Jason Hess retweeted
New Test Footage: Black Hawk executes rocket-powered launch of Altius-700.
At Project Convergence Capstone 6, an H-60M Black Hawk crew employed an Altius-700 hunter-killer team to autonomously find the target, pass data across the formation, and strike.
Another successful step towards fielding launched effects with Army Aviation, pushing sensing and weapons deeper into the fight without sending crews with them.
Next up: Altius-700 deploys with a Cavalry unit.
Jason Hess retweeted
Conquering the next battlefield: Space.
We bet our own money to rapidly design, build, test, and fly a fully integrated satellite. Last month, ANDURIL-216 reached orbit. Anduril, alongside a few core partners, went from clean sheet to on orbit in less than two years.
All systems are nominal. We've made first contact and fully commissioned the bus, power distribution devices, and edge compute payload. The first calibrated images are in from all three payloads onboard the spacecraft: one long-wave infrared, two electro-optical.
The firsts go beyond the vehicle. Our space team used Lattice to commission and task ANDURIL-216, the first time Lattice has commanded an on-orbit spacecraft.
More to come.
The letter below is very good summary of the current situation.
Future weapons must go underground or deep underwater, or be mass-produced and attritable.
Radar-based stealth loses some relevancy when you are visually tracked by something all the time.
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There are THOUSANDS of people that think Earth's pole wobble (which fluctuates periodically) is ending, resulting in a large axis shift and biblical flooding.
It won't end, and even if it did, there would be no real effect. Axial shifts take millions of years.
IERS data shows Earth's primary rotational stabilization mechanism has severely degraded:
Earth's natural wobble (which has kept the pole stable for thousands of years) has collapsed by 97% since 2020.
Observational findings suggest that periodic wobble (especially Chandler and Annual) used to overpower and mask a subtle but constant pull from massive structures at the core-mantle boundary (LLSVPs) trying to drag the pole toward a secondary equilibrium rotational axis along its perpendicular bearing (~75°W).
The system appears so degraded that without normal periodic wobble, there's little left to stabilize the pole. Every two weeks when the Sun and Moon align in a way that temporarily reduces their gravitational grip on Earth, the pole lurches toward 75°W. We're seeing 1:1 reactions directly from simple tidal forcing nulls.
We've confirmed this signal 3 times in a row (Dec 27, Jan 13, Jan 20) with only a 1-in-8,000 chance it's coincidence. The next test is Feb 5, and the alignment windows get 100x deeper through March 2026.
The pole has been slowly drifting toward ~75°W for 50 years (+5.7 meters total), but now with periodic wobble missing, there's nothing of significance to counteract the acceleration outside of seasonal steering and the lunisolar cycle.
Whether the system can persist in this state or not and for how long remains unknown.
@rookisaacman @NASAAdmin If there isn't a team at NASA rigorously tackling this problem right now, I feel very strongly that there should be.
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Jason Hess retweeted
View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still executed a flip and landing burn that placed it approximately 3 meters from its targeted splashdown point
Hear me out.
Instead of moving more equipment to the aft module and expending the tank (adding an extra failure mode for every single thing going to the engines), you could recover the entire booster!
This would even enable you to use excess propellant for entry and landing.
Experiments next year. Implementation once its ready. We always say "engine recovery", but it's really recovery of the entire aft module, so work has now begun on how we would move more equipment into the module. Goal is to expend essentially nothing more than the empty tank.
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Well done, @SpaceX
Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting tenth flight test of Starship!
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