Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all from the TLW Team ! 2025 will bring exciting new developments, and we can't wait to show them... Stay tuned very soon !

Ergo drives #hibourverse #scifi

001.FIGHTER// "I've seen the footage, tell them that was a nice shot. No idea how the hells the Faleans laid their hands on an SSF, especially with the embargo, but that's bad news. I'll talk to the admiralty about it during the council." Adm. Elias Qantui 0185.221

Day 4: Freighter Ion-powered gravel bags are easily the most numerous cargo spacecraft in human space, powering the industry of a thousand worlds. Billions of tons of asteroid material traverse the solar system on multi-decade trajectories at any given time #SST25 #Spaceshiptember2025 #hibourverse

Day 9: Hunter A remote, signal collecting spacecraft makes a low pass over Despina. Her antenna is turned away from noisy Neptune, facing outward into the high orbits... listening sharply, hunting. She is one of many thousands in the outer Solar System. #SST25 #spaceshiptember2025

Day 11: Dropship In the first decade of Calphis settlement (while the starships were still being deconstructed), precious shuttles couldn't be risked on bulk cargo shipments. Instead, early Calphians used cheap, disposable pods to deliver material to the surface. #SST25 #spaceshiptember2025

To celebrate the 56th anniversary of the first Manned Lunar Landing, we're releasing our next animation : - The Lunar War - "Concordia" youtu.be/irkB-iMGsOQ

— "Something Wicked This Way Comes..." —

Just when I was starting to think the Chinese DRO-B and the TIANDU's were dead, I found recent media reports that suggests far more interesting goings on! TIANDU-1 - Completed a daylight laser test on Apr 27th DRO-B - is in a 3:2 resonance orbit !? 🧵⬇️

So missile defense is a big topic thanks to “Golden Dome” and it has a lot of arms control advocates up in arms. Although I think the admin is 1) dumb and 2) poisoning the well on BMD, this is a good time to consider Alvin Weinbergs idea of “Defense Protected Build Down”.

The IPFV Isaac Arthur, a fusion-powered interplanetary spaceship with 782 km/s dV and liquid droplet radiators. Its 51 GW drive has a really interesting cycle involving a neutron-pumped reactor laser flashing X-rays to ignite D-D pellets. #space #art by Melanovis. www.artstation.com/artwork/bgz32n

People of the planet Earth. I am a digital artist currently working in the the aerospace industry. Here are a few artworks for #PortfolioDay.

A model of the future Japanese "Aegis System Equipped Vessel" (ASEV) at the Lockheed Martin booth at the Sea Air Space expo. National Harbor, Maryland, April 7, 2025

Frames from my short film Cryofossil

The essence of HardSF: based on actual HOPE VASIMR designs, riding a nuclear-electric spaceship to exciting destinations, atop a jet of plasma flanked by glorious glowing radiators. #space #art by @grahamtg.bsky.social www.artstation.com/artwork/Pm6aey

Pushing Freight "What now?" "Were clear to use our main engines now, separate our boosters and mark it for pickup" "This the correct icon to mark it right?" "Yep, see it's a pretty simple job rookie. Now all we have to do is find a way to waste our time for the trip"

Star-Raker was a tri-delta flying-wing single-stage-to-orbit space plane proposed first in 1968 for the Space Shuttle Program, then again 10 years later as a launcher for Solar Power Satellite components. From my blog No Shortage of Dreams. 🛰️🔭🧪🚀🪐🌏🌖👩‍🚀 spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2020/09/star...

An oil painting I did based on a paper by Brian O'Leary about the merits of the Censorinus crater area as an ideal location for a Lunar mass driver, a device now known as a 'rail gun' that throws a stream of packets of Lunar material to a processing facility floating beyond the Lunar far side.

On the 24th of March, the Missile Defense Agency carried out the long awaited FTX-40, a tracking exercise involving a MRBM-T5 (Medium-Range Ballistic Missile) target carrying HTV-1 (Hypersonic Target Vehicle 1). The target was dropped from the rear of a C-17.

