Mark Watney

the thing many people miss is that Raptor 3 isn’t a better version of Raptor 1; it’s most of Raptor 1 deleted. every dollar and motion inside a company is a part. most can be deleted

The return of Long March 10 booster, view from the ship

Long March 10B Y1 booster before the bottom being restrained

Opinion on this Australian flag proposal?

HAHAHAHAHGAHAHAH THEY INTERCEPTED A SOYUZ CAPSULE flying at cruising altitude with no parachute or means of propulsion with a fighter jet and shot at it Peak comedy from Apple TV 😂👏

I’m at a point in my life where I’m trying to focus on my apprenticeship, improve my skills, manage work and school, and build something meaningful for my future. Meanwhile, he is still spending hours going through blurry Starship footage frame by frame, zooming into individual pixels and trying to reconstruct exact telemetry from numbers that are barely readable in the first place. The dedication is impressive to a certain extent, but from the outside it also looks incredibly excessive. Every new flight seems to turn into another forensic investigation. He analyses reflections, compares tiny shapes, estimates propellant levels, maps trajectories, and debates whether a blurred number says 1.5% or 3.5%. It feels as though no detail is ever too small or too unclear to become the subject of another long analysis. I’m trying to move forward with my actual career and develop useful skills, while he is still zooming 800% into a handful of pixels from an onboard camera as though the entire future of spaceflight depends on him decoding them. He clearly has patience, technical knowledge, and a strong interest in the subject, but he also seems to need something else in his life beyond constantly sitting in front of a screen and analysing pixels every day. At some point, it would probably be healthy to find other hobbies that involve going outside, moving around, meeting people, or simply doing something that has nothing to do with Starship footage and endless frame-by-frame analysis. There is nothing wrong with being deeply interested in a topic, but when every new clip becomes another multi-hour investigation, it starts to feel like the hobby has taken over far too much space. Sometimes you really need to close the footage, step away from the monitor, catch some sunlight, breathe fresh air, and experience something outside the online space community. Not every blurry number needs to become a full-scale investigation, and not every uncertain pixel needs a theory built around it. The rocket will still exist tomorrow, and the missing telemetry will not suddenly become clearer just because someone stared at it for another five hours. There is more to life than blurry screens, speculative calculations, and analysing the same few frames over and over again. Just my thoughts.

The path to launch is filled with obstacles and success is only possible through the tireless efforts of many working together towards a common goal. “Critical Path” continues the ongoing Starship series, following SpaceX engineers through the final days before launch of the first Starship V3 and the challenges that come with development of the world’s most powerful and fully reusable rocket.

Why does "Space Twitter" hate Europe because the Ariane 6 and Vega C aren't reusable, yet have no problem with H3 and Epsilon not being reusable?