Alright, the wood cubesat frame is now available for anyone interested.

www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...

#space #science #cubesat

So if someone wants to take a chance on it why not?

I highly doubt I'll ever sell one but hey, you never know.

I might start selling wood cubesat frames on my shop. The frame is still experimental, but it's easily customizable, lightweight and cheaper then other cubesat frames. Can also work with balloons or as a test frame for a conventional build.

#space #science #tech

I always find these arguments both funny and sad. Ancient Egyptian mummies where found with colon cancer. And even dinosaur bones have been found with cancer. It must have been those 76 million year old plastics and sunscreen.

Honestly not the worst outcome. I want more 25th century star trek or even lost era star trek. Being stuck in TOS era feels stagnant and an excuse to just nostalgia farm. I don't care about SFA, but atleast it's not another TOS era show.

My last custom model order was for a 7 foot tall minuteman I ICBM. I love seeing the finished models fully painted and with decals. Like the Dyna-Soar, I just made the model, the client printed and painted it.

I like how it's always NASA. Doesn't matter the topic, they use NASA. They could show a video of a refrigerator falling out of a truck on the highway and say "This is the one situation that keeps NASA scientists up at night"

The Mars rover and laser pistol are also fully articulated!

I mostly sell miniatures, but I do offer some 1:1 scale items, such as a full size M388 Davy Crockett nuclear bomb, A Soviet Prop-M Mars rover, Soviet mag fed laser pistol, and STL files to print the Demon Core!

www.etsy.com/shop/ADMinia...

#etsy #nuclear #space #science #3dprinting #3dmodeling

The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA’s Orion spacecraft on April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II mission. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

Solar eclipse + Earthshine on the Moon's night side + zodiacal light (interplanetary dust) to the left + Saturn and Mars at lower right.

Oh, and that's the Orion spacecraft at left. Another iconic Artemis II photo. 🧪🔭

www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

This is so real, Before it's launch I thought I didn't care about Artemis. But turns out when spaceflight is devoid of SpaceX it's actually cool again and makes me feel that wonder I thought I lost.

Also excited for China's moon missions, Spaceflight is so much better without tech bros.

A solar eclipse viewed from the Moon’s point of view with the solar corona visible behind it and the stars and planets in the background of space.

THE SOLAR ECLIPSE SEEN FROM THE MOON BY ARTEMIS II!!!

THEY WERE THE FIRST HUMANS TO HAVE THIS VIEW!!

Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]

We are so, so small. #Artemis

GOES-19 and GOES-18 captured the prominent exhaust plume left behind by Artemis II when it launched from Florida today.

Atmospheric winds dissipated the plume as sunset approached.

Cool War of the Worlds Segment from Disneys “Mars and Beyond” YouTube video by Spoongle

In the 1957 Disney feature "Mars and Beyond" there is this little segment about media depictions of Mars including the war of the Worlds. The animation is silly but the martian fighting machine walk cycle is fun and interesting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7fF...

I was watching a video about CERN testing that antimatter containment unit by transporting 19 antiprotons. One of the comments I saw was just "who wants to brake check the antimatter truck" and I found that profoundly funny.

Photo taken looking down into a black‑walled cylinder, at the bottom of which sits a large satellite with black panels and golden surfaces. On top of the spacecraft, we see the blue, shiny lenses of 26 large cameras. The cameras are mounted on a five‑stepped platform and arranged in four rows of six cameras, plus a top row with two cameras.

Welcome to the Large Space Simulator! 🌌

Our terrestrial planet hunter, Plato, has been placed inside this ESA chamber for a series of vital tests under space‑like conditions.

Discover how it is like inside Europe's largest cryovacuum chamber here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
🔭 🧪

SAST is displaying an economical lunar cargo transportation spacecraft at a conference in Shanghai. A demo version has already completed liftoff, hovering and landing tests.

I just concluded a decade long experiment. I had a USB flash drive in a jar buried in my back yard since 2015. I dug it up, plugged it in and it suffered no data loss after 11 years idle underground.

It's a usless experiment but everyone needs hobbies.

Ive been wanting a return mission to Titan for a long time and have been watching this one since it's first proposal. I still worry it gets axed, but im optimistic about it.

Still wish TiME had made it as well.

I feel we really should stop calling LLMs AI, They aren't artificial intelligence they are simulated intelligence. There is no real intelligence, no thought no persistence. It's just word prediction.

I'm somewhat confident Artemis will land people on the moon. But it's becoming more and more likely China will be the first to return since 1972. Which honestly isn't a problem, more humans on the moon is a good thing.

For some reason this was in my notifications. I checked their page and they make the same 3 replies over and over again, often in reply to AI posts even if it makes no sense, so I suspect it's a bot.

The alternative is to just not care about being in the loudest room on the internet. I go weeks without even thinking about my politicians. If I hear some interesting news from others around me I look it up and catch up.

I like my Prime minister, but I don't care what he has to say every day.

Internet communities were at their best when they were scattered forums with populations below 500 people. I will never understand people who think it's bad because a website doesn't have the population of a small nation.

I like my small curated communities, I'm not chronically online.

Nothing here indicates "physically impossible". Flaws in strategy and mission architecture absolutely but not physically impossible. That being said I agree the architecture is bad and one of the reasons I'm more interested in China's lunar program.

You are going to need to be more specific on whats "impossible", as going to the moon is very possible.

In the process of making all the art myself and learning how to optimize textures, ive also learned a lot of useful skill I'm going to implement in Cosmic Ocean when I return to working on it. I feel kind of bad that CO has been in development purgatory for like 2 years but it's next on my list.

The little infinite dungeon crawler roguelike game ive been working on since last year is starting to really come together. Originally just an artistic distraction because ive not done a fantasy game yet, I've grown to feel pride in it.

#gamedev #videogame #indidev #fantasy

As time goes on I become more tired of Alberta and wish to move to a different province.

And i'm someone with agoraphobia who hasn't left my city in years and I still want to leave. That tells you something.