Ptolemy The Space Nerd
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Space-lover in every aspect, astronomy and everything aerospace! Proud to be part of the Artemis generation - We Are Going 🚀 #TeamSpace
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My thoughts and speculation on Starship V2/3 (🧵)
Feel free to correct me on anything, this is just an initial breakdown so I’ll probably get things wrong.
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Space industry: *presents problem*
Elon:
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I never knew this footage existed until now and WOW IT’S INSANE!!!🔥
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As a community can we collectively and peacefully agree not to post fake license tweets for this next launch please?
kind regards
- Ptolemy
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@_Testflight_
Scar submitted himself for Dear Moon ya know? Also Cubfan is a massive SpaceX fan. Both have been since FH in 2018! Pretty cool.
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• Updated flaps - hated them initially, but now I don’t think they’re that bad. Pretty sleek actually.
• The aft flaps look to have gotten larger, possibly like the OG ‘hop Ships’??? (Not exactly sure, pls correct)
• V3 stretch looks ridiculous I’m sorry.
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(EXTRA STUFF I FORGOT)
• Grid fins now back to 90° separation (booooo 👎)
• Raptor 3 pretty cool
• First booster catch this year seems reasonable
• 6 RVACs on V3 is great but length sort of seems unnecessary, sceptical for strength since they’ll be moving to a thinner steel.
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I’m gonna start off with the booster:
• Grid fins - they’ve been moved down! My guess is that this is to do with removing them from the immediate line of fire during hot-staging, they won’t be fully protected but this will help with reducing the need for refurbishment.
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Due to the recent close proximity of
#Jupiter
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#Saturn
in the sky to the
#Moon
, I have been able to get some daytime pictures of the planets! Saturn was taken in the late afternoon yesterday and I took the picture of Jupiter around half 15:30 today!
@DavidBflower
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• Removal of engine shielding - Elon obviously mentioned that R3 acts as a heat shield on its own so won’t need additional protection. Not really a fan of naked raptors, looks a little goofy.
• General removal of exterior stringers, not much to comment on.
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• HSR hugely simplified - this helps save mass and decreases the internal surface area (ie large space for exhaust to escape resulting in a cleaner separation)
• Using the more traditional ‘triangle struts’ probably makes the ring a lot stronger - they’re triangles 📐❤️
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@FelixSchlang
@GroundTruthPics
I’m certain they stick random labels on things for us Starship watchers to get confused over 😅
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@raz_liu
I’m sorry but it literally looks like something straight out of kerbal, even the vehicle assembly building 😭
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OH MY GOD I JUST SAW THE ISS FLYOVER, CYGNUS FLYOVER, A FREAKING STARLINK TRAIN AND A METEOR WITHIN 30 MINUTES!!! 🔥🤘🤯
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@CNSpaceflight
Did they just put a knock of dragon on a stubby falcon 9 and slap a Chinese flag on it?
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@Orbital_Perigee
I remade the meme from like 2 years ago 😭
People thought Raptor 2 was bare, Raptor 3 is crazy!
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@TLPN_Official
@SpaceX
If they want to be inspiring the new generation (AKA teens) they they should be pushing their content on as many socials as possible. Most teens use YouTube, not X, and so they are limiting reach. In a reply Elon even said that more people should know about this stuff!!
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Isn’t Elon supposed to be doing a SpaceX update today?
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@Truthful_ast
Lol get ready for the entirety of Indian space twitter to kill you notifications. I mean your not wrong tho…
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*and technically Electron as it flew CAPSTONE + New Glenn!
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@Lezzyl_
SpaceX and Rocket Lab have by far been the best for coverage, but other companies should push for it. The saddest thing is when launches aren’t streamed at all or with very poor coverage, like for Arianespace you seem to see the first 20 second and the rest is animation.
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@VirtualAstro
Moon looks beautiful tonight, once it sets it’s looking to be a very still night here for me! Hope it goes well.
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@Alexphysics13
@NASASpaceflight
I wonder if they’re redoing the foundation to match the post flight 1 strength upgrades, I don’t know why this wouldn’t have been done sooner though.
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Orion Nebula - 30 second exposure. This is my best picture of M 42 to date!
