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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Leaving the Kennedy Space Center today, got a nice view of a New Glenn first stage heading to the pad…

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Shepard-36: The crew is now exiting the capsule

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Shepard-36: Touchdown confirmed

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Shepard-36: New Shepard main parachute deploy confirmed

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Shepard-36: Booster touchdown confirmed

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Shepard-36: 15 minutes to launch of the RSS First Step capsule

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Shepard-36: The 6 passengers include businessman Jeff Elgin; Danna Karagussova of Kazakhstan; entrepreneur Aaron Newman; Vitalii Ostrovsky, a Ukrainian businessman and adventurer; Clint Kelly III, an electrical engineer making his 2nd New Shepard flight; and an unidentified passenger

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New Shepard-36: Blue Origin is preparing to launch 6 passengers aboard a New Shepard spacecraft on a sub-orbital flight to the edge of space and back; liftoff from the company's West Texas launch site is targeted for 9:40am EDT (1340 UTC); this will be Blue's 15th passenger flight to space

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

F9/IMAP: 1st stage engine shutdown, stage separation, 2nd stage ignition confirmed

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

F9/IMAP: LIFTOFF! At 7:30am EDT (1130 UTC)

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

F9/IMAP: Here's a pre-launch view of the three payloads launching today, shortly before their encapsulation in a Falcon 9 nose fairing

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

F9/IMAP: SpaceX is fueling a Falcon 9 rocket for a dawn launch to carry three science probes into space to monitor the solar wind, solar storm development and Earth's extreme outer atmosphere; liftoff from KSC pad 39A is targeted for 7:30am EDT (1130 UTC)

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New Shepard/NS-35: Capsule touchdown confirmed

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New Shepard/NS-35: The New Shepard capsule, meanwhile, has deployed its main parachutes

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New Shepard/NS-35: Booster landing confirmed

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New Shepard/NS-35: The New Shepard reached a maximum altitude of 345,000 feet before arcing over and beginning its descent to Earth, preceded by the booster

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New Shepard/NS-35: After an on-time liftoff, the New Shepard capsule has separated from its booster and is now coasting up on a ballistic trajectory; the microgravity experiments on board are now experiencing about 3 minutes of weightlessness

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

New Shepard/NS-35: Blue Origin is counting down to launch of its 35th sub-orbital New Shepard flight from the company's west Texas facility; liftoff is targeted for 9am EDT (1300 UTC); on board: more than 40 microgravity experiments

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

F9/Cygnus NG-23: Jonny Kim, operating the space station's robot arm, locked onto a grapple fixture at the base of the Cygnus XL cargo ship at 7:24am EDT (1124 UTC) as the two spacecraft were sailing 258 miles above central Africa, closing out an extended 4-day rendezvous

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

F9/Cygnus NG-23: The Cygnus XL is now inside 30 meters of the space station, moving toward a point where it will hold and await capture by the lab's robot arm

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

F9/Cygnus NG-23: Nice view as the Cygnus moves into orbital sunset

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

F9/Cygnus NG-23: Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo ship is closing in on the International Space Station, on track for a day-late capture by the lab's robot arm; the freighter's main engine has been working normally after a software update in the wake of two premature shutdowns Tuesday

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: Fly-around complete; the Progress is now station keeping while Russian flight controllers evaluate system status before the final push to docking

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: Fly-around mode initiated; the Progress is now lining up on the docking axis as the two spacecraft sail 260 miles above the Sahara Desert

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: A nice view of the approaching Progress; range to ISS is now less than 1 km

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: The Progress cargo ship launched Thursday is now within about 3 km of the International Space Station, on track for docking at the Zvezda module's aft port

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

F9/Nusantara Lima: LIFTOFF! At 9:56pm EDT (0156 UTC)

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

F9/Nusantara Lima: SpaceX is fueling a Falcon 9 rocket for a 4th attempt to launch a commercial Indonesian comsat: Nusantara Lima; liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral SFS is targeted for 9:56pm EDT (0156 UTC), the end of this evening's launch window

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: Strap-on booster (1st stage) jettison

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: LIFTOFF! At 11:54:06am EDT (8:54pm local time; 1554 UTC)

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: Here's a NASA graphic showing major phases of today's climb to orbit:

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: Nice drone's-eye view of the launch complex

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Progress MS-32/93P: The Soyuz rocket and Progress cargo ship on the pad (left) and a graphic showing where the MS-32/93P vehicle will dock Saturday at the Zvezda module's aft port:

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: And splashdown! A camera on a buoy in the Indian Ocean captures a view of the Starship descending vertically under rocket power to an on-target splashdown; a few areas of heat damage were noted during entry, but the ship's fins maintained control throughout

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: SpaceX reports the Starship is now past the region of peak heating

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: Re-entry heating is generating a spectacular light show; at least one flap is showing signs of damage; the loss of the aft skirt may expose the engines to high heating; not yet know if that could have any effects

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: Starship is now falling belly first back into the lower atmosphere; starting to see the super-heated plasma building up around the vehicle; a camera in the engine bay showed what appeared to be the aft skirt breaking up

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: SpaceX confirms a successful in-space Raptor engine re-ignition and shutdown

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: The Starship is now deploying its 8 Starlink simulator satellites one at a time using a Pez-like dispenser mechanism; attempts to deploy simulators on earlier test flights failed, but the procedure appeared to work normally today

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: Starship engine cutoff confirmed! The vehicle is now flying along its planned sub-orbital trajectory

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: Hot staging confirmed; the Starship upper stage is now firing its 6 Raptor engines to continue the ascent while the Super Heavy booster flips around to begin its flight back to a Texas Gulf Coast splashdown;1 booster engine shut down prematurely, but that doesn't appear serious

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: LIFTOFF! At 7:30pm EDT (2330 UTC)

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

IFT-10: 10 minutes to launch; SpaceX reports with is 'go' for launch

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

IFT-10: Hoping the 3rd time will be the charm, SpaceX is gearing up for another attempt to launch its Super Heavy-Starship on the program's 10th test flight; liftoff from Starbase on the Texas Gulf Coast is again targeted for 7:30pm EDT (1130 UTC)

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

F9/NAOS/Rideshare: The final 5 payloads have been deployed - Acadia-6, LEAP-1 and FFLY 1, 2 and 3 - bringing today's mission to a successful conclusion

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

F9/NAOS/Rideshare: NAOS, Pelican 3 and Pelican 4 deploys confirmed

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

F9/NAOS/Rideshare: 2nd stage engine shutdown No. 1 confirmed; 3 payload deploys are expected over the next few minutes with another 5 expected after 2 more upper stage engine firings at 3:46pm and 3:59pm EDT

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

F9/NAOS/Rideshare: Booster B1063 touchdown confirmed; this was the 141st booster landing in California and SpaceX's 493rd successful recovery overall

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

F9/NAOS/Rideshare: 1st stage separation, 2nd stage engine ignition confirmed; the 1st stage, making its 27th flight, is now heading back to Vandenberg for a return-to-launch site landing

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William Harwood @rocketksc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

F9/NAOS/Rideshare: SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 carrying 8 "rideshare" payloads blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base today at 2:53:41pm EDT (1853 UTC); this was the 104th SpaceX launch this year, the 521st overall and the 10th so far this month

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