We weren't really trying to capture the sun during last week's #SolarEclipse, but I have to say, this shot during totality with the sun in it is SICK! Look closely! 😍 olhzn.com/22

!Artemis IV Crew! Backup: Bob Hines 🇺🇸 Mission Specialist: Andre Douglas🇺🇸 Mission Specialist: Frank Rubio🇺🇸 Pilot: Luca Parmitano🇮🇹 Commander: Randy Bresnick 🇺🇸

Ugh. 😢

Photos from ~5000ft of the aftermath from last night's hotfire anomaly involving New Glenn at SLC-36. 📸 @LaunchHeavenX

I was excited to see Blue Origin return to flight, but this is a lot worse than the second stage failure, there's towers from the pad visibly missing.

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4. nsf.live/spacecoast

This photo from Flight 12 goes soooo hard!!!!!

No burn-throughs. Shield held.

Starship V3 landing burn over the Indian Ocean

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test x.com/i/broadcasts/1pKkOykQR…

I'm still battling with my streaming pc, so no live streaming for me today, unfortunately. 😭

The hydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract. If that can be fixed tonight, there will be another launch attempt tomorrow at 5:30 CT.

Well, I was going to stream this tonight, but it's been so long that my streaming PC got angry and died. I think I've narrowed it down to either the PSU or NVME drive that died. If it's the PSU, I *might* be able to swap that fast enough to still give it a try. We'll see. 🤷‍♂️

First full stack of Starship V3

I love that the Navy divers were taking images of Orion's heat shield before it was brought onto the ship:

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

AST has confirmed the satellite is too low to sustain orbit businesswire.com/news/home/2…

NG-3 Update: We have confirmed payload separation. AST SpaceMobile has confirmed the satellite has powered on. The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit. We are currently assessing and will update when we have more detailed information.

Full-duration static fire for the first time on Starship V3

Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation.

I am hesitant to get ahead of a proper data review, but I understand the space community’s curiosity, especially when imagery can give the impression of a problem. As you would expect, engineers were eager to inspect the heat shield, starting with diver imagery shortly after splashdown and continuing with the review aboard the ship. No unexpected conditions were observed. I suspect when the images are released, it will be pretty obvious the stark difference between Artemis I and Artemis II head shield performance. As to the question specifically, the discoloration was not liberated material. The white color observed corresponds to the compression pad area and is consistent with the local geometry, AVCOAT byproducts, and transitional heating environments. We observed this behavior in arc jet testing and expected it in this compression pad area. We will complete a full data review across all systems, including the thermal protection system, and make the results publicly available.