Messing around with the cruel mistress python again, looking at X-37B OTV-8 observations over time vs apogee/perigee @marcolangbroek.bsky.social do these seem OK to you ?

Starlink 35956 going down...

Well now ! @torybruno.bsky.social going to Blue on national security side, interesting !

It's that time again...

Nice view of our babies on-orbit as seen by ArianeGroup's Helix launch tracking system Source: ArianeGroup on the other site. #VA266 #Galileo

Uhm... OK !? source: Lockheed Martin on the other site. www.forbes.com/sites/kevinh...

France and the U.S. are practicing close-range satellite maneuvers under Operation Olympic Defender. (1/3) breakingdefense.com/2025/12/fran...

Christmas came early! The new Commodore 64 Ultimate, as my first computer was the Commodore 64 As nostalgia is a weird thing, spent the last hour trying to remember/find the shop where my parents took me to buy one back in the day (Allwave in Amsterdam and yes I’m a nerd, sue me…)

Thinking about it, I'm wondering if @torybruno.bsky.social goes back to his old stomping ground of defense (some missile defense maybe ?) We shall see...

Well, still no successful orbit launch from Alcantara in Brazil. Innospace HANBIT-Nano went boom...

Low cloud-deck was playing with the light during our launch... #VA266 #CSG #Galileo #ESA

Jet-lagged.... Oh joy ! But I get to work with this....so who cares 🤪

The real O.G. has stepped down... Wonder what his next endeavor will be...

A shot of another starlink to compare with would have been nice, however this view of Starlink 35956 on-orbit after “the event” is certainly interesting source: Vantor on the other site

Nice to see a happy colleague ! Orbital launch next ? :) #NS37

Nice pad lift-off shots of our launch :) 📸ESA - S. Corvaja #VA266 #Ariane6 #CSG #Galileo #ESA

Interesting... Plot added #Starlink

Such number "drama" in the press, it was always 3 :) #F1

And the nice one :) #VA266 #CSG #Galileo #ESA

I had a great time working at the ZL4 pad and gantry, hopefully we will be back soon for another one :) 📸ESA - S. Corvaja / M. Pédoussaut #VA266 #CSG #Galileo #ESA

A little closer... 📸 ESA - S. Corvaja #VA266 #CSG #ESA #Galileo

Jungle launcher....Ariane 6 style :) #VA266 #CSG #ESA

Always exciting when launching the first time on a new launcher glad the 2 babies are doing well :) #VA266 #CSG #Galileo #ESA

Green board, lets go ! #VA266 #CSG #ESA

Our aussie dish in skippyland is ready for tracking our babies after seperation #VA266 #ESA #ESTRACK

Waiting... 📸 ESA - S. Corvaja #VA266 #L6004 #ESA

For those keeping track, VA266 with "my" babies is Ariane 6 L6004 with a short fairing 📸 ESA - S. Corvaja

Bye bye babies, enjoy the flight #VA266

I hate posting self aggrandising stuff, but as this is a very nice overview, it also happens to show all the launches that I have been supporting (in a small way) for the past 20 years... it does make me proud. Anyway, back to posting more nerdy stuff :)

Enjoyed a Sunday afternoon in the jungle, with a little friend saying hello…

Congrats to the lucky boy #F1

Before…. after… Good thing we de-orbit upper stages these days ! Nice on-orbit shot of Ariane 4 V124 upper stage via HEO space on the other site.

And during gantry retract #VV28 #CSG #VegaC

Vega-C VV28 pad and lift-off shot #VV28 #CSG

Green board, and i'm going outside :) #VV28

Nice shot... #VV28

Waiting.... #VV28

Vega-C VV28 is almost ready to go So far the weather seems ok here in CSG

Also if Max paints “Chucky” on his helmet next race he wins the internet 😂 #F1

Well, that was fun, well done Sainz! And if you cock up your pitstops it certainly wasn’t a boring race now was it 😉 Off to the last one we go #F1

Poor old Pad 31, that will take a while to fix… #Soyuz #Baikonur

…urhm… hello? THOU SHALT NOT PASS ! … 😬

Well now… #F1

Been traveling with a pi 5 running bog standard raspberry pi OS desktop and a wireless mini keyboard for a while now, rock solid for most things you wanna do in a hotel room, excellent for traveling lite.

booster 18 vs booster 2…

Work fun :) #VA266 #CSG #ESA

And now it is official :) #VA266 #ESA #Galileo www.esa.int/Applications...

And now everone is F5ing to see if it was DNS or not... #Cloudflare

It’s always exciting switching launchers, although I’m familiar with Ariane 6 to some extent, it’s different when it’s “yours” and you are next…

And they confirmed the Dream Chaser Tow Test video is coming Source: Sierra Space on the other site.