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without-ado · 1 year

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Terran 1 Launch - World’s First 3D Printed Rocket

l John Kraus l 3 Relativity Space l 5 Trevor Mahlmann ll Relativity Space's Terran 1 made a historic test flight, but failed to reach orbit. However, it did notch some important milestones(March 23); More info

#terran 1 #rocket #3D printed #space #stars #rocket launch #astrophotography #astronomy #photography #night #sky #galaxy #planets #solar system #relativity space

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falconisinstartup · 1 year

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Terran 1 Liftoff | Michael Baylor

#Terran 1 #relativity space #rocket launch #methalox #rocket #launch #aerospace #engineering

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astronauticalaspirations · 1 year

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Terran 1 launch attempt in about 40 minutes. One of the two rockets I’ve actually seen pre-launch so a little more exciting than usual at my end.

#relativity space #terran 1 #launch

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florida-remberts · 1 year

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Relatively New...

First printers, what's next toasters in space?!?!

Liftoff of Relativity Space's first 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket.

Go Relativity!

#florida life #Relativity Space #Terran 1 #3D Printed Rocket #Toasters in Space

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penultimatestalematewithdeath · 1 year

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10 minutes until the third attempt at the Terran 1 launch for Relativity Space!!

#relativity space #terran 1 #glhf #good luck have fun #i am so excited!!#if this gets held b/c of a boat again #I'm going to riot

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paraparaparadigm · 1 year

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#Terran 1 #Mary Poppins

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aeontriad · 1 year

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Terran 1 lift-off

#terran 1 #rocket #Relativity Space

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starspanner · 1 year

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All I could think as I watched this little blue streak go overhead was, "You crazy sons of bitches, you did it."

I honestly thought it was going to either explode or do that tragic lift-off-a-few-meters-but-then-come-crashing-back-down-on-its-ass thing. No matter that it didn't quite make orbit, the fact that they got it in the air at all is staggering.

And, as I said on the Spaceflight Now Live Chat (the best live chat on YouTube or perhaps anywhere), perhaps the real achieving orbit is the friends we made along the way.

Congrats, Terran 1! May your 3D printed successors fly ever higher!

#astronomy #Terran 1 #Relativity Space #rocket launch #Youtube

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talkoftitusville · 1 year

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Relativity Space launches Terran 1 3d printed rocket

Relativity Space launched its Terran 1 rocket for its First Flight mission, named "Good Luck, Have Fun," at 11:25pm March 22nd from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida

Relativity Space launched its Terran 1 rocket for its First Flight mission, named “Good Luck, Have Fun,” at 11:25pm March 22nd from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Although the rocket successfully lifted off, it failed to reach orbit due to an upper stage malfunction. Relativity Space, the private space launch company, noted that the rocket’s first stage,…

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#SpaceCoast #Cape Canaveral Space Force Station #CCSFS #City of Titusville #Mims #Relativity Space #Space Coast #Terran 1 #Titusville

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sharkenjoyer · 1 year

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Terran 1 test launch

If you haven't heard about the Terran 1 yet, it's a two-stage orbital class launcher made primarily with 3D printing, made by Relativity. The first of its kind and it launched today (03:25 UTC), very exciting new step for rocket manufacturing.

While the Terran 1 did successfully launch during it's first stage it did not manage to reach orbit during it's second stage. Overall an amazing new advancement, the data from this test launch will contribute to a future rocket, the Terran R.

I'll be keeping up with Relativity Space and their future launches, very exciting stuff.

check out RocketLabs on twitter to see more on the rockets launch.

#terran 1 #outer space #space #rocket #rocket launch #relativity #science

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jenakuns · 1 year

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Some thoughts on Relativity

So I've been observing the company of Relativity Space for a good while now. What originally got me in I think were the plumes + some cool numbers and I've stayed in since then. Main line of interest in space for new people is SpaceX, but if you are naturally a contrarian or feel some degree of dislike towards Musk, it can push elsewhere. There's a generic mindset in the community where people have a desire to feel neurodiverse so they obsess over one particular company or vehicle in space. I've seen it with Firefly, ABL, Rocket Lab, Astra, Blue Origin, ULA and Relativity among others (personally I want to be deep on Varda, but can't believe it over the competition (Delian don't let me down)). Of course launch is the most common because of their visibility + the interesting activity being condensed over a couple minutes instead of months/years*. I wouldn't count Virgin Galactic as those tend to be more stock types with a financial attachment rather than a social one.

