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has @Tesla tested a backflip yet?
the inertia about the pitch axis is ~3-4x that of the roll axis so rotational energy increases by ~3-4x
however, the majority of the energy required still comes from the initial jump, so this should theoretically be possible
Evan Kay retweeted
we have the technology. we just need to be brave enough to use it.
coupled 6-DOF + CFD. tail booster, four hoof jets, closed-loop landing.
The Roadster event was so insane, we had to confirm the physics
the bots are grinding on this one.
immersed boundary layer solved on gpu with @NavierAI agents
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Clean shocks on an adaptively refined mesh.
Solved insanely fast.. excited to release this soon.
@NavierAI
Evan Kay retweeted
today our agent learned that Rao nozzles are pretty good when pointed in the right direction
highly recommend listening @AcquiredFM's podcast on @F1 if you haven't already. A great primer ahead of the season's most iconic race in Monaco
Another day, another feature shipped 🚀
Visualizations are great, but engineers usually want the underlying numbers, peak pressures at a specific location, values to correlate against wind tunnel or test data.
Our platform now lets Engineers click any cell and pull every associated field value at that point. Works on large meshes, runs in the cloud.
Evan Kay retweeted
The best hires are the ones you can delegate outcomes to, not tasks. Good hires come back with smart questions about the next step. Great ones just get the job done.
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SpaceX is the only company building the infrastructure of the future across space, connectivity, and AI → spacexipo.com
Every CFD engineer knows the pain of kicking off an overnight run, only to come back to diverged residuals, a bad mesh, or wasted compute.
@NavierAI's Agent monitors the run, catches issues, updates the setup, and restarts automatically. Finally starting to see the possibilities hands-free CFD.
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Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.
I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.
We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.
Asked Stokes, our CFD agent, to run a pitch and yaw sweep on a jet over dinner.
Came back to this beautiful visualization, generated through our built-in flipbooks feature.
Operating envelopes have never been easier to explore.
