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Gene J. Mikulka@genejm1017.bsky.social · 10h ago

I should add that the Russian Mission Control Center, the TsUP, which monitors the ISS and Soyuz missions, is located in Korolyov. Picture one of the buildings at the Johnson Spaceflight Center in the Clear Lake region in Houston, Texas, getting attacked. That's kind of what happened.

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦@militarynewsua.bsky.social · 10h ago

❗️🇷🇺Moscow Region. One of the buildings of Roscosmos’ main scientific institute in Korolyov is on fire.

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 17h ago

"Well you can't win them all on astronomy events" Heroic efforts by all the live-streamers on YT! Sad that there was nothing visible to see, but here's hoping @eso.org detected something. We wait with excitement for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images of the moon's new crater! 🔭

A picture of the moon, 7 minutes after impact with no visible plume
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Will I be able to see the crash?" Probably not, but that doesn't mean friends in the Americas shouldn't try (daylight for those in Europe): look to the eastern limb of the Einstein crater. The @eso.org VLT will observe it & NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking before and after images! 🔭🧪🛰️

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

vsamsondc.bsky.social@vsamsondc.bsky.social · yesterday

"US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left the King Air pilots...unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, ones that they rarely if ever use, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed" www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · yesterday

Calling my #astrophotography chums in the Americas: will you be staying up late tonight with your telescopes trained on the Einstein Crater? Impact: 02:34 EDT; 4 tonnes of Space-X metal (15m x 4m diameter) travelling 5400mph Expected: 50km high plume containing ~1Mkg of debris 😲🔭

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Will I be able to see the crash?" Probably not, but that doesn't mean friends in the Americas shouldn't try (daylight for those in Europe): look to the eastern limb of the Einstein crater. The @eso.org VLT will observe it & NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is taking before and after images! 🔭🧪🛰️

Jeff Foust@jfoust.bsky.social · yesterday

Musk adds later in the call that they will attempt a catch of the ship on Flight 14, planned for the end of the month, pending regulatory approval. Expects that a year from now the company will be doing at least one Starship flight a day. (Calibrate for Elon time.)

SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · yesterday

SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups Demand for microgravity research and manufacturing is brewing — perhaps literally.When SpaceX launched the first test flight of Starfall, its commercial reentry capsule, on June 23, the company did not disclose…

SpaceX’s new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups

Demand for microgravity research and manufacturing is brewing — perhaps literally.When SpaceX launched the first test flight of Starfall, its commercial reentry capsule, on June 23, the company did not disclose what payloads, if any, were in the spacecraft. A day later, though, one company stepped forward: Starbase Brewing, a Texas brewery that produces SpaceX-themed beers such as “Starhopped” and “Occupy März.”

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Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say reut.rs/4gc28C0

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the military's ​readiness for future conflicts.

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Rebecca Watson@skepchick.org · 2d ago

Agreed that this is a great monologue & movie, but what I find striking is that over the past few years I've become convinced that boredom is, in fact, good, in that it leads directly to creative output. I get most of my best thinking done when I'm forced to be bored, by not being able to be online.

Michael Warburton@michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 2d ago

This Film often has the piss taken out of it for being a rather sedentary piece about 2 people just talking a lot — BUT — it has one of the most brilliantly prescient monologues in the history of Movies imho. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) Have a listen.

Don Davis@ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 3d ago

51 years ago I painted a trio of Viking related works for NASA HQ including the widely reproduced one of the landing on Mars. I have reimagined the Landing portrayal in updated form using digital methods of visualization and painting. I chose the same angle but with reality replacing anticipation.

This oil painting portrays the Viking 1 landing on Mars, which appeared in countless publications. The story of this work is relayed in an earlier post and is shown here for comparison with the new portrayal of this very view, showing the event as it would have appeared. This 1975 anticipatory painting was done with oils on a gesso smoothed 16 X 20 canvas panel, using traditional art methods including a tracing paper guide featured earlier. This work shows in retrospect my ideal of the 'spirit of space art', showing something of a summary of what is known of the subject while conveying what it is about the subject's known or theorized attributes that I find visually compelling. The new digital painting updates that visual impression with one based on our current knowledge. The new digital work was also done at the same size as this one was for possible printing purposes, 16 by 20 inches at 300 DPI. #Sciart In 1976 the pair of Viking spacecraft orbiter/lander combos were sent to Mars. Before Viking, Mars was still largely a place of our imaginations, an unknown that we wrote stories about then studied from Earth and space. The dominance of cratered terrain on the portions of Mars photographed by Mariners 4, 6 and 7 gave an initially Lunar impression of that world, which changed during the development of the Viking lander after Mariner 9 revealed the planet. The first landing was aimed for a flat flood plain, judged as a decent place to search for life. The landing date was July 4, however the intended site appeared too rough for comfort in the high quality orbiter photos, causing the landing to wisely be delayed. A smoother site further 'down stream' was found using photo and radar data. The landing proceeded quite nominally, a magnificent achievement that apparently accounted for what it had to and made it the first time. The first photo from the surface was a look at a footpad to see how solid the 'footing' appeared. Then a moderate resolution panorama of the surroundings was obtained, first showing the rocks, hills, dunes-and bright sky. The latter was my biggest surprise as a space artist. The adjustments to the color balance of the later photos were gradually narrowed down. The ubiquitous dust is planet wide, suspended in the air and coloring the sky a luminous tan ochre. This digital painting shows the view a meter above the surface seeing the lander briefly kicking up dust less than a second before touchdown with the footpads 1.4 meters high. The landing rockets were designed with many nozzles to disturb the surroundings as little as possible. The nearby disturbed dust resembles in color that of the sky. We are 6 meters away from the center of the lander. field of view is 60 degrees, we are looking Northwest with the Sun and Earth off the frame to the left. This is a digital art update of the pre mission oil painting I did for NASA HQ 1n 1975. #Sciart