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Still on X? (I'm sayin', on BlueSky)
petapixel.com/2025/12/29/x...
petapixel.com/2025/12/29/x...
X Users Have the Power to Edit Any Image Without Permission
The new tool was announced by Elon Musk.
petapixel.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Still on X? (I'm sayin', on BlueSky)
petapixel.com/2025/12/29/x...
petapixel.com/2025/12/29/x...
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Just stumbled upon an INCREDIBLE shot of Apollo 10 blasting a hole in the clouds during its launch
December 31, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Just stumbled upon an INCREDIBLE shot of Apollo 10 blasting a hole in the clouds during its launch
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ESA has downplayed the severity of a recent data breach, stating that it affected a limited number of external science servers storing only unclassified documents.
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-dat...
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-dat...
ESA Says Data Breach Was Limited to Servers with Unclassified Documents
ESA has downplayed the severity of a recent data breach, stating that it affected a limited number of external science servers.
europeanspaceflight.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
ESA has downplayed the severity of a recent data breach, stating that it affected a limited number of external science servers storing only unclassified documents.
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-dat...
europeanspaceflight.com/esa-says-dat...
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I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I went to Texas to write about the sudden end of one of America's most successful experiments: the six decades of welcoming India's most educated and ambitious citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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BTW the mission logo for this launch is a Chinese lantern, but I initially has mistaken it for a single-engine-equipped rocket upper stage LOL (which may well be the creators' intention!)
CAST is the manufacturer BTW: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xxE4LmMGY5...
CAST is the manufacturer BTW: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xxE4LmMGY5...
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
BTW the mission logo for this launch is a Chinese lantern, but I initially has mistaken it for a single-engine-equipped rocket upper stage LOL (which may well be the creators' intention!)
CAST is the manufacturer BTW: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xxE4LmMGY5...
CAST is the manufacturer BTW: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xxE4LmMGY5...
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Fire and Snow: the erupting Krasheninnikov volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, this morning in a Copernicus Sentinel 2B satellite image.
Combination of visual and SWIR channels to bring out the active lava flows.
Combination of visual and SWIR channels to bring out the active lava flows.
December 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Fire and Snow: the erupting Krasheninnikov volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, this morning in a Copernicus Sentinel 2B satellite image.
Combination of visual and SWIR channels to bring out the active lava flows.
Combination of visual and SWIR channels to bring out the active lava flows.
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The Pleiades star cluster and their reflection nebula.
Stack of 119 x 20s, Canon R10 + Optolong L-Pro filter + Samyang 2.0/135 mm, 1600 ISO, tracking with a Star Adventurer Mini.
Taken from Polderpark Cronesteijn, Leiden, the Netherlands, in the night 26/27 Dec 2025.
Stack of 119 x 20s, Canon R10 + Optolong L-Pro filter + Samyang 2.0/135 mm, 1600 ISO, tracking with a Star Adventurer Mini.
Taken from Polderpark Cronesteijn, Leiden, the Netherlands, in the night 26/27 Dec 2025.
December 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Pleiades star cluster and their reflection nebula.
Stack of 119 x 20s, Canon R10 + Optolong L-Pro filter + Samyang 2.0/135 mm, 1600 ISO, tracking with a Star Adventurer Mini.
Taken from Polderpark Cronesteijn, Leiden, the Netherlands, in the night 26/27 Dec 2025.
Stack of 119 x 20s, Canon R10 + Optolong L-Pro filter + Samyang 2.0/135 mm, 1600 ISO, tracking with a Star Adventurer Mini.
Taken from Polderpark Cronesteijn, Leiden, the Netherlands, in the night 26/27 Dec 2025.
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Russia is apparently failing to rebuild the Soviet-era satellite constellation for early warning about ballistic missiles launches, most likely due to inability by the industry to complete new satellites hit by sanctions and financial problems: russianspaceweb.com/eks.html
December 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Russia is apparently failing to rebuild the Soviet-era satellite constellation for early warning about ballistic missiles launches, most likely due to inability by the industry to complete new satellites hit by sanctions and financial problems: russianspaceweb.com/eks.html
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It appears the Russian Defense Ministry's Olimp-K (Luch, 2014-058A) sat has finally been retired, after visting 30 separate geostationary locations during its suspected eavesdropping mission. The orbit was raised to the graveyard from Oct 7 to Oct 22. The plot shows the sat's orbit height history
December 28, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It appears the Russian Defense Ministry's Olimp-K (Luch, 2014-058A) sat has finally been retired, after visting 30 separate geostationary locations during its suspected eavesdropping mission. The orbit was raised to the graveyard from Oct 7 to Oct 22. The plot shows the sat's orbit height history
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Initial analysis from JAXA suggests the failure started at fairing separation, with abnormal accelerations measured on the payload adapter. Onboard camera's show heavy damage to the QZS-5 satellite, and it looks like they might have even lost the whole satellite at some point.
December 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Initial analysis from JAXA suggests the failure started at fairing separation, with abnormal accelerations measured on the payload adapter. Onboard camera's show heavy damage to the QZS-5 satellite, and it looks like they might have even lost the whole satellite at some point.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Space Force after a gap of some days has identified the dead Starlink 35956 again, showing its decaying orbit
December 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Space Force after a gap of some days has identified the dead Starlink 35956 again, showing its decaying orbit
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TLE and more:
community.libre.space/t/lvm3-m6-bl...
community.libre.space/t/lvm3-m6-bl...
