iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 03/09/2026

ACQUISITION OF SIGNAL CONFIRMED! 🎉🛰️ #BepiColombo telemetry shows the Mercury Transfer Module has successfully separated from the spacecraft stack! ✅ First step of Mercury arrival phase - complete! 👏 Next stop: Mercury orbit insertion for MPO and Mio in November! @esa.int #JAXA #Mercury

First signal after seperation from BepiColombo

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The video for my #taloscon2025 keynote is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

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The Complexity of Simplicity

YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company

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Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

China's CGST has returned the favour, using its Jilin-1 sats to image a Maxar Worldview Legion 2 satellite. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3oGA5_HVKJ...

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Leon Steenkamp @leonsteenkamp.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Interesting paper shared by a colleague and right in @thinkstcanary.canary.tools 's coal mine HoneySat: A Network-based Satellite Honeypot Framework arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24008

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Leon Steenkamp @leonsteenkamp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Capturing the Moon: Dragonfly Expands Imaging Capabilities Dragonfly Aerospace has successfully demonstrated a significant new capability: capturing high-precision images of the Moon using the dual DragonEye imagers aboard its EOSSAT-1 satellite. dragonflyaerospace.com/capturing-th...

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Capturing the Moon: Dragonfly Expands Imaging Capabilities

Dragonfly's EOSSAT-1 has successfully captured images of the Moon, advancing its imaging capabilities into Non-Earth Imaging.

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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 15/05/2025

‘This lesson could help the industry,’ Cybersmart cofounder and CTO Laurie Fialkov told Daily Maverick in a candid interview as the national outage dust settles.

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DIGITAL STANDSTILL: EXCLUSIVE: Cybersmart founder owns the internet outage

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Leon Steenkamp @leonsteenkamp.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

“And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when the first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.” His Masters's Voice - Stanisław Lem

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hforsten @hforsten.com · 11/02/2025

New blog post: "Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone". hforsten.com/homemade-pol...

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Leon Steenkamp @leonsteenkamp.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Holy cow, atmospheric conditions today for VHF propagation is something else. That is over a 1000 km for an AIS message.

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Leon Steenkamp @leonsteenkamp.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

German warship arrives in Cape Town

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