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Jonathan Herberger

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Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

5 months

Last weekend, I graduated with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Northwest Nazarene University. This week, I began working as a Propulsion Engineer for @SpaceX . It is truly a dream come true, and I couldn't be more excited to join the Components Build

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At work a little later tonight, but for a really good reason… Godspeed Polaris Dawn!🚀

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Tim helped to feed my passion for space exploration and rocket science in some really incredible ways, and inspired me to pursue a career in the space industry. I now have the honor of working as a propulsion engineer at @SpaceX and I hope that I will be able to inspire people

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Rocket science can be extremely intimidating, but you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to be excited. Everyday Astronaut - Bringing space down to earth for everyday people

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Launches feel a bit different now that I get to play a role in making them happen. 🚀 Ad Astra my friends!

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Walking into work at @SpaceX this morning, but there’s a good reason to be reppin’ @stoke_space ! 🔥 Congratulations to the team at Stoke for hitting this major milestone!

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🚀🔥 Full-flow staged combustion engine hotfire? Check. ✅ Want to learn more? Head over to our site for details: #StokeSpace #FullFlow

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@SpaceX Really interesting to hear what the cause of the anomaly was during IFT-1 and what they’re doing to mitigate that for the upcoming test! Godspeed @SpaceX !

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B1067 with the highest energy return trajectory of any Falcon to date! 💪🚀

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Falcon 9’s first stage lands on the Just Read the Instructions droneship

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This vehicle is an absolute beast, and SpaceX is honored to support this final mission for the ISS!

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With 6x more propellant and 4x the power of today’s Dragon spacecraft, SpaceX was selected to design and develop the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle for a precise, controlled deorbit of the @Space_Station

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Hey look, it’s me! So grateful to play a small role in this historic mission, and cannot wait to see the ways that these four incredible people will continue to inspire an entire generation to reach new heights! Godspeed Polaris Dawn!🚀🐉

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T-1 day! This one’s for the @SpaceX team. From day one to T-1, I have been awed by their demonstration of how to dream big, persevere, and build a better future. This photo, taken during quarantine on our last day at SpaceX, offers just a small glimpse into the incredible team of

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Flight 4 was absolutely unbelievable to witness from Mission Control, and this video is an incredible recap of the drama and excitement of that day! But seeing myself in the video? An absolute dream come true! 🚀

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The fourth flight of Starship brought us closer to a rapidly reusable future

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First launch that I got to watch while working at @SpaceX ! Pretty darn cool🚀

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Liftoff!

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Something has to change here:

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FAA Administrator Whitaker made several incorrect statements today regarding SpaceX. In fact, every statement he made was incorrect. It is deeply concerning that the Administrator does not appear to have accurate information immediately available to him with respect to SpaceX

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Four of the coolest people on Earth are about to leave it! Godspeed Polaris Dawn!🚀

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Polaris Dawn is go for launch

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The Starship team is wasting no time preparing for flight 5!💪 Lots to learn and lots to be excited about with this upcoming flight!🚀

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Great footage by @StarshipGazer of the ongoing S30 heatshield work. Lot’s of tiles have already been removed with more to go. FULL VIDEO: (Video by StarshipGazer via the link above).

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Booster 1062 had a great run!🫡 This is another opportunity for the team to learn and make the Falcon an even better vehicle. Now 23 is the number to beat!🚀

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After a successful ascent, Falcon 9's first stage booster tipped over following touchdown on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship. Teams are assessing the booster's flight data and status. This was the booster's 23rd launch.

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This is what it’s all about: From Apollo to Polaris Dawn, space exploration has always had the incredible ability to bring people together in pursuit of a common goal, and this is a stunning representation of that. As we look ahead towards Artemis, the Moon, Mars, and beyond, I

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HARMONY OF RESILIENCE: Recorded in space and sent to Earth via @SpaceX ’s @Starlink constellation, Polaris Dawn crewmember and violinist @Gillis_SarahE invites you to enjoy this music moment in support of @StJude & @ElSistemaUSA →

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A new opportunity to learn, grow, and make the Falcon an even better vehicle

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During tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink, the second stage engine did not complete its second burn. As a result, the Starlink satellites were deployed into a lower than intended orbit. SpaceX has made contact with 5 of the satellites so far and is attempting to have them

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This is the rocket that initially inspired me to pursue engineering Now I’m helping to build it as a propulsion engineer at SpaceX I hope that I can inspire others the same way that this team has inspired me 🚀

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Falcon Heavy launches @NOAA 's GOES-U satellite to orbit from pad 39A in Florida

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Crew 9 approaches!

