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Mario Billiani
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Future astronaut, Unistellar ambassador, exoplanet explorer, KBO co-discoverer, wannabe rocket scientist, occasional palaeontologist – boldly fighting entropy
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · Nov 19
Never miss a launch with #GoogleCalendar for worldwide space launches! Reminders & #webcast links included:
bit.ly/SpaceLaunchCalendar
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 4h
Rocket Lab has launched the The Nation God Navigates mission, aboard its Electron/Curie rocket, at 8:51am NZST Thurs. (19:51 UTC Wed.) from its LC-1B in New Zealand, sending the QPS-SAR-14 satellite to low-Earth orbit.

[Video Credit 🎥: Rocket Lab]
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 5h
Launch of @rocketlabcorp.com #Electron rocket with #QPS-SAR14 satellite imminent. Watch live! #TheNationGodNavigates
Rocket Lab - 'The Nation God Navigates' Launch
YouTube video by Rocket Lab
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 1d
I like that movie. It's definitely underrated.
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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 1d
Core stage separation: thank you Vulcain 2.1, the Ariane 6 upper stage with its Vinci motor will take it from here. Vinci will now fire for almost 12 minutes to continue Sentinel-1D's ascent.

Everything going as planned. #VA265
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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 1d
Welcome to space, Copernicus Sentinel-1D! Ariane 6's fairing was released to reveal its passenger in all its glory.

The upper and core stages are still connected to Sentinel-1D as the rocket keeps going 🚀
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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 1d
Bye bye P120C, Ariane 6 just left its two boosters behind as it soared through the skies. 🎥 video credits: ArianeSpace
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ESA Space Transport @transport.esa.int · 1d
Liftoff for Ariane 6 on flight #VA265 carrying the @CopernicusEU Sentinel-1D satellite to space.
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 1d
Launch of #Ariane62 rocket with @esa.int #Sentinel1D Earth observation satellite imminent. Watch live! #Ariane6 #VA265
Flight VA265 | Sentinel-1D | Ariane 6 I Arianespace
YouTube video by arianespace
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 3d
Launch of ISRO's #LVM3 rocket with #GSAT7R military satellite imminent. Watch live! #LVM3M5
LIVE: ISRO LVM3-M5 / CMS-03 Launch
YouTube video by ISRO Official
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 3d
Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with 18 satellites on #Bandwagon4 mission & 1st stage RTLS landing imminent. Watch live!
Watch live: SpaceX launches and lands Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral on Bandwagon 4 mission
YouTube video by Spaceflight Now
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 5d
Update on the utterly normal activity of comet 3I/ATLAS: the lack of shenanigans continues - this is just a comet doing its comet thing.
marshall-eubanks.bsky.social Marshall Eubanks @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social · 5d
Now we're up to perihelion and, yes, 3I/ATLAS is behaving itself.
Plot of the magnitude of our interstellar visitor with data through its perihelion.
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 5d
YTD orbital launch stats:
🇺🇸 146
🇨🇳 67
🇷🇺 13
🇳🇿 13
🇪🇺 5
🇮🇳 3
🇯🇵 3
🇦🇺 1
🇮🇱 1
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 5d
Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 11-23 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!
Watch Live: Starlink satellites launch from California on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
YouTube video by Spaceflight Now
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Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 5d
Foreshadowing.
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 5d
Hex hex! 🎃
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 5d
Launch of Long March CZ-2F/G rocket with Zhang Lu, Wu Fei and Zhang Hongzhang on #Shenzhou21 mission to the Chinese Space Station imminent. Watch live!
LIVE: Launch of China's Shenzhou-21 Manned Spacecraft
YouTube video by CCTV Video News Agency
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 5d
Lustig dass der Flieger Sky Hopper heißt, mit Kermit als Maskottchen. 🐸
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 5d
So sieht das übrigens im Cockpit aus
From the aviation community on Reddit: Inside the cockpit of NOAA's WP-3D while flying into Hurricane Melissa
Explore this post and more from the aviation community
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Anatoly Zak @anatolyzak.bsky.social · 6d
Botched test apparently forced the replacement of the Soyuz vehicle for the upcoming ISS mission, according to my sources.
FULL STORY: russianspaceweb.com/soyuz-ms-28....
Roskosmos swaps ships for the Soyuz MS-28 mission
Soyuz MS-28 mission
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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 6d
A quick trip through the thermosphere turns newly-discovered asteroid ST25J47 from an Apollo to an Aten. It is no bigger than a meter.
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 7d
#HTVX1 is due to arrive at the ISS. Watch live!
JAXA HTV-X1 Cargo Rendezvous and Capture
YouTube video by NASA
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 7d
Unfassbar 🙄
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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 8d
You might’ve heard the news: SpaceX just passed 10,000 Starlink satellites launched. And that number is already old news, as there’s now a new Starlink batch launched every other day. Here’s what that looks like in a short animation of Comet A6 Lemmon courtesy of Michael Jaeger:
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Jeremy Perez @perezmedia.bsky.social · 12d
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from last night. It is a really good telescopic target right now! Lots more detail throughout the tail but especially close to the coma with streamers fanning out inside the dust tail. Interesting to see the turquoise coma breezing off to the right a bit too.

#astrophotography
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 8d
Man fliegt hinein
aeronewsglobal.bsky.social Aeronews @aeronewsglobal.bsky.social · 8d
Teal 74 mission into now-category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. Video: JeremyDeHartWX (X).

#hurricanemelissa #hurricane #noaa #hurricanehunters #eyeofthestorm
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