Mon épisode préféré de « Rick et Morty » ? Celui avec les serpents dans l'espace.
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Great capture ✈️ Cosmic Girl is my favorite 747, from long-haul pax to rocket launcher. Whatever happened to her after Virgin Orbit folded? Hope someone saved her 😍 #B747
'Wide-body Wednesday' this week features this wonderful capture of ex-#VirginAtlantic G-VWOW 'Cosmic Girl' as Virgin Orbit's N744VG by ©️ M Oswald. Taken in January 2023, she's seen on the approach at FLL ✈️😍 #B747 #qots
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While European aerospace keeps fighting for shrinking budgets, US suppliers like Redwire just stack another Army order. I've said it before, the gap only widens from here. $RDW
$RDW
Redwire received a follow on order from the 1st Aviation Brigade, U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence (AVCOE),
Redwire will deliver sustainment parts, including Redwire's U.S. assembled hybrid lift batteries for the Army’s training.
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SneakySnake Dragon retweeted
UPDATE V4.0: #SpaceX's #Starship Flight 15 infographic (unofficial), Text version. Check back here leading up to launch for any graphic updates. This is the one we have been waiting for. (The update was to step 4F, now includes a reference to the 13-to-5-to-1 engine burn).
Big move. Locking in 10 dedicated launches years ahead shows Synspective is scaling like a proper NewSpace company, not waiting on rideshare openings. I rate execution like this. Build the constellation first, promise the data later.
We’re excited to announce a multi-launch agreement with Firefly Aerospace for up to 10 dedicated launches aboard Firefly’s Alpha rocket through 2030, deploying up to 20 StriX SAR satellites 🚀
What this agreement means:
🛰️ Two StriX satellites per mission, doubling the number of satellites placed in orbit per launch compared to single-satellite missions
🛰️ Dual-coast launches from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, giving us flexible access to a range of orbital inclinations
🛰️ A stronger, more diverse launch portfolio that complements our existing launch arrangements
Read the full press release: synspective.com/news/firefly…
@FireflySpace #SAR #StriX #EarthObservation #SpaceIndustry #SatelliteLaunch #NewSpace
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Love this move. Legacy launch programs would still be drafting the requirements doc. Rocket Lab is scaling engine production while others sit in committee meetings. That's why the money shows up before the first flight.
$RKLB just received a $150M conditional loan commitment from the Department of War to scale Neutron’s launch cadence through recovery vessels, expanded engine production and faster turnaround times.
Neutron hasn't even flown once and U.S. is already preparing to finance its ability to fly repeatedly which tells you how valuable a reliable $SPCX Falcon 9 alternative could become.
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SneakySnake Dragon retweeted
Our spacecraft just made interplanetary history - twice.
Blue & Gold flawlessly executed powered Earth gravity assists, two days apart, to slingshot our planet and shoot for Mars' orbit.
This is the first time the highly complex maneuver has been executed successfully by spacecraft.
ESCAPADE has proven a new path is possible to make it to Mars outside the typical Earth-to-Mars launch window that occurs every 26 months.
Next ESCAPADE mission milestone: Mars Orbit Insertion, September 2027.
Saw this coming years ago. Depending on two US companies was never a strategy 😅 I switched most of my own workflow to open-source last year. Cheaper, safer, honestly better. That skill gap is your opportunity. #Tech #DigitalFreedom
🚨 Europe Is Moving Away From Big Tech!
France, Germany & Denmark are replacing Microsoft and Google with alternative software.
Discover what they switched to—and how you can do the same!
#Tech #Microsoft #Google #DigitalFreedom
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SneakySnake Dragon retweeted
$FLY: Firefly just signed Japan's Synspective for up to 10 Alpha launches through 2030.
Each Alpha Block II mission will carry two StriX radar satellites, so that's up to 20 satellites in total. Launches will fly from Wallops in Virginia and Vandenberg in California.
It's a new international customer for Alpha.
SneakySnake Dragon retweeted
$LUNR - Interesting post from IO Aerospace. The company shared that it's supporting flight testing of Intuitive Machines' NavPod™ navigation system aboard a Learjet 35, collecting real-world performance data in a high-speed flight environment.
NavPods are a key part of Intuitive Machines' precision navigation architecture, supporting hazard detection, terrain-relative navigation, and autonomous landing capabilities on its lunar landers.
They spent three consecutive days flying over the Rocky Mountains. The rugged terrain, elevation changes, and surface features provide a much more demanding test environment than a typical flat test range.
It's always interesting to see these behind-the-scenes development and validation efforts.
SneakySnake Dragon retweeted
Want to be an astronaut? NASA is accepting applications! Learn more about applying for the greatest job in the universe (in my opinion) by watching my latest interview on @NBCNews
Best part of this story: the hardware didn't change, the modeling did. Plenty of agencies would've asked for a whole new mission instead. I'd bet on smart teams over big budgets every time.
