#TestFlight

[ultimacodex]

The "Exult" team have released version 1.12 of their cross-platform "Ultima 7" engine, ahead of a switch from SDL2 to SDL3.

[whatsissue]

SpaceX's Starship Grounded After Test Flight Explosion

SpaceX's Starship Grounded After Test Flight Explosion The U.S. has grounded SpaceX's Starship rocket following a dramatic explosion during its latest test flight. The upper stage of the rocket disintegrated over the Caribbean after launching from Texas on Thursday, prompting airlines to alter flight paths to avoid falling debris. Fortunately, there were no reports of injuries. Investigation Underway The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is collaborating with SpaceX and other authorities to investigate the incident, particularly reports of damage to public property in the Turks and Caicos Islands. As part of the investigation, the FAA has mandated a "mishap" inquiry to assess the situation before determining whether Starship can return to flight. The agency activated a "debris response area" to manage air traffic, temporarily slowing or halting aircraft outside the affected zone. Some planes requested to divert due to low fuel levels while awaiting clearance. Details of the Launch Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, pivotal to Elon Musk's vision of colonizing Mars. The uncrewed launch was Starship's seventh test mission and the first featuring a taller, upgraded upper stage, which is two meters (6.56 ft) taller than earlier versions. The rocket lifted off at 17:38 EST (22:38 GMT) and successfully separated from its Super Heavy booster nearly four minutes into flight. However, shortly thereafter, SpaceX reported that mission control had lost contact with the upper stage. While the Super Heavy booster returned to the launchpad as planned, the upper stage experienced what SpaceX described as "rapid unscheduled disassembly." Musk later indicated that preliminary findings suggested the explosion was related to an "oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall." Despite the setback, Musk noted that nothing so far indicates a delay for the next launch, which could occur as soon as next month. Future of Starship The Starship system, which stands at 123 meters (403 feet) tall, is designed to be fully reusable. NASA plans to utilize a modified version of the rocket for its Artemis missions aimed at returning humans to the Moon. In the long term, Musk envisions Starship facilitating long-duration trips to Mars, with each journey estimated to take about nine months. The test launch occurred shortly after the inaugural flight of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket system, backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, marking significant progress in the competitive space vehicle market. As investigations continue, both SpaceX and Blue Origin are poised to play pivotal roles in shaping the future of space exploration and travel. Read the full article

[gkonboard]

India's space agency, ISRO, successfully conducted a crucial test flight of the Gaganyaan spacecraft, marking a significant milestone in its mission to send astronauts into space in 2025. This video covers the details of the test flight, its significance, and the future of India's space exploration endeavors. Join us for an exciting journey into the cosmos!

[egor]

Got an iPhone and a spare 10 minutes? We might appreciate you help if you also travel sometimes.

[betamax65]

So ich habe dann den #Pixelfed Account wieder reaktiviert. Mal schauen ob ich jetzt damit warm werde. Auf dem #iphone nutze ich erstmal #vernissage als Client. Die App des Projektes scheint ja immer noch in #Testflight abzuhängen.

Wenn es interessiert: @betamax65

[dr-iphone]

WhatsApp 暗示即將推出 iPad 版，Meta 有望加速補齊 iPad App 

WhatsApp iPad 版 App 經過兩年的 TestFlight 測試之後，近日 WhatsApp 官方在社群平台 X 上「劇透」，暗示 WhatsApp 終於有機會在 App Store 上架，引發使用者關注。 Continue reading WhatsApp 暗示即將推出 iPad 版，Meta 有望加速補齊 iPad App 

[lavariz]

Might be the minority but I CANNOT play thumbs on mobile rhythm games regardless of phone size

[indecisive-v]

granted i haven't played in ages and i've gotten so rusty that these all kick my ass but. they are good

shoutout to whoever's making these milgram charts on sonolus they are so good

[boreal-sea]

Not gonna lie, the WAFRN mobile app is a GAME CHANGER. I’m spending a TON of time on warfn now because the app is just so friggin good.