*Capstone I know you think you're cool doing half a million flips in space and saving it, but I mean Astra once did a powerslide so you're never gunna compare.

Anyways, yes Relativity. See this would never work in any other format. Just me ranting. I couldn't make a youtube video or any reasonable discussion on a social media platform. But for you nutters on tumblr who will never read this because it's likely adjacent to your interest areas, it's just right. Maybe livestreaming, but I'm not quick witted enough for that.

So uh how do I feel about the company. It's hard to say because I'm so close and feel so removed. Is 3d printing worth it? Shit maybe idk. The whole mass increase + the massive effort it's taken to get them working in the first place just makes it seems like it was not worth the money. ABL was founded a year after Relativity and achieved launch before Relativity at a much more efficient capital burn. As is now with >1000 employees, Relativity is burning hundreds of mil and isn't making any significant revenue right now. They will need to do another capital raise in like the next year or 2. The thing I come back to is the ability to move onto brighter pastures with the printer. Terran R is what is needed to make the company work and not burn money like it was going out of style. So anything to make the move to Terran R easier is justified.

I believed large scale work on Aeon R began in ~2020, maybe a bit into 2019. So a clean sheet 1.1 MN methane GG engine being on test stand in 3 years is pretty good, although TQ-12 context*. Prometheus began in 2015 and got an engine on stand in 2022. And that's the first engine, we'll probably see >10 Aeon R doing things by years end compared to like 2 or 3 Prometheus. That was enabled by Terran 1 heritage. Will the same principle go for the rest of Terran R. The big question is inevitably the structures because that's where Relativity is doing their new thing. So how long till we see large actual real Terran R Stargate hardware. They wanted to do like 1 engine/week by June 2023. That would be like 30 engines by years end. If they manage that, then maybe a shot. Maybe Gustavo man was on the money.

*Tianque 12 is a 660kN methane GG engine that started in August 2017 and had an engine on test stand in November 2019.

I always feel like I'm moving the goal posts. 'The current product is alright, but this next one coming soon tm will be the real deal' and it's always the next one. Which I suppose is the point of iteration right, but I can't help but feel uncomfortable. Keep in mind I don't actually make these points to people, I mostly think through these arguments with myself and see where I end up. But if you can do tank structure prints on Stargate 4 sooner rather than later, first half this year, it's good. Tim Ellis has hinted that there will be reveals after the first launch. It's always weird, cuz they want like a dozen Stargate 4.0s by years end, each of which is capable of printing 4 Terran R's in a year. But then we look at hardware produced and it's feels nowhere near that.

And then we look at Rocket Lab who have the nice good mass margins with composite and the low pressure ORSC engines which will presumably be very reusable. Granted the last time a company tried the tack of we'll run ORSC methane engine but at lower pressures so we have plenty of margin on the reusable engine it didn't work out too well for them. But talent wise the industry is in a much better spot. If Rocket Lab are producing 1/2 mass tanks relative to Relativity, while not risking the entire company because they don't have crazy cash burn because of existing revenue because good company. Wouldn't that make Neutron just better/more attractive on technical level, and production rate doesn't really matter for reusable rockets. So why Oneweb go with Terran? Bigger? If Terran R isn't on pad before Neutron then Relativity have failed. Everything is set up for this dev program. Anyone with a rocket on pad right now is happy because launch is selling like hot cakes.

How will it do in this market? Maybe it's big enough. I feel like the commercial market projections are a meme and that there's going to be a bunch of satellite company failures and scalebacks that puts the launch back in place. Is Relativity able to survive the crunch. What is the schedule? Sadly it's the most irrational hater wins normally, but that indicates bankruptcy does it not. Because Relativity will not have money for like 2027.

November 2024 is the window for the Mars mission. Can they do it? No. But I wants to believe mister. But the irrationals shall have their domain. But what if... no. :(

Give me the organic prints Relativity and show me the journey was worthwhile. A dome with poor finish and features that are only necessary cuz it's being printed is not that. I want to see bones.

I like FTL soundtrack for writing these posts. Very soothing. I need to get a more diverse set though.

