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Gene J. Mikulka

@genejm1017.bsky.social

Founded the Talking Space Podcast in 2009. Immersed in spaceflight since the Apollo days, Space Advocate and lovebird Dad. All Opinions are mine alone and don't reflect the position of the podcast. https://www.talkingspaceonline.com

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ESA Exploration@exploration.esa.int · 2h ago

✅ Camera swap underway. This failed external high-definition camera is one of today's key spacewalk tasks for NASA astronaut Jessica Meir outside the International Space Station. Jessica has successfully removed the unit and will now replace it with a new camera 🎥

vsamsondc.bsky.social@vsamsondc.bsky.social · 2h ago

"The address comes as the Commission prepares to unveil its European Space Shield, an action plan aimed at protecting the bloc's satellites and other space assets in what officials increasingly describe as an increasingly hostile security environment." www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

Von der Leyen set to deliver major speech on Europe’s space policy

The speech is the first ever by the Commission president dedicated solely to space policy at a moment of heightened security concern over satellites.

politico.eu

vsamsondc.bsky.social@vsamsondc.bsky.social · 19h ago

China's Aerospace Force (ASF) "is still not using the term “space control” in the same way as it is defined in U.S. Space Force (USSF) doctrine" - focus is "on attacking an enemy’s ground-based space bases with weapons that travel through space, not conducting attacks in space."

Michael Greshko@michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 2h ago

BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. www.science.org/content/arti...

World’s biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

It’s far too early to declare a discovery, physicists with the LZ detector say

science.org

US National Gemini Office@usngo.bsky.social · 21h ago

Gemini South’s laser system is creating a 5-star constellation 90 km up to fight its worst enemy: atmospheric turbulence. These "stars" let the telescope correct blurring in real-time. #astronomy 📷: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/M. Paredes

A night photograph of the Gemini South telescope dome set atop Cerro Pachón in Chile. The sky above is filled with circular star trails from a long exposure, sweeping counterclockwise around a celestial pole visible near the top-left corner. A straight, vertical yellow laser beam shoots directly upward from the top of the illuminated observatory dome into the night sky. Near the horizon on the bottom right, a soft orange sunrise or sunset glow lights up the skyline, with the warm headlights of a winding access road visible near the base of the telescope structure on the left.
David S. F. Portree@dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 15h ago

I was surprised by the level of interest in the post below. Here's the document I'm writing about. I found the chart at upper left to be nearly impenetrable. The table I scribbled up actually includes more info than the chart. My goal is to describe the lunar base program using just plain words.

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David S. F. Portree@dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 17h ago

I spent the day sorting out bits of a lunar base transportation model scattered across a 1987 NASA Langley/KSC/Lewis study of lunar base impacts on the dual-keel space station. This crude chart I made sums up ~25 pages of the 274-pg study. It's like doing a puzzle. Fun stuff, I say unironically.

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Space Telescope Science Institute@stsci.edu · yesterday

Hello, the telescope is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and champion for the Hubble Space Telescope. You can learn more about Dr. Roman below. 🔭 We'd love your help in telling her story to your followers!

Who is Nancy Grace Roman? - NASA Science

Known as the "mother of the Hubble Space Telescope," Nancy Grace Roman was born May 16, 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee, and died December 25, 2018.

science.nasa.gov

National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO@thenrao.bsky.social · 22h ago

#Astronomy News You May Have Missed ⤵️ U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) Partner on Pathfinder for Next Generation Very Large Array #ngVLA https://public.nrao.edu/news/ngvla-pathfinder/

U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and U.S. Naval Observatory Partner on Pathfinder for Next Generation Very Large Array - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

The latest news from the NSF's National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

public.nrao.edu

Andrew Parsonson@andrewparsonson.bsky.social · 4d ago

In this week's newsletter, I asked: WTF is going on with the Polish Space Agency? Following the wild story behind her predecessor's departure, the agency's new president, Dr. Marta Ewa Wachowicz, has not made many friends with her efforts thus far. europeanspaceflight.substack.com/p/wtf-is-goi...

WTF is going on with the Polish Space Agency?

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) has found itself in the middle of a deeply uncomfortable labour dispute, and it would quite like everyone to stop talking about it.

europeanspaceflight.substack.com

Gregory Pijanowski@gpijanowski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chandrasekhar himself was barred from setting foot on the Univ. of Chicago campus his first 10 years there because, you guessed it, his skin was too dark (he did his work at Yerkes Observatory 90 miles north). He was brilliant, but here should have done better.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nancy Grace Roman was paid 60% of her male colleague's wages. 'the Nobel prize-winning physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ... told her: “We don’t discriminate against women. We can just get them for less.”' #WomenInSTEM 🧪 🔭

William R Knecht@williamrknecht.bsky.social · 2d ago

Maybe I'm just a nostalgic old fart. But, it's nice to hear some good news once in a while, something positive and creative that smart people are doing to try to make the world better and more well understood. Dark matter & dark energy are still not understood. www.cnn.com/2026/08/30/s...

NASA’s newest space telescope launches to spot ‘the weird, the rare and the unusual’ | CNN

NASA’s new observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has lifted off to solve the universe’s enduring mysteries.

cnn.com