You have to download TestFlight on iOS to get it but it’s so so good.

GET WAFRN.

Available on Android too!!

[nightmareworks]

hi i have been Cooking lancer fic

Once again, we meet Union Auxiliary Pilot, (28th Voidcombat Division, Mercenary Wing Bravo,) ["Kingfishers",] Callsign- VI The Lovers. We meet Miss Allison Wax (she/her) [Her Body, a borrowed face]

And her Loverboy (he/him) [Stone Butch Death Machine]

(both art gotten from @skycrimedraws who NAILS IT EVERY TIME BABY)

"Hey boss man," The words fell out of her lips, halfway through (the next words were a question) when her CO interrupts with "I told you not to call me that." She stops. (She doesn't flinch, its not flinching.) [She kind of just needs to run through some maybes.] For just that moment, there's no one in the body in front of the CO. And then she starts again, words coming back out. "Alright, alright. CO, what's the job you got lined up for me and my Loverboy?" The CO gestured to the spare chair with a file, and Allison picked her way across the floor. (She walked on the tips of her toes, even in the sneakers.) [She walked with a gait to big for her body, like her legs were blades.] {She's En Pointe} She pulled out the chair and sat, crossing a leg across her lap and looking at the CO through her bangs. "The next mission shouldn't be for a while yet, Miss Wax." The CO's voice was always even, collected. That's why they were the CO. That's why they wore Union Grays and Allison wore what she always did. (Just put clothes on Her body) [What kind of clothes did She wear before Allison?] A thought dismissed with the disappointment of nearlight engines. "Really now, CO? How long are you gonna keep me up? More time in medbay?" The CO shakes their head, opening files, going through them. The work seems endless, running a Merc Lance. (But what's Alllison gotta worry about work?) [Gets to wound up, being in a ship conapt too long without her Loverboy.]

"So is it more time with the headmeds?" The CO looks up from the papers and gives that kind of pained smile as Allison snatches a file off the table to read. (One of the ones with the Mission Seal on it.) [Can't read Unionite Legalese for shit.] "No, Miss Wax, you're scheduled for wind-down, but you don't need to go see one of the after-action therapists- unless you feel the need of course." So she started paging through the mission file, going over the after action reports compiled from her Loverboy (From his eye, from his soul.) [The stars are beautiful at 2,000 kmph.] "So there's really no jobs, CO? Not even basic patrols? I get bored when I'm stuck down too long." The CO holds out their hand, and she returns the file. (She likes to feel like she earns her keep.) [That's just polite, for all the things Union offers.] "Miss Wax," the CO begins "I understand that talented pilots get odd without flight." That's the thing about Grays- they're willing to work with you more than they aren't. (Its not that Allison thought they were pushovers.) [Just the most reasonable kind of people, mostly.] I can organize testflights for you, if you see that there isn't more work for the technicians." There's what she wants to hear (But not quite).

"Work's good for me, CO. You wouldn't let a butterfly starve in a jar, would you?" The CO folds the file closed. (Her file.) [The one that says "Obvious signs of long-term Chronos exposure."] Doctors let you read files out this way. Its nice to know they care, at least. CO gives their answer. "Miss Wax, war's a failure and you're a contingency. Glory only comes with time. Take your mech out, call it a patrol if that helps, but my job is to make sure the mercenaries stay healthy and stay flying." There's more, Allison knows there's more, and she stops a moment. For that split second, she's not in Her body. Allison is watching Her sit there, in the chair, in Allison's clothes, across from the CO. (The look on their face is kind of worried.) [People still caught in their meat don't like being reminded of it's hold on them.] Allison picks a maybe, a series of words that seem right, and then the moment is over, and she's back in Her body. "So where are we headed, CO? You can at least let me prepare for the future."

"We're headed to Dawnline, Miss Wax. There'll be work aplenty for you in the Long Rim and beyond."

