Poland‘s Vice President Radoslaw Sikorski absolutely torches Elon Musk.

Voor het eerst in bijna een week weer wat eetlust

Landspace has published a video from the Zhuque-3 reentry and descent, including some onboard camera footage. Great to see.

Amazing satellite pictures of Chinese ships!

How about limiting russian expansion instead? And respecting other American countries?

US National Security Strategy calls for reviving ‘Monroe Doctrine,’ limiting NATO expansion https://breakingdefense.com/2025/12/national-security-strategy-nato-civilizational-erasure-monroe-doctrine/

US lobbied EU countries to block plans using frozen Russian assets to back €90 billion Ukraine loan, arguing assets needed for peace deal not prolonging war, as Europe insists funds must flow to Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ukraine received almost no US government aid in 2025 with all support coming from Europe and other countries, Kiel Institute tracker shows. www.kielinstitut.de/topics/war-a...

French Navy security forces fired at drones that overflew the Île Longue SSBN base near Brest yesterday evening. www.franceinfo.fr/economie/emp...

Photonic Integrated Optical Phased Arrays for Space Optical Communication: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/922... 10 cm sized optical rectennas can communicate clearly over 2000 km distance, giving satellites a compact 2D alternative to radio or lasers for delivering data. Wavelength 1550 nm.

Solid polynitrogen has long been studied as a potential chemical superfuel for rockets: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Isp is not much better than conventional H2/O2 (at ~400s), but it's 4-8x denser (1400-3400 kg/m^3) and potentially stable.

My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5111/1

US national security strategy. Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Our #JUICE spacecraft captured comet #3IATLAS during its active phase, showing its glowing coma, plasma tail, and maybe even a dust tail. The full data will arrive in February, but here is a sneak preview from JUICE's navigation camera. More info 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

The Irish Navy had a ship present, but 'made the decision not to shoot down the drones', though the article also notes it the vessel did not have the capacity to disable the drones. A huge reminder that Irish neutrality does not protect it from hybrid attacks.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

German Chancellor Merz has changed plans to go to Oslo and instead is on his way to Brussels, Belgium. He intends to speak to Belgian Prime Minister De Wever regarding the frozen Russian assets stored in Belgium. Source: Spiegel

Finnish President Stubb also warned against the negotiating duo. "We must not leave Ukraine and Volodymyr alone with these guys.“ Europe should stop talking kindly and speak exactly what is on their minds.

According to Der Spiegel, Macron warned Zelensky that the United States "may intervene in the issue of territories without providing security guarantees" and used the word "betrayal." "Zelensky must be very careful in the coming days." www.spiegel.de/politik/ukra...

An analysis of the 10-100 MW cooling requirements of SDI-era satellites finds that the optimal radiator is cruciform, made of large flat panels operating at around 400-800K, with up to 20 kW/kg possible: www.osti.gov/servlets/pur...

A satellite image of an Ariane 4 upper stage in orbit that was launched 26 years ago. Via HEO & BlackSky on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/high-e...

CNES has been found liable for destroying protected habitats at the former Diamant launch site, with a court ordering restoration and compensation measures. europeanspaceflight.com/cnes-found-l...

A very high resolution satellite image of Landspace's Zhuque-3 rocket on its launch pad the day before it launched. Captured 2025-12-02 04:27:10 UTC.

This is a spectacular view of the fiery descent and failed landing attempt of the Zhuque-3 first stage. m.weibo.cn/detail/52397...

My new article (1 of 2) is now up. Blowing up an ASAT plane: thespacereview.com/article/5112/1

For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station

Looks like an explosion shortly after the start of the landing burn

Zhuque-3 reaches orbit on test flight, first stage lost during landing attempt China’s Landspace carried out the first launch of its reusable Zhuque-3 rocket late Tuesday, successfully achieving orbit, but failing with a first stage landing attempt.

