#space-flight — Public Fediverse posts

Charles Bolden, born OTD in 1946, flew on four Space Shuttle missions logging over 680 hours in space before becoming #NASA administrator https://toilet-guru.com/blog/44.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history

#NASA:
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Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher altitude to extend its science mission as planned.
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"Without intervention, NASA anticipates Swift is likely to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere later this year."

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-updates-next-steps-for-commercial-swift-boost-mission/

19.8.2026

#KatalystSpace #LINK #NASA #Raumfahrt #Reentry #Spaceflight #Swift #Weltraumteleskop #Wiedereintritt

Blue Origin are being a bit cagey about the location, but they've just tested a "Quartz" ground station to support Low Earth Orbit #spaceflight operations in #NewZealand. Likely location is Awarua Satellite Ground Station at Greenhills, which has better infrastructure and coverage than Warkworth. Radio geeks may know more...
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-origin-begins-global-rollout-quartz-ground-station-network

#SpaceFlight #SpaceTravel #RocketLaunch

China Space Watch
@chinaspace.bsky.social
LandSpace's Robot fire dept!🧯( No, that's not a giant rocket and a couple of fire trucks. It's a pair of tiny robots! )

#China #Spaceflight #Landspace

https://bsky.app/profile/chinaspace.bsky.social/post/3mthjnerhwk2u

Charles Bolden, born OTD in 1946, flew on four Space Shuttle missions logging over 680 hours in space before becoming #NASA administrator https://toilet-guru.com/blog/3.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history

Charles Bolden, born OTD in 1946, flew on four Space Shuttle missions logging over 680 hours in space before becoming #NASA administrator https://toilet-guru.com/spacecraft/?s=mb #spaceflight #history

Charles Bolden, born OTD in 1946, flew on four Space Shuttle missions logging over 680 hours in space before becoming #NASA administrator https://toilet-guru.com/blog/2.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history

#SpaceFlight #SpaceTravel #RocketLaunch

#NASA:
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Behind the Lens: Meet NASA Johnson’s Photographers
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"Photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have documented some of the most defining moments in human spaceflight. .. Meet the photographers behind the lens and explore the stories behind the images that have helped tell NASA’s story."

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/behind-the-lens-meet-nasa-johnsons-photographers/

10.8.2026

#Fotografie #JSC #NASA #Photography #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight

#NancyThames:
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NASA’s Moon Delay Is Written Into Its Language
The words “a great chance” revealed what the Artemis schedule cannot guarantee
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"A calendar cannot create readiness. A presentation cannot create working hardware. A rendering cannot demonstrate propellant transfer, .. speech cannot produce .. tanker fleet."

https://nancythames.substack.com/p/nasas-moon-delay-is-written-into

17.8.2026

#Artemis #ArtemisIII #ArtemisVI #HLS #JaredIsaacman #Moon #MoonLanding #Mond #Mondlandung #NASA #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceX #Truth #USA

For #spaceflight fans, China's Landspace just soft-landed a reusable methalox booster from a Zhuque-3 orbital rocket (and orbited the payload). No doubt Chinese will be glad to see boosters extending legs and landing on a pad instead of fireballing into a nearby field.

Italian astrophysicist Umberto Guidoni, born OTD in 1954, flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-75 in 1996, and STS-100 in 2001, becoming the first western European on board the International Space Station https://toilet-guru.com/blog/2.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=_Yo7dvmx-IA

#China #Honghu03 #Landspace #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #Spaceflight #Wiederverwendung #ZQ3 #Zhuque3 #Zhuque3Y2

#wccftech:
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China’s LandSpace Nails ZQ-3 Booster Landing After December Crash, Making China The Only Nation With Both Public And Private Reusable Rockets
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"LandSpace's ZQ-3 rocket just became a viable counterpart to the state-backed CALT and its CZ-10B rocket"

https://wccftech.com/chinas-landspace-nails-zq-3-booster-landing-after-december-crash-making-china-the-only-nation-with-both-public-and-private-reusable-rockets/

18.8.2026

#China #Honghu03 #Landspace #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #Spaceflight #Wiederverwendung #ZQ3 #Zhuque3 #Zhuque3Y2

#SCMP:
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China’s LandSpace beats SpaceX with steel-booster recovery after orbital launch
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"Zhuque-3 is China’s second orbital rocket to demonstrate first-stage recovery after Long March-10B first stage was captured by net in July"

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3364492/chinas-landspace-beats-spacex-steel-booster-recovery-after-orbital-launch

19.8.2026

#China #Honghu03 #Landspace #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #Spaceflight #Wiederverwendung #ZQ3 #Zhuque3 #Zhuque3Y2

#CGTN:
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Land recovery of China's Zhuque-3 reusable rocket first stage completed
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".. accurately placing the Honghu-03 satellite into its designated orbit.