Lvm3-m6 - bluebird block-2 - 2025-12-24 03:24 utc
A small fix on the previous TLE at separation time based on a small change on the position of the rocket at the separation time: Bluebird 06 1 98451U 25358.15347222 .00000000 00000-0 5000...
community.libre.space
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
TLE and more:
community.libre.space/t/lvm3-m6-bl...
community.libre.space/t/lvm3-m6-bl...
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December 24, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I write in The Telegraph: Putin got the global images he craved of a leader not wholly shunned. Yet, by harder metrics that should concern India, It underlined a deeper failure. It showed that despite the setbacks of 2025, Modi’s foreign policy is still organised around optics rather than outcomes.
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I write in The Telegraph: Putin got the global images he craved of a leader not wholly shunned. Yet, by harder metrics that should concern India, It underlined a deeper failure. It showed that despite the setbacks of 2025, Modi’s foreign policy is still organised around optics rather than outcomes.
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"...As part of that effort, on Dec. 16 and 20, NASA’s Curiosity team used the rover’s Mastcam instrument in an attempt to image MAVEN’s reference orbit, but MAVEN was not detected. ..."
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"...As part of that effort, on Dec. 16 and 20, NASA’s Curiosity team used the rover’s Mastcam instrument in an attempt to image MAVEN’s reference orbit, but MAVEN was not detected. ..."
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#NASA's #Mars #Curiosity rover
Mast Camera (Mastcam)
Sol 4753 (2025-12-20 02:18:06 UTC).
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger
Too obvious for the team not to have seen it, but...
Mast Camera (Mastcam)
Sol 4753 (2025-12-20 02:18:06 UTC).
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger
Too obvious for the team not to have seen it, but...
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
#NASA's #Mars #Curiosity rover
Mast Camera (Mastcam)
Sol 4753 (2025-12-20 02:18:06 UTC).
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger
Too obvious for the team not to have seen it, but...
Mast Camera (Mastcam)
Sol 4753 (2025-12-20 02:18:06 UTC).
mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/j. Roger
Too obvious for the team not to have seen it, but...
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The state of this reentry and descent of the Long March 12A is something to behold. But despite this failed attempt, the key point is that Chinese reusable launchers are coming.
December 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The state of this reentry and descent of the Long March 12A is something to behold. But despite this failed attempt, the key point is that Chinese reusable launchers are coming.
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BlueBird 6, built by Texas company AST SpaceMobile, will lift off atop an LVM3 rocket from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre tonight at 03:34 GMT.
AST on 430-440 MHz band used by amateur radio operators: We have agreed to only use this frequency band during emergency situations when other bands are unavailable. Should any operation cause harmful interference, our satellites can immediately cease transmissions.
ast-science.com/2025/09/09/c...
ast-science.com/2025/09/09/c...
Connecting the World While Protecting the Skies - AST SpaceMobile
The telecommunications industry is undergoing a major and consequential yet not widely understood transformation, and it is one I believe will ultimately benefit the 1.6 billion people on Earth withou...
ast-science.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
BlueBird 6, built by Texas company AST SpaceMobile, will lift off atop an LVM3 rocket from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre tonight at 03:34 GMT.
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A classified launch from Plesetsk tomorrow is expected to carry the first Obzor radar satellite, so here is my attempt to interpret its design, along with more details and updates on the mission:
russianspaceweb.com/obzor-r1.html
russianspaceweb.com/obzor-r1.html
December 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A classified launch from Plesetsk tomorrow is expected to carry the first Obzor radar satellite, so here is my attempt to interpret its design, along with more details and updates on the mission:
russianspaceweb.com/obzor-r1.html
russianspaceweb.com/obzor-r1.html
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Snapshot of Long March 12A first stage descending. Both ends on fire.
December 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Snapshot of Long March 12A first stage descending. Both ends on fire.
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Extreme tail surface buffeting as this Blue Angel A/A-18E/F goes for a high alpha maneuver:
www.reddit.com/r/aviation/c...
This all thanks to vortices from the leading edge root extensions (the visible condensation spirals).
www.reddit.com/r/aviation/c...
This all thanks to vortices from the leading edge root extensions (the visible condensation spirals).
December 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Extreme tail surface buffeting as this Blue Angel A/A-18E/F goes for a high alpha maneuver:
www.reddit.com/r/aviation/c...
This all thanks to vortices from the leading edge root extensions (the visible condensation spirals).
www.reddit.com/r/aviation/c...
This all thanks to vortices from the leading edge root extensions (the visible condensation spirals).
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NASA Works MAVEN Spacecraft Issue Ahead of Solar Conjunction
science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/...
#Mars #MAVEN 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/...
#Mars #MAVEN 🧪🔭
December 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
NASA Works MAVEN Spacecraft Issue Ahead of Solar Conjunction
science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/...
#Mars #MAVEN 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/blogs/maven/...
#Mars #MAVEN 🧪🔭