======

The cavalry technician looked up at the frame he was gonna work on. It was a custom job, one of the Lancers that the Aux had brought onboard when coming out of the Range. Long haul ships for Union do that sometimes, guard presence in exchange for amnesty and escape. Good people get trapped places. He just wasn't sure whoever flew this thing was the best kinda people. "Beautiful damn monster you are." The mechtech murmured under his breath, looking through a sheaf of printouts. Specs for the machine in front of him, an IPS-N Frame the pilot apparently fit together herself. He didn't, really trust the speed listed under its maximum output. That kind of speed would make someone grayout (The speed at which the blood of a human body begins to pool in the limbs, causing the pilot to lose consciousness). Redout even. [The point of g-force at which the brain is starved of blood, and dies.]

He looked up again at the machine and saw it was staring back at him, great singular eye tracking along its axis, to cast its baleful red upon him. He noted it, and looked back to his notes. Looking for if this thing had a casket it in, a C/C programmed to play tricks. The normal shit pilots pull on their technicians. He came up around the great black thing in its bay, and stared it in the eye from the gantry. It stared back, body making the clittering hiss of a mech at rest. (Mechanized Cavalry frames that are in regular usage are rarely quite things.) Coolant pumped through the entire frame, keeping the coldcore under wraps until it really needed to go. Fusion engines, power-reroutes designed along the Albatross style… where the verniers and thrusters aren't shaped for an RPV. (Remote Pilot Vehicles aren't uncommonly retrofitted for pilot use, he notes under his breath) [Under that red eye.] He eyes them again, as the giant thing keeps staring. There isn't any record of a computer smart enough to do anything of worth on this machine.

It was strictly Turning-Compliant, according to the CO's paperwork. That left the damages to repair. Bits of slagged armor along the leg-blades and shoulder plating. Nothing a few hours work with the rigs wouldn't fix. The mechtech flicked a few switches and brought the frame up to the light, to the arms that pulled and printed in smooth motions as his fingers danced across the keys. It was slower going than he thought. And the mech was making a noise. It was keening, a clatter-chatter at once both rumbling low and piercingly high. Something was wrong with the feedback from the mech-harness, reporting simple and blunt legionspace attacks. Best the cavalry technician could manage was to remove the offending plates before the assembly limbs gave up and stalled. That's when a hand touched his shoulder, and a voice rang in his ear. "My Loverboy doesn't know you, mechtech, but I do. Gimmie a minute to settle him down and you can get back to work."

The girl walks past him then, almost teeter-tottering as she glides across the floor on the tips of her shoes. She moves her legs wrong, picking her way as much as stepping. The cavalry tech looks at the mech's legs and puts together the kind of pilot he's dealing with. The kind that have gone in a direction past human, hunting for something else. (He'd never really known someone in full body prosthesis) [Was rare, in his neck of the galaxy.] She moves like her mech even as she steps off the gantry and onto its chest, placing hands against the grinning skull. Ever since she came in, the eye's been locked onto her alone. He worries and wonders what kind of monster he's got to work on now.

===

He screams for her, against the void, he tears away from the cling-gravity of the UNS-CV Paris (Like the commune, she offers) [Like lights, the therapist offers back.] But the past doesn't matter when the future is laid out in the bleeding world of 2000 kmph. She was safe from everything, safe from Gravity itself as she lay coiled in her Loverboy's guts, aching through Chronos haze and picking his flight path for him as a beautiful dance. She wanted him to run through his paces, and he was eager to please. To show her what he could do. How he was built for her. Like a butterfly flitting across a windless sky, like a shark dancing through a school of fish- Loverboy puts on a show for his girl.

She's spinning him a dance, putting the engine to its test. Her Loverboy screams for his girl as he dances, frame keening against the speed and void. (Allison watches Her legs twist against the seat.) [That's how she knew the engine was art] {State-of-the-art affection} She doesn't like to think about home. Not home anymore, and not worth thinking about. More Gravity shorn free from her under the speed. So what's it worth if its pulled away so easily? Home wasn't ever home, no matter how much anyone told Allison it was. What's where you're born compared to where you'll be? (What's the flesh you were born in but another place to be trapped in?) Allison feels her brain reel as Loverboy spins in a piroutte ascending. It doesn't spin in place, but it recognizes the forces working upon it as her Loverboy pulls into a rise. (The snap from horizontal to vertical would snap necks.) [But when you don't have Gravity, moving is easier.]

