😱 We still have some ESA Bulletins going back to the 1980s! Surprise the space geek(s) in your life with an issue from their birth month/year. Just drop the month/year you’re interested in in the comments and, if we have it, we’ll mail it to you free of charge 😎👍

David Attenborough just turned 100 years old and is now officially too old to play with Lego

We are officially at 68950, but that doesn't include 29 Starlink satellites launched May 1 and 45 rideshares launched May 3. We estimated we would hit 68999 on May 9. Time is running out. We will be making additional changes, like changing the default format to CSV. Watch here and spread the word!

Finally got around to finishing the 1:110 Lego Ariane 5 by chha 😊

Space Scout spitting straight facts as usual. "Isaacman’s reverse advocacy puts NASA in the bizarre position of convincing Congress that they should receive less resources, while the agency publicly abuses the resources it already has." 🗣🔥

🔴 Ça alors 🤯 Curiosity a soulevé le rocher coincé au bout de sa foreuse, et l'a même penché pour en faire tomber de la poussière 😮 C'est bon de rappeler que le bras du rover n'a pas du tout été prévu pour ça ! Mais les chercheureuses vont maintenant pouvoir étudier le sol sous ce rocher 🤩 1/5

MMX has arrived at Tanegashima for launch later this year. This mission will be epic, the first to land on Phobos AND it will even return samples to Earth!

Deep space antenna 4 is now live! 📡 @esa.int's newest deep space antenna has entered operations at New Norcia, Australia, expanding Estrack’s capacity and powering future missions across the Solar System. Curious about this next-generation antenna? Read more here: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 📹ESA

Artemis 2 leaving behind her two solids

Second flight of Isar's Spectrum at 21:00 CET tonight. With satellites on board, let's hope they don't consider anything less than orbit a "success". If all goes well, this will be the first orbital launch from Europe, not counting overseas territories or Russia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsbZ...

#PPOD: Saturn's fourth-largest moon, Dione, can be seen through the haze of the planet's largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 22, 2011, with the planet and its rings in the background. The north polar hood is visible on Titan here... 🧪 🔭

ESA has successfully re-established contact with its Proba-3 Coronagraph spacecraft more than a month after it was lost. europeanspaceflight.com/esa-regains-...

T+ 100 years

The @axisprobe.bsky.social team learned that the phase A concept study report of AXIS (the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite) will not be reviewed because the lost personnel at NASA Goddard and government shutdown impacted our schedule and budget. 🔭 Here is the PI's e-mail with the explanation.

Baikonur and rocket launches, as crazy as ever... Source: Mikhail Kornienko

Five years ago #Mars #Perseverance 🧪🔭

Over 4000 images now on buranarchive.space!

You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space? Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭 youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps Processing: Simeon Schmauß

While no official announcement has come on Shijian-25 and Shijian-21's activities during the past year, the two spacecraft are now heading away from each other following a likely refueling demonstration Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/shijian-25...

Had my last Chandra senior staff meeting this morning; filled in my Smithsonian timesheet for the last time today. Last day in the office is Friday. I'll miss my colleagues but I won't miss the management and admin chores. On to full-time spacenerdery!

" Puisque je n'ai pas eu le Prix Nobel de la Paix, je vais envahir le Groenland, na ! " Mes petits cousins de 6 ans gèrent mieux la frustration que ce type. Et ils n'ont pas d'armées sous leur commandement...

The Carruthers mission, led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Lara Waldrop and managed by SSL, has arrived at an L1 orbit between the Earth and the Sun. Its 2-year science mission observing Earth's exosphere begins in March.

Very good news for NASA Science in the compromise 2026 funding bill released by Congress today:

Buongiorno dal Metop B! Intanto mi fa molto piacere vedere che i thread tecnici (USB-C e REC, che copio a breve qui) sono stati molto apprezzati quindi continuerò ogni tanto a farne. Nel frattempo, mezza Francia è stata imbiancata! Da noi nevica sull'Appennino Romagnolo e anche un po' in pianura.

Hoewel het nu zowat elke dag sneeuwt, daalt het aantal dagen (in Ukkel) met sneeuwval wel degelijk. Van winterseizoen tot winterseizoen zit er heel grote variatie op, maar als je wat uitmiddelt, dan valt de trend wel op. Data via frankdeboosere.be/klimaatukkel... #sneeuw #weer #klimaat

Grand news about the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope!!

Standing on its own four legs🦿🦿🦿🦿 @esa.int's reusable rocket demonstrator Themis is standing tall. Themis will demonstrate rocket stage recovery and reuse technologies and the first model arrived at the Esrange Space Center launch pad in Sweden 🇸🇪 over the summer.

NOAA-15 1800UTC pass One of the last days of NOAA APT transmissions, as NOAA-15 will be decommissioned this week 😢 That good ol' satellite has been transmitting for all my life, though, so I suppose it has earned its rest.

Ariane 6 has now been active for 1 year!

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

im assembling a team

For your visual enjoyment. The last set was in the Finished Goods Warehouse in Decatur. These are at the Cape.

I could not have said this any better. Rockets are cool but what's the point of having them if we're not going to explore other worlds by using them? It's what we DO with these machines that matter. The funds ARE there,gang. Let's continue to be the driving force in space science.

An Andøya Space notice has revealed that the launch of the inaugural flight of the Isar Aerospace Spectrum rocket is set for 20 to 30 March. europeanspaceflight.com/inaugural-is...

I'm seeking a large sensor directional sensor that can track an object in solar orbit near Earth on the 137MHz VHF band. Anyone in the #radioastronomy community or satellite tracking community got a lead? THANKS!

My best satellite image yet! All the way from the Sahara to Iceland 😁 Meteor M2-4 LRPT ~14:00UTC

Meanwhile, Rafale vs Ariane 6 source: Chef d'état-major armée de l'Air et de l'Espace #VS263 #CSG #CSO3

They say the lunar lander is communicating, but they believe they're not in the correct attitude. They are still working on getting the 1st images down so they can determine the exact orientation, but an internal measurement unit seems to suggest it's on its side again like IM-1.

C'est ce soir à 17h24, le deuxième décollage d'#Ariane6 vers l'orbite terrestre ! Un gros et double enjeu de souveraineté, à la fois pour le lanceur (malgré son problème de compétitivité) qui assure l'accès à l'orbite de l'Europe, et pour le satellite espion CSO-3 français et ses images du monde.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Be sure to have a look at Venus in the near future when the clouds allow it! Nowadays, it is an obvious crescent, even with my simple telescope full of chromatic aberration.

The truth is disgustingly obvious and …. Ignored…

Enfin ! European car makers are also following this trend. It feels so uncomfortable!

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...

Another fun thing at Saturn: its walnut shaped moon Iapetus! Not only is it a super fun word to say, but the moon sports an equatorial mountain range running most the way around and up to 10km high.

I love planetary atmospheric refraction 🥹

It has been quite the day, has it not?

Le premier tir d'un lanceur européen depuis l'Europe de l'Ouest approche petit-à-petit, Rocket Factory Augsburg, une compagnie privée bavaroise, vient d'obtenir sa licence de vol. RFA One devrait décoller en fin d'année depuis l'Écosse. 📸 - RFA