According to rocket developer LandSpace, the land recovery sequence of the first stage was completed as intended, .."

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-19/Land-recovery-of-Chinese-reusable-rocket-first-stage-completed-1PJ9H1Mxgoo/p.html

19.8.2026

#China #Honghu03 #Landspace #Rakete #Raumfahrt #rocketry #Spaceflight #Wiederverwendung #ZQ3 #Zhuque3 #Zhuque3Y2

I’ve soured a lot on space flight (and its commercialization) over the last 20 years, but reading about the continuing adventures of the two #Voyager spacecraft brings back that awe that I felt as a kid reading about space or watching Apollo 13.

#NASA #spaceflight

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/science/nasa-voyagers-big-bang.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6lA.PzPM.XLGyieZh8nX2&smid=nytcore-ios-share

#SpaceFlight #SpaceTravel #RocketLaunch

Italian astrophysicist Umberto Guidoni, born OTD in 1954, flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-75 in 1996, and STS-100 in 2001, becoming the first western European on board the International Space Station https://toilet-guru.com/blog/2.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history

Italian astrophysicist Umberto Guidoni, born OTD in 1954, flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-75 in 1996, and STS-100 in 2001, becoming the first western European on board the International Space Station https://toilet-guru.com/blog/44.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history

#UniBE:
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Asteroideneinschlag formte das Aussehen des Marsmonds Deimos
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".. mithilfe hochauflösender Computersimulationen und dem Vergleich mit den neusten Aufnahmen der ESA-Raumsonde Hera gezeigt, dass ein einzelner Asteroideneinschlag den Marsmond Deimos geformt und seine glatte, staubige Oberfläche geschaffen hat. .."

https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/medienmitteilungen/2026/medienmitteilungen_2026/einschlag_deimos/index_ger.html

18.8.2026

#Asteroid #Bern #Deimos #Einschlag #ESA #Hera #Marsmond #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #Regolith #Schweiz #Simulation #Spaceflight #Supercomputing

#UniversitätDesSaarlandes:
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Metallisches Glas wird auf der ISS getestet – Materialforschung am schwerelos schwebenden Tropfen
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"Die Forscher untersuchen – wenn alles planmäßig läuft – ab 31. August eine Woche lang Legierungen von metallischem Glas auf der Internationalen Raumstation ISS. .."

https://www.uni-saarland.de/aktuell/metallisches-glas-iss-50057.html

17.8.2026

#DLR #ESA #ISS #Legierung #Materialforschung #MetallischesGlas #Nickel #Niob #Raumfahrt #Raumstation #SpaceFlight

Italian astrophysicist Umberto Guidoni, born OTD in 1954, flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-75 in 1996, and STS-100 in 2001, becoming the first western European on board the International Space Station https://toilet-guru.com/spacecraft/?s=mb #spaceflight #history

#SpaceFlight #SpaceTravel #RocketLaunch

#DerStandard:
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Riskantes Manöver rettet Voyager 2 das Leben
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"Ein Team der Nasa musste wegen schwindender Energie mehrere Geräte abschalten und andere hochfahren. Die Rekordmission geht damit weiter"

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000335883/riskantes-manoever-rettet-voyager-2-das-leben

18.8.2026

#NASA #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #RTG #Spaceflight #Voyager #Voyager2

#GFZ:
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Einstein-Test im Erdorbit: Satellitenbahnen zeigen, wie die Erde die Raumzeit mitzieht
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".. mit.. Laserentfernungsmessungen zu Satelliten .. zentralen Effekt der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie so genau wie nie zuvor im Erdorbit vermessen. .. ..:
LARES-2 ermöglicht .. mit .. LAGEOS ,, Messung des sogenannten Frame-Dragging-Effekts, .."

https://www.gfz.de/presse/meldungen/detailansicht/einstein-test-im-erdorbit-satellitenbahnen-zeigen-wie-die-erde-die-raumzeit-mitzieht

14.8.2026

#ART #Erde #FrameDragging #LAGEOS #LARES2 #Laser #Orbit #Physik #Satelliten #Raumfahrt #Schwerefeld #SpaceFlight

#SpaceFlight #SpaceTravel #RocketLaunch

Our future in space? One can dream...of "Reaching for the Light". Painting by yours truly.

#art #scifiart #sciencefiction #scifi #sciencefictionart #spaceflight #spaceart #solarsail #sun #digitalpainting #painting #digitalart