Aerospace/Transit/Tech/Motorsport nerd. Lead Video Editor, Broadcast Operator, Journalist, & Host @NASASpaceflight. Also appear on @TMRO’s Live Show. 🇬🇧
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Jun 9
INTRODUCING: ARTEMIS III
Commander, Randy Bresnik 🇺🇸
Pilot, Luca Parmitano 🇮🇹
Mission Specialist 1, Frank Rubio 🇺🇸
Mission Specialist 2, Andre Douglas 🇺🇸
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BREAKING: @AmazonLeo has been granted an extension to their deployment timeline requirements, to maintain priority on their comms bands.
"Amazon Leo has represented that it will fail to meet the 50% milestone required in section 25.164(b)(1) of the Commission’s rules.", said the @FCC.
Previously, Leo was required to have launched 50% of their 3,232 first gen sats (1,618) by July 30, 2026. To date, they've launched just over 300.
Leo still must deploy 100% of the constellation by July 30, 2029.
📷 @ULAlaunch
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This Week In Spaceflight with Elysia Segal (@elysiasegal).
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When the NASA administrator pops into the Flame Trench Show!
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Jun 12
The official Thales Alenia account is now posting AI slop... 🥲😬
A new chapter in European space logistic is approaching.
The countdown for the introduction of our upcoming autonomous Low Earth Orbit cargo vehicle has begun.
Stay tuned.
#spaceforlife
@thalesgroup @Leonardo_IT @esa
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Jun 12
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Astra’s next-generation rocket just crossed the Atlantic.
Rocket 4.0 arrived in the UK the same way it’s designed to launch: in standard shipping containers.
Mobile. Containerized. Orbital. The future of launch is everywhere.
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Jun 11
Pending tomorrow's launch, this could be the final flight from @SpaceX as a private company.
However, there is a chance that Starlink 10-54 could sneak out juuuust before the Nasdaq opens and $SPCX starts trading.
LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon 9 B1071 on its thirty-fourth flight launches Starlink Group 17-44 from SLC-4E, at the always sunny Vandenberg.
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Jun 10
Details on The Exploration Company's Storm:
- Liquid Oxygen/Liquid Bio-methane
- 1,765kN / 180tf thrust (about 72% Raptor 3)
- Full-flow staged combustion cycle
- Reusable
"[...] Storm represents a concrete step toward a new generation of European rocket propulsion."
The Exploration Company had already been working on this engine for some time, but I guess today is the "official" unveiling or something.
So far they've worked on turbomachinery, main combustion chamber hardware, regeneratively cooled nozzle extensions, as well as oxidizer-rich and fuel-rich preburners.
P.S. the original name, Typhoon, was so much better than "Storm" 😭
📷 The Exploration Company
Jun 10
The Exploration Company has just unveiled Storm at ILA Berlin - an engine that could help power Europe’s future heavy-lift rocket.
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Jun 9
Parmitano piloting Artemis III adds to a busy 9 days of @ESA astronaut assignments:
June 1
Thomas Pesquet 🇫🇷, Commander, @Vast's ISS Misson
Arnaud Prost 🇫🇷, Flight Engineer, @Vast's first flight to Haven-1
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John McFall 🇬🇧, Might maybe perhaps visit @Vast's Haven-1 one day if a sponsor wants to make it happen
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Aleš Svoboda 🇨🇿, Pilot, @Vast's ISS Mission
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Luca Parmitano 🇮🇹, Pilot, @NASA Artemis III
Jun 9
INTRODUCING: ARTEMIS III
Commander, Randy Bresnik 🇺🇸
Pilot, Luca Parmitano 🇮🇹
Mission Specialist 1, Frank Rubio 🇺🇸
Mission Specialist 2, Andre Douglas 🇺🇸
@NASASpaceflight
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Jun 9
INTRODUCING: ARTEMIS III
Commander, Randy Bresnik 🇺🇸
Pilot, Luca Parmitano 🇮🇹
Mission Specialist 1, Frank Rubio 🇺🇸
Mission Specialist 2, Andre Douglas 🇺🇸
@NASASpaceflight
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Jun 9
.@NASA has just revealed the next four humans to fly the Space Launch System.
Plus, we have the actual plan for Artemis III, new renders from @BlueOrigin, and verbal confirmation from @SpaceX that they're working on their lander... just trust me bro?
→ youtu.be/f0oTKtKg5SU
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2000 Starship launches in 2028 is a launch every 4 hours, 23 minutes, and 31 seconds.
Let’s be fair and spread that across 5 pads - it’s a launch every 21h 57m 36s per pad.
That’s over 2x faster than SLC-40’s fastest ever turnaround.
They’ve done ~48 hour turnarounds a handful of times. Not constantly, for 366 days straight.
And this cadence would be half that time, with the largest rocket ever.
2000 launches in 2028 is not happening.
2000 Starship launches a year by 2028 (in 2 years) is not happening. Definitely I think the architecture can get to rapid reuse but I'll eat my hat if they manage even 500 launches Starship in 2028 and that feels like a VERY safe bet
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Jun 9
Completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but the @NASA Artemis III announcement event now begins 30 minutes later, at 10:30 CDT / 15:30 UTC.
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Starship Update with Max Evans (@_MaxQ_)
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.@ESA will be simulcasting the Artemis III crew announcement tomorrow. Interesting.
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Jun 8
Seats are selling fast. Just days after France's Thomas Pesquet was announced as Commander, Czechia's Aleš Svoboda is announced as Pilot of @Vast's private ISS mission.
Vast and @esa, on behalf of the Czech Republic, have signed an agreement for a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in partnership with @NASA. @astro_ales is slated to serve as mission pilot & is expected to become the first Czech astronaut to visit the station. @SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will launch Dragon and the crew to the @Space_Station no earlier than 2027 🇨🇿 vastspace.com/updates/czech-…
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Can't wait to meet the next four people to fly the Space Launch System!
Coming soon: one of history’s most complex missions
Tune in on Tuesday, June 9, at 11am ET, to meet the astronauts flying aboard Artemis III, the mission that will test docking capabilities with commercial landers in low Earth orbit — an important step to crewed lunar landings.
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Jun 6
Interesting development on the sticky grid fin: B1090 has returned to Port Canaveral with its fins *extended*.
This is not typical operating procedure - normally, the fins retract before they get back.
📷 Space Coast Live/@NASASpaceflight
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Jun 6
What on Earth is going on 😭😂
Now this is just rumour stemming from factory plans… but 185m!?
Jun 6
Updates of the possible CZ-9 specs through the factory's blueprints.
Body diameter: 10.6m;
Engine Max diameter:11.6m;
Fairing diameter:15m, Length 37m.
The 3 stage varient could be as tall as 185m.
pic 1 via bilibili/鸿雁Buran. Pic 2 via 卡尔达瓦里希 with @Echo5550's renders.
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