#astronomy
#Astrophotography
@Celestron
@DavidBflower
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@joebarnard
Woah… WHAT!!? I thought you static fired them clamped upside down, how the hell did THAT happen… 😬🤣
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The aurora is absolutely stunning right now. This is a phone shot. Camera pics later!!
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Finished
@0rig0_bricks
Lego Delta II! Really good build, here’s it to scale with Falcon 1 and the Saturn V. Glad to add this one to my collection!
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I thought this was a spaceplane and got all excited 😭
Together with
@DARPA
& our industry partners, we have built Manta Ray – a new type of uncrewed underwater vehicle. 👀 Manta Ray will operate long-duration, long-range missions in ocean environments, going where humans can't.
#DefiningPossible
#SAS2024
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@KenKirtland17
If they get through staging with at least 20 seconds of nominal ship flight I’d call it a success
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@Elonlover124571
@ThePrimalDino
Sorry, am I missing something here, when did SLS blow up? Oh wait, it didn’t… funny that!
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@AirbusSpace
Artemis III… don’t you mean IV? Unless you accidentally told us something we’re not supposed to know yet.
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@starwars
@disneyplus
Just to clarify for those saying “it’s a republic gunship” it isn’t just compare the two
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@NASAGroundSys
@NASAArtemis
Cameras are always great! Can’t wait to see this shot again on Artemis II… 🔥
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@Truthful_ast
Remember when we all thought B4/S20 were going to fly… crazy how far it’s come since then.
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@CSI_Starbase
@elonmusk
@LabPadre
I swear if they scrap SN15 I will SCREAM! This ship is part of history and deserves to be put on display! Hoppy and SN15 are key pieces of flight hardware that have paved the way for future vehicles - they need to be preserved!!!
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@CosmicalChief
I think if they’re at all going to utilise solar power at Starbase, they’ll want to be efficient with their space usage and mount them to the roof of the Starfactory.
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@Tygget
You wouldn’t think “an award winning YouTube channel” would get basic orbital mechanics wrong. 😑
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Some nice quick shots of the Moon this evening:
The last picture shows a relatively high exposed image in which you can just about see some earthshine and two stars! The brighter of the two is designated ‘HIP 23395’ (what a creative name! 🙃).
@MoonHourSocial
@SkyCalPro
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Been thinking about the new Artemis timeline, I wonder if NASA has considered the idea of launching Artemis II to dock with the Starship HLS demo (also planned for 2025) in NRHO so they can perform a longer (ish) stay and validate integrated systems between Orion & HLS.
(1/n)
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@Truthful_ast
3 flights of the worlds largest & most powerful rocket in only its first year of operations is actually wild, people overlook that.
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New (to us) official renders of the Starship HLS. Hopefully we’ll get a presentation/update soon.
Do you guys wanna see something cool?
New HLS renders from SpaceX
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@smmmmss2
I thought that, but I think it’s just an overly simplified docking/fuel feed line. God I hated the three flap design! 😅
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Edited version brings out the darker areas (maria)
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A little unfocused unfortunately, but here are some shots of the southern regions of the lunar disc from this evening!
#MoonHour
#TYCHOCRATER
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Shock horror! I think the Earth might be round, take that flat-earthers!! 🤭
Lunar eclipse post-maximum from the back of my camera! You can clearly see Earth’s CURVED shadow cast onto the
#Moon
!!
#LunarEclipse
#MoonHour
@MoonHourSocial
@DavidBflower
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I’ve never heard of these guys until now but they’ve just showed up and dropped some of the most incredible footage I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how they’ve managed to hold this back for so long but props to them for all of this. WOW! 🤩
Go check out all their 4K stuff on YT…
Previously unreleased high-quality video of Virgin Galactic VSS Unity return to flight. Yeehaw. More to follow here and at
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@TheLunarWar
@L5Resident
@tokydre
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@dennis_sre
@NervaXe
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@A2US_
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@samuel_krug
Nobody gonna talk about this?
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@NASASpaceflight
I wonder if this is demonstrating the time between MECO and boostback start up (or it could just be a separate test).
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@NASA
@NASA_Orion
You guys have got so make a documentary on Artemis 1 when all of the high res video comes through becuase this is just insane!
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