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Scott Manley

2 months

After flying F-14's for the aerial stunts in Top Gun, Scott Altman became an Astronaut, here's him landing the shuttle. I think he planted that nose wheel like he was landing on a carrier.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

I feel like I need to apologise to Astra for this.... but it was too good a joke to ignore.

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9 months

Congratulation ISRO! (“Iterally just woke up, and grabbed my phone to check on status)

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

Less than a week ago NASA had to stop working with SpaceX on HLS development because of protests from The National Team and Dynetics. This is how SpaceX reacts.

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2 years

In yesterday's video I lamented the fact that the only X-38 footage on the internet was in 1999 era 240p quality. Well, someone who worked on the project hooked me up with something better:

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

Aaaaaaand success!!!!

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

1 year

So…. After a wild day, traveling a hundred miles across the country to an unfamiliar airfield I no longer have my pilot certificate. Because I have a new one, that doesn’t say student any more.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

4 years

I think @elonmusk enjoys watching rocket nerds making guesses about construction at Boca Chica.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

As of right now The National Team, led by Blue Origin has received more HLS development funds than the current winner, SpaceX. $579 million for National Team $135 million for SpaceX. Further funding for the winner is awaiting results of protest.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

We have arrived

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

I just completed an important space history video restoration project, there's an often shared video showing a Mac Portable ejecting a floppy disk in zero G, but it's painfully low quality, so I found a better source and cleaned it up.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

10 months

Don’t use floating point numbers for monetary transactions

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

Suicide burn was a little late, RIP SN8

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2 months

Not sure the attitude control is working......

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

And the 6th Astra launch vehicle goes the wrong way:

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@DJSnM

3 years

There's now a record number of humans in orbit - 14 in total - 7 on ISS, 3 on Tiangong and 4 on Inspiration4

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

9 months

The infuriating thing about creator monetization is you can tweet something so utterly wrong and If I reply to it to point out how wrong it is the original poster gets rewarded.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

9 months

Judging by the movement of the shadows ISRO spent a long time checking out the rover before going ahead and rolling through that crater

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 months

So that'll be the largest thing ever sent to orbit in one launch.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

1 month

Aircraft squawking 1200 over USA right now

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

@elonmusk SN15 Flew safe. Landing legs look better than any previous landing.

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@DJSnM

2 years

Parker Solar Probe's view of its sundive in August, peeking over the edge of the sunshield to see streamers of plasma.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

I give more respect to a failure of a space mission in public than to a success in secrecy.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

To get into the spirit of what JWST has to do next, try unwrapping all your presents without tearing any paper.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

@elonmusk So do we start asking you for an Edit Button?

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2 months

Really awesome to see this, even if it's probably dying

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Scott Manley

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6 years

Important notice to developers of software that's going on Mars spacecraft. If you're developing a Daemon, try and name it something like 'Mars Automated Telemetry Transmitter' so that when you upload it you can say you've just sent MATT Daemon to Mars.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

11 months

I watched the coast guard press conference and I heard a lot of journalists asking about recovering bodies. I don't think most people understand what happens to flesh and bone when these kind of forces are involved.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

I fixed the camera angle.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

6 months

HOLY SHITBALLS IT'S MOVING!

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 months

There's a type of plasma blackout where the free electrons in the plasma block radio waves. I think starship is experiencing the second type of plasma blackout where bits of its antennae became plasma.

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@DJSnM

2 years

* 2 Stage Launch System * Fully Reusable * Methalox Boosters With Dozens of Engines * 420t To Orbit No it's not Elon's plans for Starship 2.0 it's Boeing's Space Freighter - find out about this and other rocket concepts that make Starship look small

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

So, I took a look at the 'encrypted' telemetry data from Starship's static fire and I figured something out.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

Niiiiiice

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

@elonmusk @Erdayastronaut I have hundreds of videos…. But I’d need to reencode them since twitter is extraordinarily picky about formats.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

More successful than your choice of thumbnail.

The Hill

@thehill

3 years

SpaceX rocket explodes on impact after test flight, Musk still declares it success

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

SpaceX has an FCC application for a Starship orbital flight which gives a lot of important info - Booster lands offshore in gulf, Starship threads its way between islands and then performs reentry and landing about 60 miles north of Kauaii

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

Remember, rockets are a transportation system based on a series of tubes.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

3 years

Completing feed system for 29 Raptor rocket engines on Super Heavy Booster

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

1 year

So as I said, maybe Superheavy needs a flame diverter.

