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michaelberard1.bsky.social
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It’s Launch Day! Launch preparations are underway and Electron is vertical on the pad at LC-1. Launch window for today’s mission “Full Stream Ahead” with multi-launch customer BlackSky opens: ⏰New Zealand | 11:30 AM June 3 ⏰Eastern | 7:30 PM June 2 ⏰Pacific | 4:30 PM June 2 ⏰UTC | 23:30 June 2

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

📡Our antenna is getting into position. Our station engineers are pointing the antenna towards Voyager.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The new Starship/Super heavy interstage/integrated hot-stage....uhm..where have I seen that before ? 😇

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

🎉 #50YearsOfESA: for half a century, we've been serving Europe as its space agency and inspiring its citizens. Join us this anniversary year to reflect not only on our past achievements, but also on our future perspectives!

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

I missed this image, the old CSG Diamant pad is being refurbished for usage by small launcher...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

UK, Ireland - I'm speaking in a dozen cities in June! Journey into the Cosmos with me, a rare voyage of shared wonder, stories & images, Q&A & music. Inspiration for all ages! Tickets: fane.co.uk/chris-hadfield

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Electron is vertical on the pad at LC-1 and the countdown to launch is on for iQPS. Launch preparations for our 64th Electron mission are tracking well for an on-time lift-off at: 🚀8:17 p.m. NZT 🚀08:17 UTC 🚀5:17 p.m. JST 🚀4:17 a.m. EDT 🚀1:17 a.m. PDT

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Saturn’s moon Titan has weather similar to Earth’s, but driven by methane evaporation and condensation. Astronomers have found evidence for clouds bubbling up over Titan’s northern hemisphere for the first time, using #NASAWebb and Keck observatory: webbtelescope.pub/3GofvQ1 🔭 🧪

submitted 33 days ago • 22 comments

Don’t actually own a NASA Mars prototype ATV, but if I did, that's where I would park it on Broadway. And that’s how I would lean on it.

submitted 38 days ago • 83 comments

Interesting concept Rocket Lab has with Neutron ! source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt0i...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting views of Stratolaunch's Talon A2 (TA-2) sitting on the runway at Vandenberg after landing following it's hyper-sonic flight. Apparently it reached 104 thousand feet at Mach 5.x (the .x is because the exact number was beeped out) Source: player.vimeo.com/video/108188...

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Since you guys liked the last one so much, here’s another KA01 vid from my secret spot. Don’t tell Pad Safety…. ;).

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

Journals report and photos from MDRS Crew 315. #Mars m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The Pelican Nebula (IC5070) is ~1800 ly away in the constellation Cygnus. It is filled with dark dust clouds and glowing ionized gas. It gets its name from its resemblance to a pelican in profile, sculpted by stellar winds and ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars. #nebulae

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

One more... #VV26 #CSG #Biomass #ESA

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Vega launches Biomass satellite A Vega C rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite for the European Space Agency, a mission officials said was also a demonstration of European space sovereignty.

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Latest journalist report and photos from MDRS Crew 315. #Mars m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

submitted 48 days ago • 631 comments

Some lesser seen angles... 📸ESA - S. Corvaja #VV26 #CSG #ESA

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Right, time for Biomass to get to work. So, Pad shots time :) 📸ESA - S. Corvaja #VV26 #CSG #ESA

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

So, let's see if @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social gets lucky weather wise and launches FLTA006 'Message in a Booster' today from Vandy... 📸Trevor Mahlamann / Firefly Aerospace

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Journalist report and photos from MDRS Crew 315. #Mars m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Journalist report and photos from MDRS Crew 325. #MarsSociety m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a torytimelapse of Atlas returning to the pad for Kuiper’s KA01 mission. That’s how we roll…

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

LAUNCH! Long March 2F/G launches from Site 901 (SLS-1), Jiuquan, with Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie on the Shenzhou 20 mission to the Tiangong Space Station. Overview: nasaspaceflight.com/2025/04/chin... Live: youtube.com/watch?v=mv2z...

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Okapi raises 13 million euros to expand space traffic management suite SAN FRANCISCO – German space traffic management startup Okapi:Orbits raised 13 million euros ($14.75 million) in a seed funding round announced April 24. With the new investment, Okapi will expand its “product portfolio, grow…

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Earth Day, friends. Our homeworld, seen by the crew of Apollo 8 in 1968.

submitted 55 days ago • 84 comments

Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit is set to return from his fourth trip to space on Saturday night. Here are some of his most stunning photos of the cosmos. Details: cnn.it/4iqYemP

submitted 58 days ago • 37 comments

Nice Ariane 2 pad shot, V26 with TDF-1

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment