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Launch of Land Space #Zhuque2E rocket with six satellites imminent. Watch live!

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#MarsExpress updates software, extends lifetime until 2034 A space mission is as durable as its most critical subsystems. For ESA's Mars Express, this subsystem is the gyroscope. Mission controlers have devised a way to considerably extend its lifetime. Find out how: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Great video of #VardaSpace! It tells us that deployment of W-3 from Rocket Lab's #Photon happened ~28 minutes before touchdown, at 1:39 UTC on May 14. youtu.be/G0r5vLTzcbQ

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Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 15-5 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

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Gilmour Space Technologies is performing final system checks before launching its homegrown Eris rocket. The vehicle is poised to become the first orbital launch from Australian soil by a sovereign-built vehicle when it makes its debut this week. nasaspaceflight.com/2025/05/eris... By Martin Smith

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#MEV1 docking rehearsal at second client satellite #Optus3D has taken place today apparently.

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Wowza! Take a look at this monster filament of plasma that just erupted off the Sun – gorgeous! The main eruption appears to be directed north, but modelling efforts will soon reveal if any part of it is heading towards Earth. #spaceweather #astronomy

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Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 6-83 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

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Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 15-4 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

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Amazon launched its first #Kuiper satellites on last week using a ULA Atlas V rocket. Our @unistellarusa.bsky.social citizen scientists are already monitoring them as they move into their final orbits. Here’s a capture from Vienna! #CitizenScience #SatelliteTracking #SpaceX #AmazonKuiper

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Slowly getting closer: OPTUS D3 (center) and MEV-1, recorded on 2025-05-10 from 14:57 to 20:29 UTC.

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My own plot of the final orbit, showing the Roskosmos estimate of the path between reentry and impact in purple. I guess that Kosmos-482 SA reentered somewhere along this track between India and the ocean south of Australia.

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This is how (currently) various organisations have their nominal #reentry points for the #Kosmos Descent Craft located, each based on their own models.

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Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 6-91 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

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Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 15-3 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

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

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ESA and ISRO have signed an agreement to collaborate on human spaceflight, including possible future missions to India's planned space station. europeanspaceflight.com/esa-and-indi...

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🛰️ 🛰️ ☀️ #Proba3 is now officially the world’s first precision formation flying mission! The mission team has achieved the desired precision – with the two spacecraft maintaining their relative position down to less than a millimetre while flying 150 metres apart! www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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🌍🛰️How cool is this⬇️ ☂️Watch as our Biomass's antenna deploys in space! Following liftoff, orbital injection acquisition of its first signal and satellite in-orbit checks, the successful deployment of Biomass’ mesh antenna reflector marks the final key step in the launch and early operations phase.

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ispace says their Resilience lunar lander has entered orbit around the Moon, ahead of a landing attempt on June 5 (UTC). ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=7...

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Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 6-93 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

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A 495 kg Venus landing capsule, launched in 1972 by the Soviet Union, will undergo an uncontrolled atmospheric reentry this week. Part of the Venera programme, the object, known as Cosmos-482, failed to escape low-Earth orbit and is now returning to its home planet 53 years after launch.

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Asteroid #2025FA22 enters top 5 ESA’s impact risk list. But it will only become a threat in 2089.

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Inversion completes first flight of reentry vehicle, but without reentry Startup Inversion Space says its first flight of a reentry vehicle was “profoundly valuable” even though the vehicle did not reenter.

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New update of the #Kosmos 482 Descent Craft #reentry forecast based on new orbit update: May 10 +/- 1.5 days. Details in the updated blog post: sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/04/kosm...

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Happy Star Wars Day! There's no better time to celebrate John Williams and his amazing music for Star Wars. youtu.be/54hoKbTWon4?...

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Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with #Starlink Group 6-84 satellites & 1st stage droneship landing imminent. Watch live!

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Supernova #SN2025fvw is visible in galaxy #NGC5957, captured with my #eVscope. It is a type Ia #supernova, a thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf. Continuous observations by the @unistellar.bsky.social citizen science community show its light curve and how it is now fading over time.

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A large sunspot group is currently visible on the Sun. I watched it with eclipse glasses and my @unistellar.bsky.social #eVscope.

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