What It Would Be Like to Surf Five Distant Planets What It Would Be Like to Surf Five Distant Planets: A surfing safari of the cosmos

Not enough articles about surfing in space

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Hey space people, I'm looking to speak to experts about the undiscovered irregular moons of the Solar System. How many might there be? What are they telling us?

If that's you, do get in touch: jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com

Thanks!

But always room for more. Editors, if you're in need of any space writing, do get in touch.

It's amazing what a holiday can do to refresh the brain. Working on so many fun stories at the moment on moons, telescopes, nuclear propulsion, and more!

Yeah, presumably. It's the new PR version of "Dear [insert name here]"

I'm getting offered interviews with so many experts at the moment. Is it an AI thing? Can't work it out.

Picture of the Great Wall of China

Saw the Great Wall of China today. Can confirm it was pretty great.

My latest!

Quite nice here!

Image of someone’s phone with traffic light symbols

Cool thing about China (currently in Shanghai): all the lights work on some sort of centralised system so you can see how long until they change on map apps.

Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.

@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

So far in Bangkok there's... not a lot of interest in Artemis II. Spoke to quite a few Thai people today who simply weren't aware of it. Maybe that'll change when it reaches the Moon!

Amazing footage. Great view of the launch at 23:50.

Last time humans went to the moon Tottenham Hotspur were (nearly) on the cusp of relegation. Glad there are no parallels to be drawn today.

Artemis ii

Rocket Lab’s next step

If you've got a hankering for rockets, why not read my latest story for Aerospace America, all about Rocket Lab's upcoming Neutron rocket. Fun!

aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/roc...

Rocket Lab’s next step

If you've got a hankering for rockets, why not read my latest story for Aerospace America, all about Rocket Lab's upcoming Neutron rocket. Fun!

aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/roc...

Glad you made it!

Cool graphic

Think they missed nearly every major moment

Did NASA TV hire the F1 TV director

How do LLMs deal with April Fools papers? Can they tell they aren’t real?

‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially

Some cool graphics here

www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

Does anyone know if China is planning an equivalent of Artemis II (i.e. crewed lunar flyby/orbit) before their landing in 2030, or not?

Yes but it’s still worthwhile taking this semi seriously just to show what would happen. Even 10% would be huge.

Thank you Alejandro

I must be one of like two people in the world that’s excited to have just done an interview with the International Telecommunications Union.

One million satellites will perform billions of manoeuvres In the last few weeks I’ve written a couple of posts about SpaceX’s plans for 1 million Orbital Data Centres (ODCs). The first of those posts used the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC’s) own ra...

Here is Hugh's very good post on this (actually he says 4 billion, not 1 billion).

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This is like the Titanic night sky

Amazing stat from space debris expert Hugh Lewis: if SpaceX launches 1 million orbital data centre satellites it will have to perform 1 billion collision avoidance manoeuvres every year, or one manoeuvre every 0.03 seconds