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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

flying high

View from a SSTO ascending from Titan. Saturn rises over the thick soupy stratospheric haze. The sky above is a deep dark blue, tinged by high forward-scattering haze like the ones we see at Pluto. Edge on, the rings are ~invisible. If you squint, you can see little Rhea as a few pixels of white above and to the left of Saturn. Rendered in Blender :0)

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

HCAT-B "Eodelphinus", an advanced turbofan-ramjet-rocket combined cycle SSTO designed for mass passenger spacelift at Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Another worked design commissioned off of the excellent @attritionmaxxer.bsky.social.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The VABN-P/C, a ballistic rocket+ramjet worked design for SSTO spacelift on Titan - Saturn's largest moon - that I commissioned off of @attritionmaxxer.bsky.social. 42 tonnes/128pax(economy) to Low Titan Orbit, with a klick a second of delta-v to spare.

A roughly headlight-shaped single stage to orbit vehicle with a glossy surface, tuned to reflect as much radiative heating as possible during reentry. At its top is a hemispherical crew capsule (a cargo pod version with a door sized for a single TEU or ~20t of breakbulk exists), with windows and access doors. Around its waist are six small methane-oxygen full-flow staged combustion rockets, generating 1.5 MN of thrust at Titan sea-level. In addition, two large ramjet modules are affixed to the sides - these provide roughly half of the delta-V needed for reaching orbit, with a very nice effective specific impulse of 2800 seconds. On the bottom is a heatshield of reflective-coated AETB, designed to withstand the prolonged low-grade heat soak of reentry. The vehicle masses 104 tonnes on the pad, and has 180 km of crossrange.

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Flag of Microselenesia, a pan-cislunar intergovernmental organization formed in the mid-22nd century to govern affairs between the growing cohort of permanent free-space habitats orbiting the Earth and Moon.

A flag with a black background and a highly stylized 3/4 cutaway of a cylindrical space habitat. In the center is a white structure with a green interior, representing lighting systems and microgee parkland. To the right is the inner wall of the cylinder, showing green parkland and the glinting blue band of a circumferential river. Surrounding the cylinder is a white outline, symbolizing the glacis of shielding material - be it sandbags, glass, concrete, or steel - that every permanent space hab shelters from cosmic radiation under.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

mister godshatter

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

misc tove sketch

canid-esque transhuman woman in neutral pose

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

interestingly, the other launch site they were considering for the K-1 aside from South Australia was the White Sands missile range in Nevada. Apparently actually a quite good location for overland first-stage recovery.)

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Episode from the alternate universe where Kistler didn't lose to SpaceX and the K-1 (K-9?) routinely flies out of the Woomera launch complex.

A Bluey episode title card, depicting the slightly wine-bottle shaped Kistler "K-1" RLV flying through the clouds. A subtitle says "[Bluey] This episode of Bluey is called Launch!"

A credits card to a Bluey episode, saying "Produced with the assistance of [Australian Government] [Kistler Aerospace] [Screen Australia]"

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

old sketches I never got round to posting here. miscellaneous spacers

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

the actual paint-swatch value of the habs that I ran through my big stack of filters to simulate titan haze is a -really bright teal-, if you believe it

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Lunine Beach, a sleepy seaside town on the shores of Kraken Mare - a sea of liquid hydrocarbons at the north pole of Titan, largest of Saturn's retinue of icy moons.

We see here a view from a dirigible cargo robot, taken in the far northern regions of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. In the foreground, a peninsula of ice-and-tar 'wetland' terrain stretches off into the distance. On it, a settlement made up of habitat modules of varying sizes - from longhouse-like parks to long twisting arcades, all raised on stilts like the old research bases of Antarctica (most of these stilts are obscured under the bulk of their structure, from this angle), curves off along the more orderly lake-facing shoreline. Looking further afield, past the jumble of braided rivers that makes up the inland side of the peninsula, we see a far shore occupied by a sprawling industrial city - pale plumes of steam rise from the cooling towers of nuclear fusion reactors, chemical plants, and water refineries. The sun, smeared into an orange blur by storied layers of photochemical haze - drifts of complex organics formed from unfiltered sunlight smashing into methane molecules at the top of the Titanian atmosphere - sits low on the horizon at this time of the Saturnian year, casting a ruddy glow comparable in brightness to a bedside lamp.

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It's actually just a classic plasma magnet, none of the Q-drive tricks going on. Thrust comes from magbeam-esque particle beam stations in planetary/asteroidal/lunar orbits.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The "dusk chorus" - as evening falls on Mangala, its binary companion's infrastructure belt of orbiting power stations catches the sun, brightening to become a ring of stars circling the little Mars analog. (mocked up in Celestia)

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Caz @timberwindart.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Partly that it makes it a touch harder to reproduce with a normal card printer, partly that if the clock chip breaks (or is desynced or hacked) the offgassing rate of the deuterated patch can be used to loosely constrain the card's proper time (direct sampling of the material can get more accurate)

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