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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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Never miss a launch with #GoogleCalendar for worldwide space launches! Reminders & #webcast links included:
bit.ly/SpaceLaunchCalendar
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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]
I like that movie. It's definitely underrated.
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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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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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Bye bye P120C, Ariane 6 just left its two boosters behind as it soared through the skies. 🎥 video credits: ArianeSpace
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Liftoff for Ariane 6 on flight #VA265 carrying the @CopernicusEU Sentinel-1D satellite to space.
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Update on the utterly normal activity of comet 3I/ATLAS: the lack of shenanigans continues - this is just a comet doing its comet thing.
Now we're up to perihelion and, yes, 3I/ATLAS is behaving itself.
YTD orbital launch stats:
🇺🇸 146
🇨🇳 67
🇷🇺 13
🇳🇿 13
🇪🇺 5
🇮🇳 3
🇯🇵 3
🇦🇺 1
🇮🇱 1
🌍 252
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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
www.youtube.com
Lustig dass der Flieger Sky Hopper heißt, mit Kermit als Maskottchen. 🐸
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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
russianspaceweb.com
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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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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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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
Man fliegt hinein
Teal 74 mission into now-category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. Video: JeremyDeHartWX (X).

#hurricanemelissa #hurricane #noaa #hurricanehunters #eyeofthestorm