Scott Manley

We've never seen anything like this recording of a landing on another world. @fireflyspace

@RdhGT234 The hardest thing about this panel is making carefully shaped paper masks so I can fly proper partial panel without attitude indicators.

@DJSnM The struggle of having a ‘failed’ PFD and needing to use a reversionary mode many times better than the full up panel of most aircraft I’ve flown 🤣 ‘Back in my day, maps and stopwatches!’. It’s kind of cool to be a pre-glass, pre-GPS pilot. But, I’m old. Enjoy the check! 👍

Getting close to my instrument checkride, and a few people have wished me ‘good luck’. And the truth is, I wouldn’t take the test if I needed good luck to pass. But, bad luck, that can ruin the best laid plans, so I’m still happy for the wishes and blessings.

No Scotland. No party. No question. 🤖 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #tartanarmy #boston #scotland #worldcup #robots

@ListerLawrence No Spitfires near me, but there's a P-51 Mustang that I can hear coming and I look for it.

If you don’t run outside when you see a Spitfire flying over you’re not right in’t head.

@t3hSurge They’re ’foggles’ the top half are frosted so I can’t look out the window and can only see down.

@DJSnM What are the safety glasses for?

We're going to conduct science at Mars.🔴 Yesterday we announced the Interplanetary Sciences Program. Today, let’s take a closer look at the ground-breaking technology we're developing and launching to the Red Planet: 📡 A shallow radar sounder built by us to map subsurface ice and geology, revealing climate and geologic history, habitability conditions, and high-value landing sites 🖥️A Relay Data Center built by us to deliver networked optical and RF communication, run advanced algorithms and AI models, support autonomous responsive science operations, and return massive data volumes to Earth. 🔬 An atmospheric profiling suite built by @NASAAmes to measure winds, temperatures, clouds, dust and planetary energy balance.

NEW: One of the co-founders of video game giant Ubisoft killed in a plane crash in France. Claude Guillemot was piloting a Cessna 421B Golden Eagle with one other passenger onboard when it crashed while on approach to La Baule-Escoublac Airfield on Friday. Ubisoft Entertainment is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include Anno, Assassin's Creed and Far Cry.

@RightLeftoid @__apf__ Or maybe it’s good to remind people of history.

@DJSnM @__apf__ All linguists agree that the local pronunciation which is understood by the locals is the correct pronunciation. Most teachers are political activists and it's best to ignore them when they attempt to decrease our diversity of language and reverse our cultural integration

every city name in California has three ways to pronounce it: (1) the Spanish way (2) the way an English speaker would pronounce it if they hadn't heard the name before (3) the way locals actually pronounce it, which is neither of the previous two. like San Rafell and Beneesha

@rookisaacman It really helps with situational awareness, although there was one moment where I almost messed up an approach because I was taking cues from that rather than the navaid I was supposed to track. I have to be disciplined.

@DJSnM Nice avionics...synthetic vision so hot right now.

After mating the Pegasus rocket carrying Katalyst's LINK spacecraft, @NorthropGrumman’s Stargazer L-1011 aircraft departed Wallops. Wallops' ability to support both spacecraft & Pegasus integration within weeks streamlined this mission to boost Swift's orbit later this summer. go.nasa.gov/4aaYaq4

@robertoblake I agree… but Super Metroid was from Gunpei Yokoi - and it’s one of the few 16bit games I go back to.

Samus Aran taught me to face the dark even when I was scared. Mario Mario taught me to try and try again and the trying matters. Link and Zelda taught me that the world is very big and I am very small, and that being small doesn’t make me less important… I am the child of the generation that Shigeru Miyamoto raised…

@BassonBrain Nice render, I should know, it’s mine.

SPACEX's PROJECT STARFALL SpaceX is targeting 6.43 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, June 23 for a Falcon 9 launch of its Starfall Demo Capsule from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL Starfall is not a traditional conical capsule. It features a flat, circular, disc-like form factor designed for autonomous space manufacturing and rapid global cargo delivery. The circular capsule measures 3.1 meters (10.2 feet) in diameter and 0.75 meters (2.5 feet) in height and has a dry mass of approximately 2,100 kilograms (4,630 lbs). Starfall features a two-part split structure comprising a 1,400 kg aluminum top plate and a 700 kg carbon-fiber heat shield. PAYLOAD CAPACITY Its internal payload bay measures 2.5 × 1.5 × 0.5 meters, allowing Syarfall to transport up to 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lbs) of return cargo. GUIDANCE & PROPULSION Starfall lacks a dedicated chemical propulsion system for independent deorbit maneuvers, relying on its launch vehicle or an external kick-stage to enter a reentry trajectory. For orientation and attitude control, the craft utilizes a network of cold-gas thrusters supplied by nitrogen tanks housed within the heat shield. REENTRY & RECOVERY Starfall uses its carbon-fiber thermal protection system to manage atmospheric heating. Deceleration is handled by a sequence consisting of a pilot chute, a drogue parachute, and a single main parachute. The 700 kg heat shield is mechanically jettisoned shortly before splashdown, after which SpaceX recovery vessels retrieve all spacecraft components from the ocean.

All right!

This wouldn't have happened in the EU

@Slopey @MartyJ777 There's a bronze statue of Yoda near me....

@MartyJ777 @DJSnM It's not new - there's been a traffic cone on the head of the Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow since at least the 1980s... Queen Elizabeth II in Aberdeen wears one from time to time also. It's just a thing we do - every statue needs a traffic cone imho.

The traffic cone at the end was perfect

#SchweickartAuction open now. Among the items carried aboard #Apollo9 was a miniature #DeclarationOfIndependence—a founding document from one era of exploration, carried into another nearly two centuries later. Own a piece of American and space history: bit.ly/4vl4yDM

@jotunfo Yes and more energy means higher temperatures and pressure

@DJSnM I thought the Isp was purely limited by the temperature inside the rocket engine 🤔

A recent Long March 12 launch used a new high energy Kerosene which increases specific impulse by about 2.5%. The Soviet Union developed something similar they named 'Syntin'. The fuel uses cyclopropane rings where the molecule is twisted tight, like a spring, this means extra energy contained in the same mass of fuel.

@PetesGuide @dpoddolphinpro I just know the pitch angle I don’t want to exceed.

@DJSnM @dpoddolphinpro Serious question: Do you calculate a new eye-to-wheels height interpretation of the VASI with the camera mounted, to avoid testing its impact rating?

I still have no idea how they land that L-1011 without damaging Pegasus. The clearance between the main gear and the aft fins is an uncomfortably low number 😅

@TheBrianMcManus @SynBio1 CT means computational tomography, there are many scanning processes that can be used to get the data for the CT step

@SynBio1 It's not a CT scanner...that requires x-rays.

I knew as soon as midjourney announced that CT scanner I was going to be treated to every medical imaging expert on earth posting every possible technical limitation of CT scanning that might make it not work Never change biotech