17:15Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements "@aaronburnett Breaking: Water is wet. The Sky is blue" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022374589523992868) 2026-02-13T18:17Z 646.2K followers, 15.9K engagements "I used my web tool to recreate this and add in the fixes on approach it looks like they were tracking the RNAV (GPS) Z Rwy [--] which has them remaining above 9100' until they see the field. There was an overcast layer at 9200' and broken clouds below over the field. Notably there's a similarly named approach that follows the valley and would have had minimums that would have descended into the terrain. NTSB is investigating the crash of an Epic Aircraft E1000 in Steamboat Springs Colorado. NTSB is investigating the crash of an Epic Aircraft E1000 in Steamboat Springs Colorado" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022388540324397067) 2026-02-13T19:12Z 646.2K followers, 30.3K engagements "@gwgerrond @ToughSf It's better in almost every way except specific impulse" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022399433657434297) 2026-02-13T19:56Z 646.2K followers, [---] engagements "One other random nugget about Babylon [--] I just remembered is that Lauren Sanchez appears in one episode and she went to space on NS-31. And then married Jeff Bezos. ISN Breaking News: (cc: @straczynski) Babylon [--] Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube "The strategy involves posting one episode each week allowing audiences to experience the story at a paced rhythm that mirrors the original broadcast schedule." https://t.co/Z0JM8cGEd8 ISN Breaking News: (cc: @straczynski) Babylon [--] Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube "The strategy involves posting one episode each week allowing audiences to experience the" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022486007682339012) 2026-02-14T01:40Z 646.2K followers, 21.7K engagements "Again congratulatons to the guidance team Orbital Precision. https://t.co/DfL5TZXvLR Orbital Precision. https://t.co/DfL5TZXvLR" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022489325712351517) 2026-02-14T01:53Z 646.2K followers, 26.5K engagements "Someone shared onboard footage from the Superbowl flyover. And they had the good taste to not cover up the engine sounds with music. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Hr6pxF3CL58 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Hr6pxF3CL58" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022559861561766005) 2026-02-14T06:33Z 646.2K followers, 30K engagements "@dpoddolphinpro Its an existing highway that was upgraded for use as an emergency runway" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022688029685748136) 2026-02-14T15:03Z 646.2K followers, 54.2K engagements "Lucas really made a point of pushing film technology setting up Lucasfilm ILM and Skywalker Sound - his companies worked to improve the film experience from planning shooting post-production and presentation. The audio and visual experience of movies owes a lot to his vision. George Lucas has been named as the 4th Greatest American Innovator in a list by Forbes of the top [---] living innovators in celebration of Americas 250th birthday. Lucas is only being beaten by Bill Gates Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. https://t.co/aSI1N8M542 George Lucas has been named as the 4th Greatest American Innovator" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022753652675637451) 2026-02-14T19:23Z 646.2K followers, 20.3K engagements "I met an artist last night who hand sculpts Hobo Nickels - takes and existing coin and etches new designs into them. The amount of work in these is incredible:" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022756318625611878) 2026-02-14T19:34Z 646.2K followers, 11K engagements "More info if youre interested he also did an me for Mae Jemison" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022756923284820420) 2026-02-14T19:36Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Xtplpctl Nah Im just doing this while hiking and I wasnt about to expend the effort to transcribe the URL on my phone" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022764465989837223) 2026-02-14T20:06Z 646.2K followers, [---] engagements "@IsaacKing314" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022765899800039822) 2026-02-14T20:12Z 646.2K followers, 10.3K engagements "@rmcentush A thousand years from now very few political figures will be remembered for anything. But announcing the discovery of cold fusion" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022859016771129701) 2026-02-15T02:22Z 646.2K followers, 16.8K engagements "@dpoddolphinpro Theres a private airfield near me with a runway thats bent. Id love to try landing there someday" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2022859809452863688) 2026-02-15T02:25Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements "Ive discovered the the @grok app on iOS works exceptionally well with limited bandwidth when the plain web is unusably slow I can send Grok off to run a bunch of queries and have the answers available for later. I used to put ideas into notes for later but I can send Grok off to actually find a bunch of references for me when I get back to civilization. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022925294366331023 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022925294366331023" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022925294366331023) 2026-02-15T06:45Z 646.2K followers, 27.9K engagements "Tried another hand track ISS shot and did really well until I realized Id selected the wrong camera setting and the image was blown out. I wish there was raw mode for video on the P1000" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1283620574976028674) 2020-07-16T04:32Z 640.3K followers, [---] engagements "This is great I dont think we can accurately measure the distance to the moon but we can easily see the differences across the earth" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1289789804448628737) 2020-08-02T05:07Z 640.3K followers, [---] engagements "Looks like the fairing of the Simorgh" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1476985420667711491) 2021-12-31T18:35Z 641.5K followers, [---] engagements "@smartereveryday The first computers I had booted up to a prompt with BASIC running and because games cost money we had to type them in from magazines. I have a hard time with modern containerized architectures in the cloud because its so far removed from instructions on a CPU" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1664467364296138752) 2023-06-02T03:01Z 643.2K followers, 21.5K engagements "I dont have the space to work on my car. FAA says I cant fix a plane. But when my washing machine fails Im clearing my calendar until its running again" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1733179141011439796) 2023-12-08T17:38Z 645.3K followers, 87.1K engagements "Just your average Friday Night in San Francisco" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1850013722737279232) 2024-10-26T03:16Z 645.3K followers, 1.4M engagements "So whos going to be NASA administrator Obviously this is months away but something to start thinking about. Bridenstine was popular in space community but didnt publicly endorse Trump so that may eliminate him from the running. Elon obviously isnt doing this because conflict of interest rules" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1854172409278112062) 2024-11-06T14:42Z 646.2K followers, 315.9K engagements "Look if you see something in the sky and don't know what it is don't shine a laser at it don't shoot at it. Best case scenario you miss and nobody gets hurt. Worst case you cause an actual incident that could lead to: * aircraft emergency * prosecution * alien invasion. Woman on Facebook proudly reports how her husband shone a laser at a drone which was actually @FedEx flight [----] at [----] feet. This is complete madness. https://t.co/q0I4WVYuKl Woman on Facebook proudly reports how her husband shone a laser at a drone which was actually @FedEx flight [----] at [----] feet. This is complete" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1867963795613864020) 2024-12-14T16:04Z 641.3K followers, 97.4K engagements "China demonstrating a prototype tailless next generation stealth fighter feels very much like a 'Sputnik Moment' because the US could have built something like this a long time ago but has chose other procurement strategies. Without a tail it has some pretty complicated trailing edge control surfaces - looks like [--] on each wing. It looks like there's [--] air intakes for [--] engines with one air intake on the top. This could mean a low speed stealth cruise capability using just the center engine with the underside intake closing to reduce radar returns. Of course people say 'fighter' because the" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1872331991687037186) 2024-12-26T17:21Z 645.3K followers, 1.6M engagements "We've never seen anything like this recording of a landing on another world. @fireflyspace" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1896985918663434646) 2025-03-04T18:07Z 646.2K followers, 1.7M engagements "Watch as air traffic clears the debris zones" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1897844400472178841) 2025-03-07T02:58Z 645.8K followers, 5.2M engagements "The Helix is an EVTOL which is legally an ultralight which means no pilot rating is required to fly it. Propelled by [--] props controlled with differential throttles and [--] elevons during forward flight with the wings providing lift" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1920722108759359549) 2025-05-09T06:06Z 643K followers, 444.3K engagements "I discovered this new car has a g-meter" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1927484816070512742) 2025-05-27T21:59Z 646K followers, 40.5K engagements "3.7 Terawatts. That's how much power the earth gives to the moon via tidal forces the tides get pulled around the planet lagging behind dragging across the surface exerting friction on the rotation of the earth. The moon gets slowly accelerated rising a few centimeters per year and the Earth in turn slows down" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1943848466700284340) 2025-07-12T01:42Z 644K followers, 64.4K engagements "Physics riddle: You have a sealed glass box with a drone inside you can weigh the box. You watch as the drone takes off and hovers inside the box with it motors audibly buzzing its position lights shining. As it hovers does your measurement of the box get: Heavier Lighter Stay the same Heavier Lighter Stay the same" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1944183561621295132) 2025-07-12T23:54Z 641.7K followers, 225.5K engagements "I hear an interesting sounding plane check out @live_airplanes and see it's a Piaggio Avanti didn't get my camera in time. But it looks like this took a diversion just West of Skywalker ranch on its way to Santa Rosa" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1946264017280115184) 2025-07-18T17:41Z 645.9K followers, 18.8K engagements "Learning to fly aircraft takes a lot of work a lot of training to understand the mechanics systems rules and meet the required standards. Every pilot Ive talked to sees this as a feature rather than a bug" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1953131948349767910) 2025-08-06T16:31Z 645.3K followers, 49.1K engagements "I just got an update from the Starsailor team confirming that there was a structural failure at Max Q they reached Mach [--] after [--] seconds of the planned [--] second burn but the nosecone separated and safety systems shut down the rocket. Still congratulations to the team on this flight" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1957664928636326172) 2025-08-19T04:44Z 642.9K followers, 50.3K engagements "I took a closer look at this Ultralight crash and it's not something that happened from very high up but it goes from flying fine to descent and then a moment later the blades collide and fly off. With only [--] hours of flight time it could simply be he managed to stay away from the corners of the flight envelope where blade collisions are possible. until he didn't. Not failing isn't the same thing as succeeding consider that you might be flying fine and not noticing the blades are getting within inches of colliding not aware of how close you're coming to catastrophe. I see this kind of" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1973500106654797981) 2025-10-01T21:27Z 644.1K followers, 59.4K engagements "A mysterious expert in submersibles was interviewed by the Coast Guard during the Titan investigation. His name is redacted but we barely get into the interview before it becomes obvious who it is" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1979031119161852222) 2025-10-17T03:46Z 646.2K followers, 3.5M engagements "I've been busy this weekend in Florida with the @reinventedmag Space Coast Gala which meant dressing for the occasion. I met @Astro_Cady and closed out the afterparty with music & space video DJ show. Then we all headed to the Space Bar to watch Falcon [--] launch and land" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1985351125734748606) 2025-11-03T14:19Z 645.4K followers, 20.3K engagements "I see a few people asking whether there's a better way to generate power from fission or fusion than boiling water to spin turbines. There is but it's not what you think. You can use the heat to boil Mercury and use that to run turbines. The higher temperatures means higher efficiency from the Rankine cycle. This was actually used in a handful of power plants and NASA even investigated it for spaceflight" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1992630254775787587) 2025-11-23T16:24Z 642.9K followers, 102.9K engagements "@RealJordanHuus Yeah Im really interested in the gory details here but given that its proprietary avionics software I doubt well ever know" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1994552228028584445) 2025-11-28T23:41Z 641.4K followers, 23.3K engagements "Apparently too many patent trolls were having their dubious patents nullified so the new head of the patent office is changing the rules via @eff https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-tells-patent-office-dont-cut-public-out-patent-review https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-tells-patent-office-dont-cut-public-out-patent-review" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1996312505778655595) 2025-12-03T20:16Z 646.1K followers, 24K engagements "I just found another piece of misinformation I've heard repeated by multiple flight instructors: 'Oxygen masks don't work with beards'. Started with a university study in Canada Also replicated at Embry-Riddle https://commons.erau.edu/discovery-day/db-discovery-day-2024/poster-session-2/6/ https://www.sfu.ca/science/news/2018-news/sfu-study-busts-myth-about-facial-hair-on-pilots.html https://commons.erau.edu/discovery-day/db-discovery-day-2024/poster-session-2/6/ https://www.sfu.ca/science/news/2018-news/sfu-study-busts-myth-about-facial-hair-on-pilots.html" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1998056102903284045) 2025-12-08T15:44Z 644.9K followers, 11.9K engagements "Imagine if they hadn't waster $590 million on the Flip camera we might have reached this last week Cisco has officially recovered from the [----] dot-com crash. https://t.co/P2fpEAz1ID Cisco has officially recovered from the [----] dot-com crash. https://t.co/P2fpEAz1ID" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1999189516498645296) 2025-12-11T18:48Z 643.8K followers, 30.2K engagements "So the NTSB released some video from the N257BW crash site and using that I extrapolated the existing data points through the lights trees and fence. The aircraft descended far short of the runway" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2002504991521825101) 2025-12-20T22:22Z 640.4K followers, 22.4K engagements "I hope @torybruno has great things lined up going forwards he's been a great communicator over the years and I always liked it when he'd drop comments on my videos explaining some detail I'd not been aware of. Statement from Robert Lightfoot ULA Lockheed Martin Board Chair and Kay Sears ULA Boeing Board Chair https://t.co/3QZ4P1nXVX Statement from Robert Lightfoot ULA Lockheed Martin Board Chair and Kay Sears ULA Boeing Board Chair https://t.co/3QZ4P1nXVX" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2003155324782673942) 2025-12-22T17:27Z 641.5K followers, 58.3K engagements "When I saw this I was pretty sure it was a control failure so I wrote code to take the ADS-B data and derive the aircraft dynamics and as part of that I plotted load factor (pitch up rate) vs speed and it showed a linear relationship showing there was no pitch control. #OTD in 2024: Azerbaijan Airlines J28243 an ERJ-190 crashed attempting an emergency landing in Aktau Kazakhstan: [--] of [--] aboard died. Crew reported control issues: it later surfaced jet had been hit by a Russian SAM over Grozny damaging hydraulics. https://t.co/oumBJArsXa #OTD in 2024: Azerbaijan Airlines J28243 an ERJ-190" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2004236467313553574) 2025-12-25T17:03Z 645.3K followers, 39.6K engagements "So if you're in California the reentry of Crew 11's dragon spacecraft should be visible just after 12:30am tonight look west and it'll appear as a bright slow moving meteor. If you're in SoCal you might even hear the sonic boom" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2011577179692548600) 2026-01-14T23:12Z 643K followers, 562.7K engagements "Maybe if I put enough Blue Origin visuals in my DJ set this weekend they'll let me use this soundsystem for a party. 