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Falcon 9 and Dragon rolled out and went vertical at pad 40 in Florida

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Just 5 days until the launch of this historic mission! Their ride is ready to take them the furthest humans have travelled from the earth since Apollo!🚀

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@PolarisProgram @NASA Shortly thereafter, Dragon arrived at our hangar at pad 39A ahead of Falcon 9’s launch of Polaris Dawn

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A picture perfect launch for Falcon and Dragon! 🚀🐉

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Dragon has separated from Falcon 9's second stage

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Interplanetary missions are the coolest🤩

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View from Falcon 9's second stage during the Hera mission

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No words can describe how incredible it was to see this mission standing right behind Mission Control! Congratulations to the Starship team on a massively successful mission!

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Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting fourth flight test of Starship!

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@PolarisProgram @SpaceX @Starlink @Gillis_SarahE @StJude @ElSistemaUSA @rookisaacman @KiddPoteet @annawmenon The skill it takes to play this piece on earth is impressive enough, but the fact that @Gillis_SarahE can play the violin at such a high level in Zero-G is remarkable! I have to imagine that without gravity keeping the bow on the strings, her technique had to completely change.

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We witnessed history today! Congratulations to @SpaceX and the crew of Polaris Dawn on this incredible achievement! Ad Astra🚀

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SpaceX and the Polaris Dawn crew have completed the first commercial spacewalk! “SpaceX, back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” — Mission Commander @rookisaacman during Dragon egress and seeing our planet from ~738 km

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Looks like we’ll be waiting a bit longer for Polaris Dawn, but this mission will be well worth the wait!🚀

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Latest forecasts continue to show unfavorable weather conditions in the areas along Florida’s coast where Dragon would splash down upon returning from space. Once teams identify the next best opportunity for launch and return of the Polaris Dawn mission, we’ll provide an update.

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6 reasons to be excited about space exploration:

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fun fact: nova is quite large!

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We are witnessing history in the making Godspeed Starship! 🚀

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SpaceX engineers have spent years preparing and months testing for the booster catch attempt on Flight 5, with technicians pouring tens of thousands of hours into building the infrastructure to maximize our chances for success

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Oh heck yeah🔥

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Tracking footage of Falcon 9’s first stage booster landing and sonic boom

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You’ve gotta be kidding me🤯 Raptor 3 looks like an incomplete rendering of a rocket engine and is such a stunning example of Occam’s Razor The simplest solution is usually the best solution🔥

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Works pretty good for a “partially assembled” engine :)

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That view never gets old🚀

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Falcon and Dragon is ready for the launch of Polaris Dawn!🚀🐉

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Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical on pad 39A ahead of flight. Weather is 85% favorable for liftoff and teams are keeping an eye on recovery weather →

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The first ever private spacewalk is set to happen this month aboard a SpaceX Dragon! 🐉

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We are targeting no earlier than August 26 for the launch of Polaris Dawn

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Back at it💪

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Falcon 9’s first stage lands on the Just Read The Instructions droneship, completing this booster’s 18th launch and landing

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Really excited that Falcon 9 was selected to launch this incredible mission, and can’t wait to be a part of it!🚀

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Falcon 9 was selected to launch @NASA 's COSI telescope, which will help us better understand the creation and destruction of matter, antimatter, and the final stages of stars

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Creating a rocket engine that is limited only by the laws of physics and not engineering capability is insane🔥

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@SpaceX Important to note that the induced mass (mass required by a given engine design that is not the engine itself) of Raptor 3, while far better than Raptor 2, still has a lot of room for improvement. Thrust will exceed 300 tons with Raptor 3.x (thrust/mass>200), enabling 10,000

