USS Excelsior delivers Dr. Rosalind Lear and Ensign Tuvok to Ceti Alpha V in search of historical records of the exile of Khan Noonian Singh. Blender render inspired by the excellent Star Trek: Khan audio drama, which I have just started listening to. Excelsior model by Chris Kuhn.

EUMETSAT Council has approved the start of the EPS-Sterna programme, a new constellation of polar-orbiting microsatellites. 👏 From 2029 it will deliver high-frequency microwave observations of temp/humidity, improving forecasts - especially over the Arctic & Mediterranean. Learn more: bit.ly/3Ly84c1

Another favourite of mine, again mostly due to the insane off-the-wall plot (“Oblate spheroid, about 12000 km?”), but also the great “But what’s it for?!” scene.

I can't really recommend it these days, a LOT more information has come out since then. Some of which is published on my (free) substack! graphicsnickstevens.substack.com

N-1 stuff. If you like this rocket, you should check out Nick’s book.

Some older K1 renders, as the last one kicked off an interesting conversation.

Microblogging is a bad platform for this, please forgive a truncated explanation. During 2004, when the original Kistler was fighting bankruptcy, NASA issued a potentially $227m contract for RLV flight data. Kistler still had to raise money to fly, but it was some assured revenue if they did. 1/8

The unreasonably long Doctor Who season 18 scarf, Mk.III. Tassels still to be added.

A Rocketplane Kistler K1 delivers cargo to the ISS as pert of a COTS contract with NASA in an alternate early 2010's.

Star Cops - Conflict has been given a release date of January 15th. Not long to go! #starcops

Just occurred to me, there’s a hell of a lot of fog in Spacedock in the early 25C. Do they keep the interior pressurised in that era, or could it be fumes and outgassing from repair work? Does it pose a contamination problem for ships’ sensors? Or is it some clever way to clean the ships?

A view of Jupiter and Io from the bottom of one of countless icy ridges on Europa, a second Jovian moon. #astronomy #art #space #jupiter

Massive mountains of Io towers over volcanic plains bellow. Nothing special with this painting. I just wanted to pass some time I had and Io felt like a good place to do this. #astronomy #art #space #jupiter #painting

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity: “Hello, this is Sarah Jane, she’s my best friend.”

One of my all time favourite serials. No idea why, but somehow it hits just the right level of silliness vs. drama for me.

🚨🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨🚨 Very few people can claim to have met and known 🇻🇪's Maduro, Chavez & interim president Delcy Rodriguez. Well, my guest @catheriner.bsky.social, former 🇬🇧 ambassador in Caracas, is one of them and she spoke to me earlier today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Today we’re launching Jayce’s Fighting Ships of Wolf 359 A project that began as an idea and became something much bigger: a community-run act of creativity. The book is now public. It’s yours. tranquility.press/jayces-fight...

2025 was a busy year at EUMETSAT - multiple launches, events, and of course amazing Earth observations! 🛰️ Thank you to all our users, partners, and followers. Here’s to an exciting 2026, with even more launches and a very special celebration - our 40th birthday! Stay tuned. 🎉 #2025Wrapped

Been in hospital for a few days, and starting to have dreams about how books can be written by snoring: first snoring session establishes the template, a second populates the content. WTF are in these drugs?! Looking for investors…

I picked a favorite of my renders from each month: Jan: Gemini Rescue concept (historical) Feb: Orion (stylized) March: MPD cargo spacecraft (NASA concept) April: Tongren joint circumlunar station (personal concept)

The Niimiipuu patches up battle damage after the battle with the Romulan warbirds. There's still some floaty-ness to one of the characters walk cycle that I need to fix, and I still need to tweak some of the workbee animation, as well as adding welding animations to the hull plate repairs.

[Spock voice] REMEMBER

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In the new year I'll be resuming work on this series. Till then, enjoy the first 8 entries over on Beehiiv.

Welcome back artists!🖌🎨✨️ Quote Post with an old piece that you still like! From the finale of Eyes Turned Skyward, Armstrong Base. Authors Rob and Ian survey the base, while contributor Brainbin watches on, and I take a picture.

Looks great Alan ! Some more images you directly participated in :

The traditional end of year collab between @esa.int , @eumetsat.int, @wmo-global.bsky.social and me. I love making these pics...MTGsending back beautiful data as always! 😍 These four are 06UTC on: 19/12, 22/09, 21/06 and 20/03 Nice seeing how the sunlight moves around our planet during the year.

My favourite of the images I made this year: HOTOL taking off. It sort a long time in my head before I got around to making it, and it turned out just as I’d hoped.

My timeline is particularly full of beautiful art today. I’m feeling very lucky in my follow choices. Thank-you all, and Merry Christmas.

It’s beginning to sound a lot like Ziro… 13 years later, I still go back to this classic Christmas listen. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/s...

The Saratoga task force depart a Kuiper object in the Qualor (GJ 1128) system after a successful strike on a Romulan monitoring station, 31 September 2158. Ships and scenario from Masao Okazaki's Starfleet Museum. Done in Blender. www.starfleet-museum.org

Today is the December solstice at 15:03 GMT/16:03 CET. This @eumetsat.int MTG‑I1 image from 19 December 2025, 06:00 GMT, shows Earth’s day–night terminator tilted near its annual maximum of about 23.5°.

ESOC Film's Christmas 2025 movie. A festive crime-spree leaves a city in terror. Only Paul Beefman, private dick, can solve the case. Ho-ho-who's behind it? youtu.be/yBubU4lY2cI?...

Perhaps there should be a small fee for every time you post a screenshot on Bluesky of some bullshit happening on X. Like the original 10p carrier bag charge, it wouldn't be prohibitive but it would make you think, hang on, do I have to do this?

In the spirit of the festive season users can now access the MTG FCI Day Snow Fog RGB on EUMETView user.eumetsat.int/news-events/... HO HO HO!🎄❄️☃️

Hoi, it's me, the spaceship drawing guy. I'm finally publicly opening comissions! DM if you are interested. A repost and share would be nice. #comissionsopen #comission

And while I’m at it, fuck you too, Netflix. From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee!

The Corvair space shuttle from The Simpsons "Deep Space Homer" (S5E15). Crew: Buzz Aldrin, Race Banyon, Homer Simpson.

Just a quick message to any US border officials who might read this in the next five years: Fuck Trump, and fuck you.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Yeah.

Made a little "Brochure" about art commissions for my IG stories, pricing sheet to come as soon as I figure out the composition. And yes, there be commission slots available.

Yeah the EU should listen to this twat

This is where I learnt all the classic Greek legends that I’m now re-learning (and getting a much better understanding of) via @alexpodyssey.bsky.social

Marc Bell's model of the Nebula-class USS Farragut. Done in Blender.

An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour. - Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times - 10% of daily German household use - 5.5 hours of Netflix - ~4hrs of gaming This is probably a huge underestimate www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...

Pro tip: When swearing at a document you’re reading in parallel to a teleconference, first check your mic is muted.