In the coming days, the China Manned Space Agency will decide how Shenzhou-20's Chen Dong, Wang Jie, and Chen Zhongrui will return to Earth, possibly in a newer spacecraft, after a suspected debris strike. Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/whats-happ...

Excellent piece!

Vodafone and AST SpaceMobile Announce New EU Satellite Constellation and Select Germany for European Sovereign Satellite Operations Centre www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

I'm curious to have the view of the space community on this topic OHB Plans to Push Back on the Airbus-Thales-Leonardo Merger payloadspace.com/ohb-plans-to... (Disclaimer: I work at OHB) #space #spaceindustry

🚨🚨This is stellar investigative journalism by @kaitlintosh.bsky.social and @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social on how #elonmusk is boosting the #british right. 🧵 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

Europe has successfully launched Copernicus Sentinel-1D aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from French Guiana. Its mission? To keep watch over our planet, day and night, through clouds and storms. ↓

Portal Space Systems says its orbit-shifting Starburst spacecraft will take advantage of technologies that are being developed for its more powerful Supernova satellite platform. www.geekwire.com/2025/portal-...

Updated Comet 3I/ATLAS #3IATLAS orbit dropped from JPL Small-Body Database, including measured positions thru Nov 4. ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_l... The “non-gravitational” acceleration terms in the orbit are *barely statistically significant*…the radial term A1 is (1.11+-0.30)e-7 au/day2 (3.7sig)

I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. I’m glad they caught it before departure and that everyone is safe. #SpaceDebris

The United States are giving feedback on the proposal for an #EUSpaceAct. It's probably no surprise that they are not too happy about it. "The US expresses deep concern regarding measures ... that would impose unacceptable regulatory burdens on US providers of space services ..."

The #CopernicusEU Sentinel-1 mission welcomes a new member: Sentinel-1D, launched at 21:02 GMT/22:02 CET from Kourou on Ariane 6 #VA265. www.esa.int/Applications... @cnes.fr @euspa.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social @transport.esa.int

Trump nominates Musk ally Jared Isaacman for position of NASA chief reut.rs/4qJFUL2

Via #IntuitiveMachines- Press Release: Intuitive Machines to Acquire Lanteris Space Systems, Creating the Next-Generation Commercial, Civil, and National Security Space Prime - www.intuitivemachines.com/post/intuiti...

Next Ariane 6 launch tonight 22h. Let's go! 🚀💪

German start-up Reflex Aerospace closed a €50M Series A to expand its production capacity. Reflex will use the capital to expand the manufacturing capacity at its facility in Bavaria, which "will be able to churn out 60 to 70 highly complex satellites per year."

“On the ISS, we are essentially the lab assistants of the scientists who prepared the experiments on Earth.” I like this quote by Matthias Maurer (German astronaut). He is such a humble nice guy.

This week's launch manifest will feature nine missions launching on seven different rockets, including the second launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/laun... By John Sharp

Warum auch immer, aber die Bahn fährt mal wieder nicht zwischen Köln und Bonn. Dann muss man auf die Straßenbahn/Stadtbahn/whatever ausweichen die nicht nur in Wesseling sondern auch in Wesseling Nord und Wesseling Süd hält. 🙈🙄

When a state makes personal threats against diplomats in trade negotiations, the appropriate responses are: Short-term: Tell them to go to Hell (though perhaps phrase it more diplomatically) Longer-term: Reduce interactions and reliance, seek to deepen relationships with more trustworthy partners

If they want to do stupid, let them do it.

On my way to Cologne to see Bob Dylan for the first time live ☺️

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.  This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting. 

OHB will acquire the TechniSat plant in Schöneck to expand its capacity to produce electronic components for its satellites amid growing demand. europeanspaceflight.com/ohb-to-acqui...

"The EU received a record number of applications for its top research and innovation grants this year, including a tripling of US bids for a key fund compared with 2024." on.ft.com/4373uHt

‘I knew I needed help. I knew it was over’: Anthony Hopkins on alcoholism, anger, Academy Awards – and 50 years of sobriety

A few hours ago, a third non-low Earth orbit bound Yaogan remote sensing satellite was launched atop of a Long March 7A from Wenchang Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/third-beyo...

