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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117032103246552098 If # SpaceX is to fulfill its ambitions to launch thousands of #Starship rockets, it needs more launch 🚀 sites. And there are limited expanses of undeveloped coastal locations along the Gulf of #Mexico and southern #AtlanticOcean in […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/117003762466413767 A #MaiaSpace spokesperson has now confirmed to @europeanspaceflight that the company is targeting the second half of 📆 2027 for its first launch attempt ⏳🥱 #ArianeGroup #Arianespace

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/117032277574411912 During #ESA’s Ministerial Council meeting in November 2025, a total of €184.9 million was committed to #MaiaSpace. @europeanspaceflight estimates that MaiaSpace’s operational burn rate 💰🔥 was approximately €4.3 million per […]

RE: https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/117004319385086614 It would probably be worth recovering #Starship to assess its condition

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116993385074503209 There were notable white streaks across the #HeatShield. All of these appeared to originate at boundaries between tiles, suggesting hot gas may have penetrated these boundaries. There were also indications of cracked tiles and broken […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116993385074503209 There were notable white streaks across the #HeatShield. All of these appeared to originate at boundaries between tiles, suggesting hot gas may have penetrated these boundaries. There were also indications of cracked tiles and broken […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116990873039507885 The #Cebreros ground station is located approximately 77 kilometres west of #Madrid 🇪🇸 and is one of #ESA’s three #DeepSpace ground stations. The other two are hosted at New Norcia in #Australia 🇦🇺 and Malargüe in #Argentina 🇦🇷

RE: https://tenforward.social/@aspensmonster/116982699079976723 #Astronomy in a #routing app https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/astronomy/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/115536159308284483 The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (#SKA) currently includes 16 member states. #Germany 🇩🇪 committed to contributing €21 million to the project. #OHB will provide 86 highly sensitive #receivers for the SKA-Mid radio […]

Students on top of the 32-meter radio #telescope dish 📡 near #Accra* https://site.gctu.edu.gh/news/gctu-students-explore-ghana-radio-astronomy-observatory.aspx * 🗺️ https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=5.75050,-0.30541&layer=Esri+Satellite #Ghana 🇬🇭 became the first of South #Africa’s 🇿🇦 eight […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116975580109777753 The Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice 🧊 Exploration is currently expected to launch in 📆 2029. It will be carried to the lunar surface aboard #ispace's Mission 4 lunar lander #ESA #MoonExploration #MAGPIE

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116977311149450957 “Any potential damage 📡🔥 will be assessed when it is safe to do so” 🗺️ #Madrid : https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28130905 🌐 #DeepSpace communication […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116935801713344128 "So basically the developers of a dead horse who shunned reusability ♻️ still need more tax payers’ money to make their business case work. Even ‘commercial’ launches such as for the #Amazon constellation are reported to be […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116954426409877293 Only #SpaceX’s #Falcon9 and #FalconHeavy, and #ULA’s #Vulcan rocket are certified for Lane 2 missions. There are more launch companies qualified for Lane 1 contracts. In April, Space Systems Command said it had identified 25 […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116948936327774957 #Skyroot’s rocket stands about 22 meters tall, with the capability to place payloads of up to 350 kilograms into low-Earth orbit. This makes #Vikram1 somewhat larger than the #Electron launch vehicle developed by #RocketLab. Skyroot's […]

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116951352806303499 #SpaceX has postponed the planned next launch of the giant Starship rocket to Friday night, with the launch window now opening at 00:45 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116936318275282558 #Russia’s answer to the #Falcon9 rocket will not arrive any time soon, and it is unlikely to do so until at least two decades after #SpaceX first landed an orbital rocket

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116923654078567097 The #engineering challenge of radiating heat 🌡️ in space is well understood—there’s no cutting-edge physics here. The difficulty will be in doing it more efficiently than current #SpaceStation systems. #Latency is a speed bump that […]

RE: https://spacey.space/@spaceflight/112666420528430373 An old vote 🔍👀

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116913521019668220 The bulk of expenses in operating a #SpaceStation will come from transporting crew and cargo to the facilities. #SpaceX’s launch activity will migrate to #Starship. Keeping #Falcon9 just to support #CrewDragon would certainly increase […]

Simple sugars such as #erythrulose can react to form ribonucleotides, the building blocks of what was probably the first genetic material, #RNA. As early life evolved, #DNA arose as a more robust store for genetic code, with RNA becoming the intermediary between genes and the proteins from which […]

🇯🇵 #Japan’s prototype reusable ♻️ rocket reached a height of about 10 meters, and then landed. The flight lasted about 40 seconds, according to #JAXA https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/11/japan/science-health/japan-launches-lands-reusable-rocket/ #reusability

Japan successfully launches and lands reusable rocket

The prototype, launched from JAXA’s test site in Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, reached a height of about 10 meters, and then landed.

japantimes.co.jp

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116912566009444196 The study on the diet of Adélie penguins 🐧 shows once again how such scientific data can be used for research that was not originally foreseeable and for which #satellites 🛰️ were not developed at all.

🇨🇳 #LongMarch10B net-capture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOqaCAz_s7k #reusability #China

SpaceX continues to reconfigure its Starlink constellation, moving the satellites to lower orbits. In this thread by 'high' I will mean sats at 500-600 km, 'medium' 400-500 km and 'low' 300-400 km.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116880507514285726 #SaxaVord announced that a five-week launch window would open on 10 August to allow for a “rocket test flight.” #RFA

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116896342848085857 The document leaves companies with some key questions, including just how much funding is available and how many companies will be dividing that funding up. A final RFP could come in September, which would then allow companies to bid […]

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116894989220754308 The #FCC has found an elegant way to avoid having to decide on the side effects: it is only responsible for the use of radio frequencies and for ensuring that #SpaceDebris is avoided. Therefore, others must decide on the effects […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116890179092064680 #ImpulseSpace and #RelativitySpace are the newest companies to be on-ramped to the national security launch program. #RocketLab, with its #Neutron rocket, and #StokeSpace, with the #Nova vehicle, were added in March 2025. #SpaceX, #ULA […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116884433350012767 The numbers are dwarfed by the $85 billion that #SpaceX raised through its initial public offering process earlier this year, and its valuation of approximately $2 trillion 💰 #BlueOrigin