SSTO landers depart a Worldship to explore a new home. The interstellar vehicle having transparent debris shields is a good addition! #space #art by Michel Lamontagne. www.deviantart.com/michel-lamon...

229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is a fascinating TNO: -Over 600 km diameter yet still not spherical -Heavier than the moon Enceladus -Has its own 100 km satellite called Gǃòʼé ǃHú -Orbits out at 37.5 - 107.9 AU -!Kung (Namibian) name -So red we don't know how to categorize it

宇宙揚陸艦の絵

Attempt #2 at posting a quick Nebulous fighter (space)plane sketch lol Still Swing wings! And still really sad they abandoned single player

This digital rendering/painting attempts to reconstruct the view Apollo 12 had of the Eclipse of the Sun by Earth as they headed toward their re entry and splashdown. Based on their description at the time and on their photos. They found the sight one of the visual highlights of the mission.

Scorpion multi-purpose crewed space transport projectrho.com/public_html/... #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #rocket #lander

Lo-fi: 1) Brilliant Pebble 2) 80s interception station based on the X-wing [own design] 3) Apollo Shuttle [unflown design] 4) Failed balloon experiment during Mercury-Atlas 7

CONFIRMED: China built and has brought to full power the world's first-ever thorium-containing molten salt reactor, the TMSR-LF1. Initial criticality occurred on Oct 11, 2023. Full power on June 17, 2024. Pa-233 from thorium was detected Oct 8, 2024. www.gen-4.org/resources/we...

just lay the pipe, pipe layer

The Type-711A Light Attack Craft designed by @l5resident.bsky.social and Tokydre for @thelunarwar.bsky.social setting. It's non-nuclear and lacks large lasers but it has more than enough missiles to be threatening. Top-notch HardSF work by @voubi.bsky.social www.artstation.com/artwork/6NL1w6

An Apollo 15 surface photo, with the color chart bearing gnomon. Left: The original Flickr site scan. Middle: Color balancing using the gray patches on the gnomon as reference. Right: my attempt to adjust the luminance the image to try to recapture something of the original visual appearance.

early warning

I guess #PortfolioDay happens here too. I’m Zando, a hobby artist who illustrates future places and future people, predominantly that of my fictional universe, Hibour #hibourverse

As of 2373, no true space war has ever occurred in Sol, but the threat of catastrophic war has loomed over humanity for centuries now. #hibourverse #illustration #space #digitalart

Warmed up with another interstellar ship. This one was inspired by @triplchii.bsky.social. Might try painting it later.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose...

One of the main drivers for the second space race's momentum from the 2030s onwards has been the steady replacement of surface power infrastructure with Solar Power Satellites, and among the many designs out there, the Monolith-class SPS is the most common on American orbits.

well uhhh welcome back delta clipper

CCNS Odysseus CX-01: Experimental Special Operations Corvette. A sneaky craft for sneaky operations, perfect for a crew of intelligence analysts and an ex marine on the hunt for a half megaton of missing tungsten.

Post a ship that’s neither Star Wars nor Star Trek. @thelunarwar.bsky.social is making some really cool hard sci fi stuff and it tickles my nerd brain

if you see this, share a vehicle CCNS Odysseus CX-01 Special Operations Corvette

full scale 1:1 standard kkv wip from @thelunarwar.bsky.social she is very large. 1:4 scale version will be on sale soon :3

Preparations for NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory 🔭🪐 (HWO) are well underway. Planned to launch in the 2040s, this 'Super-Hubble' will revolutionise astrophysics and survey at least 25 potentially habitable exoplanets for signs of alien life. 👾 This week we held a HWO workshop in Baltimore. 🧵

Check out my world building project, OSR: www.patreon.com/standrawsspaceships #animation #scifi #anime #space

Hello Blooski its time for this weeks Spacedock video, following up on all my commenting about weapon range by actually talking about that specifically!

A little 3d spaceship sketch. Probably capable of atmospheric flight on low air-pressure/low-gravity planets. Probably will animate a little sequence with it later this week.

Aliens (1986): Miniatures technical supervisor Pat McClung working on the USS Sulaco model, designed by Syd Mead