#SpaceX ‘s #Falcon9 becomes the first rocket with 8 consecutive launches, uninterrupted by another rocket: 2026-031 to 2026-038; previous record was shared between F9 and Soyuz-U with 6 consecutive launches. Next scheduled orbital launch is also a F9 😄
What’s up with Moldova and how does Moldova contributes to increase the danger level of the world?
Or maybe it’s just venting plasma from a damaged nacelle (that houses a warp coil that’s out of phase due to an unbalanced intermix chamber caused by a surplus of verterons decaying into heavy leptons).
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
"Stranded Ghost of Venus", a song about Kosmos-482 that I created in just a few seconds using Suno AI 👇
Not quite a full week, wasn’t the last launch from the Cape on April 14?
The paper mentioned this: «However, cometary delivery is implausible to explain such molecules in planetary atmospheres due to the insufficient contribution that trace species within a comparatively small comet would add to the much more massive planetary atmosphere»
arxiv.org/html/2504.12...
Spectrum rocket launch isn’t the first orbital launch attempt from Europe.
LauncherOne launched from an airplane launched from UK.
Both Plesetsk and Kapustin Yar cosmodromes are technically in Europe.
And there’s also this
「Designated E20001, this newly assembled RS-25 engine is one of four core stage engines that will help power the SLS rocket during the Artemis V mission.」
We're safe here in the EU, Apple Intelligence can't reach us (yet)!
NEW: Asteroid 2024 YR4 may threaten Earth. It won't be the last. But, there's good news: we're about to get two new anti-asteroid weapons.
For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about Vera Rubin Observatory and NEO Surveyor—and how both will make the world safer. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope in space
Astronomers will turn the James Webb Space Telescope towards asteroid 2024 YR4 next month. The most powerful telescope ever launched into space will provide a more accurate estimate of the size of the asteroid, which has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2032.
blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc...
Vast Space has seen good results from initial testing of a qualification article for its Haven-1 space station. But the launch of that station has slipped from late 2025 to no earlier than May 2026.
spacenews.com/vast-begins-...
Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉
Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int
Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨
These are also good, official, sources worth keeping an eye on:
🔗 iawn.net/obscamp/2024...
🔗 cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...
🔗 neo.ssa.esa.int/search-for-a...
(3/3) Don't confuse #2024YR4 with the Tesla car orbiting the sun (NORAD ID 2018-017A): that's another asteroid that appeared in the press a few days before, originally called #2025A38, identified as #2018CN41, eventually deleted, see the MPEC Editorial Note:
minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25...
(2/n)
ESA NEOCC: neo.ssa.esa.int/search-for-a...
NASA Blog: blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydef...
ESA factsheet: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
ESA list of most dangerous asteroids: neo.ssa.esa.int/risk-list
MPML thread: groups.io/g/mpml/topic...
(1/n) A few links with good information and data on #2024YR4 asteroid:
MPC data: www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/sh...
www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K24/K24...
IAWN notification: iawn.net/documents/NO...
IAWN summary:
iawn.net/obscamp/2024...
JPL CNEOS: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/detai...
«Researchers in the US are reeling after the administration of new president issued an order on 27 January that froze all federal grants and loans. […] many US universities to advise faculty members against spending federal grant dollars on travel, new research projects, equipment and more.»
Wow.
Well, big news. I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home. And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding, donations or subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent, but now I need to raise some additional funds.
www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonat...
@esa.int Welcome to BlueSky!
So Option 2 doesn’t need ESA contribution?
Wow. Hezel et al.: MetBase has been migrated into Astromat (search.astromat.org). Millions of data points on chemical and isotopic compositions of meteorites are now available! Epic! 🔭🧪☄️🪐 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Source: www.constituteproject.org/constitution...
🇨🇴 TITLE III. CHAPTER IV. ON TERRITORY > ARTICLE 101: Also part of Colombia is the subsoil, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the continental shelf, the exclusive economic zone, the airspace, the segment of the geostationary orbit, the electromagnetic spectrum and the space where it applies.
🇧🇬 CHAPTER I. FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES > ARTICLE 18: The State shall exercise sovereign rights with respect to radio frequency spectrum and the geostationary orbital positions allocated by international agreements to the Republic of Bulgaria.
There are two countries that refer to geostationary orbit in the Constitution (in the respective section defining borders and natural resources): Bulgaria and Colombia; both countries have their constitutions adopted in the same year—1991—and both revised them in 2015.
