Stefan
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Stefan
@Stefan__Powell
CEO and floor sweeper at Dawn Aerospace.
- Record flight: 20km climb in 118s - 4s faster than the F-15 Streak Eagle record set in 1975. Rocket performance in an aircraft platform feels like cheating.
00:00 - Mach 1.1, 82,500ft. The team smashed it. Then we flew again 6 hours later.
00:00 - 118.6s to 20km. World record climb rate for an aircraft taking off from a runway.
00:00 - A message I sent to all Dawn staff this morning on the back of #Starship's success: Watch this to see a literal skyscraper land itself. Absolutely incredible. youtube.com/live/pIKI7y3DT… Although this is not our win, it should be celebrated as if it is, because we are part of aThousands of distinct vehicle and pad criteria had to be met prior to catching the Super Heavy booster. Thanks to the tireless work of SpaceX engineers, we succeeded with catch on our first attempt.
00:00 - Replying to @DJSnMExactly. Coming up to apogee a few seconds after MECO, we are Mach 0.6, but <100knots EAS. We invert and pull hard to get around in the thin air to avoid falling flat at high AoA.
- You've seen Mach diamonds, but have you seen Mach rings? #fireitupfriday #space #highefficiency @DawnAerospace
- Fly high Fly fast Fly againTwo flights in one day. 🚀🚀✈️✈️ Some space companies have it on their roadmap. We have it in our rearview mirror. We did this because rapid reusability is not just the goal, is the essential element of rapid development.
00:00 - 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🛰️️⛽️Exciting Refueling News from Dawn Aerospace!⛽️🛰️️ Dawn is on a mission to bring scalable and sustainable mobility to every satellite. We started by revolutionizing the fuels satellites use. In 2021, we were the first (of now many!) to make nitrous in-space propulsion a
