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Terran R Build Progress – The past 2 months have been packed with rapid advancements across design, manufacturing, and testing. From welded barrels to hot fires, checkout some of the highlights on the path to first flight. 🚀 In Long Beach: Completed the first circumferential friction stir weld for...

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Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎vor 1 Jahr

Thank you for the great info & for bringing the space community along with you! Continued good luck and can’t wait to see your first launch of Terran R next year!

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The narrator in this video suffers from the same problem as the barista in that other video.

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Not sure if it’s the same Comms Team, but I’d say the marketing pivot is successful. Also the envelope size for those additive printers are so tiny. Hopefully got some bigger machines hiding back there 🤭

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Fill up to 10 five-gallon pails a minute with the Dual Lance Mobile Pail Filler from Specialty Equipment! Custom-made for batch-filling operations, it's equipped with two filling lances, an air-operated lid press, and clear safety shields for operator protection.

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Monthly recaps, baby! Thanks for the transparency!

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Omar شاهينvor 1 Jahr

Terran R's progress is impressive! Such innovation is driving aerospace forward, paralleling UAE's strides in space exploration. Looking forward to more breakthroughs! 🚀

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Love interesting stuff like this. I did not know that friction stir welding was used on spacecraft. I recall that it was used on a small biz jet, but have not heard much about it since.

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@NASASpaceflight I Love friction stir weld. It's so different than tig.

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Congrats on the great progress!

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