Stages
I’m taking MIT’s 16.00x course on edX, and it’s been amazing so far. Tsiolkovsky’s rocket equation is pretty simple, even for multiple stages. Still, I wanted to create a tool for calculating it anyway since it seemed like an excellent opportunity to combine two things I’m learning: Svelte and aerospace engineering. The site itself uses…
Postgres.app
Installing and using PostgreSQL manually using Homebrew is a pain, especially when migrating from Intel to Apple Silicon, as I had to do. Postgres.app is an easy way to solve this problem. It lives in your menu bar and comes out only when you need it. You don’t need to touch the CLI, but it…
Terran 1 Poster
This is a poster of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 launch vehicle that I created using Sketch. It’s around 85% 3D-printed and can’t lift too much (about 1,250 kg to Low Earth Orbit) and it uses the first-gen Aeon 1 engines (113,000 N in a vacuum). Its successor, the Terran R (100% 3D-printed and reusable) is…