😉 This week we completed direct field acoustic testing on our Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander a major flightqualification milestone. We surrounded the fully integrated lander with a ring of 34ft speaker towers to generate a neardiffuse acoustic field matching the New Glenn https://t.co/ngfSXw0s36 This week we completed direct field acoustic testing on our Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander a major flightqualification milestone. We surrounded the fully integrated lander with a ring of 34ft" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2011846772445102552) 2026-01-15T17:03Z 640.5K followers, 28.9K engagements "Ive occasionally thought about splitting out the aviation or nuclear physics content those videos tend to underperform compared to my general Spaceflight. But then I see that some of my biggest videos are about aircraft or nuclear physics. I think I could definitely make a disaster investigation/discussion channel but sponsors dont want to be associated with that kind of stuff. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011926405534322767 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011926405534322767" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2011926405534322767) 2026-01-15T22:20Z 644K followers, 11.2K engagements "Hot to go @FireflySpace" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2013364139062616178) 2026-01-19T21:33Z 645.6K followers, 54.7K engagements "Blue Origin aren't exactly competing with Amazon's Leo TeraWave looks like it's aimed at enterprise users with larger bandwidth needs. Introducing TeraWave: a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds up to [--] Tbps anywhere on Earth. This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise data center and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical https://t.co/xTHtItpGEh Introducing TeraWave: a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds up to [--] Tbps anywhere on Earth. This network will service tens of" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2014035743086174325) 2026-01-21T18:01Z 640.5K followers, 27.6K engagements "Another video of the engine fire from the @FireflyoSpace tour on Monday. Skye had a better zoom on her camera so we can get in close and see more detail" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2014114048783053010) 2026-01-21T23:13Z 640.9K followers, 38.5K engagements "This will use the flight proven booster from NG-2 and well have to stop joking about Blue Origin not putting any payloads into LEO New Glenns third mission NG-3 will send @AST_SpaceMobiles next generation Block [--] BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit NET late February. Learn more: https://t.co/8TCrGV8GoZ https://t.co/ViHTTcpnln New Glenns third mission NG-3 will send @AST_SpaceMobiles next generation Block [--] BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit NET late February. Learn more: https://t.co/8TCrGV8GoZ https://t.co/ViHTTcpnln" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2014345416746410401) 2026-01-22T14:32Z 640.4K followers, 41.5K engagements "Multiple companies like @VardaSpace and @voyagertech_ are hoping to take advantage of microgravity to make superior pharmaceuticals semiconductors and optical devices. So. Why Are Drugs Made In Space Better https://youtu.be/U1sH2a57eXM https://youtu.be/U1sH2a57eXM" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2014422078997533152) 2026-01-22T19:37Z 642.4K followers, 79.7K engagements "Two optical fibers made of the same ZBLAN glass but one was made in zero g" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2014444056668168327) 2026-01-22T21:04Z 640.3K followers, 115.1K engagements "@NASAWatch @NASA Also Artemis II will be taking the first toilet around the moon. Which sounds like a joke but it's just illustrative of how Orion is a different scale than the Apollo command module" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2014778391778754955) 2026-01-23T19:12Z 641.5K followers, 14.7K engagements "Looks like someone's satellite burning up over Minnesota last night: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=aWqVhnEO8_I https://www.youtube.com/watchv=aWqVhnEO8_I" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015123577843122567) 2026-01-24T18:04Z 639.9K followers, 28.4K engagements "We will be tracking this one if it ever flies New MrBeast video not only has a Starbase tour but they let him install a heatsheild tile onto a flap https://t.co/JjZ3p8totb New MrBeast video not only has a Starbase tour but they let him install a heatsheild tile onto a flap https://t.co/JjZ3p8totb" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015154881779376188) 2026-01-24T20:08Z 644.8K followers, 383.1K engagements "@NASAWatch @BEbeyond20 A friend who was at the Astro Awards last week told me that it was the best space conference they'd been to in a long time. Young people jokes that were actually funny stories that the audience actually connected with. And of course a party where people actually had fun" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015218583551537317) 2026-01-25T00:22Z 642.3K followers, 33.5K engagements "I found a NTRS paper on the Artemis II toilet the first toilet to travel beyond the Moon https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220005710/downloads/NASA%20Universal%20Waste%20Management%20System%20and%20Toilet%20Integration%20Hardware%20%20Operations%20on%20ISS%20Issues%2C%20Modifications%20and%20Accomplishments%202022%20final%20draft.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220005710/downloads/NASA%20Universal%20Waste%20Management%20System%20and%20Toilet%20Integration%20Hardware%20%20Operations%20on%20ISS%20Issues%2C%20Modifications%20and%20Accomplishments%202022%20final%20draft.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015279939852067281) 2026-01-25T04:25Z 642.4K followers, 47K engagements "To be clear while NASA selected a small number of groups to track Artemis II there's nothing stopping stopping any random person tracking it via radio emissions or optically with a telescope. NASA just selected a group it would accept data from. If you have a small telescope you should absolutely make a point of trying to see it on the trans-lunar coasts. As Artemis II travels around the Moon [--] selected volunteers from ham radio enthusiasts to commercial service providers will attempt to passively track the Orion spacecraft as it journeys to the Moon. Learn more: https://t.co/UCoKoFRtpX As" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015486746960732662) 2026-01-25T18:07Z 643K followers, 116K engagements "Im amused at how the spacecraft being unable to carry humans home is now being sold as a win for most amount of cargo returned to earth. (Presumably a Chinese space program record since the US had that whole space shuttle thing that returned much more cargo) #Shenzhou20 spaceship smashed a record carrying the largest amount of cargo ever returned to Earth in a single mission 📦 So how did the Shenzhou-21 crew pack and store all that gear before sending it home Here's an exclusive video showing every step of this unmanned return. https://t.co/L9mKWKrEBn #Shenzhou20 spaceship smashed a record" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015508092038066321) 2026-01-25T19:32Z 642.6K followers, 101.8K engagements "Yikes We are following reports of a crash at Bangor Airport in Maine involving a Bombardier Challenger [---]. ADS-B data indicates the aircraft was attempting to depart following an arrival from Houston. https://t.co/oL0pTQLGjJ https://t.co/5x4CsJdqNd We are following reports of a crash at Bangor Airport in Maine involving a Bombardier Challenger [---]. ADS-B data indicates the aircraft was attempting to depart following an arrival from Houston. https://t.co/oL0pTQLGjJ https://t.co/5x4CsJdqNd" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015608632940118375) 2026-01-26T02:12Z 640.4K followers, 40.8K engagements "Impressive - Gordon Boettger took off in a glider and used mountain waves to carry him from west Nevada all the way to Kansas City - 1690km or over a thousand miles - total flight time of over [--] hours. https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqM84eEmBu/hl=en https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqM84eEmBu/hl=en" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015624775083896921) 2026-01-26T03:16Z 642K followers, 16.1K engagements "Cool engineering thing about IMAX - the film is so large that a traditional film transport system would put too much stress on the sprocket holes on the edge of the film. The film needs to get pulled forward a frame and then held still the acceleration forces increase as the square of the frame size so the full [--] hole/frame IMAX film is [--] times the acceleration of [--] hole/frame 70mm. This extra stress increases the chance that film gets damaged to the point that the developers of the format came up with a 'Rolling loop' transport mechanism that bends the film into a loop of exactly the right" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015826309717561718) 2026-01-26T16:36Z 644K followers, 278.3K engagements "@AlexLandherr Yep Ive never seen on of those in person I just found the mechanism fascinating" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015828067193901411) 2026-01-26T16:43Z 640.3K followers, [----] engagements "@NASA I'd bring an iPhone to take photos sure there will be high quality cameras but taking photos with a device that hundreds of millions of people are familiar with would help to put the experience in context" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015859083925139941) 2026-01-26T18:47Z 640.1K followers, [----] engagements "Today January 26th marks the 100th anniversary of the first public demonstration of Television by John Logie Baird. This used a rotating disc to generate the scanlines but the system only used [--] scanlines running vertically to generate a very crude live system. "Members of the Royal Institution and other visitors to a laboratory in an upper room in Frith-Street Soho on Tuesday saw a demonstration of apparatus invented by Mr. J.L. Baird who claims to have solved the problem of television. They were shown a transmitting machine consisting of a large wooden revolving disc containing lenses" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015872871898415478) 2026-01-26T19:42Z 640.3K followers, 21.1K engagements "@kmcannon Redo the graph based on time spent in space" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015898286792835214) 2026-01-26T21:22Z 640.2K followers, 24.2K engagements "@esrtweet Humans might find an object in an impossibly rare orbit an object that never comes down towards the planets because the residents changed the orbit" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015991341327777812) 2026-01-27T03:32Z 640.2K followers, [----] engagements "@AstroForge Called a Widmanstatten pattern this was something in the core of a protoplanet that was destroyed" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2015992620917653845) 2026-01-27T03:37Z 645.4K followers, 15.8K engagements "My flight school which specializes in Cirrus just installed their new G7 SR2X simulator. Its running X-Plane under the hood but has a whole custom avionics simulation that matches the Perspective Touch. I just happened to be there at the right time and tested it out. This particular version has both left & right seat and it was a massive switch for me to fly from the right side with the primary instruments on the left. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016008950945349744 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016008950945349744" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016008950945349744) 2026-01-27T04:42Z 640.8K followers, 25.3K engagements "A couple of weeks ago the NTSB issued an update on the UPS MD11 crash and I wanted to use the graphs of flight data in a visualization combined with the ADS-B data and surveilance videos. This is what I ended up with one hard part about this is the flight is so close to the ground the viewpoint needs to account for the pitch of the aircraft raising and lowering the cockpit. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016025651049103706 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016025651049103706" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016025651049103706) 2026-01-27T05:49Z 643.9K followers, 206.3K engagements "Raptor [--] may have clean simple lines but look the LR-101 was this clean and simple in the 50's. Maybe there's more to design than clean lines" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016041528326750469) 2026-01-27T06:52Z 642.9K followers, 105.7K engagements "And in this mornings earning call UPS has stated it has retired its MD-11 fleet A couple of weeks ago the NTSB issued an update on the UPS MD11 crash and I wanted to use the graphs of flight data in a visualization combined with the ADS-B data and surveilance videos. This is what I ended up with one hard part about this is the flight is so close to the https://t.co/VWMzWln3iY A couple of weeks ago the NTSB issued an update on the UPS MD11 crash and I wanted to use the graphs of flight data in a visualization combined with the ADS-B data and surveilance videos. This is what I ended up with one" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016158022050185330) 2026-01-27T14:35Z 641.9K followers, 98K engagements "As a child I experienced weather reports in Fahrenheit but then the UK switched to Celsius during my teenage years then in my late 20s I moved to the US and everyone is talking Fahrenheit. And now I fly planes where temperatures are in Celsius. Neither is bad stop whining" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016162632122958326) 2026-01-27T14:53Z 642.9K followers, 45.3K engagements "For the Oort Cloud a relatively circular orbit about 1000-10000AU out Everything in the Oort Cloud is thrown out there on highly eccentric orbits by planets. And the once one the outer edges get tidal effects from passive stars. And object that never touches either of those should be rare. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016170892888535529 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016170892888535529" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016170892888535529) 2026-01-27T15:26Z 641.2K followers, [--] engagements "The NTSB posted their reconstruction of the visibility during the DCA midair collision it has much more detail and data compared with the version I generated [--] years ago" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016175185888719144) 2026-01-27T15:43Z 641.1K followers, 22.2K engagements "NASA is returning to the moon with Artemis II and there's lots of things I'd like to talk about over coming weeks. I don't have these ranked in any particular order but I think this would probably be Number Two. The First Moon Mission With A Toilet. https://youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms https://youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016210265663275330) 2026-01-27T18:02Z 640.4K followers, 19.8K engagements "NOooooooooooo NASA WB-57 involved in landing incident at Ellington Airport in #houston @KHOU https://t.co/HOvr2YuHsh NASA WB-57 involved in landing incident at Ellington Airport in #houston @KHOU https://t.co/HOvr2YuHsh" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016224565471674400) 2026-01-27T18:59Z 642.7K followers, 204.1K engagements "NASA's WB-57 N927NA took off around 1619Z didn't climb very high made a couple of low passes over the field presumably asking ground to check gear status before finally landing around 1712Z" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016226460290449707) 2026-01-27T19:07Z 640.1K followers, [----] engagements "I made a video about the Canberra bomber which would become the B57 and later the high altitude WB-57 used by NASA https://www.youtube.com/watchv=kFUc0GAg9iE https://www.youtube.com/watchv=kFUc0GAg9iE" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016226853871353991) 2026-01-27T19:08Z 640.7K followers, 19.7K engagements "NASA's WB-57 N927NA took off around 1619Z and made a number of touch and go landings but the last one became a full stop as the gear wasn't deployed" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016233347102740884) 2026-01-27T19:34Z 641.3K followers, 15.6K engagements "NASA [---] Cleared Touch & Go" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016235233453179260) 2026-01-27T19:41Z 640.7K followers, 17.5K engagements "@0xDEADBEEFCAFE Not enough. The avionics are always poor recreations of the real thing and yet theyre the best thing to do on simulators" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016237657656103305) 2026-01-27T19:51Z 640.1K followers, [---] engagements "The WB-57 involved in todays incident shot this footage a couple of months ago:" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016244221234315667) 2026-01-27T20:17Z 643.3K followers, 299.4K engagements "Excellent the T-38 Talon is now available for MSFS - would be cool if there was actually a mission to do things like chase a space shuttle during landing https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5bgZGS8rHbM