Alex

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Alex

@Alex__Pinel

Aiming for the Moon 🌖 Co-founder @Instinct__Space YC W25

Katılım Şubat 2025

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·17 Haz

So excited to finally share what we’ve been building at Instinct. Moon travel is about to get a lot easier 🚀

Instinct | YC W25@Instinct__Space

Today, we're sharing how Instinct is making lunar transport routine. Getting to the Moon costs $100M and a dedicated launch. We rideshare to orbit, then fly the rest of the way, delivering 20kg at half the cost per kg. Fly with us 📷 instinct-space.com/fly-with-us

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Proud member of the lunar exploration club 🫡

type2labs@_type2labs

Algorithm, show this to followers only. I want the OG believers to be able to join first. As you know, we are building a lunar rover that anyone can control. Along with a Chat controlled mission, we will be selling private slots where anyone can directly control a rover on the moon for 10 minutes to an hour. We have no flight version of the rover. We have no flight booked. We have no money. It's a long way off... Rover time will also cost hundreds to thousands of dollars for a 10 minute slot. But, if you'd like to join the waitlist that will allow you to book rover time when we are further along, you can! It's currently $99 for a spot on the waitlist. (I wanted to keep it relatively low for early believers.) You also get a Stainless Steel or Copper Lunar Exploration Club Pilot Card cut by SendCutSend. And if you are on the waitlist and can't afford the rover time the first time around, we will hold your slot until you can. Finally, you just want to follow along and control the Earth / Moon rovers in chat, you can join the Lunar Exploration Club on our site! Ad Luam, bill1am Rover Commander in Chief

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Daniel Vega@daniel_r_vega·4d

We're proud to receive an @ENERGY Genesis Mission Funding Award in support of developing a self-optimizing digital twin for compact laser plasma accelerator driven light sources with @BerkeleyLab. This investment positions our team to pursue discoveries that were previously out of reach and to deepen the collaborations that drive breakthroughs that accelerates the advent of advanced light sources for semiconductor manufacturing. We’re humbled by the support and trust given to us by @ScienceUnderSec. We’re in a New Age of American Science THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER 🇺🇸🦅

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·4d

For you it may be the Rideshare Payload User's Guide, for me it's just the guide. Just but a glimpse of how much of a payload user I am.

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·6d

@B_Garelick and Earth!

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Ben@B_Garelick·6d

Moon.

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·6d

@MattGialich @RocketLab looks so cool! are those two astroforge cameras for stereo vision?

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Matthew Gialich@MattGialich·6d

The sensor stack: - AstroForge Camera - @RocketLab star tracker - Sun Sensor

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·20 Tem

What a game

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type2labs@_type2labs·14 Tem

The Lunar Exploration Club Pilot Cards are here from @sendcutsend! We are creating a waitlist for people who want to drive the rover once it’s on the moon. How it works: 1. Pay pilot membership fee 2. Get your pilot card mailed to you 3. Secure your spot in line to purchase rover time when it’s released Our goal is to send the first mission to the moon between 2028-2030. Comment below if you want an invite to the club. The waitlist will go live in a few days. It will be invite only to start.

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·13 Tem

What an amazing spacecraft. Reditus is about to change LEO forever!

Stef Crum@StefReditus

We finished ENOS! 🚨🚨 ENOS is currently on its way toward Vandenberg Space Force Base for Launch later this Fall. It will orbit for approximately 2 months, before initiating its reentry that ends with a splashdown off the coast of Florida, where the satellite will be recovered. ENOS is built for reusability, and will be the first reusable satellite ever! 🚀 Read more about it here: lnkd.in/ejvKtM4W

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·13 Tem

@_type2labs Yes! Looks amazing! 🚀

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type2labs@_type2labs·13 Tem

@Alex__Pinel Woooh! It made it!

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·13 Tem

Chat, is this real? @_type2labs

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·12 Tem

@TurbulentSphere That’s an interesting choice. Using fuel as coolant is definitely easier as in it’s not peroxide acting weird everywhere. But HTP biprops have large OF ratios so either they took on huge performance losses to make this possible or idk what they did

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Patrick Morrison@TurbulentSphere·12 Tem

Can we all just take minute to think about how Ursa fuel cooled their peroxide engine, in contrast to almost every American and British peroxide engine in history?

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Blake Scholl 🛫@bscholl·10 Tem

The Orteig Prize put Lindbergh across the Atlantic and ignited the airline age. The Kremer Prize produced human-powered flight. The Ansari XPRIZE opened private spaceflight. Today, we're announcing The Boom Prize: $750k in cash and $50k in Boom stock for the first American amateur-built radio controlled airplane to break the sound barrier. Judges are @rookisaacman, @lrocket, @DJSnM, and Phil Condit. The prize is co-sponsored by Alex Gerko, @ElectricCapital, @caffeinatedcap, @balajis, @Denver_Ventures, and @joshbuckley. Rules and registration on the Boom website. This is going to be exciting!

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Alex@Alex__Pinel·8 Tem

@SvenSchierman That’s really cool! Are you using a jet engine for gravity cancellation and EDFs for attitude control?

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Sven Schierman@SvenSchierman·8 Tem

I finally cobbled together old clips from the first stage of the build/test process for the lunar lander flight dynamics drone. Ended up with a (way too long!) montage. Check it out in the reply if the project seems interesting! Might also post a longer version of the video with narration about the systems and build process, if people are interested in that. Also working on a blog post that dives into more detail.