Ben Cichy
@bencichy
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Moon Lander Lead Engineer. Mars fan and former Martian. Dad. Occasional binge runner. Tweets are my own.
Seattle, WA
Joined April 2010
Team Twitter - I am humbled to see my tweet from over a year ago continues to resonate with those looking to find their way through a tough spot in their educational journey. A few thoughts and reflections for those just joining the conversation (1/7)
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Congratulations to @Int_Machines! Opening the moon to commercial exploration!!
Your order was delivered… to the Moon! 📦 @Int_Machines' uncrewed lunar lander landed at 6:23pm ET (2323 UTC), bringing NASA science to the Moon's surface. These instruments will prepare us for future human exploration of the Moon under #Artemis.
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Tonight our friends at @astrobotic and @ulalaunch launch to the Moon! Go Vulcan. Go Centaur. Go Peregrine!
It's time! Tune in NOW as we begin the live launch webcast of the #VulcanRocket #Cert1 flight test. NASA anchors the start of the broadcast and ULA will host at L-minus 25 minutes. https://t.co/xFQoT0042V
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Kudos to ispace for transparency. Having been in charge of landing software for Mars missions, I can understand how this type of error made it in to they system, and how hard they can be to find in test. Sharing these lessons helps us all. https://t.co/rQJSZGtlqf
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Ispace is a private lunar robotic exploration company that is developing micro-robotic technology to provide a low-cost and frequent transportation service to and on the Moon, conduct lunar surface...
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Today at 2PM ET is a NASA Moon to Mars Architecture webinar for U.S. Industry and Academia, where NASA will discuss how you can engage with its architecture. Sign up here:
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An amazing day. After over 5 years of effort across @blueorigin and our National Team, I’m thrilled to be a part of the team building this audacious lander in partnership with @NASA for Artemis V.
We selected @BlueOrigin to develop the human landing system for the #Artemis V mission. This component for deep space transportation will help us in our goal of sending astronauts to the surface of the Moon and returning them home safely: https://t.co/KMq5fUn0ll
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Today at 10:30 AM ET, we're announcing a second human landing system provider for #Artemis, that will develop the transportation system to take astronauts from @NASA_Gateway to the lunar surface on our #Artemis V mission. Tune in to https://t.co/olv5xmI6z8.
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Friday. Here we go.
Soon, we'll announce the company selected to develop the landing system for the #Artemis V Moon mission, which will take astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface and back. Tune in Friday, May 19 at 10am ET (1400 UTC): https://t.co/oWvuSg9vn8
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Tune in now. Lander currently in communications blackout on far side of Moon and ready to autonomously start descent burn. Should be exciting! Go #HAKUTO_R !
1 hour until our HAKUTO-R M1 scheduled landing on the Moon! Historic live coverage of our landing event has begun. Watch here: https://t.co/buPG5IbMun
#ispace #HAKUTO_R #lunarquest
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First ever commercial lunar landing - tomorrow. Coverage starts 8:20 PDT.
Our HAKUTO-R Program Mission 1 lunar landing live stream coverage is scheduled to open Tuesday, April 25, 15:20 (UTC)/11:20 (EST) at the earliest. Use the live stream link below to watch our landing event from anywhere! https://t.co/buPG5IbMun
#ispace #HAKUTO_R #lunarquest
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6 days until our HAKUTO-R M1 scheduled landing on the Moon! Landing event livestream coverage will begin at the link below approximately 1 hour prior to landing, which is scheduled to take place on April 25, 16:40 (UTC)/12:40 (EST) at the earliest. (1/3) https://t.co/buPG5IckjV
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Less than 30 minutes to go. Congratulations to the @SpaceX team for getting to today. Check out the flight test video. Awesome. Godspeed Starship.
Watch Starship’s first integrated flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK
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This is a big deal. First commercial Moon landing coming up April 25th.
Mission Milestone 8 âś…! We are excited to share that our HAKUTO-R M1 lander has completed all planned orbital control maneuvers! (1/4)
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Congrats to the BE-7 team for completing another test firing this past week at NASA MSFC. Love seeing that engine make fire. BE-7 is at the core of all we do - high performing and deep throttling, using propellants we can ultimately harvest on the Moon.
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Congrats to the BE-7 team for completing another test firing this past week at NASA MSFC. Love seeing that engine make fire. BE-7 is at the core of all we do - high performing and deep throttling,...
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Congratulations to @ac_charania! I had the privilege to work with him at @blueorigin and there is no one else like him in the industry - wicked smart, surreptitiously funny, a lover of movies, and just true individual. Best of luck.
A.C. Charania has been named as our agency's chief technologist. He will lead technological innovation and investments across our six mission directorates. Learn more about Charania's career and welcome him to our agency: https://t.co/SL2js0h0Yi
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