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Successful mission amidst stormy weather for Falcon!💪

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Deployment of 21 @Starlink satellites confirmed

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The best part is no part Raptor 3 is unreal🔥

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Raptor 3, SN1

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A 20 story building punching a hole through the clouds before touching down on the ocean!🚀

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Super Heavy landing burn and soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico

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@SpaceX Doesn’t get much better than that! Congratulations Starship team!🚀

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The Polaris Program team is incredibly honored to share this global music moment with the world! @Gillis_SarahE played a space-qualified violin on board the Dragon spacecraft and sent us the footage and audio back via Starlink. We mixed this footage alongside a set of beautiful

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23 is the new number to beat🚀

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My take on the Falcon 9 landing failure: It’s awesome to see SpaceX take risks to test hardware limits. They will learn so much, and an ethos of failure tolerance like this is accelerative. It’s critical for Starship landings. Humans, one day, will be landing this way.

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This is what it’s all about: Leveraging space exploration to improve life on Earth Ad Astra 🚀

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This was one of my favorite days at work, bringing @Starlink ’s high-speed internet to a school in the Amazon and meeting (and getting hugs from) these extraordinary students. This picture shows just a few of the hundreds of thousands of amazing Brazilian people whom we are

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Thankful to be part of a company that leverages its resources to help those in need! 🚀

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For those impacted by Hurricane Helene, or looking to support response and recovery efforts in affected areas, Starlink is now free for 30 days. Learn more here →

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@SpaceX Hug testing 🤗

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I love my job as an engineer, but the technicians are the ones putting in the hard work to build the most advanced spaceflight systems in the world, and their value cannot be overstated!

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One of our techs did an awesome job yesterday and I was like “Mars will remember you!” He tells me more seriously “no way man, nobody will remember the techs, not a soul, they only care about engineering” I hope everyone realizes that engineering doesn’t build these rockets.

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@SpaceX What a way to finish out the year! Congratulations SpaceX!🔥

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@SpaceX Water deluge system, or water park for SpaceX employees?

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@annawmenon @SpaceX @rookisaacman @KiddPoteet @Gillis_SarahE @PolarisProgram Grateful to play a small role in this historic mission! Thank you for setting an example of excellence and for your contagious joy for space exploration! Godspeed Anna, and the whole crew of Polaris Dawn!🚀🐉

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@SpaceX This was absolutely unbelievable to witness from Mission Control, and flight 5 is going to take it to another level🔥 Godspeed Starship🚀

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This is just the beginning🚀

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Falcon launched 67 missions in the first 6 months of 2024, delivering nearly 900 metric tons to orbit so far this year

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Taking a picture of Boeing Starliner 🤝 From SpaceX Dragon #Teamspace

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We have been looking at aurora out the cupola windows a lot lately. Starliner was doing some testing today so we decided to check it out from the Dragon windows. Timing was great for the aurora to line up nicely with Starliner’s service module thrusters.

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Beautiful @Starlink launch this morning!

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Falcon 9 launches 20 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities. These satellites act as cellphone towers in space, eliminating deadzones without phone modifications or special apps

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Sunrise launch to start off the week🔥

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Coast to Coast in less than 2 hours! 🚀🚀

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Falcon 9 delivers 42 @Starlink satellites, including 26 with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth orbit in back-to-back launches from Florida and California

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@stoke_space Congratulations @stoke_space on this incredible milestone! Are there any plans to livestream the first hop attempt so that we can join in on the excitement? Can’t wait to see this take to the skies!🔥 #wenhop

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What we’ve been waiting for: Video of Stoke’s Nova first stage engine hot fire test🔥

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🔥Busy couple of weeks with successful engine tests, diagnostic disassembly, engine rebuilds, and more hotfires sweeping power levels and mixture ratios… it's high time for some video! #FFSC 🚀📽️🔊

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In case you needed another reason to be excited about this historic mission:

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Targeting Tuesday, August 27 for launch of Polaris Dawn, the first of the @PolarisProgram ’s three human spaceflight missions designed to advance the future of spaceflight

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I think this sequence is my favorite thing to see during flight🚀 Absolutely incredible🔥

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Austin Barnard🚀

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So obsessed with Booster’s engines cutting off and seeing them reigniting after stage separation

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Two incredible SpaceX astronauts making history during Polaris Dawn!🚀

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Reaching an apogee of ~1400 kilometers during the @PolarisProgram Polaris Dawn mission today, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis — both @SpaceX engineers — have traveled farther into space than any women in the history of humankind! They are amazing people. I am so proud of them.