Verniers howl with force as Allison considers Her. (And the changes Allison had made to Her.) [Would She mind? Would She understand?] There are protective tendons, built from the same kind of whipcord steel that run through Loverboy. There are stabilization systems built into her braincase, that absorb and disperse the shock of sudden shifts of g-force. There's a dozen, a hundred little aftermarket touches to Her body that Allison has made. (But is it really that bad, when the body is aftermarket?) [When the body wasn't built for you.] Allison still watches Her, curled as Allison left Her. (Back curved gentle. Arms on knees, resting eyes against forearm.) [The clunky implants hooking Her to Loverboy peek their tubes from beneath Her shirt] She was still perfect. Still beautiful. Everything Allison had wanted to be back then. There She was, with Allison's brain in Her body, Allison's Loverboy hooked through feeds to Her back.

Allison reached in the stopped little flaring moments between directing Loverboy through his dance. They were all the same moment. Allison reached out, and cradled Her face, and said Her name. Something Allison couldn't ever know. (How was she supposed find Her? Long way from Ketherese.) [From everything from that life.] Everything but her Loverboy. He counts the micromovements of her eyes. His own whirrs and focuses, keening as the scopes hone in on a target and his body twists with his girl's desire. He counts the times she stops existing as a presence registered at the controls. He rolls over and considers in his clicking thoughts the ways he loves her. His adoration burns in him as retros flare and he lands blades first, touching against an asteroid with the grace of a butterfly upon a blossom. His thoughts turn and his computers chitter and churn. His whitewash tanks purge into rawmat resivors and a new batch is rapidly encoded, new chains of acids and code written by mute-drive, a silent organ buried deep in his frame, coiled round and through his girl.

The Hyperkinesis Module develops a novel admixture of nanites and adrenaline and feeds through the connection to Allison, filling her endocrine system with a soothing electricity synchronized to readouts and full reports of engine efficiencies, micrometeor grazes, and heat venting. (His body hisses for her, waste gas for heat disperial in null atmosphere environments) [He bares his heart to her, reactor dropping as he stretches against the asteroid.] Allison leans forward, the Chronos uptake stretching from her back and into the cockpit's back wall. (Little tubes running up to her spine and kidneys) [One of the other aftermarket touches to Her body.] Allison's face reaches through the holoscreen outputs of Loverboy's eye. She kisses the armored outer hull of her cockpit. (She stands to her toes.) And her Loverboy gently touches off the asteroid, into the void, gently floating in the empty place beyond Gravity.

Allison lowers her oxygen uptake, and rides the Chronos her Loverboy made for her. (She dreams like an editor.) [Looking at scenes and picking them.] A wash along the nervous system, stuttering climbing up her spinal column and into the brainstem. She dreams of Ketherese, and what was left behind. Consider the Gravity that's been shed. (In the embrace of her Loverboy.) [Memories are the only thing you can't shed.] Her grandfather's dirt is far from everything she'll ever see again. No one will see the frontiers she sees. (Allison will see things even She'll never see.) [Or maybe they'll see the same stars some day.] {Face-to-borrowed-face.}

No one she had ever known would see what she sees, know what she knows. (She'd shed them, like her old body.) [Like Gravity.]

[octocon]

Octocon iOS testing opens soon!

Hi, everyone! I've been hard at work for the past week porting Octocon to iOS, and the app is in a nearly fully functional state!

We're currently just waiting on Apple to approve the transfer of our developer account to our newly formed LLC, and then we'll be onboarding testers to TestFlight as soon as possible.

If you'd like to be one of the first to use Octocon on your iPhone or iPad, feel free to join our Discord server and apply to be an iOS tester!