https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5bgZGS8rHbM" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016258128002814086) 2026-01-27T21:12Z 641.7K followers, 21.3K engagements "@NASASpox Im glad everyone is fine and hoping this is the worst incident NASA has to deal with for a long time. Late January has too many sobering reminders of the risks of space flight" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016259543878263238) 2026-01-27T21:18Z 640.6K followers, [----] engagements "So I notice that Tempus Fugit landed on the shuttle runway at Edwards and Im wondering if @rookisaacman was at the controls so he could put the landing in his log book. I know as a space geek Id do that if I could" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016294233171488769) 2026-01-27T23:36Z 640.7K followers, 26.3K engagements "As @DutchSpace pointed out this incident means all [--] NASA WB57's are out of commission and Artemis II might launch before N926NA is out of inspection. But you know Inspiration [--] employed a private camera aircraft to get this shot a Phenom [---] with stabilized camera" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016344071032484144) 2026-01-28T02:54Z 642.4K followers, 126.9K engagements "With all the B57/Canberra discussion I was reminded of the private Canberras still sitting at Clear Lake in California. And how the company that operated them suggested putting rocket engines in them boosting to high altitudes and then rolling inverted to test space sensors" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016366613797453926) 2026-01-28T04:23Z 640.9K followers, 15.5K engagements "ADS-B is public and unencrypted anyone can generate radio transmissions that will be picked up by amateur network and reported to aggregators. ATC still use traditional Mode-C/S transponders that get pinged by ground stations making position harder to spoof. ADSB shenanigans. Air Force One was spoofed as VANCE [--] and drew the JD Vance meme picture over Mar-a-Lago in Florida this evening taking roughly [--] hours to draw. The tracks are color coded by altitude and was created by having VANCE [--] fly at altitudes between [-----] - [-----] ft. https://t.co/Y5tayEpvIM ADSB shenanigans. Air Force One was" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016551548319621247) 2026-01-28T16:38Z 642K followers, 50.6K engagements "40 Years ago Barbara Morgan watched as Challenger lifted off with a crew she'd got to know well. She was the backup for the teacher in space program. We all know what happened to the shuttle and it's understandable that many people would see this and never want to fly on it. Barbara returned to teaching but would be offered another opportunity to become an astronaut in [----] she was still working as an elementary school teacher at that time. She trained again and was expected to fly on STS-118 assigned to Columbia while preparing for this flight she would be on a jet that was supposed to meet" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016568167167074797) 2026-01-28T17:44Z 643K followers, 295.3K engagements "@chrisclarkefly That would Upset fewer federal agencies but be easier to trace" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016570130403381656) 2026-01-28T17:52Z 640.6K followers, [----] engagements "I'd never landed at this field before there's a lot of terrain covered in trees and I misjudged my base leg putting me much higher than normal. So time to slip this in flying with full right rudder and left roll to make the plane extra draggy for landing" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016625827006599216) 2026-01-28T21:33Z 642K followers, 76.7K engagements "@Titans_Suomi If I had passengers Id go around but I hadnt done a slip recently and wanted to practice" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016630254165774720) 2026-01-28T21:51Z 640.6K followers, [----] engagements "@Truthful_ast All technically true but when you have to communicate with the fewest number of words somethings you have to leave the nuance out of the title and put it in the full length feature" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016748821947269517) 2026-01-29T05:42Z 640.7K followers, 14.5K engagements "Was kinda excited to try MSFS [----] with the T-38. Turns out the store is broken and I cant buy anything. Was interested in the new scenery which fixes many glaring issues near me. Turns out theres some bug thats causing random stick inputs so everything is inflatable" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016769236551815390) 2026-01-29T07:03Z 642K followers, 17.2K engagements "@underscore_qua No but those are boring and normal generally it worth discussing" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016771783307997331) 2026-01-29T07:13Z 640.4K followers, [---] engagements "@dot_haymaker But they finally added Salesforce tower and Apple Park. They also fixed a lot of scenery in Novato and Marin which is where I fly for real" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016772700069646600) 2026-01-29T07:17Z 640.5K followers, [---] engagements "@CJHandmer I have no idea I know that a lot of this kind of stuff is possible in X-Plane. In MSFS they big sell is the scenery" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016883279174246475) 2026-01-29T14:37Z 642.3K followers, [---] engagements "I suspect its a coding vs software engineering thing - if your approach from the start is to compartmentalize the design and have ideas of inputs and outputs and how each section is tested then you can keep each block under control. Lots of people are seduced by how easy it is to get a working product in a small number of general prompts and then grow the complexity until suddenly it gets too big and ill defined for the tools to make sense of. The small errors suddenly all come together and it becomes garbage because you didnt keep it under control with good specs" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016886309399515189) 2026-01-29T14:49Z 642.8K followers, 15.5K engagements "Every time I see my @YouTubeCreators stats go down I hope that the viewers are being sent to some relatively unknown long tail content by a creator that appreciate's the extra attention. Rather than corporate mega creators or AI slop farms" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016942658112127213) 2026-01-29T18:32Z 642.1K followers, 50.4K engagements "@JamesRaxz @SciGuySpace The argument is that free power is much more important than free cooling" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2016982563504738544) 2026-01-29T21:11Z 640.7K followers, [---] engagements "@JamesRaxz @SciGuySpace Google tested their TPUs in proton beams and came up with life estimates which didn't shut down the concept. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19468" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017050011578880341) 2026-01-30T01:39Z 640.9K followers, [---] engagements "Rapid occultation data could also be used to precisely measure the location and size of asteroids. Would be really nice if this data could be delivered to Minor Planet center when associated with known asteroids. Occulations gave data to show Apophis would miss Earth but it was a lot of work. SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system called Stargaze https://t.co/vE0qSpfDt2 To maximize safety for all satellites in space @SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators free of charge. By providing this https://t.co/N7St7dvpz2 SpaceX has" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017131446218228089) 2026-01-30T07:03Z 643K followers, 35.3K engagements "People think Im joking but Im dead serious and would love access to the data to do this" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017269785999098285) 2026-01-30T16:12Z 642.3K followers, [----] engagements "Reading through this and it's leaving me with more questions it looks like there were electrical and instrument problems. The person flying was the most experienced his son was in the right seat and Greg was in the back and some of his comments were recorded. There was no obvious engine problem nothing that would have robbed them of power during final approach. The pilot was flying visually and appears to have descended into terrain. NTSB issues its preliminary report for the ongoing investigation of the Dec. [--] crash of a Cessna Citation [---] airplane in Statesville North Carolina:" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017331458491462089) 2026-01-30T20:17Z 641.8K followers, 31.4K engagements "Blue Origin are suspending New Shepard flights for at least two years to focus on New Glenn. Something of a surprise since there are clearly lots of people who want to do this and have the money. This means Virgin Galactic might have a chance to catch up. https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017335275425542396) 2026-01-30T20:33Z 642.4K followers, 71.4K engagements "What I'm thinking is that the risk per flight is too high and the consequences of a failure to the rest of the company is too great. Maybe they found a problem with the newly recovered booster and were looking at having to address the problem and build another. Blue Origin are suspending New Shepard flights for at least two years to focus on New Glenn. https://t.co/5IwU8xVUnM Something of a surprise since there are clearly lots of people who want to do this and have the money. This means Virgin Galactic might have a chance to catch Blue Origin are suspending New Shepard flights for at least" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017337452730708291) 2026-01-30T20:41Z 642.1K followers, 47.3K engagements "I also think that the existing suborbital tourism companies are based on sub optimal propulsion solutions. New Shepard uses hydrogen which can't be cheap but it made sense for the experience it gave Blue Origin. Virgin Galactic still used hybrid motors that need replaced. Also China's Lihong-1 was tested using a solid rocket motor. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017339203110223889 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017339203110223889" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017339203110223889) 2026-01-30T20:48Z 642.4K followers, 28.6K engagements "@peterrhague There's no lack of people who want to fly New Shepard can't keep up" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017339385445024089) 2026-01-30T20:49Z 641.4K followers, 14.4K engagements "@SciGuySpace @dpoddolphinpro Maybe Copenhagen suborbitals can make their mark" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017341370420359473) 2026-01-30T20:57Z 643.3K followers, [----] engagements "This year's batch of Pliny the Younger is getting brewed: This week the brewery filled [---] coveted kegs of Pliny which will begin distribution Feb. [--] to about [---] accounts in Sonoma and Napa counties. https://t.co/j0aMADTKaT This week the brewery filled [---] coveted kegs of Pliny which will begin distribution Feb. [--] to about [---] accounts in Sonoma and Napa counties. https://t.co/j0aMADTKaT" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017404286624534751) 2026-01-31T01:07Z 642.3K followers, 22.6K engagements "Cryogenic tank burst demonstration (960fps)" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017740500783284643) 2026-01-31T23:23Z 643K followers, 65.5K engagements "Looking at a NASA paper on the Artemis II trajectory and it seems every diagram or table switches up the units. Good thing I'm fluent in all these measurement systems" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2017989687449903177) 2026-02-01T15:53Z 643.5K followers, 43.5K engagements "Well that was embarrassing when I DL'd my video from YouTube it gave me a German dubbed version. so yes. The video tracking the Columbia breakup in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oNmR2YZO2gw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oNmR2YZO2gw" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018011220964741357) 2026-02-01T17:19Z 643.2K followers, 41.7K engagements "Unfortunate choice of video for this You're invited ✉ Join our Flight Opportunities Program at [--] p.m. ET on Wednesday Feb. [--] as we explore flying externally mounted payloads on suborbital rockets. Hear about testing opportunities provided by exterior mounting how to prepare payloads for these conditions and https://t.co/x1ObroBAsm You're invited ✉ Join our Flight Opportunities Program at [--] p.m. ET on Wednesday Feb. [--] as we explore flying externally mounted payloads on suborbital rockets. Hear about testing opportunities provided by exterior mounting how to prepare payloads for these" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018078973809635557) 2026-02-01T21:48Z 642.8K followers, 41.1K engagements "When Artemis II lifts off the majority of the thrust will come from solid motors which include components with flight histories dating to the 1980's. One cylinder flew on STS-5 in [----] when the crew members of Artemis II were in elementary school or pre-school" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018356268965281872) 2026-02-02T16:10Z 644.8K followers, 79.4K engagements "@B_Sears_95 Remember in the 1970s NASA wanted to use liquid booster which would have been more expensive to develop but cheaper to run. Nixon killed that idea because politicians always prefer saving money in the present even if it means wasting money in the future" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018360920079237303) 2026-02-02T16:28Z 642.3K followers, [----] engagements "@wingod @allenanalysis One of the two sources you included in your rebuttal shows the [----] event https://www.kqed.org/news/12071746/thousands-gather-in-san-francisco-businesses-close-as-part-of-nationwide-ice-out-protest https://www.kqed.org/news/12071746/thousands-gather-in-san-francisco-businesses-close-as-part-of-nationwide-ice-out-protest" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018377133492699581) 2026-02-02T17:33Z 642.3K followers, [--] engagements "Flying a simulated spacecraft controlled by a ZX Spectrum and Sinclair BASIC my first computer and programming language. Terribly inefficient right now because the serial port is so slow and the CPU spends lots of cycles bit banging to talk to it. There's a Python program in between which talks to KRPC and translates the important numbers to the serial port for the Spectrum to work from" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018412483875402169) 2026-02-02T19:53Z 643.8K followers, 62.8K engagements "@AJamesMcCarthy The diagram is questionable" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018451411491840225) 2026-02-02T22:28Z 642.3K followers, [----] engagements "And here's me saying the only way to win the space datacenter game is to be vertically integrated. One Team 🚀 https://t.co/8RWbk5jQIQ One Team 🚀 https://t.co/8RWbk5jQIQ" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018451630082113925) 2026-02-02T22:29Z 642.8K followers, 51K engagements "All the efforts by India's media to constantly force a narrative that is out of touch with technical realities makes me want to make sure I never end up flying on Air India. Is it just me Or does anyone else find this massive push by the Indian media to force a technical narrative for the AI171 crash very unsettling And this to the absolute exclusion of the other uncomfortable but very possible reason Some of the technical arguments are https://t.co/6Qr4kO2mNO Is it just me Or does anyone else find this massive push by the Indian media to force a technical narrative for the AI171 crash very" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018459166688584133) 2026-02-02T22:59Z 645.2K followers, 256.1K engagements "For the crew at @NASASpaceflight this is a piece of SLS tank with the foam" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018471107872092378) 2026-02-02T23:46Z 644.7K followers, 122.9K engagements "T-10 hold in WDR and then Clock reset" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018502456003736054) 2026-02-03T01:51Z 643K followers, 17.1K engagements "@KalCorona Youre not helping with the image" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018515663128781237) 2026-02-03T02:43Z 642.7K followers, 30.4K engagements "@b24cpn @park2power Politicians in Alabama Utah and other states which worked in the shuttle program wrote legislation forcing NASA to build this.and specifically blocked the development of technologies which might compete" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018520619613340078) 2026-02-03T03:03Z 642.4K followers, [---] engagements "@Ulmo_Space @SciGuySpace Obvious troll is obvious" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018540120845295718) 2026-02-03T04:20Z 642.3K followers, [---] engagements "I'm sure the WDR status is nothing to do with me having just bought plane tickets" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018563370715390344) 2026-02-03T05:53Z 643.2K followers, 25K engagements "@OnDisasters I modified my X-Plane to make CAPS deployment behaviour more realistic and gave that the the simulator developer. So the instructors at the school will discuss good and bad deployment choices during training" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018778123911987491) 2026-02-03T20:06Z 642.6K followers, [---] engagements "I have more tiles and patches but Im running out of pins" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018778281064141112) 2026-02-03T20:07Z 643K followers, 10.2K engagements "@nextbigfuture All true but it sends money to Alabama Mississippi Utah and other states and thats what senator Shelby and his friend wanted" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018779121275592949) 2026-02-03T20:10Z 642.9K followers, 13.6K engagements "I see people asking why SLS is launching once every [--] years while the more complex shuttle that it was based on flew more often. SLS Is still in development that upper stage is an interim stage that needs replaced. The funding may be a huge part of NASAs budget but its a lot less than the kind of money needed to fund development and flight operations when the contractors dont have much incentive to go fast in fact I expect some contractors make more by dragging out development. