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18 | Amateur Rocket photographer | RGV Aerial Photography Pecan Island photographer | Mechanical Engineering Freshman

Lake Charles, LA
Joined March 2022
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Super Heavy moved to the launch pad at Starbase. Booster 22 is the first Super Heavy V3 booster planned to return to the launch site for catch and was used for final catch testing upon arrival, including a suspended squeeze test at catch height
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Space Skunk retweeted
SpaceX just resubmitted their first permit application for Starbase LA. There are now 5 marsh creation areas (previously 1). Also much more detail on the long term plans for the Gulf wharf...
Starbase Louisiana Permit Update: Day 45 👀 Movement tonight on SpaceX’s coastal use permit (P20260831)! At 8:09 PM, the state logged a new “Application Received” entry and a new revision of the application, a sign SpaceX may have resubmitted after the permit was returned on Oct. 1. The status still reads “Received – Incomplete” for now, and no new documents are posted yet. A reviewer comment was added, but it isn’t public yet. We’ll keep watching! 🚀
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Booster 22 has been lifted to the top of the tower.
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Space Skunk retweeted
If you’re in the area, you should definitely stop by! It’ll be a lot of fun 🤩 🚀
SpaceX fans, this one's for you 🚀 @HalcyonHypnotic is hosting a Hopper Haus meetup Thursday evening, the night before Flight 15 ✨ Start arriving around 7:30pm. Come meet your people and get hyped before the launch 🤩 418 E Queen Isabella Blvd Port Isabel, TX 78578
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Let's do it! Reply here if you're going to Starbase! We can make a group chat to meet up and even help people with transportation etc. Repost and send this to people you know who are also going!
There’s so many ppl from Spitter traveling out to see flight 15 :O After the liftoff but before the ship catch we should meet up at a restaurant or something
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Space Skunk retweeted
Starship Flight 15's launch and reentry have been added to the FAA Operations Advisory for NET November 13 and November 14 respectively fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_spt
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Join the group chat if you are going to Starbase and want to met some fellow spitter members! nitter.gq/i/chat/group_join/g211…
Let's do it! Reply here if you're going to Starbase! We can make a group chat to meet up and even help people with transportation etc. Repost and send this to people you know who are also going!
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Space Skunk retweeted
It's going to be a long coast. The ship needs to have some fun up there while it waits to be caught by the tower.
why did it even do that !?!? 😭😭😭
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Space Skunk retweeted
2033 Orion and Mengzhou depart Earth together, on a flyby trajectory towards the Moon. After years of needless fighting to claim land on the Moon, and with the removal of the Wolf act. Orion-Mengzhou is greenlit, and with it the unification of both the Chinese and American lunar settlements begins. Bringing a new era, in Human spaceflight.
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Space Skunk retweeted
Starship is preparing for catch Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval → spacex.com/launches/starship…
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Space Skunk retweeted
Insane to me that we might be just days away from the age of expendable rockets being over.
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More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space. Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
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Space Skunk retweeted
Io Eclipsing Jupiter captured on my 12” Dob
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Starship Flight 15 has been delayed by 1 day to NET November 13 per a new CADENA presentation compass.atfm.aero/public_svc…
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Space Skunk retweeted
Talarico: I was a fan of Elon Musk. I’m a big fan of SpaceX and Tesla. He is a great business leader and entrepreneur and innovator. I want him to stick to those things. I will stand up to Elon when he tries to buy our government. But I will work with him when it comes to technology and innovation.
Talarico’s closing speech: “We’re the state that put a man on the Moon”, invoking Texas's Apollo-era role. Texas did it in the Apollo era and will matter again for Artemis. Election is over. It would be something to see Elon and Talarico actually cross party lines to find common ground on space exploration programs.
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Here is some video from one of today’s successful landing tests!
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Some N1F model work
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Space Skunk retweeted
The Hunt
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