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Screenshot of me going absolutely bonkers after starship splashdown: Congratulations to the Starship team on a massive step towards realizing full and rapid reusability! 🚀

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What a shot! 🤩

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Falcon 9 launches the @Turksat 6A mission to orbit from Florida

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An incredible mission with some incredible views! 🤩🚀

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Views from Dragon in flight 🐉🌎 During its five day mission, Dragon and the Polaris Dawn crew completed 75 orbits around Earth

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We’ve gotten used to seeing this rocket launch every few days, and sometimes I forget how truly amazing it looks on ascent! John Kraus doesn’t miss 📸

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Raptor 3 is a beast💪

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Raptor 3 (sea level variant) Thrust: 280tf Specific impulse: 350s Engine mass: 1525kg Engine + vehicle-side commodities and hardware mass : 1720kg

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@stoke_space This is an absolutely incredible test on the path to hop and then on to orbit! There are a lot of folks itching to see hopper take to the skies, and would love to join in on the excitement live! A livestream of the test would be incredible! Godspeed Hopper!🔥 #wenhop

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This incredible mission is just 1 week away! Godspeed Polaris Dawn!

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Join the Polaris Dawn crew and SpaceX at 1 p.m. ET here on X for a mission overview briefing live from Florida Learn more about the crew and their upcoming mission →

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It’s a beautiful night for a launch!🚀

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Ready to watch the launch out of Vandy with my son @ApogeeJonathan !! From… of course… Moonlight Beach!! 🏝️🚀

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Jonathan Herberger

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2 months

Fresh new booster on its first mission🔥

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SpaceX

2 months

New Falcon 9 booster debuts by delivering 22 @Starlink satellites to orbit

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Jonathan Herberger

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1 year

@NASASpaceflight Commercial space companies proving that water towers can fly🔥

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Jonathan Herberger

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2 months

Some incredible science is going to happen on Polaris Dawn! Can’t wait for this mission!

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John Kraus

@johnkrausphotos

2 months

The Polaris Dawn crew will wear smart contact lenses in space to monitor their intraocular pressure, in efforts to learn more about Spaceflight Associated Neuroocular Syndrome, or SANS, as part of a University of Colorado Boulder research experiment. This is just one of 36

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Jonathan Herberger

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9 days

Just a reminder of the excitement of flight 4 and what to expect as we look ahead to flight 5 in as few as 5 days!🚀

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SpaceX

3 months

The fourth flight of Starship brought us closer to a rapidly reusable future

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

@booster_10 Just a parking garage in Hawthorne, and I’m a new engineer so it’s not onsite or else I wouldn’t be taking a picture😅

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

24 days

Put it back on the test stand and let’s go again🔥🚀

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Elon Musk

24 days

Starship Super Heavy Booster Flight 4

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Jonathan Herberger

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1 year

@stoke_space @erikkuna This is so incredible to see! Leveraging the expander cycle engine to actively cool the heat shield is such an intuitive and brilliant solution to withstand reentry heating! Well done @stoke_space !

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

2 years

Elon Musk was absolutely right when he said “the factory is the product.” Vertical integration is essential when iterating at such a rapid pace and the team’s ability to manufacture these tanks and domes is just another sign of the innovation happening at Stoke! Congratulations!

