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My preliminary observations on the new Income Tax Bill presented in Parliament today: sandylogy.blogspot.com/2025/02/new-...

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Recently launched NVS-02 unable to raise orbit due to valve failure. @ISRO will try to use satellite in its existing orbit. Space is hard.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

India's NVS-02 navsat and its GSLV upper stage cataloged in a 161 x 37602 km x 20.7 deg geotransfer orbit, confirming successful launch

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LAUNCH of India's NVS-02 nav satellite on GSLV flight F15 from Satish Dhawan at 0053 UTC Jan 29

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How to file ITR if you have foreign stock options/ RSU sandylogy.blogspot.com/2025/01/fore...

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Bonus panel here: smbc-comics.com/comic/capita...

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

While I was at AAS I missed that the two ESA PROBA-3 spacecraft (coronagraph and occulter) separated from each other at 2300 UTC Jan 14. The occulter has now been cataloged as object 62258, as expected, while the coronagraph is 62256. Congrats to the ESA teams

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Liquid Propulsion Systems integrated on Crew Module for first uncrewed mission of Gaganyaan-G1 www.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comme...

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Well, big news. I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home. And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding, donations or subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent, but now I need to raise some additional funds. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonat...

submitted 33 days ago • 25 comments

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

submitted 34 days ago • 31 comments

ISRO's SPADEX A and SPADEX B spacecraft successfuly docked on Jan 16 at about 0049 UTC. (ISRO don't seem to have announced the docking time but it's visible on some of the display screens in the video they released). This was the first docking in space by India.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

India's two SPADEX satellites continue to make proximity manuevers in their 470 km, 55 deg orbits. Here is a plot of their separation versus time (with ~ 2 km errors, so don't overinterpret) based on Space Force TLEs

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

At T+8:24 the final one of the three center engines failed, and loss of signal with the vehicle occurred at T+8:26, at an altitude of 146 km, 27s prior to planned end of propulsion. At this point, 2245 UTC, the vehicle was in a rougly -3170 x 146 km x 26.4 deg orbit, quite a way from being orbital.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Ship 33 separated from Booster 14 at 2m40s. There are three 'center' and three 'outboard' Raptor engines on Ship. At T+7:40 one center engine went out, followed at T+8:02 by a second center one and T+8:04 by the adjacent outboard one. At T+8:18 Ship lost a second outboard engine. (2/n, continued)

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Ship 33 had numerous design changes relative to the previous flight, so loss of the vehicle is not super astonishing. Congrats to SpaceX on the successful tower catch. (5/5).

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Uncanceled Units xkcd.com/3038

submitted 39 days ago • 185 comments

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submitted 38 days ago • 99 comments

Who all have done docking: 1. NASA 2. Roscosmos 3. NASDA (precursor of Japan's JAXA) 4. ESA 5. CNSA (China) 6. Northrop Grumman 7. SpaceX 8. Boeing 9. ISRO Please inform if there are any errors or omissions

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LAUNCH at 0703 UTC Jan 16 of New Glenn from Canaveral, with successful parking orbit insertion of stage 2. Stage 1 made its reentry burn but did not successfully complete landing on the barge. Stage 2 is due to restart to go to higher orbit. Congrats Blue Origin!

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday: 3 Firefly satellites for hyperspectral imagery by India's PixxelSpace, a private lunar lander from US, another from Japan. Today: ISRO successfully docks satellites in space, Blue Origin to test launch New Glenn. Tomorrow: Starship 7th test launch

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Just to clarify, Blue Ghost is NOT the mission by Blue Origin named after a dead man; that's New Glenn. Blue Ghost is a lunar mission by Firefly Space, not to be confused with Firefly mission by Pixxel Space. SpaDeX is not a DeX by #SpaceX but a docking experiment by ISRO.

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LAUNCH at 0611 UTC Jan 15 of a Falcon 9 from KSC carrying two lunar landers, Firefly Blue Ghost 1 and iSpace Resilience

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For context, that's more than US population. Also, here's a story sandylogy.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

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And this I wrote in 2023 for my daughter's birthday: sandylogy.blogspot.com/2025/01/nine...

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