Zenopower goes through final design review.
Zeno is leading the Harmonia Radioisotope Power System for Artemis to advancing an americium-241 heat source to Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5.
www.zenopower.com/announcement...
The Orion Integrity spacecraft afloat on the Pacific Ocean, backlit.
à contre-jour
Credit: NASA/Kevin Davis
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#Artemis
A parody of a parody. This is how we get fractal parodies.
January 21, 2029.
the UAE's threat wasn't subtle (give us swap lines or we're going to Beijing) but hassett is dodging here ("should that be necessary") and between this and the Abdulkhaleq post the other day I have to wonder if there was a massive rupture between the US and UAE at the end of last week
Report: Proposed NASA Budget Cuts Could Affect Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory pasadenanow.com/main/report-... #NASA
Basically every high school around here from a century ago looks grand on the outside, and this area has never had the resources of New York City.
People used to take education seriously.
But I have yet to hear any numbers.
Obviously, Hungary funding 0.1% of CPAC is not the same as Hungary funding 95% of CPAC.
French politician speaking passionately, wearing a suit and glasses. Text: "French opposition leader Mélenchon: Israel's Lebanon 'buffer zone' is annexation." Logo on top right.
"Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La #France Insoumise, has condemned Israel’s "buffer zone" in #Lebanon as an illegal act of annexation.Speaking at a Franco-Lebanese rally in Paris, Mélenchon accused the French government of "political cowardice" for failing to challenge Israeli military maneuvers"
And the Iranians made a lego movie about it.
20 minutes before tweet.
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“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.”
The most corrupt regime ever.
Good after-markets-closedternoon!
And by taking Trump's ire, the Pope has unified the US Catholic Bishops.
They never got behind Francis this way.
Used to be unusual.
Now it's actually as usual.
🤨🤨
really does feel like we have a bunch of commentators who would like to just say “the bell curve was right”
Now on @sciam.bsky.social: When the Artemis II crew became the "most distant humans ever" in last week's moon flyby, @planet4589.bsky.social wondered where the corresponding "farthest" humans were back here on Earth. Turns out they weren't on Earth at all!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
The U.S. is trying to ramp up the economic pain on Iran as the blockade on Iranian ports continues. Defense Secretary Hegseth said the blockade "is the polite way that this can go." Meanwhile, Pakistan is pushing for a second U.S.-Iran meeting.
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From Najmeh Bozorgmehr's essay in today's FT. Most Iran experts around the world could predict exactly what Iran would do and how it would consolidate and enhance the power of the clerical-IRGC regime. But Trump and Hegseth didn't have a clue.
2026 NASA NIAC decisions are available on NSPIRES, even though they have not been announced publicly.
58th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
March 15–19, 2027
The solar eclipse captured from a camera mounted on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon’s far side. The science community is investigating whether the glow around the Moon is from zodiacal light -- interstellar dust that’s reflecting sunlight -- the solar corona, or a combination of the two. Unlike minutes-long eclipses as viewed from Earth, the Artemis II crew saw the Sun hide behind the Moon for nearly an hour. In this image, Venus can be spotted on the left, and Saturn on the right of the Moon. Credit: NASA
Orion and solar eclipse: new, fascinating image posted on NASA Johnson's flickr account, captured by a GoPro camera mounted on one of the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Venus can be spotted on the left, and Saturn on the right of the Moon.
flic.kr/p/2s7wkRo #Artemis 🧪🔭
White House Releases Space Nuclear Initiative spacepolicyonline.com/news/white-h...
Detection of a second jet within the nuclear core of Mrk 501
We explore several physical scenarios and find that an SMBBH with a 7-year orbital plane precessional period and a 121-day orbital period can reasonably explain our observational results.
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A more precise calculation gives a max CSS-Artemis distance as 419643 km at 2220:08 UTC; max ISS-Artemis was 419581 km at 2222:05 UTC. My earlier calculation neglected a coordinate frame precession between the Artemis and ISS/CSS data and used the 1 minute Horizons time grid without interpolation.
The Vatican City.