#Spacobs #relativity space #terran 1

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visittitusvillefl · 1 year

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Terran 1 Launch scrubbed after two aborts

The first attempt to launch the rocket was aborted at T-0.5 seconds, while the second one halted at T-45 seconds, after fuel pressure in the upper stage dropped too low. The company has not yet announced a new launch date for the mission.

Relativity Space says the two last-minute aborts were caused by a violation of launch commit criteria, triggering an automated abort mechanism that halted the ignition of the rocket’s nine Aeon 1 engines. The first attempt to launch the rocket was aborted at T-0.5 seconds, while the second one halted at T-45 seconds, after fuel pressure in the upper stage dropped too low. The company has not yet…

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#Cape Canaveral Space Force Station #Launch #Relativity Space #SpaceCoast #Terran 1 #VisitTitusvilleFL

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falconisinstartup · 1 year

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Terran 1 Liftoff | Trevor Mahlmann

#terran 1 #relativity space #rocket #launch #methalox #aerospace #engineering

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seashellisinmyheart · 2 years

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Earthspark Autobots.

#transformers #transformers: earthspark #optimus prime #Bumblebee #Wheeljack #elita 1 #twitch #thrash #autobots #earthspark #terrans #arcee #twitch malto #thrash malto

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k----a27s · 9 months

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EARTHSPARK SPOILERS.

I binged all of the fucking Earthspark episodes.

Okay so first off,

I FRAGGING HATE CROFT. GO FUCKING DEACTIVATE YOU FRAGGING PIECE OF SCRAP! YOU BUNCH OF SLAG, I HOPE YOU AND YOUR WORTHLESS EXISTENCE IS DONE FOR, YOU GLITCH!

Ahem, right sorry about that. Anyways,

LOVING THE STARSCREAM AND HASTAG.

LOVING THE SHOCKWAVE.

LOVING ’BEE BEING AN OLDER BROTHER.

LOVE ’BEE AND ELITA’S BANTER MOMENT.

LOVING— Oh, wait— Huh? What did you say?— Oh. SHOCKWAVE WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE WAR IS NOT OVER?! PLEASE DON'T GO ALL SENATOR ON US!

ALSO HE LOOKS SEXY TIED UP.

LOVING STARSCREAM’S ABUSE BEING ACKNOWLEDGED AND HONESTLY I APPLAUD YOU!

Now, in that same episode with Starscream. I have one question that no one has been discussing.

WHERE THE FUCK ARE SOUNDWAVE AND SWINDLE?!

MY BOYS!

AND THE CLIFFHANGER!

ARCEE MY GIRBOSS ROCKING AS WELL AS MY MECH WHEELJACK!

I LOVE MY BOY SCHLODER!

Yes the references!

Hold on, what is that thing that jumped out of the sky? Why did I think that Cybertron was gonna be summoned through that space bridge? 😭

ANOTHER THING.

What I have noticed is that across the multiverse, is that there is always one person or organisation that the Autobots work with that always treat them as threats and horrible as if they do not have a soul and are living beings! They are not machines and certainly not robots or toys for you to fucking use and control and experiment! They have lives and are alive!

Thank you coming to my ted talk, more thoughts tomorrow! 👏💖

@mariacrow

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krockdove · 9 months

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My headcanon for Meridian/Mandroid:

He is a serious denial.

Look, this dude's behavior is full of contradictions. He believes that he should to be a Cybertronian to defeat Cybertronians. He claims to be a defender of humanity, but he's attacks human family for being with his enemies. He literally gave the Terrans the name “Terrans”, the same guy who hates them because they are aliens.

Honestly it is a clear metaphor to keep replacing his own body with the alien robots' limb. He even said to Twitch and Thrash that "we have much in common." Considers how queer-coded this show, it is very intentional. So it's unfortunate that he immediately turned them into enemies without thinking more about what they share.

Also I don't think he abandons his human body to become a Cybertronian. It seems more like he seeks the reason to Cybertronians what caused him to abandon his human body. Everything he has done is from pain that his identity is inconsistent with his past identity – which is virtually dead.

This suggests he doesn't want to be a Cybertronian, but wants a name that fits him as "someone that is not Human Meridian." He will reject both "Meridian" and "Mandroid" and find his own name, and it's quite possible that he won't be satisfied after becoming a Cybertronian.

He is so blinded by hatred that he doesn't realize himself what is his true motivation.

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