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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

23 days

Engine cam is best cam.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 years

Flight testing is magical #Space #Sustainability

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 months

Groundbreaking announcement coming soon.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 years

You've seen Mach diamonds, but have you seen Mach rings? #fireitupfriday #space #highefficiency @DawnAerospace

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@Stefan__Powell

30 days

Do you want your satellite to be ready for in-space refueling? If you are buying a Dawn propulsion system, we will include docking hardware for free! All it will cost you is a bit of volume and 600g of added mass. It doesn't get much easier than that to be ready for the next

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

10 months

I love transporter launches. All my feeds flood with stories from the SmallSat world. Everyone is celebrating as dozens of projects make their next big leap to improve the world. I celebrate with you as we get another batch of B20 thrusters on orbit!

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

9 months

Shoutout to the @dawnaerospace prop team. Engine cam is best cam. Also: In-flight restart into monoprop mode at 2:02

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

19 days

Apparently not everyone @DawnAerospace agrees engine cam is best cam. Help me settle this one in the poll below:

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

9 months

Going through old video and stumbled on this gem: Mk-II Flight 50 take-off from about 100m away. I was way too excited to have still hands with a 600mm lens.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 months

Welcome to the sortable, throttleable, pilotable and rapidly reusable side of propulsion. We like it here. :-)

Ursa Major

@ursamajortech

3 months

BIG NEWS – today we announced the successful hotfire of our Draper engine ahead of schedule. Designed from the ground up for hypersonic applications and in-space propulsion, Draper is primed to address the growing demand of the U.S. defense industrial base.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

You have to find time to celebrate success. Cheers @DawnAerospace

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

1 year

100% agree. We are building a spaceplane because we are convinced it can be dramatically better than F9. If we didn't, we wouldn't bother.

Lauren Lyons

@Laur_Ly

1 year

Yeah, maybe there are too many launch companies, but there are not nearly enough trying to do something truly different rather than just nibble at F9’s ankles. These folks are the real deal, and have a serious shot at greatness. Congrats team Stoke! 🔥

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

This is the last photo I got before it went off to get all dressed up. The workshop almost seems empty without it! #lonely #dudewhereismyspaceplane

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 months

@joebarnard Not useless, but not great either

The Junker vibration test for bolted connections

Which method do you use for bolted connections? This video might change your mind.The Junker vibration test, according to DIN 65151, is considered the most s...

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

25 days

We have been building towards this campaign for over a year now. Just about every system on the aircraft was upgraded to prepare it for supersonic flight. It was almost like building a whole new aircraft. The fact that we went from a check-out flight to Mach 0.9 in three

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

25 days

📣🛫 Flight Testing Update - Campaign 2-2 🛫📣 In late July, we conducted three flights, the last of which reached Mach 0.92 (967 km/h) and 50,000 ft (15.1 km). That is more than three times faster and higher than we have ever flown before! This was another significant step

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

A thruster army is gathering. #CloneWars

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

200 rocket motor firings across a thrust range of 5000x, for three different markets. All bi-propellant. All green propellants. All within the last 24 hours. Shit was cookin' today @DawnAerospace #space #innovation #Sustainable

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 years

In 2021, @DawnAerospace had a rocket engine firing on average every 18min. Come and be a part of it if you like to get your hands dirty.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 months

This worldwide unique certification is massive. Arguably way bigger than actually going out and flying supersonic. Why? Because you can't throw money at a certification problem. It takes years of relationship building with regulators and airspace users responsible for public

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

2 months

We are officially certified for supersonic flight! Dawn has been awarded certification to fly the Mk-II Aurora at unlimited speeds and up to 80,000ft, nearly twice as high as commercial jets fly! Read the full press release here:

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

1 month

I'm super excited to see this one fly to an asteroid!!

AstroForge

@astroforge

1 month

Here is Odin - now in gold.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Black beauty is coming together nicely. Weight on wheels and jets mounted for the initial subsonic test flights. @DawnAerospace #carbonfiber #newspace #space

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

7 months

Smallsat conferences feel so strange rn. 75%+ of all smallsats were Starlink, and the remaining 25% were mostly launched on F9. Yet SpaceX barely even shows up. We just talk about them like some long lost father. Come back SpaceX. We love you.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Yet another production run of #smallsat thrusters lining up. #greenpropulsion is in hot demand #space #sustainability @DawnAerospace

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

23 days

@shortmsger No, but we have seriously considered it. Likely needs unlocked GPS chips but they obviously had that on starship. @elonmusk can I get some speed unlimited starlink dishes for our spaceplane?