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018795488611545481 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018795488611545481" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018795488611545481) 2026-02-03T21:15Z 645.9K followers, 48K engagements "@camcol32 I expect you dont know how much power Congress has over spending" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018891691579814014) 2026-02-04T03:37Z 642.9K followers, [----] engagements "@curiously729 @shiv_cybersurg So what you're saying is that this is evidence Air India maintenance haven't actually checked their switches" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2018931193409048750) 2026-02-04T06:14Z 642.7K followers, [---] engagements "@CJHandmer The problem is if you hit toast with too much intensity the moisture explodes and so you don't get that nice toasty surface" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019176612949029128) 2026-02-04T22:29Z 643K followers, 12K engagements "Trying to figure out the best way to see the fly over without actually driving to Santa Clara. SUPER BOWL LX FLYOVER: This Sunday the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy are joining up to commemorate [---] years of American independence kicking off Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara California. Limited edition sticker and patch available now: https://t.co/ZSOtLgULlm https://t.co/0aeVF3BMl8 SUPER BOWL LX FLYOVER: This Sunday the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy are joining up to commemorate [---] years of American independence kicking off Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara California. Limited edition sticker and patch" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019220291453612184) 2026-02-05T01:23Z 643.9K followers, 19.2K engagements "I could hear these but they werent showing up on ADS-B so I stepped outside to ID them" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019222088226333052) 2026-02-05T01:30Z 643.8K followers, 26K engagements "@SciGuySpace The crazy thing to me was that on Artemis I they flew a modern iPad Pro as part of Callisto but were going to step back from that for Artemis II" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019449712605118529) 2026-02-05T16:35Z 643.5K followers, 12.1K engagements "With the news that NASA will be giving astronauts modern smartphones presumably iPhones (which have been flown on non NASA flights) here's an example of something already on the ISS an iPod touch but that's very close in design to the iPhone. Does anyone have any clues as to what this iPod Touch is used for on the Russian segment of the ISS It's in some kind of enclosuer with an oddly positioned connector. At least I'm pretty sure it's an iPod Touch and an old one based upon the size and the old install of iOS https://t.co/2FaDIxgPkj Does anyone have any clues as to what this iPod Touch is" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019455883546083495) 2026-02-05T16:59Z 645.3K followers, 24K engagements "Apple Watches have flown on a few ISS missions and I've also seen AirPod Pros flown" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019455887946182848) 2026-02-05T16:59Z 643.9K followers, 10.3K engagements "I've been showing the output of my flight reconstruction tool for a while and I wanted to share something like it which wasn't a mess of hand tuned stuff that required X-Plane. So I created a completely new version in javascript that runs in an HTML page so that anyone can use it. The output is a KML file which is a tour that works in Google Earth pro with all the attitude information included. This is a long way from perfect I messed around with multiple smoothing algorithms and none of them compares well with the python code but they're readable and understandable for anyone." [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019495828977811544) 2026-02-05T19:38Z 644.8K followers, 20.1K engagements "@bonzack Last time I was there it was after midnight and a bunch of people not at the hotel snuck in to watch falcon [--] RTLS" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019623557987463621) 2026-02-06T04:05Z 645.7K followers, [----] engagements "@StephenFleming 'Physics is a Bitch' - but by your own math they wouldn't need to add much more propellent to the deorbit vehicle already planned. Or just build a second one with the same specs it costs less since the development and testing has already been done" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019827099574681758) 2026-02-06T17:34Z 644.9K followers, 19.2K engagements "Sounds like a whole lot of common sense to me. After [--] days on the job visits to every NASA center a dozen town halls and reviewing thousands of workforce submissions it is clear there is much we can do to better empower our people and focus resources on the most pressing objectives. Getting back to the Moon means https://t.co/q8vBaY3QHz After [--] days on the job visits to every NASA center a dozen town halls and reviewing thousands of workforce submissions it is clear there is much we can do to better empower our people and focus resources on the most pressing objectives. Getting back to the" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019845500275765625) 2026-02-06T18:47Z 644.7K followers, 71.8K engagements "This is right up there with NTSB reports that conclude 'Pilot was unable to maintain control of aircraft' The FAA has cleared Falcon [--] to return to flight following an issue with the second stage on the Starlink 17-32 mission. The mission itself was successfulthe anomaly occurred only during the deorbit burn after payload separation. https://t.co/y7ItwOwuzM The FAA has cleared Falcon [--] to return to flight following an issue with the second stage on the Starlink 17-32 mission. The mission itself was successfulthe anomaly occurred only during the deorbit burn after payload separation." [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019912097157836952) 2026-02-06T23:12Z 646.2K followers, 48.8K engagements "A local photographer shared some nice pictures of me flying my plane:" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019914734334799925) 2026-02-06T23:22Z 644.8K followers, 19.7K engagements "@AeroBigMike @NASAAdmin @rookisaacman Piece By Piece By Piece By Piece By Piece" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2019937914294268142) 2026-02-07T00:55Z 643.6K followers, [----] engagements "For those wondering about how nuclear powers might have performed low yield tests without generating a seismic wave the concept is known as decoupling. If an explosion occurs in a large enough underground cavity the energy doesn't get transferred into the walls and the signature is significantly reduced. This has been known since the late 50's https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA290740 https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA290740" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020018012334747914) 2026-02-07T06:13Z 646.1K followers, 38K engagements "So based on a standard flyover altitude of 1000' the national anthem being scheduled for 3:20pm and the sun's position at that time. The shadow they cast should be around here: If you want to try to mess with shadows of planes against the sun. https://maps.app.goo.gl/8bCNSCmdDquB7B2u7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/8bCNSCmdDquB7B2u7" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020036653214232606) 2026-02-07T07:27Z 644.7K followers, 14.2K engagements "Amy was watching this while I was poking around in my laptop in the background I saw someone in a blue flight suit in the distance and instantly knew who it would be. Sure Italy has multiple astronauts but Samantha is the best communicator. Under the lights of San Siro Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti steps forward. A beautiful celebration of science wonder and the next generation. 🚀✨ #MilanoCortina2026 #OpeningCeremony https://t.co/CKQhsNw4Vt Under the lights of San Siro Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti steps forward. A beautiful celebration of science wonder and the next" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020151525545570556) 2026-02-07T15:03Z 644.7K followers, 35.9K engagements "@SandyofCthulhu The Soviet Union had a massive edge in rocket capabilities for a long time because the were lagging behind the US in miniaturizing nuclear warheads" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020178684251173312) 2026-02-07T16:51Z 646K followers, 15.2K engagements "From [--] years ago a spacecraft I designed and rendered using POVRay for an animation I created portraying the diversion of a comet using a nuclear weapon. This wasn't designed in a modeling program it was hand drafted and the geometry transcribed into POV Scene description language by hand. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020195184970170873 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020195184970170873" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020195184970170873) 2026-02-07T17:57Z 645.4K followers, 36.5K engagements "@LeahCheshier SAFER has 10% of the delta V capabilities of the MMU it's enough to get a crew member back to the station" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020211485893644611) 2026-02-07T19:02Z 644K followers, [----] engagements "@rktpoweredkeith Napa is a long way from Santa Clara I wonder what the difference parking fees are like to have this make sense" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020348047092482118) 2026-02-08T04:04Z 644.2K followers, 10.4K engagements "I just had to buy this decade old camera because I need a device for a specific story where Im not allowed to use gear with wireless capabilities no WiFi Bluetooth or Cell hardware allowed" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020379117481558258) 2026-02-08T06:08Z 646.1K followers, 43.8K engagements "@Brommmietze It was what the store had used but to be clear this is going to shoot video and analog wasnt an option" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020512369525305465) 2026-02-08T14:57Z 644K followers, [----] engagements "@hitsman Youtube Landing page would include channels I actually subscribe to" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020532802001969246) 2026-02-08T16:18Z 644.5K followers, 14.8K engagements "While NASA will now fly modern smartphones this is just the latest in a long line of consumer tech being repurposed for Spaceflight: How Everday Technology Is Used In Spaceflight https://youtu.be/jGwmywlr-vY https://youtu.be/jGwmywlr-vY" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020586889112350902) 2026-02-08T19:53Z 645.1K followers, 19.5K engagements "B-1 Lancer is about to enter the TFR" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020627562846929024) 2026-02-08T22:35Z 645.7K followers, 19.8K engagements "Watsonville got unlucky just on the inside of the TFR" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020629038382125200) 2026-02-08T22:41Z 645K followers, 33.9K engagements "@GM4AJK @UniverseSandbox Is it shared on Steam Because thats why Im doing this on a popular piece of software" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020638666297954738) 2026-02-08T23:19Z 645.3K followers, [----] engagements "I've been saying that the Moon was a more obvious first step for a long time - if we can't figure out living on the moon we're not living on Mars. Starship works for both regardless. For those unaware SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon as we can potentially achieve that in less than [--] years whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to For those unaware SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon as we can potentially achieve that in less than" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020653365739536735) 2026-02-09T00:17Z 645.7K followers, 71.1K engagements "MVPs for the pre game. You may be cool. But youll never be this cool. #SuperBowlLX https://t.co/sNVIkw4HbG You may be cool. But youll never be this cool. #SuperBowlLX https://t.co/sNVIkw4HbG" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020653669738483811) 2026-02-09T00:19Z 645K followers, 30.7K engagements "@creathir No with [--] days of no power it's just a bad idea" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020654238880419871) 2026-02-09T00:21Z 644.3K followers, [----] engagements "So with Bitcoin's price drop recently I wonder how far out that pushes the breakeven point for mining crypto in space. As I understand it it's all constrained by the energy cost" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020661473060769792) 2026-02-09T00:50Z 645.8K followers, 25.7K engagements "I didn't know the title of any of the half time show but I knew most of them which is true for a lot of music the difference is if a tune is in English I could at least take a guess at the title" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020674991151571050) 2026-02-09T01:43Z 645K followers, 27.1K engagements "Jet-ception Money shot https://t.co/d0BbaLiJwJ Money shot https://t.co/d0BbaLiJwJ" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020676647821988220) 2026-02-09T01:50Z 645K followers, 23.2K engagements "@RGIII Made me want to learn Spanish" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020683987639996591) 2026-02-09T02:19Z 644.4K followers, 17.7K engagements "OMG an ACTUAL TOUCHDOWN" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020686065083072607) 2026-02-09T02:27Z 645.9K followers, 31.2K engagements "Lol. of course" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020693316912988394) 2026-02-09T02:56Z 645.3K followers, 17.5K engagements "@FutureJurvetson There's already a plan for a nuclear reactors on the moon" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020725078024237500) 2026-02-09T05:02Z 644.6K followers, [----] engagements "@Edward63561584 @EricSHaley Maybe once there's Mongolian teams" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020751071690596433) 2026-02-09T06:46Z 644.3K followers, [--] engagements "@elonmusk @aaronburnett Mass drivers help for takeoff but theres nothing in physics that stops mass drivers being usable for landing. Catching a payload on a mass driver is impossible in the same way that catching a rocket on a tower was impossible" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020871177229476267) 2026-02-09T14:43Z 644.9K followers, 14.9K engagements "Is the implication that Starship is a hare https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020877508376481806) 2026-02-09T15:08Z 645.9K followers, 51.7K engagements "Suggested improvement make the regolith runway a tube with walls that stop plumes have hardware inside the tunnel which lifts the lunar dust into hopers on top of the tunnel that then drops this as a dust cloud so that the spacecraft encounters a volume density rather than a hard surface. This means the volumetric density of the regolith cloud is controllable to adjust deceleration rates" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020892772170113347) 2026-02-09T16:09Z 645.5K followers, [----] engagements "@archipeppe @realDonaldTrump @JeffBezos @elonmusk @Peter_J_Beck @emilio_cozzi @astrosteven_ @Spazio_Magazine @Truthful_ast @a_a_f_t @letiziadavoli @torybruno @CORONAGAMBIT @PaoloDan @Eurekablog @jeff_foust @FelixSchlang @fritzcav @The_Guy_Space @nss But you forgot Pegasus. Which definitely has a future as evidenced by a launch contract /s" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020912620979781637) 2026-02-09T17:28Z 644.7K followers, [----] engagements "@JonTheBeagleDad @RGIII As a believer in American exceptionalism I was offended they chose to go with Kid Rock an artist who has relentlessly pursued mediocrity though his career that's not what the US is supposed to be" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020918380891406473) 2026-02-09T17:51Z 644.7K followers, [---] engagements "And here's what that one shell looks like from California. To be clear I'm not modelling the brightness of this just yet that will need some other tools" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020942362772635701) 2026-02-09T19:26Z 645.9K followers, 29.5K engagements "@argueswithbots Maybe because both Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis are trying to stop datacenters being built on Earth" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020943271888089148) 2026-02-09T19:29Z 645.7K followers, [----] engagements "I just found Youtube's movies and TV section has a Fred Dibnah show from [----] showing historic industrial processes great stuff https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4LIG9OLlYbU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4LIG9OLlYbU" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020972959599558970) 2026-02-09T21:27Z 645.7K followers, 20.1K engagements "Its called space because its got a lot of spaces but if we launch a million satellites into LEO thats a lot of stuff. Do we start talking about outer stuff instead. Whats the threshold for space vs stuff" [X Link](https://x.com/DJSnM/status/2020988767042257365) 2026-02-09T22:30Z 645.7K followers, 20.4K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@DJSnM Scott ManleyScott Manley posts on X about elon musk, spacex, money, $7846t the most. They currently have [----------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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Social topic influence elon musk, spacex #662, money, $7846t, youtube, starship, if you, in the, starlink, the first
