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View of Starship landing burn and splashdown on Flight 10, made possible by SpaceX’s recovery team. Starship made it through reentry with intentionally missing tiles, completed maneuvers to intentionally stress its flaps, had visible damage to its aft skirt and flaps, and still executed a flip and landing burn that placed it approximately 3 meters from its targeted splashdown point
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If you've got a telescope, even a little one, you can see asteroid (16) Psyche in the constellation Capricorn this month! @MissionToPsyche
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I'm sorry, but this is a pretty big deal?!?
"Analysis by instruments aboard the rover indicates the rock possesses qualities that fit the definition of a possible indicator of ancient life."
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I recently learned that there are people who can pass a field full of cows and not point with delight and say “COWS” and I just don’t have the patience for that kind of negativity.
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Huge congratulations to @esa and @Arianespace on the successful debut of Ariane 6. This stuff is really, really hard. And Europe really needs this rocket. It was especially nice to see amazing camera views on the ride up.
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it went farther than some recent first launches by abl and astra
Space Pioneer just issued a statement saying there was structural failure at the connection between the rocket body and the test bench, onboard computer automatically shut it down, and the rocket fell 1.5 kilometers southwest. No casualties found.
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You would think seeing your Galileo satellites and Euclid space telescope launch on a Falcon 9 would have beat this mindset out of European launch officials. But I guess not. Just amazing. Good luck to @AschbacherJosef who actually understands these issues, but must work with people who have this head-in-the-sand attitude.
.@ESA director of space transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen:
"I don’t think Starship will be a game-changer or a real competitor."
"We made the choice of not being reusable with Ariane 6" because "our launch needs are so low that it wouldn’t make sense economically."
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SpaceX is going to destroy the International Space Station
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So, anyway, it looked like penetration of hot gasses into the hinge is something they'll need to work on for future flights.
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This is wild. Views of SpaceX's Starship plunging through the atmosphere as the wing starts to burn up.
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Despite loss of many tiles and a damaged flap, Starship made it all the way to a soft landing in the ocean!
Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic achievement!!
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Hubble Space Telescope update:
arstechnica.com/space/2024/0…