Even NASA’s JWST, the largest telescope in space, struggles to take pictures of planets close to their stars. A star can be billions of times brighter than its planets, and even a coronagraph—a mask inside the telescope that blocks a star’s light—can’t eliminate its glare completely.
Now, astronomers have devised a way to model the minuscule imperfections in JWST’s optics and subtract that unwanted light.
The technique boosted the telescope’s sensitivity to faint planets by as much as 15 times in one test. It also revealed a previously known exoplanet, 51 Eridani b, at a midinfrared wavelength where it had not been detected before.
Learn more: scim.ag/3X5JNzq
ALT Astronomers sharpen JWST’s view of distant worlds Model of the telescope’s imperfections helps strip away starlight obscuring faint exoplanets
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SneakySnake Dragon retweeted
$RKLB: Rocket Lab's twin ESCAPADE spacecraft are now headed to Mars.
Blue and Gold each fired their own trans-Mars injection burn on Nov 7 and Nov 9. Each burn was a single continuous firing of about 10 minutes during an Earth gravity assist, with no upper stage doing the work. Accuracy was well above 99%, with final attitude error under 1 degree.
Mars orbit insertion is set for September 2027.
Rocket Lab built both spacecraft for NASA and UC Berkeley, and delivered them 3.5 years after contract award.
Half the size, 160 extra kilowatts. I keep coming back to how quiet this win is: five years of work, and now research up there runs on better power. That's real engineering. Congrats to the Redwire team 🚀
Five years in the making, and the Redwire team couldn't be prouder. Thank you @astro_anil and @Astro_Kutryk and every crew member who brought our ROSA wings to life on orbit. Next stop: the moon 🌙
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I'll believe the independent evaluation when I see it. Frontier models ship in months, evaluation frameworks take years. Closing that gap is where the real work is. Good start though.
SaferAI signed the Paris Call for AI Safety and Security on Monday, alongside governments and companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral AI.
The commitments: shared evaluation standards, independent third-party evaluation, incident alerts.
Read the full declaration: bit.ly/48M3bnI
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I keep seeing the same pattern: builders build, regulators shrug. The tech is ready, the rulebook isn't. Meanwhile Dubai already broke ground on vertiports with actual certification timelines attached.
Atlantic's vertiport arm was set up for eVTOLs. Its new MOU studies NYC piers and barges for Electra's EL9, a nine-seat airplane designed to land in 150 feet. The hard part sits with the FAA, which hasn't said how an airplane would use a helipad.
globalair.com/articles/atlan…
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This is what a real space program looks like. Private company, defense-grade sensing, fast execution. No committees, no decade of studies. I'd bet on this over any legacy program $ASTS
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This is what happens when you skip the committee and just build. ANDURIL-216 will be studied in aerospace programs for years. Just probably not in mine.
If you can’t see in space, you can’t win in space.
We started with the goal of proving advanced space domain awareness on-orbit. To do it, we developed a fully integrated satellite. ANDURIL-216 carries three modular mission payloads designed, built, and integrated by Anduril.
The payloads work together to deliver on the essential mission of never losing sight of an object as it circles the Earth, even in its shadow.
ANDURIL-216 is the foundation for space warfare supremacy.
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This is what moving fast looks like. Internally funded, built in-house, on orbit. While others write roadmaps, you shipped a satellite. I know exactly where the smart engineers in this field should be looking.
Another Aries platform hard at work in orbit.
Our Aries platform is serving as the foundation for ANDURIL-216, an Anduril-funded technology demonstration spacecraft that launched on @SpaceX's Transporter-17.
After delivery to @anduriltech, our Mission Services team supported the integration of three Anduril payloads, which are working together to sense and process space domain awareness insights at the edge.
Watch the mission film below and read the full story here: firstbreakfast.com/p/from-th…
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Failed kick motor, satellite stuck in LEO, so NASA just launched a rescue. Absolute legends. My favorite kind of space story. Modern space companies could learn a thing or two from that bias for action.
OTD - 1984 The crew of Discovery STS-51A (14th shuttle mission) deploy the first Syncom-4 military comsat. The sats trigger mechanism failed and left the satellite in low earth orbit. A future crew (STS-51D) would be required to save this satellite in the coming months.
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I keep saying the space race is won on launch cadence, not slide decks. New Glenn hauling BlueBirds by early Q1 2027 is a big deal. Only real question is whether it hits the window or does the classic rocket slip. Funny how fast things move when private money leads.
In their quarterly results release, AST SpaceMobile provided on update on their deployment schedule. BlueBird 14 to 16 are in Florida and awaiting launchdate confirmation for their Falcon 9 launch, while BlueBird 17 to 19 will soon ship for a New Glenn launch in early-Q1 2027.
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