"The in-orbit servicing mission will involve demonstrating a wide range of in-orbit servicing applications, including refuelling, component repair or replacement, orbital transfer, and atmospheric re-entry for decommissioning and debris removal." #ISOS #OSAM

More money for the UK Space Agency: The UKSA was allocated a budget of - £618M (€702.7M) 2024/2025; - £668M (€759.5M) 2025/2026; - £720M (€818.7M) 2029/2030. payloadspace.com/uk-space-age...

"The US has Venus science on its wishlist, but funding is, to put it gently, uncertain. Massive cuts to NASA’s proposed science budget have left many missions with unclear direction,even though both the House and Senate budget plans rejected the $10B cut proposed by the administration."

I first started mapping GPS jamming in case it was an early warning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I hope it's not a sign of some mad Trumpian attack on Venezuela.

"Picking big arguments designed to stoke conflict and controversy can jar low-information voters out of their algorithmic torpor and get them to take sides themselves." @gregsargent.bsky.social on new @rooseveltinstitute.org report on how progressives must govern. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

A personal reflection on the destructive erosion of ethics, norms and respect for law at NASA: 🧪🔭 🧵

(9/9)This article details the administration’s ongoing destruction of NASA science. Here Press Secretary Bethany Stevens clearly violates the Hatch Act, as Acting Administrator Duffy has done. If they’re not held accountable, NASA’s integrity may never be restored. www.space.com/space-explor...

Beautiful optimistic video on "ESA enabling Europe's future in space": - reusable launchers and even upperstages - space tugs - advanced docking technologies - Orbital propellant depot: Odyssey "A unified interoperable ecosystem that connects every mission, every payload, every destination."

We're expanding the Club Brugge Football Data Science team. As our Football Data Scientist, you'll work with one of the most advanced analytics infrastructures in football to help management, scouting, and analysis staff turn data into better decisions. jobs.clubbrugge.be/en/football-data-scientist

Suite aux derniers débats et à la possible réouverture d'un appel d'offre pour l'atterrisseur lunaire d'Artemis III, SpaceX se fend d'un long communiqué pour expliquer ses projets avec Starship, y compris le plan pour les tests de ravitaillement l'an prochain. Assez pour défendre le projet ?

Groupthink in science isn’t a problem; it’s a myth Scientists get accused of groupthink all the time, and of being unnecessarily resistant to new ideas. But that's a myth. The real problem is just how successful our current theories are. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #science #space #physics #myth

The Exploration Company has opened its new 5,000-square-metre headquarters in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where it will assemble and test its Nyx spacecraft. europeanspaceflight.com/the-explorat...

Trump-Xi meeting shows price of confrontation was too high for both sides

According to LinkedIn, Rivada Space Networks is silently decreasing its workforce while publicly claiming that they still want to launch a 600 satellite constellation.

Is space-based solar power a pipe dream, or an actual possibility? With ideas ranging from supercharging satellites to city-size space collectors, I delved into the topic for the BBC in my latest story out today. Enjoy! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I want to say, Jeff, read my book, but, a, I haven't written it yet, and b, @zachweinersmith.bsky.social & @weinersmith.bsky.social's A CITY ON MARS so easily shows the impossibility of "millions" in space in decades. Just the amount of transport that would be needed is absurd!

Excellent journalism by the @financialtimes.com and also thanks to satellite imagery provided by Planet Labs and @esa.int "Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal’s energy joint venture in India has bought Russian oil transported on sanctions-listed vessels. " on.ft.com/4oHJPWH

It is beyond me, how people can remain on X while the owner is calling for civil war in the UK.

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

“For small states like Ireland, this European drift is dangerous. It leaves us riding two horses that are now galloping in different directions.” This really is a very good piece on Ireland’s (and to some extent other European neutrals).

And I keep seeing people saying “I have to stay there because of my networks, won’t someone please think of my networks”