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @elonmusk @spacex @peterrhague @rookisaacman @sciguyspace @erdayastronaut @nasa @drchriscombs @nasaspaceflight @swiftonsecurity @grok @cjhandmer @wingod @drphiltill @futurejurvetson @skdh @spacestation @jeffbezos @blueorigin @planet4589
Top assets mentioned StarShip (STARSHIP) StarLink (STARL) Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) ORBIT (GRIFT) Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Oxygen (OXY) Intuitive Machines, Inc. (LUNR)
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Polar SSO Datacenters starting at 500km and going to over 200km. And apparently I need to tell everyone that these are brighter than the real things because I want them to be visible. Unlike the people who need to be told this or feel the need to tell everyone thing"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:49Z 646.2K followers, 169.9K engagements
"Observing negative correlation between spaceflight experience and height for the Artemis II crew"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:24Z 646.2K followers, 99.6K engagements
"So I made the objects so hot they glow which seems suboptimal but this is all the starlink satellites currently in orbit using Universe Sandbox @UniverseSandbox"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:33Z 646.2K followers, 589.3K engagements
"For all the people pointing out that the Starlink satellites in the video I posted are too large - here you go a visualization which is both factually correct and objectively useless"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:08Z 646.2K followers, 87.1K engagements
"Please stop supporting terrible accounts like this"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:43Z 646.2K followers, 89.2K engagements
"Taking some cues from SpaceX's datacenter submission to the FCC - here's [-----] satellites in a single shell with [--] degrees inclination - obviously this doesn't work at night they provide extra compute during daylight hours for people at work"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:25Z 646.2K followers, 149K engagements
"NTSB Report on a [---] that hit turbulence on descent the trace shows -0.5g followed by 1.8g and [--] flight attendents who were preparing the cabin fell into the ceiling and back onto the ground: Good thing the passengers had all fastened their seatbelts when instructed"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:57Z 646.2K followers, 14.3K engagements
"If the satellites were visible from the ground this is what sunset looks like with [------] satellites in a SSO halo"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:43Z 646.2K followers, 156K engagements
"So based on the SpaceX FCC filing here's a SSO halo and multiple [--] degree LEO shells:"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:17Z 646.2K followers, 407.6K engagements
"I did actually have a near mid air collision with a bunch of party balloons once was inbound to grass valley when and saw them about [--] seconds before they flew past. Cal Fire was operating from The field so I let them know. They laughed because they had bigger planes"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:50Z 646.2K followers, 28K engagements
"If the failures are part of the plan the best way to stop people making a story out of nothing is to make your own story making highlight reels. Get the slow mo guys on site. "Eric you are trying to make a story out of nothing." https://t.co/tnEyvC8gGD "Eric you are trying to make a story out of nothing." https://t.co/tnEyvC8gGD"
X Link 2026-02-12T03:28Z 646.2K followers, 37.6K engagements
"Great tracking shot from Max showing a not so great solid booster from Northrop Grumman. (Originally developed by Hercules) ULA fished boosters out of the ocean to help fix this issue but still we see almost the same nozzle burn through and separation. Tracking footage from this morning's launch of @ulalaunch's Vulcan rocket & the USSF-87 mission for @USSpaceForce - filmed from a perspective [---] miles to the west of SLC-41. SRM nozzle burn through plainly visible on the right-hand side of the vehicle protruding in the https://t.co/1oBpcRf3Ix Tracking footage from this morning's launch of"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:42Z 646.2K followers, 21.1K engagements
"The core propelled by Blue Origins BE-4 engine handled the difference compensated and completed its mission. We had an observation early during flight on one of the four solid rocket motors the team is currently reviewing the data. The booster upper stage and spacecraftcontinued to perform on a nominal trajectory. https://t.co/lZ7HOsrit0 We had an observation early during flight on one of the four solid rocket motors the team is currently reviewing the data. The booster upper stage and spacecraftcontinued to perform on a nominal trajectory. https://t.co/lZ7HOsrit0"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:45Z 646.2K followers, 37.1K engagements
"The GEM 63XL solid motors have had [--] in flight nozzle separations but the GEM63 used on the Atlas V have no issues. The XL versions are longer and that gives them 20% more thrust with a shorter burn time. Putting more stress on the throat and nozzle on the XL"
X Link 2026-02-12T14:02Z 646.2K followers, 22.6K engagements
"@ToughSf Also its worth noting that since hydrogen is a moderator it increases the reactivity of the engine so reactor criticality depends on fuel flow"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:53Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Once again respect to the GNC team. Remember a few years ago when a Soyuz launch failed because the angle of the launch pad was [---] degrees different from what the guidance system expected @ABernNYC @mdcainjr The Vulcan vehicle rolls during its wild ride to orbit in this tracking video captured south of the launch site by Max Q Productions @CarstensPete https://t.co/FvmkrvJYnz @ABernNYC @mdcainjr The Vulcan vehicle rolls during its wild ride to orbit in this tracking video captured south of the launch site by Max Q Productions @CarstensPete https://t.co/FvmkrvJYnz"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:27Z 646.2K followers, 76.8K engagements
"A couple of weeks ago I did the math on the energy content of donuts for launching rockets. Heres a more down to earth version of the same math. A Polish YouTuber just heated his house by burning [---] Lidl donuts in his stove. 14C22C. Burned for 5+ hours. Donuts have almost the same energy value as wood pellets - but at [------] per donut they're insanely cheaper. Fat Thursday in Poland just solved energy crisis.🍩 https://t.co/ZPSAkWbeoz A Polish YouTuber just heated his house by burning [---] Lidl donuts in his stove. 14C22C. Burned for 5+ hours. Donuts have almost the same energy value as wood"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:13Z 646.2K followers, 69.8K engagements
"@brookeofstars I love that her daughter is dressed for the occasion"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:15Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@aaronburnett Breaking: Water is wet. The Sky is blue"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:17Z 646.2K followers, 15.9K engagements
"I used my web tool to recreate this and add in the fixes on approach it looks like they were tracking the RNAV (GPS) Z Rwy [--] which has them remaining above 9100' until they see the field. There was an overcast layer at 9200' and broken clouds below over the field. Notably there's a similarly named approach that follows the valley and would have had minimums that would have descended into the terrain. NTSB is investigating the crash of an Epic Aircraft E1000 in Steamboat Springs Colorado. NTSB is investigating the crash of an Epic Aircraft E1000 in Steamboat Springs Colorado"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:12Z 646.2K followers, 30.3K engagements
"@gwgerrond @ToughSf It's better in almost every way except specific impulse"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:56Z 646.2K followers, [---] engagements
"One other random nugget about Babylon [--] I just remembered is that Lauren Sanchez appears in one episode and she went to space on NS-31. And then married Jeff Bezos. ISN Breaking News: (cc: @straczynski) Babylon [--] Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube "The strategy involves posting one episode each week allowing audiences to experience the story at a paced rhythm that mirrors the original broadcast schedule." https://t.co/Z0JM8cGEd8 ISN Breaking News: (cc: @straczynski) Babylon [--] Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube "The strategy involves posting one episode each week allowing audiences to experience the"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:40Z 646.2K followers, 21.7K engagements
"Again congratulatons to the guidance team Orbital Precision. https://t.co/DfL5TZXvLR Orbital Precision. https://t.co/DfL5TZXvLR"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:53Z 646.2K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Someone shared onboard footage from the Superbowl flyover. And they had the good taste to not cover up the engine sounds with music. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Hr6pxF3CL58 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Hr6pxF3CL58"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:33Z 646.2K followers, 30K engagements
"@dpoddolphinpro Its an existing highway that was upgraded for use as an emergency runway"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:03Z 646.2K followers, 54.2K engagements
"Lucas really made a point of pushing film technology setting up Lucasfilm ILM and Skywalker Sound - his companies worked to improve the film experience from planning shooting post-production and presentation. The audio and visual experience of movies owes a lot to his vision. George Lucas has been named as the 4th Greatest American Innovator in a list by Forbes of the top [---] living innovators in celebration of Americas 250th birthday. Lucas is only being beaten by Bill Gates Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. https://t.co/aSI1N8M542 George Lucas has been named as the 4th Greatest American Innovator"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:23Z 646.2K followers, 20.3K engagements
"I met an artist last night who hand sculpts Hobo Nickels - takes and existing coin and etches new designs into them. The amount of work in these is incredible:"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:34Z 646.2K followers, 11K engagements
"More info if youre interested he also did an me for Mae Jemison"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:36Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Xtplpctl Nah Im just doing this while hiking and I wasnt about to expend the effort to transcribe the URL on my phone"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:06Z 646.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@IsaacKing314"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:12Z 646.2K followers, 10.3K engagements
"@rmcentush A thousand years from now very few political figures will be remembered for anything. But announcing the discovery of cold fusion"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:22Z 646.2K followers, 16.8K engagements
"@dpoddolphinpro Theres a private airfield near me with a runway thats bent. Id love to try landing there someday"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:25Z 646.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Ive discovered the the @grok app on iOS works exceptionally well with limited bandwidth when the plain web is unusably slow I can send Grok off to run a bunch of queries and have the answers available for later. I used to put ideas into notes for later but I can send Grok off to actually find a bunch of references for me when I get back to civilization. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022925294366331023 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022925294366331023"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:45Z 646.2K followers, 27.9K engagements
"Tried another hand track ISS shot and did really well until I realized Id selected the wrong camera setting and the image was blown out. I wish there was raw mode for video on the P1000"
X Link 2020-07-16T04:32Z 640.3K followers, [---] engagements
"This is great I dont think we can accurately measure the distance to the moon but we can easily see the differences across the earth"
X Link 2020-08-02T05:07Z 640.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Looks like the fairing of the Simorgh"
X Link 2021-12-31T18:35Z 641.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@smartereveryday The first computers I had booted up to a prompt with BASIC running and because games cost money we had to type them in from magazines. I have a hard time with modern containerized architectures in the cloud because its so far removed from instructions on a CPU"
X Link 2023-06-02T03:01Z 643.2K followers, 21.5K engagements
"I dont have the space to work on my car. FAA says I cant fix a plane. But when my washing machine fails Im clearing my calendar until its running again"
X Link 2023-12-08T17:38Z 645.3K followers, 87.1K engagements
"Just your average Friday Night in San Francisco"
X Link 2024-10-26T03:16Z 645.3K followers, 1.4M engagements
"So whos going to be NASA administrator Obviously this is months away but something to start thinking about. Bridenstine was popular in space community but didnt publicly endorse Trump so that may eliminate him from the running. Elon obviously isnt doing this because conflict of interest rules"
X Link 2024-11-06T14:42Z 646.2K followers, 315.9K engagements
"Look if you see something in the sky and don't know what it is don't shine a laser at it don't shoot at it. Best case scenario you miss and nobody gets hurt. Worst case you cause an actual incident that could lead to: * aircraft emergency * prosecution * alien invasion. Woman on Facebook proudly reports how her husband shone a laser at a drone which was actually @FedEx flight [----] at [----] feet. This is complete madness. https://t.co/q0I4WVYuKl Woman on Facebook proudly reports how her husband shone a laser at a drone which was actually @FedEx flight [----] at [----] feet. This is complete"
X Link 2024-12-14T16:04Z 641.3K followers, 97.4K engagements
"China demonstrating a prototype tailless next generation stealth fighter feels very much like a 'Sputnik Moment' because the US could have built something like this a long time ago but has chose other procurement strategies. Without a tail it has some pretty complicated trailing edge control surfaces - looks like [--] on each wing. It looks like there's [--] air intakes for [--] engines with one air intake on the top. This could mean a low speed stealth cruise capability using just the center engine with the underside intake closing to reduce radar returns. Of course people say 'fighter' because the"
X Link 2024-12-26T17:21Z 645.3K followers, 1.6M engagements
"We've never seen anything like this recording of a landing on another world. @fireflyspace"
X Link 2025-03-04T18:07Z 646.2K followers, 1.7M engagements
"Watch as air traffic clears the debris zones"
X Link 2025-03-07T02:58Z 645.8K followers, 5.2M engagements
"The Helix is an EVTOL which is legally an ultralight which means no pilot rating is required to fly it. Propelled by [--] props controlled with differential throttles and [--] elevons during forward flight with the wings providing lift"
X Link 2025-05-09T06:06Z 643K followers, 444.3K engagements
"I discovered this new car has a g-meter"
X Link 2025-05-27T21:59Z 646K followers, 40.5K engagements
"3.7 Terawatts. That's how much power the earth gives to the moon via tidal forces the tides get pulled around the planet lagging behind dragging across the surface exerting friction on the rotation of the earth. The moon gets slowly accelerated rising a few centimeters per year and the Earth in turn slows down"
X Link 2025-07-12T01:42Z 644K followers, 64.4K engagements
"Physics riddle: You have a sealed glass box with a drone inside you can weigh the box. You watch as the drone takes off and hovers inside the box with it motors audibly buzzing its position lights shining. As it hovers does your measurement of the box get: Heavier Lighter Stay the same Heavier Lighter Stay the same"
X Link 2025-07-12T23:54Z 641.7K followers, 225.5K engagements
"I hear an interesting sounding plane check out @live_airplanes and see it's a Piaggio Avanti didn't get my camera in time. But it looks like this took a diversion just West of Skywalker ranch on its way to Santa Rosa"
X Link 2025-07-18T17:41Z 645.9K followers, 18.8K engagements
"Learning to fly aircraft takes a lot of work a lot of training to understand the mechanics systems rules and meet the required standards. Every pilot Ive talked to sees this as a feature rather than a bug"