[whatsissue]

SpaceX Achieves Milestone with Fifth Starship Test Flight

SpaceX Achieves Milestone with Fifth Starship Test Flight On Sunday, SpaceX successfully launched its fifth test flight of the Starship rocket, marking a significant achievement with the dramatic catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster. This event represents a major step forward in SpaceX’s ambitious goal of creating a fully reusable rocket system. Launch Details The Starship took off at 8:25 a.m. ET from the company’s Starbase facility near Brownsville, Texas. The rocket's Super Heavy booster made a successful return, landing on the arms of the company's launch tower nearly seven minutes post-launch. “Are you kidding me?” exclaimed SpaceX communications manager Dan Huot during the company’s live webcast. “What we just saw, that looked like magic,” he added, highlighting the excitement within the SpaceX team. Reactions and Future Missions NASA Administrator Bill Nelson also congratulated SpaceX on social media, stating, “As we prepare to go back to the Moon under Artemis, continued testing will prepare us for the bold missions that lie ahead.” After separating from the booster, Starship traveled halfway around the Earth before reentering the atmosphere and successfully splashing down in the Indian Ocean, completing its test objectives. Notably, there were no crew members aboard this flight, as SpaceX plans to conduct hundreds of missions with Starship before flying with astronauts.

Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on Sunday.AFP Contributor#AFP / AFP - Getty Images Previous Test Flights The full Starship system has already undergone four test flights, with launches occurring in April and November of last year, followed by tests in March and June of this year. Each subsequent flight has achieved more milestones than the last, reflecting SpaceX’s commitment to learning from previous experiences. “SpaceX emphasizes that it tries to build on what we’ve learned from previous flights,” the company stated, underscoring its iterative approach to rocket development. The Importance of Reusability The Starship system is designed to be fully reusable, with the goal of revolutionizing space travel for both cargo and crew. This rocket is also integral to NASA’s plans for returning astronauts to the Moon. SpaceX has secured a multibillion-dollar contract to use Starship as a crewed lunar lander as part of NASA’s Artemis program. https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845210284270682178?ref_src=twsrctfwtwcamptweetembedtwterm1845210284270682178twgr7ad2a4641bded7c6f8fcd38a07c57de9fc5682b4twcons1_&ref_url=httpsiframe.nbcnews.compZObcc6_showcaptiontrueapp1 Regulatory Challenges The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted SpaceX a launch license for this fifth flight on Saturday, ahead of the agency’s previous timeline estimates. However, SpaceX and Elon Musk have been vocal about their frustrations with the FAA, arguing that “superfluous environmental analysis” was delaying the launch process. Despite the challenges, the FAA and partner agencies expedited their assessments, although SpaceX has faced fines for unauthorized water discharges at its Texas launch site. Goals for the Fifth Flight With the successful booster catch, SpaceX has surpassed the achievements of the fourth test flight. The company accomplished its goal of returning the booster to the launch site and utilized the “chopstick” arms on the tower to catch the vehicle. SpaceX views this ambitious catch approach as critical to its objective of making the rocket fully reusable. “SpaceX engineers have spent years preparing and months testing for the booster catch attempt,” the company noted. “Technicians poured tens of thousands of hours into building the infrastructure to maximize our chances for success.” The process requires meeting thousands of criteria; had conditions not been ideal, the booster would have diverted to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico. Specifications of the Starship Starship is both the tallest and most powerful rocket ever launched. Fully stacked with the Super Heavy booster, it stands 397 feet tall and has a diameter of 30 feet. The Super Heavy booster itself measures 232 feet tall and is equipped with 33 Raptor engines, producing a combined thrust of 16.7 million pounds—approximately double that of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which launched for the first time in 2022. Starship, standing 165 feet tall, contains six Raptor engines—three designed for use in the Earth’s atmosphere and three for operation in the vacuum of space. The rocket is powered by liquid oxygen and liquid methane, requiring more than 10 million pounds of propellant for launch. Conclusion With this latest test flight, SpaceX continues to make significant strides toward its goal of creating a fully reusable rocket system, which could transform space travel. As the company pushes forward with its ambitious plans, the successful booster catch marks a historic moment in the evolution of space exploration. Keywords: SpaceX, Starship, test flight, Super Heavy booster, reusable rocket, NASA Artemis, space travel, booster catch, rocket specifications, Brownsville Texas. Read the full article

[aylameridiandrawsstuff]

Our game is coming out of beta and entering blessed early access in just a little over a month!