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Stoke Space

2 years

Rocket tanks and domes are historically difficult, long lead, and expensive. We put manufacturing first with an innovative approach that we can do in-house with very small machines and limited tooling. These tanks and domes all started as commodity sheet metal less than one month

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

1 month

Hoping to thread the needle with rough weather at the pad🤞

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SpaceX

1 month

Propellant load on Falcon 9 has started as we target a break in the weather for today’s launch of 21 @Starlink satellites from pad 40 in Florida →

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

3 months

A failure is always hard, but I know we’ll overcome and come out even stronger. Ad Astra🚀

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Elon Musk

3 months

@SERobinsonJr Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown. Team is reviewing data tonight to understand root cause. Starlink satellites were deployed, but the perigee may be too low for them to raise orbit. Will know more in a few hours.

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

8 months

@stoke_space @AndyLapsa @Rkt_Da @KellyJillHennig @devonpapandrew All 30 chambers!!🤯🔥🔥🔥

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

1 year

@stoke_space Can’t wait to see hopper SN2 leave the ground! Are there plans to livestream so that all of us watching this development closely can join in on the excitement of the first hop attempt? #wenhop

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

1 month

Level Up ⬆️

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SpaceX

1 month

Achievement unlocked - apogee 1,400.7 km Forward bulkhead Draco firing during burn 🔥

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

@SpaceX @Space_Station Some spooky audio on there, but thankful that everyone is safe!

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

3 months

Onwards and upwards 🚀

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Tom Mueller

3 months

@elonmusk @SERobinsonJr We knew this incredible run had to come to an end at some point, but 344 flights in a row is amazing! The team will fix the problem and start the cycle again

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

2 months

RTLS launches are quite the sight to behold!

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SpaceX

2 months

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 1

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

2 months

T - 11 hours 🚀

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John Kraus

@johnkrausphotos

2 months

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

1 year

@stoke_space Absolutely Incredible. Godspeed Stoke Space🔥

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

30 days

Pushing the limits of hardware on this mission🚀

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SpaceX

30 days

The booster reentry trajectory will result in higher heating and dynamic pressure on the booster than many of our historical landings. Although the reentry conditions are on the higher end of past missions, they are still acceptable. This landing attempt will test the bounds of

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

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SpaceX

4 months

Falcon 9’s first stage lands on Just Read the Instructions, completing our 250th droneship landing

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

2 months

Godspeed B1062🫡

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SpaceX

2 months

Falcon 9 launches 21 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

Thankful for a dad who will get up with me before the sunrise to watch a rocket launch, and who inspires me every single day to reach for the stars! 🚀 Happy Father’s Day Dad, I love you! @nickherberger

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

This is an absolutely unbelievable achievement for @stoke_space 🤯 Lots to be excited about in Stoke’s future! 🚀

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Stoke Space

4 months

🚀🔥 Full-flow staged combustion engine hotfire? Check. ✅ Want to learn more? Head over to our site for details: #StokeSpace #FullFlow

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

Let’s light this candle🔥

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SpaceX

4 months

The Starship team is go for prop load

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

22 days

Rumor has it that there’s a rocket in that fog🚀

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SpaceX

22 days

Liftoff of Falcon 9 under the power of nine Merlin engines

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

10 days

Hera is on its way to Didymos!

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SpaceX

10 days

Deployment of @ESA ’s Hera confirmed

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

5 months

@j_nellissery @SpaceX Get as much hands on experience as you can and don’t be afraid to get a lot of no’s when applying for companies, because all you need is one yes!

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

A shiny new Falcon Heavy is headed to the pad🚀

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SpaceX

4 months

Falcon Heavy rolls out to the launch pad at 39A for @NASA ’s GOES-U mission

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

1 month

Welcome home, Polaris Dawn!🚀🐉

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SpaceX

1 month

Splashdown of Dragon confirmed! Welcome back to Earth, @rookisaacman , @kiddpoteet , @Gillis_SarahE , @annawmenon

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

4 months

@KenKirtland17 Proud to be one of those morons in the front row cheering on the massive success that this test was💪

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

1 year

@_mgde_ @SpaceX @NASASpaceflight How’s Hopper looking?

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Jonathan Herberger

@ApogeeJonathan

2 months

Four incredibly daring people are about to embark on a journey that will go further than any humans have traveled in more than half a century! Godspeed Polaris Dawn!🚀

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SpaceX

2 months

Meet the Polaris Dawn crew →

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