TJ Cooney

New episode just posted (featuring @tjcooney.com):

I hope we see this within the year

🛰️Design locked 🔒 We’ve completed Critical Design Review for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer constellation. We’re now moving into full-scale production of 18 spacecraft to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. Read more bit.ly/4l5e5cL

Just donated, what a worthy cause.

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tired

Since you guys liked the last one so much, here’s another KA01 vid from my secret spot. Don’t tell Pad Safety…. ;).

Here’s a torytimelapse of Atlas returning to the pad for Kuiper’s KA01 mission. That’s how we roll…

For your visual enjoyment. The last set was in the Finished Goods Warehouse in Decatur. These are at the Cape.

Looking to follow more interesting, less controversial, accounts. Does anyone have recommendations of their favorites? Prefer fun people over faceless avatars!

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Crew 9: We just saw the departing Crew 9 fliers sharing hugs with their station crewmates before floating into their Crew Dragon; the hatch was closed at 11:05am EDT (0305 UTC); Wilmore and Williams are in their SpaceX pressure suits; Hague and Gorbunov will follow suit shortly

Statement from NASA -- the agency is closing NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, along with reducing their workforce.

I guarantee that this statement will get a lot of people's attention re: Trump and Mars: “Is it number one on my hit list? No. It’s not really." spacenews.com/trump-says-m...

Normalize adding parachutes to our cars

SpaceX appears to be targeting Friday February 28th for the next flight of Starship. As of writing Starship is still grounded by the FAA following the IFT-7 explosion, which saw a significant debris fall on multiple Caribbean islands.

i wish i could go back to me as a kid and tell him you really dont need to worry about quicksand as much as you do

Last night, the first-ever public image from inside the top-secret X-37B’s payload bay in space was released. While its existence is known, most mission details remain classified.

Speed and Angels

Ok but fix teams

Another NASA workforce update. The 5% figure taking the buyout would translate to about 900 employees (one number I've heard is 920). Also, "probationary [employee] separations will be performance-based or voluntary in accordance with agency policy."

tough day today

A cool family photo. The last Centaur III (Dad), the High Orbit Centaur V (Son) and our newest addition: LEO Centaur V (little brother)

NEW VIDEO!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNs5...

Sunrise: Earth

A real head scratcher

We all work in a word factory

Lunar Eclipse of January, 2019, seen over the Juno II rocket, located in the Rocket Garden at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. #photography #astrophotography #moon #nasa #lunareclipse

I’ve been losing 1 pound a week for the last month or so. If I keep this up for 5 more years I’ll be ~0 pounds.

Well, big news. I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home. And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding, donations or subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent, but now I need to raise some additional funds. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonat...

Forget about the world for an hour and just bask in the delight of this wonderful interview of Dick Van Dyke by Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTJ...

I have a new job, and I’ve now gotten the internal discussions to be about how we can make our content weirder. I am happy.

I’m really happy I don’t need to worry about my MySpace top 8 anymore. 14 year old TJ stressed way too much about that.

Fun fact about LC-36: Before NG-1 on Thursday, the premiere flight of New Glenn, the most recent flight for the pad was ~20 yrs ago on 2/3/2005 for the final flight of the Atlas III (USA-181). I love seeing old sites brought back to life!

I have bee writing scripts for my youtube channel again and it feels so good. 2025 is going to be fun

The Mercator projection always breaks my brain

Busy Rocket Factory. Any guesses on which missions these guys will fly?

YouTube shorts are now > TikTok to me. YouTube has really dialed in their recommendation engine.

Space Station Moon Earth

Last weekend I went to go see some interesting Neutron (tooling?) equipment outside their build site. We are all excited to see Neutron fly from Virginia hopefully in the next year. Favorite part of the morning was seeing sunrise with my son.

New Glenn launches NET Jan 10 from LC-36 carrying Blue Ring Pathfinder. The payload tests comms, power, and flight systems, validating orbital comms, telemetry, tracking, and ground systems. It will stay aboard the second stage for a 6-hour mission.

I did it again! Jurassic Park with accurate raptors, a short part 2 #jurassicpark #blender3d

John Glenn was "deeply touched" that Blue Origin named its first orbital-class rocket after him, as he expressed in what was his last written correspondence before his death...

Bill Nelson on the future of Artemis, why he was "intrigued" by the selection of SpaceX's Starship just days before his was sworn in as NASA administrator, and more. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...