X Link 2025-08-06T16:31Z 645.3K followers, 49.1K engagements
"I just got an update from the Starsailor team confirming that there was a structural failure at Max Q they reached Mach [--] after [--] seconds of the planned [--] second burn but the nosecone separated and safety systems shut down the rocket. Still congratulations to the team on this flight"
X Link 2025-08-19T04:44Z 642.9K followers, 50.3K engagements
"I took a closer look at this Ultralight crash and it's not something that happened from very high up but it goes from flying fine to descent and then a moment later the blades collide and fly off. With only [--] hours of flight time it could simply be he managed to stay away from the corners of the flight envelope where blade collisions are possible. until he didn't. Not failing isn't the same thing as succeeding consider that you might be flying fine and not noticing the blades are getting within inches of colliding not aware of how close you're coming to catastrophe. I see this kind of"
X Link 2025-10-01T21:27Z 644.1K followers, 59.4K engagements
"A mysterious expert in submersibles was interviewed by the Coast Guard during the Titan investigation. His name is redacted but we barely get into the interview before it becomes obvious who it is"
X Link 2025-10-17T03:46Z 646.2K followers, 3.5M engagements
"I've been busy this weekend in Florida with the @reinventedmag Space Coast Gala which meant dressing for the occasion. I met @Astro_Cady and closed out the afterparty with music & space video DJ show. Then we all headed to the Space Bar to watch Falcon [--] launch and land"
X Link 2025-11-03T14:19Z 645.4K followers, 20.3K engagements
"I see a few people asking whether there's a better way to generate power from fission or fusion than boiling water to spin turbines. There is but it's not what you think. You can use the heat to boil Mercury and use that to run turbines. The higher temperatures means higher efficiency from the Rankine cycle. This was actually used in a handful of power plants and NASA even investigated it for spaceflight"
X Link 2025-11-23T16:24Z 642.9K followers, 102.9K engagements
"@RealJordanHuus Yeah Im really interested in the gory details here but given that its proprietary avionics software I doubt well ever know"
X Link 2025-11-28T23:41Z 641.4K followers, 23.3K engagements
"Apparently too many patent trolls were having their dubious patents nullified so the new head of the patent office is changing the rules via @eff https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-tells-patent-office-dont-cut-public-out-patent-review https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-tells-patent-office-dont-cut-public-out-patent-review"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:16Z 646.1K followers, 24K engagements
"I just found another piece of misinformation I've heard repeated by multiple flight instructors: 'Oxygen masks don't work with beards'. Started with a university study in Canada Also replicated at Embry-Riddle https://commons.erau.edu/discovery-day/db-discovery-day-2024/poster-session-2/6/ https://www.sfu.ca/science/news/2018-news/sfu-study-busts-myth-about-facial-hair-on-pilots.html https://commons.erau.edu/discovery-day/db-discovery-day-2024/poster-session-2/6/ https://www.sfu.ca/science/news/2018-news/sfu-study-busts-myth-about-facial-hair-on-pilots.html"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:44Z 644.9K followers, 11.9K engagements
"Imagine if they hadn't waster $590 million on the Flip camera we might have reached this last week Cisco has officially recovered from the [----] dot-com crash. https://t.co/P2fpEAz1ID Cisco has officially recovered from the [----] dot-com crash. https://t.co/P2fpEAz1ID"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:48Z 643.8K followers, 30.2K engagements
"So the NTSB released some video from the N257BW crash site and using that I extrapolated the existing data points through the lights trees and fence. The aircraft descended far short of the runway"
X Link 2025-12-20T22:22Z 640.4K followers, 22.4K engagements
"I hope @torybruno has great things lined up going forwards he's been a great communicator over the years and I always liked it when he'd drop comments on my videos explaining some detail I'd not been aware of. Statement from Robert Lightfoot ULA Lockheed Martin Board Chair and Kay Sears ULA Boeing Board Chair https://t.co/3QZ4P1nXVX Statement from Robert Lightfoot ULA Lockheed Martin Board Chair and Kay Sears ULA Boeing Board Chair https://t.co/3QZ4P1nXVX"
X Link 2025-12-22T17:27Z 641.5K followers, 58.3K engagements
"When I saw this I was pretty sure it was a control failure so I wrote code to take the ADS-B data and derive the aircraft dynamics and as part of that I plotted load factor (pitch up rate) vs speed and it showed a linear relationship showing there was no pitch control. #OTD in 2024: Azerbaijan Airlines J28243 an ERJ-190 crashed attempting an emergency landing in Aktau Kazakhstan: [--] of [--] aboard died. Crew reported control issues: it later surfaced jet had been hit by a Russian SAM over Grozny damaging hydraulics. https://t.co/oumBJArsXa #OTD in 2024: Azerbaijan Airlines J28243 an ERJ-190"
X Link 2025-12-25T17:03Z 645.3K followers, 39.6K engagements
"So if you're in California the reentry of Crew 11's dragon spacecraft should be visible just after 12:30am tonight look west and it'll appear as a bright slow moving meteor. If you're in SoCal you might even hear the sonic boom"
X Link 2026-01-14T23:12Z 643K followers, 562.7K engagements
"Maybe if I put enough Blue Origin visuals in my DJ set this weekend they'll let me use this soundsystem for a party. 😉 This week we completed direct field acoustic testing on our Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander a major flightqualification milestone. We surrounded the fully integrated lander with a ring of 34ft speaker towers to generate a neardiffuse acoustic field matching the New Glenn https://t.co/ngfSXw0s36 This week we completed direct field acoustic testing on our Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander a major flightqualification milestone. We surrounded the fully integrated lander with a ring of 34ft"
X Link 2026-01-15T17:03Z 640.5K followers, 28.9K engagements
"Ive occasionally thought about splitting out the aviation or nuclear physics content those videos tend to underperform compared to my general Spaceflight. But then I see that some of my biggest videos are about aircraft or nuclear physics. I think I could definitely make a disaster investigation/discussion channel but sponsors dont want to be associated with that kind of stuff. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011926405534322767 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011926405534322767"
X Link 2026-01-15T22:20Z 644K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Hot to go @FireflySpace"
X Link 2026-01-19T21:33Z 645.6K followers, 54.7K engagements
"Blue Origin aren't exactly competing with Amazon's Leo TeraWave looks like it's aimed at enterprise users with larger bandwidth needs. Introducing TeraWave: a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds up to [--] Tbps anywhere on Earth. This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise data center and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical https://t.co/xTHtItpGEh Introducing TeraWave: a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds up to [--] Tbps anywhere on Earth. This network will service tens of"
X Link 2026-01-21T18:01Z 640.5K followers, 27.6K engagements
"Another video of the engine fire from the @FireflyoSpace tour on Monday. Skye had a better zoom on her camera so we can get in close and see more detail"
X Link 2026-01-21T23:13Z 640.9K followers, 38.5K engagements
"This will use the flight proven booster from NG-2 and well have to stop joking about Blue Origin not putting any payloads into LEO New Glenns third mission NG-3 will send @AST_SpaceMobiles next generation Block [--] BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit NET late February. Learn more: https://t.co/8TCrGV8GoZ https://t.co/ViHTTcpnln New Glenns third mission NG-3 will send @AST_SpaceMobiles next generation Block [--] BlueBird satellites to low Earth orbit NET late February. Learn more: https://t.co/8TCrGV8GoZ https://t.co/ViHTTcpnln"
X Link 2026-01-22T14:32Z 640.4K followers, 41.5K engagements
"Multiple companies like @VardaSpace and @voyagertech_ are hoping to take advantage of microgravity to make superior pharmaceuticals semiconductors and optical devices. So. Why Are Drugs Made In Space Better https://youtu.be/U1sH2a57eXM https://youtu.be/U1sH2a57eXM"
X Link 2026-01-22T19:37Z 642.4K followers, 79.7K engagements
"Two optical fibers made of the same ZBLAN glass but one was made in zero g"
X Link 2026-01-22T21:04Z 640.3K followers, 115.1K engagements
"@NASAWatch @NASA Also Artemis II will be taking the first toilet around the moon. Which sounds like a joke but it's just illustrative of how Orion is a different scale than the Apollo command module"
X Link 2026-01-23T19:12Z 641.5K followers, 14.7K engagements
"Looks like someone's satellite burning up over Minnesota last night: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=aWqVhnEO8_I https://www.youtube.com/watchv=aWqVhnEO8_I"
X Link 2026-01-24T18:04Z 639.9K followers, 28.4K engagements
"We will be tracking this one if it ever flies New MrBeast video not only has a Starbase tour but they let him install a heatsheild tile onto a flap https://t.co/JjZ3p8totb New MrBeast video not only has a Starbase tour but they let him install a heatsheild tile onto a flap https://t.co/JjZ3p8totb"
X Link 2026-01-24T20:08Z 644.8K followers, 383.1K engagements
"@NASAWatch @BEbeyond20 A friend who was at the Astro Awards last week told me that it was the best space conference they'd been to in a long time. Young people jokes that were actually funny stories that the audience actually connected with. And of course a party where people actually had fun"
X Link 2026-01-25T00:22Z 642.3K followers, 33.5K engagements
"I found a NTRS paper on the Artemis II toilet the first toilet to travel beyond the Moon https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220005710/downloads/NASA%20Universal%20Waste%20Management%20System%20and%20Toilet%20Integration%20Hardware%20%20Operations%20on%20ISS%20Issues%2C%20Modifications%20and%20Accomplishments%202022%20final%20draft.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220005710/downloads/NASA%20Universal%20Waste%20Management%20System%20and%20Toilet%20Integration%20Hardware%20%20Operations%20on%20ISS%20Issues%2C%20Modifications%20and%20Accomplishments%202022%20final%20draft.pdf"
X Link 2026-01-25T04:25Z 642.4K followers, 47K engagements
"To be clear while NASA selected a small number of groups to track Artemis II there's nothing stopping stopping any random person tracking it via radio emissions or optically with a telescope. NASA just selected a group it would accept data from. If you have a small telescope you should absolutely make a point of trying to see it on the trans-lunar coasts. As Artemis II travels around the Moon [--] selected volunteers from ham radio enthusiasts to commercial service providers will attempt to passively track the Orion spacecraft as it journeys to the Moon. Learn more: https://t.co/UCoKoFRtpX As"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:07Z 643K followers, 116K engagements
"Im amused at how the spacecraft being unable to carry humans home is now being sold as a win for most amount of cargo returned to earth. (Presumably a Chinese space program record since the US had that whole space shuttle thing that returned much more cargo) #Shenzhou20 spaceship smashed a record carrying the largest amount of cargo ever returned to Earth in a single mission 📦 So how did the Shenzhou-21 crew pack and store all that gear before sending it home Here's an exclusive video showing every step of this unmanned return. https://t.co/L9mKWKrEBn #Shenzhou20 spaceship smashed a record"
X Link 2026-01-25T19:32Z 642.6K followers, 101.8K engagements
"Yikes We are following reports of a crash at Bangor Airport in Maine involving a Bombardier Challenger [---]. ADS-B data indicates the aircraft was attempting to depart following an arrival from Houston. https://t.co/oL0pTQLGjJ https://t.co/5x4CsJdqNd We are following reports of a crash at Bangor Airport in Maine involving a Bombardier Challenger [---]. ADS-B data indicates the aircraft was attempting to depart following an arrival from Houston. https://t.co/oL0pTQLGjJ https://t.co/5x4CsJdqNd"
X Link 2026-01-26T02:12Z 640.4K followers, 40.8K engagements
"Impressive - Gordon Boettger took off in a glider and used mountain waves to carry him from west Nevada all the way to Kansas City - 1690km or over a thousand miles - total flight time of over [--] hours. https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqM84eEmBu/hl=en https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqM84eEmBu/hl=en"
X Link 2026-01-26T03:16Z 642K followers, 16.1K engagements
"Cool engineering thing about IMAX - the film is so large that a traditional film transport system would put too much stress on the sprocket holes on the edge of the film. The film needs to get pulled forward a frame and then held still the acceleration forces increase as the square of the frame size so the full [--] hole/frame IMAX film is [--] times the acceleration of [--] hole/frame 70mm. This extra stress increases the chance that film gets damaged to the point that the developers of the format came up with a 'Rolling loop' transport mechanism that bends the film into a loop of exactly the right"
X Link 2026-01-26T16:36Z 644K followers, 278.3K engagements
"@AlexLandherr Yep Ive never seen on of those in person I just found the mechanism fascinating"
X Link 2026-01-26T16:43Z 640.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@NASA I'd bring an iPhone to take photos sure there will be high quality cameras but taking photos with a device that hundreds of millions of people are familiar with would help to put the experience in context"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:47Z 640.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Today January 26th marks the 100th anniversary of the first public demonstration of Television by John Logie Baird. This used a rotating disc to generate the scanlines but the system only used [--] scanlines running vertically to generate a very crude live system. "Members of the Royal Institution and other visitors to a laboratory in an upper room in Frith-Street Soho on Tuesday saw a demonstration of apparatus invented by Mr. J.L. Baird who claims to have solved the problem of television. They were shown a transmitting machine consisting of a large wooden revolving disc containing lenses"
X Link 2026-01-26T19:42Z 640.3K followers, 21.1K engagements
"@kmcannon Redo the graph based on time spent in space"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:22Z 640.2K followers, 24.2K engagements
"@esrtweet Humans might find an object in an impossibly rare orbit an object that never comes down towards the planets because the residents changed the orbit"
X Link 2026-01-27T03:32Z 640.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@AstroForge Called a Widmanstatten pattern this was something in the core of a protoplanet that was destroyed"
X Link 2026-01-27T03:37Z 645.4K followers, 15.8K engagements
"My flight school which specializes in Cirrus just installed their new G7 SR2X simulator. Its running X-Plane under the hood but has a whole custom avionics simulation that matches the Perspective Touch. I just happened to be there at the right time and tested it out. This particular version has both left & right seat and it was a massive switch for me to fly from the right side with the primary instruments on the left. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016008950945349744 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016008950945349744"
X Link 2026-01-27T04:42Z 640.8K followers, 25.3K engagements
"A couple of weeks ago the NTSB issued an update on the UPS MD11 crash and I wanted to use the graphs of flight data in a visualization combined with the ADS-B data and surveilance videos. This is what I ended up with one hard part about this is the flight is so close to the ground the viewpoint needs to account for the pitch of the aircraft raising and lowering the cockpit. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016025651049103706 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016025651049103706"
X Link 2026-01-27T05:49Z 643.9K followers, 206.3K engagements
"Raptor [--] may have clean simple lines but look the LR-101 was this clean and simple in the 50's. Maybe there's more to design than clean lines"
X Link 2026-01-27T06:52Z 642.9K followers, 105.7K engagements
"And in this mornings earning call UPS has stated it has retired its MD-11 fleet A couple of weeks ago the NTSB issued an update on the UPS MD11 crash and I wanted to use the graphs of flight data in a visualization combined with the ADS-B data and surveilance videos. This is what I ended up with one hard part about this is the flight is so close to the https://t.co/VWMzWln3iY A couple of weeks ago the NTSB issued an update on the UPS MD11 crash and I wanted to use the graphs of flight data in a visualization combined with the ADS-B data and surveilance videos. This is what I ended up with one"
X Link 2026-01-27T14:35Z 641.9K followers, 98K engagements
