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

UK/TX
Joined April 2024
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Starship Update with Max Evans (@_MaxQ_) youtu.be/vKqb6w5FeEs
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Josh Platts retweeted
We're hiring a Media Resident at @AstroForge! You'll be working directly alongside myself and the team to craft and tell our story to the world. Check out the link below to learn more and apply. jobs.gem.com/astroforge-io/a…
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Josh Platts retweeted
Ship 42 static fires complete. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 performed a full duration, six-engine static fire, and fired a single Raptor engine to simulate a deorbit burn
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Just spectacular. I'm excited for the future!
The core stage of the Artemis III rocket is officially stacked.
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Josh Platts retweeted
SpaceX's Starbase Vehicle Roulette continued last night as Ship 43 returned to the Production Site following its visit to the pad for Chopstick testing. Meanwhile its potential Flight 16 partner Booster 23 made a return trip to Massey's potentially for more cryo testing, where Ship 42 (flight 15) is waiting following its static fire testing. @NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/starbase
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Starship Flight 16: Ship 43 has returned to the production site from its Pad 2 chopstick tests, with Booster 23 set to head out to Massey's for cryotesting. This duo is expected to sail to KSC to be the first Starship flight from 39A. nsf.live/starbase
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Josh Platts retweeted
So...we expected Ship 43 to go back to Production during tonight's first delay. But we had assumed the second delay, to Massey's, was just for a stand. We may have been wrong. Cuz that's Booster 23 in the doorway. 🎥: nsf.live/starbase | @NASASpaceflight
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Josh Platts retweeted
Ship 42 just wrapped a full 6-engine static fire at Massey’s, following its single-engine test yesterday. Flight 15 gearing up quickly @NASASpaceflight
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Ship 42 has conducted a 6 engine full-duration Static Fire ahead of Flight 14. Full Steam Ahead! @NASASpaceflight
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Starship Flight 15: Ship 42 conducts a six-engine static fire test. ➡️youtube.com/watch?v=C0lC4tb1…
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Josh Platts retweeted
Pegasus was originally designed to transport Space Shuttle external tanks and was later modified to carry SLS core stages and other related hardware. This time, however, it has been tasked with transporting a New Glenn GS-2 stage to the Stennis Space Center. You’ll Thank Me Later serves as SpaceX’s transportation workhorse for Starship hardware between Cape Canaveral and Starbase, Texas. It is designed to fit either a Super Heavy booster or a Ship.
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Josh Platts retweeted
Space freighters. Scenes from this morning at the Kennedy Space Center turn basin, where NASA’s Pegasus and SpaceX’s Marmac 31 "You’ll Thank Me Later" barges are docked. This is the first occasion they've been seen together in such close proximity, offering a rare opportunity to witness two vessels purpose-built to transport large spaceflight hardware. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/spacecoast
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Meanwhile at Starbase: Ship 42 single-engine static fire at Massey's Ship 43 catch testing on the tower. They really are doing everything everywhere all at once. @NASASpaceflight
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Josh Platts retweeted
It's wild to think that Ship 43 may be the first Ship to visit more than one launch site... fly from LC-39A and caught at Pad 2, where it's undergoing catch testing RIGHT NOW. Meanwhile, Ship 42 is prepping for a single-engine static fire.
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Josh Platts retweeted
Capping off a busy two days at Starbase, Ship 43 is back on the ground after catch-related testing similar to what Ship 42 did. Here's a timelapse of its day. I bet it had a nice view of the Ship 42 static fire from up there! 🎥: nsf.live/starbase | @NASASpaceflight
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TPS on Ship 43 looks superb.
Starship Flight 16: Ship 43's going to Pad 2, likely for some catch tests with the chopsticks. nsf.live/starbase
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Starship Flight 16: Ship 43's going to Pad 2, likely for some catch tests with the chopsticks. nsf.live/starbase
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Josh Platts retweeted
The team also made progress at LC-36B yesterday. Roughly 450 truckloads of concrete, lined up bumper-to-bumper and stretching nearly 3 miles up the coast, supported a 4,500-cubic-yard pour for the pile caps. Three more placements to go for a total of 15,000 cubic yards. This is the foundation for our New Glenn 9x4 pad.
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Replying to @coreycoto
It is associated with a Groom Lake program. Paglen's book is only a very tiny fraction of the program patches out there. Important to remember that can't take the imagery literally. It's a cheeky nod to the Tr-3b rather than "confirming" that it exists. Also see this one from AFOSI/PJ.
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