LabPadre Space

@LabPadre

1 year

Crater McCrater face underneath OLM . Holy cow! #SpaceX #Starbase #Starship #Superheavy

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@DJSnM

3 years

This is the kind of accuracy you need to do every time if you want to eliminate the landing legs.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

"I have a great idea for SpaceX, can you help pass it on To Elon Musk" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

SpaceX has lost as much as 80% of the Starlink satellites launched on Thursday due to a solar storm, combined with the intentionally low deployment orbits used for debris managements.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

1 year

For the next week @KerbalSpaceP is a available for free in the Epic game store. It’s only a game, but it’s a game that has helped start a lot of people on a career in aerospace.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

Damn.....

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

Hard to believe that after this awful landing NASA was happy to declare that shuttle landing testing was concluded successfully.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

11 months

A pilot with 8 years of experience who soloed on their 16th birthday and passed multiple objective tests demonstrating their proficiency. By any reasonable measure she's a qualified pilot. If you feel uncomfortable then it's a sign you're letting emotions overcome your logic.

Ian Miles Cheong

@stillgray

11 months

Would you trust her to be your pilot?

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@DJSnM

2 months

I didn't quite understand what I was seeing at the time - but - this is the door opening and you can see the atmosphere blowing out, the narrow strip of illumination made it look a bit like the surface of water.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

I think that's the best camera view of a splashdown.... ever?

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

With TFR, FAA Approval and Road Closures already arranges we might see SN15 fly on May The Fourth. So, I hope the SpaceX stream starts like this:

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@DJSnM

1 year

And just like that I'm no longer in my 40's.

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@DJSnM

3 years

The difference between a SpaceX skeptic and a SpaceX hater is the hater is hoping Starship fails, and the skeptic would be delighted to be proved wrong.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

1 year

Starship reached the same altitude as the least disastrous launch of the N-1.

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@DJSnM

2 years

Remain calm.

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@DJSnM

2 years

Well this sucks. I don’t know how any of this plays out, I just know that a lot of innocent people are going to be victims of this.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

Well... there's your problem.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

1 year

This looks a bit too Kerbal

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@DJSnM

1 year

How many engines can super heavy lose?

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@DJSnM

3 years

iPhones and Apple Watches in space:

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@DJSnM

2 months

OK, so Congratulations again to @spacex on pushing out the envelope further, achieving orbit, prop transfer and not exploding are all good. And I hope we're back again in a couple of months to see another flight with more success.

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@DJSnM

2 years

What I find mind blowing is that we can see this so easily from space, from Geostationary orbit without zooming in at all it's super obvious. (Left is Himawari 8, Right is GOES West)

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@DJSnM

3 years

Now the Pfizer vaccine is no longer ‘Experimental’ everyone who told me they refused the vaccine because of its experimental nature will get vaccinated right? Right?

U.S. FDA

@US_FDA

3 years

Today, FDA approved the first COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of #COVID19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.

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@DJSnM

3 years

So, with the wreckage of SN8 being cleared away, the pressure is on for SN9. Hopefully that pressure gets sent to the fuel header tank.

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@DJSnM

1 year

So now I’ve got a minute to talk. In some ways the Superheavy flip after engine failures resembles those seen by Astra and Firefly. The vehicle flipped because fins and flaps mean the center of drag is in front of center of mass, so it’s aerodynamically unstable.

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@DJSnM

6 months

I resynced the telemetry bar with the video of MECO & Hot Stage. Now it's more obvious the order of engine shut down, relight and failure on the boost back. I suspect that booster failure is something like a fluid hammer effect given the stop and restart puts lots of stress on

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@DJSnM

7 months

Rocketdyne developed the Space Shuttle engines using paper, slide rules and hand machined parts leading to a cost of over $40million each. With to modern CAD, 3D printing and other technologies Aerojet-Rocketdyne can now make them cost $150 million each.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

I don't think I've ever wanted a crew to Fly Safe more than @inspiration4x

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

9 months

And mosaiced together.

