Cheers from LA, fella 🍸

The latest on Lunar Trailblazer: The ops team at @caltechipac.bsky.social continue to work on reestablishing communications with the small satellite, with ongoing support from NASA's Deep Space Network and ground based observatories: blogs.nasa.gov/trailblazer/...

NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL has stood up an information page about asteroid 2024 YR4. The near-Earth object's probability of impacting our planet in 2032 has risen to more than 1% and is now a 3 on the Torino Scale. CNEOS is monitoring: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news210...

What? According to my calendar, it's Feb. 1.

#dryjanuaryfail

So many JPLers' lives have been upended by the #LAFires. AT LEAST 150 of our colleagues have lost their homes, and the scale of loss in Altadena will reverberate for years to come. If you can help, here's a resource: The Caltech JPL Relief Fund. giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

I'm going to be more active here and on Threads when I get back to the US. Just traveling through the UK right now, so here's a jolly golden postbox to reawaken my BlueSky feed for the time being 😊