Some great images from Landspace

Dans le cadre du Pacte Drones Aériens de Défense (GICAT, armée de Terre, DGA, AID), une initiative assez similaire à Larinae et Colibri pour les MTO sera lancée cette fois ci pour les drones intercepteurs Plusieurs solutions seront expérimentées (avec impacts réels sur cibled) sur les prochains mois

From 525 lightyears away, we get an edge-on view of the protoplanetary disk forming around the new star IRAS 04302. This picture combines images captured by Hubble Space Telescope plus Webb's NIRCam and MIRI: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

RG-XX is the follow-up to the GSSAP program www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

🚀 Lancement réussi ! Vega-C a placé en orbite le satellite sud-coréen KOMPSAT-7, développé par le KARI. C’est le 6ᵉ lancement de 2025 depuis le CSG. 👉 Les détails : cnes.fr/communiques/... #VegaC #VV28 #KOMPSAT7 #CNES

«Tout brûler jusqu’à la Manche et au-delà.» La revue officielle de la diplomatie de Poutine vient de publier un appel au sang : «Les pays occidentaux écoutent mieux lorsque les troupes russes mettent le pied à Paris ou à Berlin.» Nous le traduisons. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/0...

Russia is upgrading its Shaheds. Ukrainian channels report that the Russians have used, for the first time, a Shahed equipped with an R-60 air-to-air missile. It is reported that this combination is intended to target helicopters that shoot down the Shaheds.

Malmö, Sweden captured by a KH-7 GAMBIT spy satellite using color film on July 19, 1966 during mission 4030. 4030 was the first KH-7 mission to fly for 8 days, the longest mission flown by that series of satellites.

LAUNCH at 1220 UTC Nov 30 of China's Shi Jian 28. SJ-28 and the CZ-7A third stage have been tracked in a 204 x 35806 km x 14.4 deg geotransfer orbit.

Solar or radioisotope-heated Montgolfiere balloons for exploring Mars and Titan: www.cds.caltech.edu/~marsden/wik... These could circle a planet, descend to drop a payload or rise to take wide-area photographs from an altitude, for prolonged periods.

This is the badge for the Sokol-Eshelon project (Falcon Echelon). Note that it shows a lightning bolt hitting the Hubble Space Telescope and causing it to go dark over Russia. This is the subject of my next Space Review article.

Over €900 million has been committed to ESA’s European Launcher Challenge, with the bulk of funding coming from Germany, France, the UK, and Spain. europeanspaceflight.com/over-e900-mi...

Transporter-15 rideshare mission launches 140 payloads A Falcon 9 launched 140 payloads on its latest dedicated rideshare mission Nov. 28, ranging from European government spacecraft to a private astronomy satellite.

Transporter-15 mission complete. Most payloads delivered to 512 x 514 km x 97.4 deg; FORMOSAT-8A placed in 563 x 563 km x 97.6 deg; R5-S7 and the F9 second stage placed in a -79 x 568 km x 97 deg orbit with reentry near 173 5N at about 2200 UTC per my calculations

Something happened in Yasnyy/Dombarovskiy. There is also a video and some NOTAMs t.me/militaryruss.... Looks like a failed ICBM launch. The color of this cloud doesn't look good. Not clear if it's Sarmat. There are other options: SS-18 or SS-19. Wait for more information.

Quand on sait faire des missiles, on sait faire des lancements suborbitaux... Eh bien justement, c'est la naissance officielle de SyLEx, la nouvelle fusée sonde (suborbitale) d'Arianegroup au service de la DGA française.

Also secured during #CM25: ☀️ Funding for the UK-led ESA Vigil mission, designed & built by @airbus.com Space in Stevenage, that will monitor solar activity and give advance warning of dangerous solar storms.

Today marks a milestone for European space exploration. The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 billion, were just approved at our Ministerial Council meeting in Bremen, Germany. #CM25 More details 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

Here we go. Zhuque-3 set for launch and booster recovery attempt between 0352-0609 UTC Saturday (Nov. 29) (~11 pm Eastern Friday, Nov. 28).

🌎 The first #Copernicus Sentinel-1D images are in! Check out the images featuring Tierra del Fuego, the Antarctic Peninsula, Thwaites Glacier and the Elbe River delta.