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Nick Hansen retweeted
Hargrave Technologies demonstrates its custom gyroscopic testing rig, designed to replicate the radial and axial loads experienced by drone motors during flight and accelerate lifetime testing under controlled conditions.
Read more:
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@hargravetech
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The AI models have accelerated the cyber threat to such a degree governments around the globe are coming to terms with the fact it is just a matter of time. There is no infrastructure for dealing with this volume of new attacks and potential vectors for attacks. Orders to stockpile supplies etc, they know we are in uncharted territory and everyone from peer adversaries to individual actors have a toolkit in their possession that nobody was prepared to confront this quickly.
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Charged dust can lift off the Moon's surface and foul equipment.
In a CU Boulder vacuum chamber, lunar soil simulant hit by an electron beam ramping up and down in energy threw off dust bursts about 10x the usual rate. Steady beams made none.
doi.org/10.1029/2026GL123931
ALT Photograph of the Moon taken by the Artemis II crew, showing part of the lunar disk against black space. The right side is lit gray and covered in overlapping craters of many sizes. Toward the upper left, the surface runs into the boundary between lunar day and night, where low sunlight catches only crater rims and ridges and long shadows fill the crater floors before the surface fades into darkness.
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@Aerobits_ADS_B highlights the TR-10’s compact transponder capabilities, reporting over 1,000 units delivered while outlining plans for an upcoming OEM version offering greater integration flexibility.
Read more: hubs.la/Q04BSyD20
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What kind of civilization are we working toward? What should we make? What should we explore? What capabilities should future generations inherit? How much should we be willing to attempt?
Share your dreams!
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Should be seeing road closures for Booster 22 to the pad and Static Fire testing soon.
A 10000ft Temporary Flight Restriction for high energy testing at the Starbase launch site starting on October 23 has been published
notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSear…
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$RKLB Looks like we’ve acquired a now former Amazon Senior Director of Manufacturing Finance.
Tracking production costs, capital spending on facilities, and margins across launch and space systems would fall to this kind of role. A hire from Amazon's operations side could point to a push for tighter cost control and forecasting as volume grows.
H/T @Gykiwi03
$RKLB 🌏✨️
Snagging a Senior Director of Manufacturing with five years of experience at a high-volume supply chain giant like Amazon is a huge win for Rocket Lab.
Work history is impressive, dedicated employee.
Nick Hansen retweeted
A few screenshots from my tracking video of SpaceX Bandwagon 5 seen live on @SpaceflightNow
#SpaceX
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It might not have been as vibrant as last week's, but the jellyfish were out again today!
SpaceX launching a Falcon 9 on the Bandwagon 5 mission, a rare (these days) southeastern launch. Being southeast of the launch made for a great side-on view right around sunrise.
Learn more about what launched from @NASASpaceflight nasaspaceflight.com/2026/10/…
🤖 Made with AI
Nick Hansen retweeted
What is a differentiable manifold? Here is Lecture 3 of Frederic Schuller’s course on classical mechanics, translated from the German. His classical mechanics course was the one left in German, so I’ve been building a pipeline that translates each lecture while preserving his voice and cadence, with LaTeX PDF lecture notes to boot. LINK IN REPLY
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This is huge: By Q1 2027, SpaceX plans to have three Starship launch pads and demonstrate in-orbit refueling for HLS!
NASA’s roadmap has a lot packed into the next two quarters:
Q4 2026:
First V3 booster catch
First Ship catch
First Starship launch from the Cape
First V3 booster reuse
Q1 2027:
In-orbit propellant transfer demo
Second Starship pad at the Cape, LC-37, complete
If they pull this off, Starship’s flight rate could look very different next year.
NASA just dropped some fresh HLS updates at IAC 2026.
Artemis III is still targeting NET Q3 2027, basically a low Earth orbit dress rehearsal where Orion docks with the Starship HLS test article (no Moon landing yet).
SpaceX side:
Q4 2026: first Cape flight (currently NET Dec 10) + Cabin 1 done
Q1 2027: cabin ops testing + propellant transfer demo
Q2 2027: airlock & landing leg demos
Q3 2027: first tanker for the uncrewed demo
Q4 2027: uncrewed lunar landing demo
Still aiming for the first crewed landing on Artemis IV in early 2028.
Source: NASA HLS IAC 2026 slides
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An F-22 pilot has flown a YFQ-44A collaborative combat aircraft, the Air Force announces.
af.mil/News/Article-Display/…
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A Moon base means landing rockets near hardware already on the surface.
Four NASA lander missions awarded for late 2028 will each carry SCALPSS cameras to film engine plumes hitting lunar dust, data for models that predict erosion and ejecta.
nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-a…
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People fail to realize $RKLB has some of the most Mars-heritage hardware out there.
28.1 miles on Mars, powered by Rocket Lab hardware.
NASA's Perseverance rover has now driven 28.1 miles (45.2 km) across the Red Planet in just five and a half years, breaking an off-world driving record that took Opportunity nearly 15 years to set.
Rocket Lab solar panels powered Perseverance's cruise to Mars, then on the surface, Rocket Lab Robotics (formerly Motiv Space Systems) hardware helps turn those miles into science — from the Mastcam-Z camera mechanisms that zoom in on targets, to the 7-foot robotic arm placing instruments against Martian rock with sub-millimeter precision.
Every mile is another step in the search for signs of ancient life.
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$RKLB’s market cap is currently sitting at $35B.
The last time it was around this level was in December last year.
Yes, we’re talking dilution-adjusted.
The company hit an $85B market cap on May 28.
A double from here would put it at a $70B market cap and a share price of roughly $110, assuming no further dilution.
If not sooner, I think we could see that by next summer, when we have more clarity on the launch timeline in Q1, the Iridium acquisition closes, and Neutron’s first launch gets closer than ever.
A good entry for long-term holders.
Nick Hansen retweeted
@OndasHoldings and Palantir establish Regna AI, a standalone company developing mission-specialized AI models for customer-controlled environments, edge hardware, and operations with degraded connectivity.
Read more: hubs.la/Q04BfkD20
Nick Hansen retweeted
$RKLB | Needham 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝘆 on 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝗨𝗦𝗔, maintains PT at $𝟭𝟮𝟬
Analyst sees a minimum four-month Neutron delay and lowers FY27 revenue estimates, while reiterating Buy.
