ALERT: A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff on the Edwards airfield at 11:20 a.m. Emergency crews immediately responded to the scene and the situation is ongoing. More information will be provided as it becomes available.

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth. It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter. Less than a refrigerator light bulb. The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light. By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery. NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise. The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself. Launched 1977. Still transmitting. Still being heard. We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in. That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

Referenced X-Planes for context:

CFD test of the alleged Area 51 craft spotted in recent IR/thermal imagery (structure seems to be a mix of the X-36 and the Bird of Prey). Four-regime Mach sweep: M0.8, M1.1, M2.0, M3.0. 2D Euler Simulation only, but the silhouette is wild.

Friday night fun: testing out a local CFD simulation. 2D finite-volume Euler simulation of compressible flow over a wedge. Flow begins subsonic, crosses through transonic conditions, accelerates into a supersonic regime, and finishes hypersonic at Mach 5. Things still to tweak.

Paying respects to one of the GOATs in aerospace.

Rocket ASMR. Static fire test of our Denali 18-inch Solid Rocket Booster.

GUMMY34 (E-6B TACAMO) is proceeding to it’s airspace reservation off the California Coast to conduct a ALCS launch (called a “Glory Trip”) of a Minuteman ICBM missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) provides a survivable launch capability for the United States Air Force's LGM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) force. Tracking via @live_airplanes

Did a quick hack job on this to stabilize the rotation!

An incredible view of a rocket launch from space