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

7 months

Steal my secrets: SatDrive: Propulsion for the Unforseeable Future

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

14 days

I love how Lockheed was able to get public investors to fund their SmallSat production facility, then buy it for 25c on the dollar. Great utilisation of the 2018-2022 space SPAC hype train. /s

Pierre Lionnet

@LionnetPierre

15 days

Annihilating 75% of company value in 29 months. SPAC magic.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

6 months

A case study in how slow the aerospace industry STILL is: Ursa Major is a very capable, well funded rocket component company with an awesome product, the Hadley engine. They were founded in 2015. First prototype tested in 2018. Qualified for flight in March 2022. The real

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

27 days

Evolution is the process of increasing complexity to improve the result. Engineering is the process of reducing complexity to improve the result.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 years

Picture of the week, B1 thruster undergoing acceptance testing. This was one of 20 that came off the production line in the last 5 weeks. We aim to produce over 100 in the first half of 2023.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

11 months

4x B1 thrusters on the 5axis for overnight machining. They will be done in the morning, acceptance tested next week, and in space next year.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

10 days

"......Odin would also be the first private mission to fly by a body in the Solar System beyond the Moon." And @astroforge will do it with a @DawnAerospace propulsion system. LFG!

Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway

"It's not easy to ever raise for an asteroid mining company, right?"

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

1 year

Check out the full cut of Flight 50 of the Mk-II Aurora - including the inflight restart we didn't talk much about before. Sound on recommended

Dawn Aerospace, Mk-II Aurora, Flight 50, 31.03.2023

Flight 50 for the Vehicle and 3rd rocket-powered flight. The purpose of this flight was to demonstrate:Vehicle controllability at takeoff in bipropellant mo...

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

A sneak peak of the MkII #spaceplane in the later stages of production @DawnAerospace . Big shoutout to the dedicated team putting in the hours! #aerospace #space

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 years

For many, this will be just another Starlink launch. For @DawnAerospace , this will see our 50th(!) thruster launched into space in just over 2 years. The green prop revolution is coming. And it's happening faster than anyone realizes.

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

A beautiful engine liner hot off the mill. So pretty in copper. #5axis #Rockets

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

6 months

I dont get the hype around RDE's. The extra Isp is much more easily achieved with a closed-cycle full-flow pump which has near-infinite power available. Ergo Raptor. RDE's still need quite high chamber pressure to achieve Isp comparable to what a truly high chamber pressure

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 years

Space X booster cores B1051 and B1049 have each launched greater than 10% (!) of all active satellites. (360 and 370 respectively / 3372 total) There is no better statistic that illustrates how so much work can be done by such a small amount of hardware if you just reuse it.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 years

After nearly 40 flights on surrogate jets, we are pretty close to swapping them out for the real deal: a pump-fed rocket engine. Then the party really starts.

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

2 years

How to land your rocket plane: Step 1: control energy with split rudder, maneuvers, and LG deploy timing. Step 2: 10 deg decent, maintain speed 95 knots. Step 3: flare, scrub speed and set it down softly. Pro tip: practice with jet engines before moving on to pure rocket!

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

11 months

@DawnAerospace just cracked 200 thrusters off the production line. Our production rate is a tad over 1/day. As far as I know, that's the highest rate for a chemical in-space thruster, worldwide, including hydrazine thrusters. Is anyone doing more than than 1/day?

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

1 year

I love Stokes ambition, speed and execution. I'm so excited for them to build a highway to space for us all.

Stoke Space

@stoke_space

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@Stefan__Powell

7 months

@pronounced_kyle And it has a @DawnAerospace propulsion system on board.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

6 months

Caption competition:

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 years

It's good to get out of the workshop sometimes

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 years

RT if you like spaceplanes.

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

2 years

From jets to rockets – the transformation is complete 🚀 The Mk-II engine upgrade takes it from 670N on jets to 2800N. Real rocket power! Two tests were conducted in one day, just as is needed to be the first vehicle to fly to space twice a day. Epic Mahi team!

