After asking around it sounds like the estimated number of launches for this is 17 *thousand*…

That is more than every combined orbital launch in history.

Starship B19 looks up at the moon as it rolls towards the future
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Gage Telesz for NASASpaceflight
rollout livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=ugK-...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

Marsrover Perseverance Navcam Sol 1123 - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pLBVvC

Wanna look at the stars~?

🤍🧡🖤

RGB color composite of Titan from Rev171 Titan's North polar hood and South polar vortex can be seen in this recent image by Cassini. This observation of a gibbous-phase Titan was part of the "Titan Monitoring Campaign" (TMC). These images were taken on September 04, 2012 and received on Earth September 07, 2012. The camera was pointing toward TITAN at approximately 1,275,131 miles (2,052,124 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the CL1, UV3, MT3 and CB3 filters. Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / composite by Val Klavans

Gibbous Titan - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/d7ydN9

Assembled using raw uncalibrated red, green, and blue filtered images of Titan taken by Cassini on April 24 2017. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill

Titan - April 24 2017 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/SVLN8j

As Antarctica remains shrouded in darkness during the Southern Hemisphere winter, the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on Landsat 8 captured a new snap of the 2,240-square-mile iceberg that split off from the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf on July 10-12. The satellite imagery is a composite of Landsat 8 as it passed on July 14 and July 21 and shows that the main berg, A-68, has already lost several smaller pieces. The A-68 iceberg is being carried by currents northward out of its embayment on the Larsen C ice shelf. The latest imagery also details a group of three small, not yet released icebergs at the north end of the embayment. Image credit: NASA Goddard/UMBC JCET, Christopher A. Shuman Read more NASA Media Usage Guidelines

Landsat 'Sees in the Dark' the Evolution of Antarctica’s Delaware-sized Iceberg - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/VVLt4c

starman

Kane!

Space Sudeor

B7 S24

Kane

Cassini NAC RGB. 2010-07-27. Magnified 2x from original pixel scale.

Dione and Rhea - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/9ZbYVx

he's got a gun!

Imaged with GSO 10" f/4 Newtonian and asi1600mm at Mt Pinos, CA. Approx 3 hr integration.

NGC 7635 "Bubble Nebula" in SHO - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2m8E3Qv

Habitable ocean planet I drew

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, we are sharing this gallery of images from all five of the Hubble servicing missions. Astronauts serviced Hubble for the first time in December 1993. Including that trip, there have been five astronaut servicing missions to Hubble between 1993 and 2009. How did astronauts repair and service the Hubble Space Telescope more than 300 miles above the surface of the Earth? Watch Hubble astronauts as they discuss servicing from the innovative Robotics Operations Center: bit.ly/2EiiNTP S103-E-5308 (23 December 1999) --- Astronauts C. Michael Foale (left) and Claude Nicollier hover above Discovery's aft cargo bay during their shared space walk to perform servicing tasks on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The photo was taken with an electronic still camera (ESC). Credit: NASA NASA image use policy. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission. Follow us on Twitter

Hubble Servicing Missi#256C - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/2cjpXhS

nice illustration of the CTV on Ariane 5

Why is Rocket Lab So Interested in Mars? | Sir Peter Beck | NSF Live YouTube video by NASASpaceflight

Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 on Wednesday, September 17th, at 2:00 p.m. EDT / 18:00 UTC, for NASASpaceflight's fifth live interview with Sir Peter Beck, the visionary founder of Rocket Lab.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HatZ...

Booster 18.3 looks so clean 🔥

A top down view of the Orion spacecraft with the Launch Abort System and two ogive panels installed.

A side view of the Orion spacecraft with the Launch Abort System and two ogive panels installed. The spacecraft is visible in the gap between the two panels.

A wide view of the Launch Abort System Facility showing the Orion capsule and partially installed LAS.

Photos taken on September 10th show that NASA has integrated 2 of the 4 ogive panels on the Launch Abort System for Artemis II. These panels protect the spacecraft during ascent and jettison with the launch abort system shortly after SRB separation.

📸NASA/Cory S Huston

Starbase Update, hosted by Jack Beyer!

The City of Starbase never sleeps! There’s been the first Pad 2 Deluge tests; staging block 3 components; and a look at testing at McGregor! Don’t miss this one!

youtu.be/kX7pp5NpqYM

Premiering on YouTube at 6:11pm CDT / 23:11 UTC

A black and white declassified KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite image of Egypt taken on July 22, 1980.

Georeferencing over a desert is a challenge, but a welcome one.

Egypt - July 22, 1980

Launch companies double down on increasing flight rates despite setbacks Launch companies are reiterating plans to sharply increase flight rates to meet growing government and commercial demand, even as some fall short of earlier projections.

Launch companies double down on increasing flight rates despite setbacks

Launch companies are reiterating plans to sharply increase flight rates to meet growing government and commercial demand, even as some fall short of earlier projections.

I missed this back in April: the D-Orbit
Amazing Antonius tug, SCV016 (launched in 2025 Jan) boosted orbit during Apr to an elliptical 310 x 1210 km one, much higher than any previous ION mission. It's maintaining that orbit, perhaps to test out hosted payload rad tolerance

Yesterday Astranis announced that their Block 4 mission will launch on Falcon 9 with Impulse Space's Helios kickstage! Set to launch in 2027, the mission will see Falcon 9 deploying Helios with 6 MicroGEO satellites into LEO, after which Helios will take them directly to GEO!

SpaceX is preparing to add a new ship to their fleet! It'll be named "You'll Thank Me Later", and will be used to transport Starship vehicles from Starbase to Florida.

It's possible this will be the Marmac 308 barge, which was launched 2 weeks ago.