ISRO

@isro

9 months

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Updates: The communication link is established between the Ch-3 Lander and MOX-ISTRAC, Bengaluru. Here are the images from the Lander Horizontal Velocity Camera taken during the descent. #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

Not a great day, but I had to put everything else out of my mind so I could make the first landing of my pilot training.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

1 year

So is that the first Air to Air kill by the F22?

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@DJSnM

5 years

Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa resigns to train for SpaceX moon flight - Business Insider

Ahead of SpaceX moon mission, billionaire Yusaku Maezawa sells a $2.3 billion stake in his fashion...

With SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at his side in September 2018, Yusaku Maezawa announced he'd be the first Starship passenger on a flight around the moon.

www.businessinsider.com

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

One of the engines never lit and there wasn't enough thrust to stop in time:

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4 years

Also this arrived today!

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6 months

‘Utilizing basic principles of physics’ just doesn’t get the clicks some people want

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3 years

First images!

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4 years

An often overlooked violation of procedure during Apollo 13

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1 year

My authentic reaction to the launch:

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

4 years

According to official NASA documents they have Aliens on the ISS. They also have Alien, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection - all on DVD.

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1 year

5 years ago Saudi Arabia prohibited women from driving, today they paid ~$200million for a woman to drive a pair of their citizens to space.

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5 years

Enough thrust can make anything fly

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3 years

Well this rocket reusability thing seems to be working despite what some skeptics say.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

I know most people say ‘booster’ but the actual spelling is ‘borcerstershire’. 😉

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3 years

@elonmusk Fly safe.

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@DJSnM

3 years

For a brief window we have 14 humans orbiting the earth. Less than a year ago there were only 3. And 2/3 of them called Sergei.

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@DJSnM

3 years

For those who keep asking about starship planning to use 3 engines for landing - the official answer is ‘we were too dumb’.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

4 years

@elonmusk At this rate you won't need the drone to do camera work, just fly another rocket powered grain silo alongside.

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@DJSnM

3 years

We may have only got about 10 minutes of live video from space during @inspiration4x …. But that still more time that Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin spent in space combined.

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@DJSnM

1 year

In this drone shot you can see debris kicked up by Starship splashing into the water. The debris has been kicked out with a speed of at least 70m/s to go this far - 160 mph. And possibly faster.

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@DJSnM

1 year

Guess what….

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

@ErcXspace @MarcusHouseGame @brendan2908 @BocaChicaGal @NASASpaceflight Aspiring to have no flame diverter in Boca, but this could turn out to be a mistake

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@DJSnM

1 month

O M G !

SpaceX

@SpaceX

1 month

Shutdown of a Raptor vacuum engine in slow motion. The engine’s nozzle is sized for use by Starship in the Earth’s upper atmosphere and outer space, so operation at sea level and low chamber pressures results in flow separation creating visible rings in the exhaust

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

10 terabytes per year:

NASA Webb Telescope

@NASAWebb

2 years

📞 Hello Webb? It's us, Earth! Our team just deployed the gimbaled antenna assembly, which includes Webb’s high-data-rate dish antenna. This antenna will be used to send at least 28.6 Gbytes of data down from the observatory, twice a day:

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@DJSnM

4 years

To be clear: * This is not NASA * NASA has been working on commercial crew since Obama & Biden created the program in 2010. * real men given credit where it’s due (now I’m going to have a bunch of snowflakes try to explain Constellation wasn’t a bad program designed around pork)

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again. Now it is the most vibrant place of its kind on the Planet...And we have Space Force to go along with it. We have accomplished more than any Administration in first 3 1/2 years. Sorry, but it all doesn’t happen with Sleepy Joe!

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

4 years

Spot the real space nerd.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

3 years

At first glance this simulation of the Space Shuttle's hypersonic entry looks like it might be the result of computer code, but this is a 1975 test of a Shuttle model in a helium wind tunnel, and the glow from the shock structures is a result of electron-beam fluorescence.

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Scott Manley

@DJSnM

2 years

Achievement Got! Passed my Private Pilot Written test this afternoon, with 100% of the questions right.

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6 months

My house was not cheap, but sometimes I wake up to this view and it makes me realize it was a good choice.

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4 years

Boeing is charging NASA 50% more than SpaceX for launching to the ISS, they're clearly not spending that extra money on cameras, graphics or presentation.

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