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 years

@SciGuySpace They asked, "why a spaceplane". This is the answer. I am well aware we are still a long way from proving it out. My quote is out of that context. I can't do much about media that reports like this....happy to do an interview with you directly of course ;-)

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

1 year

The speed, power, and elegance was simply awesome. And even better that we could see it three times in three days. It was surreal every time! Hats off to the team, you are all amazing.

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

1 year

🎉The future of space transportation is one step closer! Dawn Aerospace's Mk-II Aurora spaceplane completed its first rocket-powered flight campaign last week. 🚀🌌 This is a significant milestone in our company's history. A big shout-out to our amazing team 🌎 🔥 #RocketPowered

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Only a few hours after the launch of #SpaceX Transporter-1, my Twitter feed is flooded with #SmallSat companies stoked about their latest and greatest making it to orbit. 143 and 5 tons of SmallSats in one hit. This makes me so happy.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 months

Daaaamn radiation, you scary but pretty.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 years

@Point_of_Gold Yes. It's the smallest we could make it while still having enough performance to fly the same profile as a rocket first stage, ie ~3km/s delta V. It will prove out all the aerodynamics, reentry, guidance, rapid reuseabbility as well as regulation needed to do it full scale.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

If there is one thing I learnt at Rocket Lab, it was a lesson in learning from your failures and recovering quickly. This will not take @Peter_J_Beck and the team long to figure out. Good luck and I can't wait to see that beautiful machine back on the pad soon.

Rocket Lab

@RocketLab

4 years

A brief statement about today's mission from our founder and CEO, Peter Beck.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 years

"space is hard" should not be an excuse to justify bashing your head against the same brick wall. We need to find ways to make space easier. A reusable system is a testable system. @DawnAerospace

Michael Sheetz

@thesheetztweetz

3 years

A column I've been thinking about a lot this week:

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

5 months

@BellikOzan It can and has been done, in space. See CubeDrive. As far as I know , the first AM Tank in space, launched in 2020. Common fuel/ox bulkheads. Flat fuel tank walls. Maximum propellant packing density.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 years

"Bro, do you even simulate?" @DawnAerospace

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

9 months

2/6 have @DawnAerospace propulsion onboard.

Jonathan McDowell

@planet4589

9 months

6 sats cataloged to date from today's SpaceX Falcon 9 launch for the Korea 425 project. Three are in 560 x 575 km sun-sync orbit at 10:00 LTDN; three are in 515 x 532 km orbit.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

The number of @SpaceX F9 or "mini F9s" ripoffs is so crazy. After 70 years of dumb rockets, Space X is showing how innovation CAN happen in aerospace.....yet all we are getting is more copycats.

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

4 years

Russia has clearly decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em with its new design for a reusable booster. Alas, no flights until at least 2026 means it will be at least 15 years behind the Falcon 9. Russia is lucky SpaceX doesn't innovate, hah.

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

1 year

Space is cool and all, but what about plant updates?

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@Stefan__Powell

8 months

Shower thought: We should be getting a metric shitton of carbon credits every time we convince a customer to not use hydrazine. Total lost opportunity

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

2 years

Hydrazine replacement in motion 🔥 The team is assembling our latest propulsion system for @ALE_StarAle at our Delft facility. The module has 4x 1N and 1x 20N #green bipropellant thrusters. From components to full assembly took only 2.5 hours! Epic work from the team. 💪💪

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

19 days

Vote

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Starting to really push the limits of what #green propellants can do. She's getting toasty in there! #innovation #space #gettingreadyforflight @DawnAerospace

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@Stefan__Powell

3 years

The video and imagery is great. But nothing can replace the feeling of landing after a successful mission, and then be back in the air 90 min later. Once you have reusability, it's hard to imagine developing technology any other way. So proud of what the team has achieved.

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

3 years

Dawn Aerospace Mk-II Spaceplane Flight Testing Commences – Five Flights Complete ✈️ #aerospace #aviation #aircraft #testing #SpaceSymposium 🥳

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

8 months

Asking a founder for startup advice is like asking a lottery winner what numbers they chose.

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@Stefan__Powell

3 months

The Mk-II has flown to (V)LEO 50 times.

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@torybruno

4 months

@planet4589 @culpable_mink @IndividualEins @CarolynBri47669 “LEO” is also used to describe a location as well as an orbital state, which the graphic makes clear

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 months

What's in the box?!!

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

3 months

Petition to officially establish the NewSpace uniform: -Black top -beige Chinos/skirt -Black shoes Already inadvertently adopted by Dawn and Rocket Lab @MoreMorganB

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

9 months

The power density of a rocket engine with the functionality of a jet. I can't wait to unleash the full potential in flight early next year!

