Tom Mueller

@lysandrou_ Pintle injector. Nice!

Jankadoodle engine testing. So much fun.

@ItsElanaGold Impulse Space

Startups to pay attention to: - Heron Power - Bedrock Robotics - Skild AI - General Matter - Amca - Kela - Hadrian Who am I missing?

@elonmusk Light and tight!

Raptor 3 is engineering art

Access to space is solved. Impulse is building the highways to everywhere else in the solar system. Follow us into orbit: impulsespace.com

SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster landing. This is real 🤩

BREAKING: Eric Romo (@_Eric_Romo), President & COO of Impulse Space (@GoToImpulse) says: "The idea that launch prices are going to fall significantly in the next 5 years is nonsense." "I think there are an awful lot of business models that are predicated on “when Starship allows me to launch for $200 a kilogram…” I think they’re all broken, & all those companies are going to fail." "I think we’ve seen this play out already with Falcon 9 & the pricing around it, where the costs of Falcon 9 allowed SpaceX to deliver the Starlink constellation at a cost per CapEx that made them profitable. But they set the price in the market at something that just barely made it an okay investment to think about OneWeb or Kuiper or anything like that. So they ran that playbook exactly on Falcon 9, & they had their gross margins on Falcon 9—people think we’ll see when the S1 comes out—are like 50% plus. So they could have dropped the price, & they didn’t. They’re going to do the same thing on Starship, because why wouldn’t they? Their internal costs on Starship are going to be whatever they need to be to deploy Starlink & orbital data centers, but they’re going to set the price so that anybody trying to do comms, anybody trying to do orbital data centers—the price is going to be too high. So if you’re a third party relying on them for a lower price of access to space, I think you’re hosed." 00:20 Hot Take Launch Prices 01:41 SpaceX Market Power 02:23 Impulse Space Overview 02:54 Mira For GEO Defense 03:45 Helios Direct To GEO 05:19 Caravan Rideshare To GEO 06:42 Space Economy Reality Check 08:46 Tom Mueller Legends 10:54 SpaceX IPO 13:42 Investor Frenzy & Broomstick 14:05 Alien Eyeballs Outro @elonmusk Recorded at @NYSE x @payloadspace Space Summit

@_chandlerl @isaiah_p_taylor In my TRW days we had Rule #1: Never braze when you can weld Rule #2: Never weld

@lrocket @isaiah_p_taylor Welds are king! Quicker than you’d think too

Good helium management is key to making energy 10x cheaper

@__el__toro__ C172 alloy?

I could ask for nothing beyond the tastefulness of its appearance. I request nothing more than its strength, durability, and conductivity. I have great confidence for which there can be no price. In Beryllium Copper, I have what I need.

No caption needed. Just turn the volume up. #MazdaMotorsports

@SpaceX Joe P quote was right on, "people have no idea how this rocket is going to change the world"

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

@isaiah_p_taylor Huge accomplishment! Congrats Isaiah and Valar team

So proud of my team, and grateful for the leadership of the DOE and POTUS. This is not a normal DSA. Power is a different level—the volume and complexity of systems required when you have burnup is a massive step up. The Valar team is showing that they are up to the challenge.

When lions aren't hungry they are actually good dudes

Mach diamonds nominal!

@GoToImpulse When you see a mullet at the test site you know some kickass progress it getting made

“Where fire meets metal.” Andy Mack, Lead Test Engineer in Mojave, explains the impact of owning every aspect of the test facility – from fluid, electrical, and data systems, to design, build and test. And how flight doesn't stop on the weekends: impulsespace.com/updates/q-and-…

@Motorsport I actually know this. My C7R Corvette qualified at COTA with a time of 2:04.6 seconds back in 2015 with pro driver @AntonioGarcia_3 , My best time was 2:15.4, so about 11 seconds faster than me!

How fast do you think YOU could actually drive a professional race car? 🤔

@RetroBayArea I gave Bob a tour of SpaceX less than a year before he passed. He was an inspiration to many

Before Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos had space programs, there was this guy who was building rockets in his backyard. Saratoga, 1980s. Robert Truax was a rocket engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in both military rocketry and the early private spaceflight movement. He played a significant role in U.S. Navy missile programs and after retiring from the Navy, he founded his own company, Truax Engineering. By doing things differently and avoiding what he called ‘government waste,’ he believed space travel had become too expensive and bureaucratic under government control, and that simpler, reusable rockets could be built more efficiently by individuals or private companies. He remained a vocal advocate for commercial spaceflight throughout the 1980s and 1990s, years before companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin made such ideas mainstream. In the 1980s, he launched Project Private Enterprise, an ambitious attempt to send a human into space using a privately developed rocket. The centerpiece of this effort was the X-3 Volksrocket, a low-cost, reusable vehicle designed to democratize space access. Although his private rockets never reached orbit, Robert Truax is remembered as a visionary and a determined ‘garage engineer’ who challenged the status quo of space exploration. His efforts helped lay the philosophical foundation for today’s commercial space industry, paving the way for innovators like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, whose companies have turned private spaceflight into a reality. Truax remains an important, if often overlooked, figure in the history of rocketry. RIP Robert Truax (September 3, 1917 – September 17, 2010). source footage 🎥: MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour | NBC | Video West

Cool that they used my car in the poster! Look forward to racing Laguna Seca this summer

Apple Music special livery for this weekend in Long Beach!