How do mission designers figure out when a rocket's launch window is? youtu.be/aKSyzzeNFK8

Coincidence? Rocket Lab are launching a mission named 'Raise and Shine' during The Game Awards, the same Rocket Lab that launched this little rocket guy into orbit.

Back in August I got to fly with Ghost Squadron and watched Jared Isaacman to my left, eclipsing the sun. Now he's back before a Senate Committee trying to get their support to run NASA.

Fun times learning to fly new things youtu.be/oT804EAUVk4

Ever wanted to fly a spacecraft, knowing what all those switches and buttons do? Well Reentry let's you live out your apollo dreams without having to poop in a bag. youtu.be/82fvyKIJ1lI

Remember how astronaut Anne McClain was accused of committing a crime from space, well finally the accuser has pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement: www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr...

Images showing the recovery of the New Glenn booster after landing, note the humans for scale in the second image.

Breaking down all the important things we learned from yesterday's flight of the New Glenn - literally NAILING the landing. (to the deck) youtu.be/XAYYWjvXgaM

Blue Origin's booster using pyrotechnics to secure itself to the deck after landing:

NEVER TELL ME THE ODDS

Never Tell Me The Odds...... But Hold at T-20, booster safed for now.

Blue Origin are live with the second attempt to launch ESCAPADE to Mars, and maybe land the New Glenn booster. www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2

Many of you know about the demon core, about how it went critical during experiments and killed scientists. But what if you had two cores and brought them together - just how bad would it be? youtu.be/6xsL6E-bQqQ

NASA's X59 quiet supersonic test aircraft took to the skies this morning - it's now landed at Edwards presumably in preparation for the test flights.

It always feels like there's too much space news to fit into a single episode: youtu.be/i9RjA0r-KQU

Vertical takeoff into hover, then transitioning into cruise flight in Pivotal's EVTOL

After a lot of work I've finally got the first part of my video on Pivotal's Helix, a VTOL which can take off and land without an airfield and fly on wings. I initially approached them asking if I could fly the simulator but in the end they trained me to fly it! youtu.be/wncRFPd69rg

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

a 757 with only the pilots onboard leaving dallas at like 3 am yesterday got permission to do an unrestricted climb (plane go up real fast) to 17,000 feet and everyone, including the controllers, was hilariously excited

Here's our images of interstellar object #A11pl3Z from Deep Random Survey's 0.43-meter scope @ Chile. The telescope was following A11pl3Z's motion, so stars appear smeared. Weather got worse by the end, so still hard to tell if it's a comet. 600-sec exposures, from 2025 Jul 2, 00:42-01:23 UT 🔭☄️

Things are not looking good for Hakuto-R

Randomly discovered that the only US Battleship to get underway during the attack on Pearl Harbor - The USS Nevada - would be the primary target for the operation Crossroads nuclear test. But it survived because the bomb was too far off target.

So has elon cancelled his presentation?

Booster appeared to die at the moment it started engines

Booster went boom before landing:

MECO, Staging, Ignition and boostback!

And liftoff!

Ground service equipment has a ground side issue

Clock is rolling!

According to hosts, there's a booster engine that's not behaving as expected

Less than 3 minutes to go, but planning to hold at T-40 to address an issue, remember this booster will not survive, it's testing the limits of its envelope. But the second stage is the thing we're really interested in:

Starship and Superheavy counting down and filling up

Dragon spacecraft reentering tonight:

The First Interstellar Software Update - The Insane Hack That Saved Voyager 1 youtu.be/p0K7u3B_8rY

I'm not sure what kind of accident report the authorities in Korea will produce, but journalists investigating on their own tracked down cameras reconstructed the flight and showed one engine still generated thrust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgTM...

Last night I was constantly posing for photos with people, and it was great, but I did manage to get time to get a photo for myself with Jeanett Epps. She gave a great presentation about her flight on Crew 8

How Did The Massive Launch Tower For The Saturn V Work? youtu.be/llDEKLU92L0

Our Hera science team are busy processing images returned from today’s Mars flyby – including astrophysicist, stereoscopist & guitarist Sir Brian May, seen with Principal Investigator Prof Patrick Michel. Images to come in tomorrow's livestream at 11:50 CET (10:50 GMT): www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Given we now now it was slipping across the moon sideways this is telling.

We got a second image from IM-2 on the moon - the Yaoki rover was not able to deploy, but returned an image, and if you brighten this you see the bottom of a landing foot. Which is only possible if the landing leg bent or broke. prtimes.jp/main/html/rd...

The project to design a B-29 that would carry the atomic bombs was named Silver Plated, but to help cover up the true purpose of something that would carry Fat Man and Thin Man the explanation was that it was a rail car to transport Churchill and Roosevelt.

Starship reentry caught by GOES E

Watch all the commercial airliners avoiding the Starship debris zones

Engine failure on stage two - Activate DRA's now!

Hot staging and boostback for flight 8 - booster catch is currently go! two booster engines are down

And we have liftoff

Holding at T-40

Someone hanging out in a helicopter to watch the launch

Time to go again:

Pretty wild, they appear to have landed, but the main engine did not shut down, so they sat on the surface sandblasting everything for a couple of minutes