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

9 months

Need more thrust in your life? Check out our flight-duration test of the MkII-A engine! 112s of pump-fed fire 🔥✨ Look out for our next flight tests where we will push the aircraft MUCH higher and faster than ever before. We can’t wait to get back off the ground! 🚀✈

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Just taking the #MkIIAurora out for a virtual Friday spin. #spaceplane #icanseemyhousefromhere

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@Stefan__Powell

3 months

Once we are operational, we should do this with the Mk-II Aurora.

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

3 months

F-22 Raptors chasing a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket [📹 F22DemoTeam]

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@Stefan__Powell

1 year

Has anyone achieved a semi decent air breathing EP thruster for VLEO? Context: I'm researching EP and holy moly it's an ocean of crazy ideas and random homebrew terminology.....Makes ordered research pretty hard :-/

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Stefan

@Stefan__Powell

1 year

It was great conversation with Anthony @WeHaveMECO . Check it out!

Main Engine Cut Off

@WeHaveMECO

1 year

🎙️ Today on the show, I’m joined by Stefan Powell, CEO of @DawnAerospace , to talk about their big news: they flew their rocket-powered spaceplane 3 times in 3 days last week! We chat about the company, their plans for the future, and their flights.

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@Stefan__Powell

1 year

TIL the propellant "ASCENT" (Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-Toxic), which is definitely quite toxic, is called "non-toxic" in the marketing name because, once you burn it, it's indeed (in theory, assuming complete combustion) non-toxic. Where would we be without marketing?!

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@Stefan__Powell

11 months

This was pretty fun and #DangerCam survived!

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

11 months

Into deep space we go 🚀🌌 This Dawn SatDrive propulsion system is destined for an asteroid 22 million miles away on a spacecraft developed by our customer AstroForge. Our nitrous-based systems can easily be put through their paces in the lab before they're sent to space🌱🛰

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@Stefan__Powell

2 years

Spacecraft butt featuring 6x @DawnAerospace thrusters.

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@Stefan__Powell

9 months

@deltaIV9250 Our core philosophy @DawnAerospace is that space isn't an interesting industry because it's so constrained by limited space transportation, both earth to space and in space. Interesting space industries will emerge once we 100x space transportation bandwidth.

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@Stefan__Powell

6 months

I have been told we are at the "eating glass" stage of building a company. I was also told the solution is not to stop eating glass, but to learn to like the taste of your own blood.

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@Stefan__Powell

8 months

@lrocket The amount of misunderstanding in this thread of what retrograde means in near polar orbits is too damn high.

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@Stefan__Powell

3 years

From the responsible engineer: "Good that we decided to print 12 instead of 10. Those extra prime factorizations pay off when placing them in a matrix structure"

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@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Great to be a part of two (!) missions onboard a groundbreaking flight carrying over 150 satellites. It's a major step forward for the SmallSat industry!

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

Launching many small satellites for a wide range of customers tomorrow. Excited about offering low-cost access to orbit for small companies!

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@Stefan__Powell

11 months

Not many in Europe realize @DawnAerospace is already building propulsion systems for the moon 🌝 and asteroid 🌠 missions. So we thought we would share the good news of nitrous propulsion to the kids as @esa estec open day!

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@Stefan__Powell

30 days

@Interpl70838591 It would most probably work with quite a few of them, at least within our expected pressure ranges. But you would have to qualify it yourself :-)

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@Stefan__Powell

3 years

Add this to the list of childish space debates, alongside "is Pluto really a planet?"

Blue Origin

@blueorigin

3 years

From the beginning, New Shepard was designed to fly above the Kármán line so none of our astronauts have an asterisk next to their name. For 96% of the world’s population, space begins 100 km up at the internationally recognized Kármán line.

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@Stefan__Powell

2 months

The Mk-II will smash the absolute altitude record for self-powered HTHL aircraft. The record is currently held by the Mig-25 at 123kft. We should 2.5x that. It won't be close. But is it fair that a rocket-powered UAV would take the record?

Yes, as long as its HTHL

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@Stefan__Powell

2 years

Just a small hop above the mountain tops.

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@Stefan__Powell

3 years

Come join our team building the future of space transportation in NZ's most affordable city. ps. we go skiing on powder days.