Imagine if Dark Souls was a merge game... what it look like?

no microtransactions/dark patterns, obviously

a deep story told through potentially untrustworthy characters and item descriptions!

a beautiful and somewhat post-apocalyptic world to explore!

a story that actually ends

NG+

So we made a merge game that has all these things! Also, there's a crafting system!

AND YOU CAN PLAY THE BETA ON iOS NOW!!!!!!!

BEHOLD! the testflight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/MgNOJNqb

(these are some of the assets that we're adding in the next update!)

Seriously, even if you think merge games are the worst thing ever, you might actually like this one!

And if merge games are your vibe... there's no energy limit in this one... ;)

[jackbentobox]

“Jack Attack Attack” is a cancelled iOS game based on You Don’t Know Jack that, as its title would suggest, consist of a dedicated collection of Jack Attack questions. The game’s only known version, made in 2013, is in a very early state. The game was leaked in 2023 as part of an Apple TestFlight gigaleak.

According to the in-game images above, it would have featured Jack Attacks from Volumes 1, 2, and 3, along with the Facebook game, although only the buttons for V1 and Facebook are implemented, with both buttons loading the same test question. The game uses the Jack Attack graphics from the Facebook game and the music from the selected game.

https://x.com/z2rMC/status/1736814541412217300

https://jackboxgames.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Attack_Attack

[raymanrambles]

Rayman Jungle Run Betas Found!

Recently, a massive Testflight leak took place, with terabytes of unreleased and beta versions of iOS apps!

Footage by Pracar on the Testflight Server

As seen above amongst all of these are several beta builds for Rayman Jungle Run (some pre-release and some for updates i believe)! Idk exactly what they actually contain in terms of content or how diff they are outside of this vid, which is the earliest build found (I'm an android user sorryyyyyy)

Something notable is also the fact that it has the early set of levels some of you may remember from MilesTheCreator's Jungle Run unused levels videos!

A Fiesta Run build is also present but unfortunately the download for it doesn't work anymore ):

This also does give an early name for Jungle Run, being Rayman Run (wouldn't be surprised if that might've already been discovered tho)

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO AROUND IF U CAN!!!

Here's the links:

RAYMANORIGINS1DEMO (JUNGLE RUN) (0.85)

https://web.archive.org/web/2if_/https://testflightapp.com/dashboard/ipa/7b21575f26d17ca7df7ff86de0c6d825-MTA4ODE4MQ/6280ca3ee10631fd6817100ffd1ee849-MTMzMzc3/

RAYMAN RUN (0.95)

https://web.archive.org/web/2if_/https://testflightapp.com/dashboard/ipa/daa7cfe8e525fa059af1eabec885ee78-MTU1NDA0NQ/6280ca3ee10631fd6817100ffd1ee849-MTMzMzc3/

RAYMAN RUN (1.0.1)

https://web.archive.org/web/2if_/https://testflightapp.com/dashboard/ipa/e4c9da57aeec13cb1074bc581acdcc5c-MjMxMDY3Mw/6280ca3ee10631fd6817100ffd1ee849-MTMzMzc3/

RAYMAN RUN (1.1.0)

https://web.archive.org/web/2if_/https://testflightapp.com/dashboard/ipa/a906129d66e44c564fbef5fa124317d5-MjkwNjIyNA/6280ca3ee10631fd6817100ffd1ee849-MTMzMzc3/

Also images from the vid that i started screen recording too late and didn't catch since discord didn't download em properly so i had to do that: