Cleanup on aisle 36 please.... Geezh... that will take a bit of work Source: Jerry Pike on the other site. #NewGlenn #LC36

Time to break out the screwdriver, noisy NAS, so good old Noctua to the rescue :)

And here is the view of the New Glenn explosion seen from @spaceflightnow.com live cam

Well....thats an issue.... New Glenn was ready for a static fire, however it blew up on the LC-36 pad. According to Blue Origin, all personnel are safe. Source: @nasaspaceflight.com NSF Space Coast Live cam

Uhm, USA-159 (DSP-21) retired early March ?

Always loved a good break-down of a song that used samples, in this case, Good Vibrations by Marky Mark & the Funky bunch feat. Loletta Holloway (probably the most sampled voice ever)

Update: FAA Requires Mishap Investigation of SpaceX Starship Flight 12 Source: www.faa.gov/newsroom/sta... #IFT12

Meanwhile in F1 land... I wonder if Albon is wondering "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck " 😇

Meanwhile New Glenn is good to go according to the FAA Notice the different language however between Blue Origin and the FAA... "off-nominal thermal condition" vs "a cryogenic leak that froze a hydraulic line" Come on guys, stop with the PR speak already...

The FAA on IFT-12 "Anomaly" Source: www.faa.gov/newsroom/sta... (I thought it was over the Gulf of Mexico, weird...😇)

Meanwhile, more boring stuff, added SMA and LAN as plotting options in my little satinfo app, this is mainly to just have these options available, however for the LAN is mostly to plot the GEO "drifters" aka sneaky inspectors. Also changed the cache to sqlite storage and still bugfixing other items

So, Starship IFT-12: - Pad 2 GSE issue - 1 booster engine out - aborted boost-back burn - booster landing off nominal (speed/location) - ship 1 r-vac engine out - no raptor relight done - TPS "issues" So far it's maybe a big starlink deployer, but full and rapid reuse and Moon ? not so much yet...

So it seems several Russian sats are "ganging up" on ICEYE-X36 source: integrityisr.com/is-russia-ma... I quickly used my tool to have a look and got a closest approach of 4 km ? (big fat caveat on my math which I didnt fully check yet) a cross check would be welcome @marcolangbroek.bsky.social

More things added to my satinfo tool, good to watch "sneaky" GEO "drifters" boring posts I'm sure, but cant help nerding out over this stuff 🙃

Interesting, Stratolaunch is flying for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) using Stratolaunch’s Boeing 747-400 carrier aircraft, Spirit of Mojave, and the Talon-A3 hyper-sonic aircraft. So, and they now use the 747 and they switched from Talon-A2 to A3...

Nope, stuck tower arm hydraulic pin. #IFT12

Just a wild guess, curious to find out if LDPE-3A (55264) is going to have a look at SJ-17 (41838) (still refining my satinfo tool, testing plotting closest approach calculation)

Nothing much changed with the little Chinese X-37B copy, bit of station keeping seemingly...

More bugfixing, and adding features, currently refining calculate closest approach between 2 satellites...

Probably useless for most but I slapped this together for myself, so if you want an easy way to follow the 24h Nürburgring... Maybe this helps x37b.nl/24hrNBR/ (and yes the onboard is of a "certain" car 😇) #24hrNBR

Good old 64467 - Kosmos 2589 having "fun" (and yes me having fun with my new satinfo toy, 1 year ago I was still muttering around in python looking at Kosmos 2558 bsky.app/profile/dutc...)

Doing more archive digging (1990-1998 currently) to add more classified satellite TLE datapoints to my cla-merged file for use with my satinfo tool x37b.nl/satinfo/ Example below of USA 32 between 1991 and 2024 Thanks to Ted Molczan, Mike McCants for the work back in the day.

1/x Right, let's release my nerdy, niche app into the wild. Satinfo -> x37b.nl/satinfo/ Basically a tool to plot Apogee/Perigee (and Inclination/Mean Motion/RAAN) of a given satellite over time, via its NORAD ID using space-track.org directly. However...(more below)

Loss of a strategic European ground-station is what I call it.

Long weekend....much nerding inbound...as of course they are predicting rain... 🙃 some python to webapp progress made...more to come...

Slowly porting over my python code to a webpage...

Interesting ViaSat-3 F2 on-orbit image with fully deployed reflector Source: viasat on the other site.

Fun to see some clear Hermes design influences... (Dassault being heavily involved with Hermes back in the day)

Well that is interesting... Dassault and OHB teaming up with VORTEX-S spaceplane Source: www.dassault-aviation.com/en/group/pre...

Meanwhile, lawn-dart+corn-silo, erhm Starship, seem to have done a WDR, lets see if they make the 15th. Seeing an increased level of testing (then again, also needed with a new pad and a V3 design) I'm curious to see an improvement this time around, given whats at stake, it is needed.... #IFT12

Finally had some time after work, so.... Improvements ☺️ (zero support from radarcape/jetvision/gunther unfortunately, so a nice hacking challenge... 🙃) Good enough for a crappy antenna location, onto other topics we go...

Slowly some X-37B OTV-8 patches are coming out... #X37B #OTV8

Right, because I'm a stubborn bastard, progress, after social engineering my way to an updated firmware for the ResSMT 360 receiver inside the radarcape (v1.08 i'll put it on archive.org) and patching my way from GPS+GLONASS into GPS+GALILEO I'm now seeing better tracking, lets see in 24hrs...

Lift-off #VA268

Updated with new H0 08:57:15 UTC Just hit refresh x37b.nl/ariane/ #V268

New launch time for Ariane 6 VA268 -> 08:57 UTC #VA268

Seems there might be a delay (as AE moved the start of their stream) but no information posted about a new H0... CNES stream shows the launcher already though, which is excellent :) #VA268

You thought I forgot ? Au contraire mon frere ! It's very much beta as I didn't have a lot of time and need to dig a bit deeper into things but its a start :) x37b.nl/ariane/ #VA268

And done ! Certified Drone pilot I am :)

Because many asked, the little guy is now available here nasaexchange.com/products/ris...

The boomer...erhm oops wrong movie ;-) the booster is back in the barn :) #ArtemisIII

The bane of living in a relatively bad antenna location, my "covert" GNSS antenna is clearly in the wrong spot, back to the drawing board...

The core stage coming out... #ArtemisIII

Meanwhile NASA has a live-stream up of the Artemis III core stage off-loading at KSC www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWe8... #ArtemisIII

Meanwhile, our little Chinese X-37B copy, seems to mostly "just sitting there"...

Nice underwater shot of Orion's heat-shield for Artemis II Source: www.nasa.gov/missions/nas... #ArtemisII

U.S Space Command official ribbon-cutting ceremony logo features "space plane" from dead program.... Did they use an AI image generator and use "space plane" as one of the prompt words and this is what it gave them ? Source: www.spacecom.mil/MEDIA/IMAGER...

KSC weather...

Interesting, hold called during Falcon Heavy Viasat-3 F3 launch countdown for weather...at 28 seconds before lift-off...

Feeling a bit nostalgic now that the Soyuz Mobile Gantry at CSG is no more… A nice work picture after a long shift back in 2016… #CSG #ZLS