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

3 years

New #jobs just went live. Come fly with us.

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@Stefan__Powell

11 months

Customer satisfaction is when you walk into their lab and there is a 3x3m mural on the wall of the hotfire test we did last month.

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@Stefan__Powell

8 months

Only in the space industry: "mass production" = "probably about 10 over 3 years". We have to change this.

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@Stefan__Powell

4 years

It's always satisfying to see real hardware coming together. Our #green propulsion module is deep in there! @DawnAerospace @D_Orbit #innovation

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@Stefan__Powell

2 years

The Mk-II has more than one mission. :-)

ŌrongomaiHS

@OrongomaiHS

2 years

Today we had a visit from one of our parents who organised bringing along a real space plane ✈️ Thank you Dawn Aerospace and Tim for allowing us to experience this engineering masterpiece and inspiring our children to see they can be part of this industry in New Zealand!

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@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Do you like to make beautiful things? If so, come get a job @DawnAerospace . And I promise we won't throw your work in the ocean.

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

4 years

We're looking for an ace machinist to help us build rocket engines in #Christchurch .

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@Stefan__Powell

2 years

@TurbulentSphere Not 1/4-32, but yes, there are over 60 of these spark plugs in space right now.

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@Stefan__Powell

3 years

@SpaceX rideshare + @DawnAerospace onboard propulsion = the most cost-effective dedicated launch And we see it in our growing customer base. We now have Dawn propelled satellites manifested on every SX transporter flight.

SpaceX

@SpaceX

3 years

Targeting launch of SpaceX’s third dedicated smallsat rideshare mission, Transporter-3, tomorrow, January 13. The 29-minute launch window opens at 10:25 a.m. EST →

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@Stefan__Powell

24 days

Thanks @TechCrunch !

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

25 days

Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-propelled aircraft takes flight

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@Stefan__Powell

2 years

Flying on jets was already exciting. And we got to do it nearly 1/wk average (up to 4x/day) over the last 13 months. Rapidly reusable rocket-powered flight if going to 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

2 years

Off with the jets, in with the rocket! The team has completed 48 flights on surrogate jet engines to learn everything we can about Aurora. Now it's time for an upgrade to take testing to the next level. Check out our phase 1 flight test summary below

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@Stefan__Powell

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One of our #green thrusters burning the midnight oil. Sorry for the potato quality, but you still see a few diamonds at startup before the vac chamber starts filling up. @DawnAerospace #innovation #space #newspace #propulsion

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@Stefan__Powell

4 years

Thanks to everyone who has supported us in our journey. And thanks to @NZHiTechAwards for putting on a great event despite Covids best effort to derail it. A true testament to the hitech spirit of resilience and adaption

NZ Hi-Tech Awards

@NZHiTechAwards

4 years

The winner of the Hi-Tech Start-Up Company of the Year Award 2020 has just been announced. Congratulations to @DawnAerospace ! Category sponsored by NZ Growth Capital Partners. #HTANZ 👏🏆

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@Stefan__Powell

1 year

My three required faults of an entrepreneur:

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@Stefan__Powell

4 years

A huge amount of work went into this. And it's a massive step forward to showing that spaceflight and civil aviation can play in the same sandpit. Now let's go do it!

Dawn Aerospace

@DawnAerospace

4 years

A sincere thank you from everyone at Dawn to the teams at @CivilAviationNZ and @nzspacegovt . #Together we're pushing that envelope and making history. NOW IT'S TIME TO GO #FLY !!

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@Stefan__Powell

3 years

Basic SpaceX math: F9 Reuseable: 15.8t for $50m = $3.2k/kg F9 Expended: 21.8t for $62m = $2.7 k/kg So why does everyone quote SX style reusability as grounds for the price drop revolution? I think the revolution so far is mostly just being an efficient space company

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@Stefan__Powell

3 years

Our in-space propulsion team has to double in the next 3 months to meet demand. We need: project managers, systems designers, propulsion engineers, embedded systems/electrical engineers, AIT and more. Get in touch or RT! #space #greenpropulsion

Dawn Aerospace

Dawn Aerospace is a space transportation company on a mission to enable the next generation of space users, sustainable and scalable ways to access and move around in space.

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@Stefan__Powell

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@BellikOzan @concernedCocoa @TheRTest @KenKirtland17 Correct, it was 2013. But it was late Nov / December 2013. Source: I was there.

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