"As a child I experienced weather reports in Fahrenheit but then the UK switched to Celsius during my teenage years then in my late 20s I moved to the US and everyone is talking Fahrenheit. And now I fly planes where temperatures are in Celsius. Neither is bad stop whining"
X Link 2026-01-27T14:53Z 642.9K followers, 45.3K engagements
"For the Oort Cloud a relatively circular orbit about 1000-10000AU out Everything in the Oort Cloud is thrown out there on highly eccentric orbits by planets. And the once one the outer edges get tidal effects from passive stars. And object that never touches either of those should be rare. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016170892888535529 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016170892888535529"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:26Z 641.2K followers, [--] engagements
"The NTSB posted their reconstruction of the visibility during the DCA midair collision it has much more detail and data compared with the version I generated [--] years ago"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:43Z 641.1K followers, 22.2K engagements
"NASA is returning to the moon with Artemis II and there's lots of things I'd like to talk about over coming weeks. I don't have these ranked in any particular order but I think this would probably be Number Two. The First Moon Mission With A Toilet. https://youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms https://youtu.be/DaDSuCXIRms"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:02Z 640.4K followers, 19.8K engagements
"NOooooooooooo NASA WB-57 involved in landing incident at Ellington Airport in #houston @KHOU https://t.co/HOvr2YuHsh NASA WB-57 involved in landing incident at Ellington Airport in #houston @KHOU https://t.co/HOvr2YuHsh"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:59Z 642.7K followers, 204.1K engagements
"NASA's WB-57 N927NA took off around 1619Z didn't climb very high made a couple of low passes over the field presumably asking ground to check gear status before finally landing around 1712Z"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:07Z 640.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I made a video about the Canberra bomber which would become the B57 and later the high altitude WB-57 used by NASA https://www.youtube.com/watchv=kFUc0GAg9iE https://www.youtube.com/watchv=kFUc0GAg9iE"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:08Z 640.7K followers, 19.7K engagements
"NASA's WB-57 N927NA took off around 1619Z and made a number of touch and go landings but the last one became a full stop as the gear wasn't deployed"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:34Z 641.3K followers, 15.6K engagements
"NASA [---] Cleared Touch & Go"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:41Z 640.7K followers, 17.5K engagements
"@0xDEADBEEFCAFE Not enough. The avionics are always poor recreations of the real thing and yet theyre the best thing to do on simulators"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:51Z 640.1K followers, [---] engagements
"The WB-57 involved in todays incident shot this footage a couple of months ago:"
X Link 2026-01-27T20:17Z 643.3K followers, 299.4K engagements
"Excellent the T-38 Talon is now available for MSFS - would be cool if there was actually a mission to do things like chase a space shuttle during landing https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5bgZGS8rHbM https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5bgZGS8rHbM"
X Link 2026-01-27T21:12Z 641.7K followers, 21.3K engagements
"@NASASpox Im glad everyone is fine and hoping this is the worst incident NASA has to deal with for a long time. Late January has too many sobering reminders of the risks of space flight"
X Link 2026-01-27T21:18Z 640.6K followers, [----] engagements
"So I notice that Tempus Fugit landed on the shuttle runway at Edwards and Im wondering if @rookisaacman was at the controls so he could put the landing in his log book. I know as a space geek Id do that if I could"
X Link 2026-01-27T23:36Z 640.7K followers, 26.3K engagements
"As @DutchSpace pointed out this incident means all [--] NASA WB57's are out of commission and Artemis II might launch before N926NA is out of inspection. But you know Inspiration [--] employed a private camera aircraft to get this shot a Phenom [---] with stabilized camera"
X Link 2026-01-28T02:54Z 642.4K followers, 126.9K engagements
"With all the B57/Canberra discussion I was reminded of the private Canberras still sitting at Clear Lake in California. And how the company that operated them suggested putting rocket engines in them boosting to high altitudes and then rolling inverted to test space sensors"
X Link 2026-01-28T04:23Z 640.9K followers, 15.5K engagements
"ADS-B is public and unencrypted anyone can generate radio transmissions that will be picked up by amateur network and reported to aggregators. ATC still use traditional Mode-C/S transponders that get pinged by ground stations making position harder to spoof. ADSB shenanigans. Air Force One was spoofed as VANCE [--] and drew the JD Vance meme picture over Mar-a-Lago in Florida this evening taking roughly [--] hours to draw. The tracks are color coded by altitude and was created by having VANCE [--] fly at altitudes between [-----] - [-----] ft. https://t.co/Y5tayEpvIM ADSB shenanigans. Air Force One was"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:38Z 642K followers, 50.6K engagements
"40 Years ago Barbara Morgan watched as Challenger lifted off with a crew she'd got to know well. She was the backup for the teacher in space program. We all know what happened to the shuttle and it's understandable that many people would see this and never want to fly on it. Barbara returned to teaching but would be offered another opportunity to become an astronaut in [----] she was still working as an elementary school teacher at that time. She trained again and was expected to fly on STS-118 assigned to Columbia while preparing for this flight she would be on a jet that was supposed to meet"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:44Z 643K followers, 295.3K engagements
"@chrisclarkefly That would Upset fewer federal agencies but be easier to trace"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:52Z 640.6K followers, [----] engagements
"I'd never landed at this field before there's a lot of terrain covered in trees and I misjudged my base leg putting me much higher than normal. So time to slip this in flying with full right rudder and left roll to make the plane extra draggy for landing"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:33Z 642K followers, 76.7K engagements
"@Titans_Suomi If I had passengers Id go around but I hadnt done a slip recently and wanted to practice"
X Link 2026-01-28T21:51Z 640.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@Truthful_ast All technically true but when you have to communicate with the fewest number of words somethings you have to leave the nuance out of the title and put it in the full length feature"
X Link 2026-01-29T05:42Z 640.7K followers, 14.5K engagements
"Was kinda excited to try MSFS [----] with the T-38. Turns out the store is broken and I cant buy anything. Was interested in the new scenery which fixes many glaring issues near me. Turns out theres some bug thats causing random stick inputs so everything is inflatable"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:03Z 642K followers, 17.2K engagements
"@underscore_qua No but those are boring and normal generally it worth discussing"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:13Z 640.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@dot_haymaker But they finally added Salesforce tower and Apple Park. They also fixed a lot of scenery in Novato and Marin which is where I fly for real"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:17Z 640.5K followers, [---] engagements
"@CJHandmer I have no idea I know that a lot of this kind of stuff is possible in X-Plane. In MSFS they big sell is the scenery"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:37Z 642.3K followers, [---] engagements
"I suspect its a coding vs software engineering thing - if your approach from the start is to compartmentalize the design and have ideas of inputs and outputs and how each section is tested then you can keep each block under control. Lots of people are seduced by how easy it is to get a working product in a small number of general prompts and then grow the complexity until suddenly it gets too big and ill defined for the tools to make sense of. The small errors suddenly all come together and it becomes garbage because you didnt keep it under control with good specs"
X Link 2026-01-29T14:49Z 642.8K followers, 15.5K engagements
"Every time I see my @YouTubeCreators stats go down I hope that the viewers are being sent to some relatively unknown long tail content by a creator that appreciate's the extra attention. Rather than corporate mega creators or AI slop farms"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:32Z 642.1K followers, 50.4K engagements
"@JamesRaxz @SciGuySpace The argument is that free power is much more important than free cooling"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:11Z 640.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@JamesRaxz @SciGuySpace Google tested their TPUs in proton beams and came up with life estimates which didn't shut down the concept. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19468"
X Link 2026-01-30T01:39Z 640.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Rapid occultation data could also be used to precisely measure the location and size of asteroids. Would be really nice if this data could be delivered to Minor Planet center when associated with known asteroids. Occulations gave data to show Apophis would miss Earth but it was a lot of work. SpaceX has developed a novel Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system called Stargaze https://t.co/vE0qSpfDt2 To maximize safety for all satellites in space @SpaceX will be making Stargaze conjunction data available to all operators free of charge. By providing this https://t.co/N7St7dvpz2 SpaceX has"
X Link 2026-01-30T07:03Z 643K followers, 35.3K engagements
"People think Im joking but Im dead serious and would love access to the data to do this"
X Link 2026-01-30T16:12Z 642.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Reading through this and it's leaving me with more questions it looks like there were electrical and instrument problems. The person flying was the most experienced his son was in the right seat and Greg was in the back and some of his comments were recorded. There was no obvious engine problem nothing that would have robbed them of power during final approach. The pilot was flying visually and appears to have descended into terrain. NTSB issues its preliminary report for the ongoing investigation of the Dec. [--] crash of a Cessna Citation [---] airplane in Statesville North Carolina:"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:17Z 641.8K followers, 31.4K engagements
"Blue Origin are suspending New Shepard flights for at least two years to focus on New Glenn. Something of a surprise since there are clearly lots of people who want to do this and have the money. This means Virgin Galactic might have a chance to catch up. https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-to-pause-flights"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:33Z 642.4K followers, 71.4K engagements
"What I'm thinking is that the risk per flight is too high and the consequences of a failure to the rest of the company is too great. Maybe they found a problem with the newly recovered booster and were looking at having to address the problem and build another. Blue Origin are suspending New Shepard flights for at least two years to focus on New Glenn. https://t.co/5IwU8xVUnM Something of a surprise since there are clearly lots of people who want to do this and have the money. This means Virgin Galactic might have a chance to catch Blue Origin are suspending New Shepard flights for at least"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:41Z 642.1K followers, 47.3K engagements
"I also think that the existing suborbital tourism companies are based on sub optimal propulsion solutions. New Shepard uses hydrogen which can't be cheap but it made sense for the experience it gave Blue Origin. Virgin Galactic still used hybrid motors that need replaced. Also China's Lihong-1 was tested using a solid rocket motor. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017339203110223889 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2017339203110223889"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:48Z 642.4K followers, 28.6K engagements
"@peterrhague There's no lack of people who want to fly New Shepard can't keep up"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:49Z 641.4K followers, 14.4K engagements
"@SciGuySpace @dpoddolphinpro Maybe Copenhagen suborbitals can make their mark"
X Link 2026-01-30T20:57Z 643.3K followers, [----] engagements
"This year's batch of Pliny the Younger is getting brewed: This week the brewery filled [---] coveted kegs of Pliny which will begin distribution Feb. [--] to about [---] accounts in Sonoma and Napa counties. https://t.co/j0aMADTKaT This week the brewery filled [---] coveted kegs of Pliny which will begin distribution Feb. [--] to about [---] accounts in Sonoma and Napa counties. https://t.co/j0aMADTKaT"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:07Z 642.3K followers, 22.6K engagements
"Cryogenic tank burst demonstration (960fps)"
X Link 2026-01-31T23:23Z 643K followers, 65.5K engagements
"Looking at a NASA paper on the Artemis II trajectory and it seems every diagram or table switches up the units. Good thing I'm fluent in all these measurement systems"
X Link 2026-02-01T15:53Z 643.5K followers, 43.5K engagements
"Well that was embarrassing when I DL'd my video from YouTube it gave me a German dubbed version. so yes. The video tracking the Columbia breakup in real time. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oNmR2YZO2gw https://www.youtube.com/watchv=oNmR2YZO2gw"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:19Z 643.2K followers, 41.7K engagements
"Unfortunate choice of video for this You're invited ✉ Join our Flight Opportunities Program at [--] p.m. ET on Wednesday Feb. [--] as we explore flying externally mounted payloads on suborbital rockets. Hear about testing opportunities provided by exterior mounting how to prepare payloads for these conditions and https://t.co/x1ObroBAsm You're invited ✉ Join our Flight Opportunities Program at [--] p.m. ET on Wednesday Feb. [--] as we explore flying externally mounted payloads on suborbital rockets. Hear about testing opportunities provided by exterior mounting how to prepare payloads for these"
X Link 2026-02-01T21:48Z 642.8K followers, 41.1K engagements
"When Artemis II lifts off the majority of the thrust will come from solid motors which include components with flight histories dating to the 1980's. One cylinder flew on STS-5 in [----] when the crew members of Artemis II were in elementary school or pre-school"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:10Z 644.8K followers, 79.4K engagements
"@B_Sears_95 Remember in the 1970s NASA wanted to use liquid booster which would have been more expensive to develop but cheaper to run. Nixon killed that idea because politicians always prefer saving money in the present even if it means wasting money in the future"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:28Z 642.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@wingod @allenanalysis One of the two sources you included in your rebuttal shows the [----] event https://www.kqed.org/news/12071746/thousands-gather-in-san-francisco-businesses-close-as-part-of-nationwide-ice-out-protest https://www.kqed.org/news/12071746/thousands-gather-in-san-francisco-businesses-close-as-part-of-nationwide-ice-out-protest"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:33Z 642.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Flying a simulated spacecraft controlled by a ZX Spectrum and Sinclair BASIC my first computer and programming language. Terribly inefficient right now because the serial port is so slow and the CPU spends lots of cycles bit banging to talk to it. There's a Python program in between which talks to KRPC and translates the important numbers to the serial port for the Spectrum to work from"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:53Z 643.8K followers, 62.8K engagements
"@AJamesMcCarthy The diagram is questionable"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:28Z 642.3K followers, [----] engagements
"And here's me saying the only way to win the space datacenter game is to be vertically integrated. One Team 🚀 https://t.co/8RWbk5jQIQ One Team 🚀 https://t.co/8RWbk5jQIQ"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:29Z 642.8K followers, 51K engagements
"All the efforts by India's media to constantly force a narrative that is out of touch with technical realities makes me want to make sure I never end up flying on Air India. Is it just me Or does anyone else find this massive push by the Indian media to force a technical narrative for the AI171 crash very unsettling And this to the absolute exclusion of the other uncomfortable but very possible reason Some of the technical arguments are https://t.co/6Qr4kO2mNO Is it just me Or does anyone else find this massive push by the Indian media to force a technical narrative for the AI171 crash very"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:59Z 645.2K followers, 256.1K engagements
"For the crew at @NASASpaceflight this is a piece of SLS tank with the foam"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:46Z 644.7K followers, 122.9K engagements
"T-10 hold in WDR and then Clock reset"
X Link 2026-02-03T01:51Z 643K followers, 17.1K engagements
"@KalCorona Youre not helping with the image"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:43Z 642.7K followers, 30.4K engagements
"@b24cpn @park2power Politicians in Alabama Utah and other states which worked in the shuttle program wrote legislation forcing NASA to build this.and specifically blocked the development of technologies which might compete"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:03Z 642.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Ulmo_Space @SciGuySpace Obvious troll is obvious"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:20Z 642.3K followers, [---] engagements
"I'm sure the WDR status is nothing to do with me having just bought plane tickets"
X Link 2026-02-03T05:53Z 643.2K followers, 25K engagements
"@OnDisasters I modified my X-Plane to make CAPS deployment behaviour more realistic and gave that the the simulator developer. So the instructors at the school will discuss good and bad deployment choices during training"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:06Z 642.6K followers, [---] engagements
"I have more tiles and patches but Im running out of pins"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:07Z 643K followers, 10.2K engagements
"@nextbigfuture All true but it sends money to Alabama Mississippi Utah and other states and thats what senator Shelby and his friend wanted"
X Link 2026-02-03T20:10Z 642.9K followers, 13.6K engagements
"I see people asking why SLS is launching once every [--] years while the more complex shuttle that it was based on flew more often. SLS Is still in development that upper stage is an interim stage that needs replaced. The funding may be a huge part of NASAs budget but its a lot less than the kind of money needed to fund development and flight operations when the contractors dont have much incentive to go fast in fact I expect some contractors make more by dragging out development. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018795488611545481 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018795488611545481"
X Link 2026-02-03T21:15Z 645.9K followers, 48K engagements
"@camcol32 I expect you dont know how much power Congress has over spending"
X Link 2026-02-04T03:37Z 642.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@curiously729 @shiv_cybersurg So what you're saying is that this is evidence Air India maintenance haven't actually checked their switches"
X Link 2026-02-04T06:14Z 642.7K followers, [---] engagements
"@CJHandmer The problem is if you hit toast with too much intensity the moisture explodes and so you don't get that nice toasty surface"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:29Z 643K followers, 12K engagements
"Trying to figure out the best way to see the fly over without actually driving to Santa Clara. SUPER BOWL LX FLYOVER: This Sunday the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy are joining up to commemorate [---] years of American independence kicking off Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara California. Limited edition sticker and patch available now: https://t.co/ZSOtLgULlm https://t.co/0aeVF3BMl8 SUPER BOWL LX FLYOVER: This Sunday the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy are joining up to commemorate [---] years of American independence kicking off Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara California. Limited edition sticker and patch"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:23Z 643.9K followers, 19.2K engagements
"I could hear these but they werent showing up on ADS-B so I stepped outside to ID them"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:30Z 643.8K followers, 26K engagements
"@SciGuySpace The crazy thing to me was that on Artemis I they flew a modern iPad Pro as part of Callisto but were going to step back from that for Artemis II"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:35Z 643.5K followers, 12.1K engagements
"With the news that NASA will be giving astronauts modern smartphones presumably iPhones (which have been flown on non NASA flights) here's an example of something already on the ISS an iPod touch but that's very close in design to the iPhone. Does anyone have any clues as to what this iPod Touch is used for on the Russian segment of the ISS It's in some kind of enclosuer with an oddly positioned connector. At least I'm pretty sure it's an iPod Touch and an old one based upon the size and the old install of iOS https://t.co/2FaDIxgPkj Does anyone have any clues as to what this iPod Touch is"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:59Z 645.3K followers, 24K engagements
"Apple Watches have flown on a few ISS missions and I've also seen AirPod Pros flown"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:59Z 643.9K followers, 10.3K engagements
"I've been showing the output of my flight reconstruction tool for a while and I wanted to share something like it which wasn't a mess of hand tuned stuff that required X-Plane. So I created a completely new version in javascript that runs in an HTML page so that anyone can use it. The output is a KML file which is a tour that works in Google Earth pro with all the attitude information included. This is a long way from perfect I messed around with multiple smoothing algorithms and none of them compares well with the python code but they're readable and understandable for anyone."
X Link 2026-02-05T19:38Z 644.8K followers, 20.1K engagements
"@bonzack Last time I was there it was after midnight and a bunch of people not at the hotel snuck in to watch falcon [--] RTLS"
X Link 2026-02-06T04:05Z 645.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@StephenFleming 'Physics is a Bitch' - but by your own math they wouldn't need to add much more propellent to the deorbit vehicle already planned. Or just build a second one with the same specs it costs less since the development and testing has already been done"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:34Z 644.9K followers, 19.2K engagements
"Sounds like a whole lot of common sense to me. After [--] days on the job visits to every NASA center a dozen town halls and reviewing thousands of workforce submissions it is clear there is much we can do to better empower our people and focus resources on the most pressing objectives. Getting back to the Moon means https://t.co/q8vBaY3QHz After [--] days on the job visits to every NASA center a dozen town halls and reviewing thousands of workforce submissions it is clear there is much we can do to better empower our people and focus resources on the most pressing objectives. Getting back to the"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:47Z 644.7K followers, 71.8K engagements
"This is right up there with NTSB reports that conclude 'Pilot was unable to maintain control of aircraft' The FAA has cleared Falcon [--] to return to flight following an issue with the second stage on the Starlink 17-32 mission. The mission itself was successfulthe anomaly occurred only during the deorbit burn after payload separation. https://t.co/y7ItwOwuzM The FAA has cleared Falcon [--] to return to flight following an issue with the second stage on the Starlink 17-32 mission. The mission itself was successfulthe anomaly occurred only during the deorbit burn after payload separation."
X Link 2026-02-06T23:12Z 646.2K followers, 48.8K engagements
"A local photographer shared some nice pictures of me flying my plane:"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:22Z 644.8K followers, 19.7K engagements
"@AeroBigMike @NASAAdmin @rookisaacman Piece By Piece By Piece By Piece By Piece"
X Link 2026-02-07T00:55Z 643.6K followers, [----] engagements
"For those wondering about how nuclear powers might have performed low yield tests without generating a seismic wave the concept is known as decoupling. If an explosion occurs in a large enough underground cavity the energy doesn't get transferred into the walls and the signature is significantly reduced. This has been known since the late 50's https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA290740 https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA290740"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:13Z 646.1K followers, 38K engagements
"So based on a standard flyover altitude of 1000' the national anthem being scheduled for 3:20pm and the sun's position at that time. The shadow they cast should be around here: If you want to try to mess with shadows of planes against the sun. https://maps.app.goo.gl/8bCNSCmdDquB7B2u7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/8bCNSCmdDquB7B2u7"
X Link 2026-02-07T07:27Z 644.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"Amy was watching this while I was poking around in my laptop in the background I saw someone in a blue flight suit in the distance and instantly knew who it would be. Sure Italy has multiple astronauts but Samantha is the best communicator. Under the lights of San Siro Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti steps forward. A beautiful celebration of science wonder and the next generation. 🚀✨ #MilanoCortina2026 #OpeningCeremony https://t.co/CKQhsNw4Vt Under the lights of San Siro Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti steps forward. A beautiful celebration of science wonder and the next"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:03Z 644.7K followers, 35.9K engagements
"@SandyofCthulhu The Soviet Union had a massive edge in rocket capabilities for a long time because the were lagging behind the US in miniaturizing nuclear warheads"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:51Z 646K followers, 15.2K engagements
"From [--] years ago a spacecraft I designed and rendered using POVRay for an animation I created portraying the diversion of a comet using a nuclear weapon. This wasn't designed in a modeling program it was hand drafted and the geometry transcribed into POV Scene description language by hand. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020195184970170873 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020195184970170873"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:57Z 645.4K followers, 36.5K engagements
"@LeahCheshier SAFER has 10% of the delta V capabilities of the MMU it's enough to get a crew member back to the station"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:02Z 644K followers, [----] engagements
"@rktpoweredkeith Napa is a long way from Santa Clara I wonder what the difference parking fees are like to have this make sense"
X Link 2026-02-08T04:04Z 644.2K followers, 10.4K engagements
"I just had to buy this decade old camera because I need a device for a specific story where Im not allowed to use gear with wireless capabilities no WiFi Bluetooth or Cell hardware allowed"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:08Z 646.1K followers, 43.8K engagements
"@Brommmietze It was what the store had used but to be clear this is going to shoot video and analog wasnt an option"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:57Z 644K followers, [----] engagements
"@hitsman Youtube Landing page would include channels I actually subscribe to"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:18Z 644.5K followers, 14.8K engagements
"While NASA will now fly modern smartphones this is just the latest in a long line of consumer tech being repurposed for Spaceflight: How Everday Technology Is Used In Spaceflight https://youtu.be/jGwmywlr-vY https://youtu.be/jGwmywlr-vY"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:53Z 645.1K followers, 19.5K engagements
"B-1 Lancer is about to enter the TFR"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:35Z 645.7K followers, 19.8K engagements
"Watsonville got unlucky just on the inside of the TFR"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:41Z 645K followers, 33.9K engagements
"@GM4AJK @UniverseSandbox Is it shared on Steam Because thats why Im doing this on a popular piece of software"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:19Z 645.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I've been saying that the Moon was a more obvious first step for a long time - if we can't figure out living on the moon we're not living on Mars. Starship works for both regardless. For those unaware SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon as we can potentially achieve that in less than [--] years whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to For those unaware SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon as we can potentially achieve that in less than"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:17Z 645.7K followers, 71.1K engagements
"MVPs for the pre game. You may be cool. But youll never be this cool. #SuperBowlLX https://t.co/sNVIkw4HbG You may be cool. But youll never be this cool. #SuperBowlLX https://t.co/sNVIkw4HbG"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:19Z 645K followers, 30.7K engagements
"@creathir No with [--] days of no power it's just a bad idea"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:21Z 644.3K followers, [----] engagements
"So with Bitcoin's price drop recently I wonder how far out that pushes the breakeven point for mining crypto in space. As I understand it it's all constrained by the energy cost"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:50Z 645.8K followers, 25.7K engagements
"I didn't know the title of any of the half time show but I knew most of them which is true for a lot of music the difference is if a tune is in English I could at least take a guess at the title"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:43Z 645K followers, 27.1K engagements
"Jet-ception Money shot https://t.co/d0BbaLiJwJ Money shot https://t.co/d0BbaLiJwJ"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:50Z 645K followers, 23.2K engagements
"@RGIII Made me want to learn Spanish"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:19Z 644.4K followers, 17.7K engagements
"OMG an ACTUAL TOUCHDOWN"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:27Z 645.9K followers, 31.2K engagements
"Lol. of course"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:56Z 645.3K followers, 17.5K engagements
"@FutureJurvetson There's already a plan for a nuclear reactors on the moon"
X Link 2026-02-09T05:02Z 644.6K followers, [----] engagements
"@Edward63561584 @EricSHaley Maybe once there's Mongolian teams"
X Link 2026-02-09T06:46Z 644.3K followers, [--] engagements
"@elonmusk @aaronburnett Mass drivers help for takeoff but theres nothing in physics that stops mass drivers being usable for landing. Catching a payload on a mass driver is impossible in the same way that catching a rocket on a tower was impossible"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:43Z 644.9K followers, 14.9K engagements
"Is the implication that Starship is a hare https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:08Z 645.9K followers, 51.7K engagements
"Suggested improvement make the regolith runway a tube with walls that stop plumes have hardware inside the tunnel which lifts the lunar dust into hopers on top of the tunnel that then drops this as a dust cloud so that the spacecraft encounters a volume density rather than a hard surface. This means the volumetric density of the regolith cloud is controllable to adjust deceleration rates"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:09Z 645.5K followers, [----] engagements
"@archipeppe @realDonaldTrump @JeffBezos @elonmusk @Peter_J_Beck @emilio_cozzi @astrosteven_ @Spazio_Magazine @Truthful_ast @a_a_f_t @letiziadavoli @torybruno @CORONAGAMBIT @PaoloDan @Eurekablog @jeff_foust @FelixSchlang @fritzcav @The_Guy_Space @nss But you forgot Pegasus. Which definitely has a future as evidenced by a launch contract /s"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:28Z 644.7K followers, [----] engagements
"@JonTheBeagleDad @RGIII As a believer in American exceptionalism I was offended they chose to go with Kid Rock an artist who has relentlessly pursued mediocrity though his career that's not what the US is supposed to be"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:51Z 644.7K followers, [---] engagements
"And here's what that one shell looks like from California. To be clear I'm not modelling the brightness of this just yet that will need some other tools"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:26Z 645.9K followers, 29.5K engagements
"@argueswithbots Maybe because both Bernie Sanders and Ron DeSantis are trying to stop datacenters being built on Earth"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:29Z 645.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I just found Youtube's movies and TV section has a Fred Dibnah show from [----] showing historic industrial processes great stuff https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4LIG9OLlYbU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=4LIG9OLlYbU"
X Link 2026-02-09T21:27Z 645.7K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Its called space because its got a lot of spaces but if we launch a million satellites into LEO thats a lot of stuff. Do we start talking about outer stuff instead. Whats the threshold for space vs stuff"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:30Z 645.7K followers, 20.4K engagements
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