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Space news People writing about #space #exploration are mostly #cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than #independent #observers keeping a watchful eye […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ spacey.space/@spaceflight, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19h

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… 🇳🇴 #Andøya’s first launch pad* is reserved for German launch startup #Isar Aerospace under a long-term agreement. The Norwegian government plans to build a second orbital launch pad at Andøya #Spaceport ** 34km distance * 🗺️ […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117361… #Putin spoke confidently about the “Eagle” spacecraft and the resumption of Russia’s lunar program. Clearly, they have not happened.👎 Whatever it will be called, and whenever it’s completed (if ever), #Russia’s next-generation crewed […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117362… The #Chicxulub ☄️ impact 💥 could have created habitable conditions. With 8 million years of heat and nutrients, life had more than enough time to colonize the #hydrothermal system in the Chixculub crater.

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117355… #SpaceX is a business, the goal is to maximize revenue. From their perspective, it makes sense to remove distractions such as #Dragon and #Falcon9 and focus on the future of the company #Starship.

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@skyatnightmag/skyatn… Over the past 200 years, Earth’s magnetic field has weakened by about 9%, which could indicate that another pole reversal 🧲🔄 is coming. There appear to be correlations […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117350… The next #Starship flight could take off in October. Returning Starship to the launch site will require a reentry over land 🌎. Other near-term objectives for Starship include the first demonstration of in-orbit refueling ⛽ #reusability

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117351… #Boeing, for a time at least, is likely to have a #monopoly on crew transportation after Dragon exits the market.

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: spacey.space/@spaceflight/116913415… Jul 2026

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: spacey.space/@spaceflight/116036879… Feb 2026

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117349… #Canadarm2 launched to the #ISS in April 2001 on #SpaceShuttle Endeavour. Its nominal design lifetime was 15 years. There could be serious implications for cargo 📦 missions, especially with #SpaceX planning to retire the #Dragon […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/1173488776… One 1️⃣ full #Starship launch of V3 satellites can add the same amount of capacity to the #Starlink network as 20 2️⃣0️⃣ flights of the V2 mini versions, which #SpaceX flies on the #Falcon9 rocket

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… The latest award appears to be an extension of the €3.6 million 💶 awarded to the company in late 2023 to develop and deploy infrastructure at #SaxaVord #RocketFactory #RFA #ESA

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117332… This is the first time #NASA has funded a commercial debris inspection mission, and the agency is paying Starfish $15 million. #SpaceDebris

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… “It likely will be the first real habitation module that makes its way to the lunar surface. And as a result, you’re going to see two #Italian 🇮🇹 astronauts 🧑‍🚀 on the surface of the #Moon.” 🌙 #Italy #NASA

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@arstechnica/ars-tech… #Aschbacher plans to scale up 📈 production of the #Ariane6. Ministers would have to make investments in factories and other logistics to increase rocket production. Would it be worth […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish… According to the report, 0.04 deaths 💀 per year are to be expected from falling rocket parts and just as many payloads. Even if not a single #satellite were launched from now on, the number of objects in orbit would grow due to […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… #ESA, which is #responsible for the overall management of the #Ariane6 programme, has now confirmed that it is aware of delays affecting the rocket’s launch schedule, but has declined to comment on the root cause 🕵️

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish… #Starlink V3 satellites offer a capacity of 1 Tbit/s each, thus expanding the total capacity of the Starlink network by a total of 26 Tbit/s. According to SpaceX, this is ten times more 📈 than the Starlink V2 Mini satellites can […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/1172764267… #SpaceX has made additional changes to the #Starship heat shield based on what it learned from studying the recovered upper stage from Flight 13

Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… European space ventures had already raised 💶 more in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025. The results from September suggest that, if anything, that trend may be accelerating.

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… In early June, the company published vacancies for three positions dedicated to the development of its #Nyx Crew 🧑‍🚀 vehicle, all of which will be based in #Houston #HumanSpaceflight #ExplorationCompany

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: spacey.space/@spaceflight/115746401… In 2025 #Europe 🇪🇺 announced that it was building capacity. In 2026 it has proved that some prototypes work - but it is still mostly preparing to prepare. The most meaningful 2026 achievement is #Isar's successful orbital flight with […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… There are around 1.2 million objects between 1 and 10 centimetres, and 120 million between 1 millimetre and 1 centimetre. #ProjectS specifically highlighted the estimate for objects between 1 and 10 centimetres, suggesting that […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… A €20 million initiative to explore 🤔 what #Europe’s future secure connectivity services might eventually need to become #IRIS²

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116913… The bulk of expenses 💰 in operating a #SpaceStation will come not from the facility itself, but safely transporting crew 🧑‍🚀 and cargo to the facilities. The providers do not have certainty that #CrewDragon will be available for the […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117286… #SpaceX has repeatedly indicated that its plans to retire #Dragon by 2030. #NASA has limited options. #HumanSpaceflight

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/11715… “Right now, to keep a lander alive through the lunar night, it is going to need 50 to 100 kilograms of chemical batteries storing electrical energy from solar panels.That can be done with half a kilogram of #tritium metal hydride” […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… #SpaceX told multiple prospective customers that it was no longer accepting new orders for commercial #Falcon9 launches, customers began looking elsewhere for launch options. Some lobby European institutions for financial […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3l… A little more hot air 🎈 thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commo… from the […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117277… #Roman has fuel for at least 22 years of potential #science operations. The launch was so accurate 🎯 that the first big burn with Roman’s control thrusters, executed one day into the mission, consumed just 18 kilograms of hydrazine […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@setiinstitute/1172… #SETI was long dismissed and received little funding. That changed as the discovery of #exoplanets 🪐 made the search for life more credible. SETI now connects with mainstream research into habitability, the origins of life and […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117276… #SpaceX said the #Starship upper stage will seek to complete six orbits 🌌 around the Earth before completing its mission after about 10 hours.

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… #Isar Aerospace €197.8 million, #RocketFactory Augsburg €186.9 million, #PLD Space €158.9 million. Isar is the only one to have already attempted an orbital launch. #RFA is preparing for the inaugural flight of its RFA ONE […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117271… #NASA has yet to publicly release a “source selection statement,” which provides the technical rationale for why a decision was made. It is strange that, nearly two weeks after an award was made, this document is still not public. 🤔

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/1172716049725… 📊 New report metric added in 2026 : on-ground casualty 💀 risk of reentries

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@arstechnica/ars-tech… #Aschbacher plans to scale up 📈 production of the #Ariane6. Ministers would have to make investments in factories and other logistics to increase rocket production. Would it be worth […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117252… #ULA was responsible for a quarter of the operating profit in #Lockheed’s space business a decade ago. It dropped to less than 10 percent over the last five years, then to virtually nothing 0️⃣in 2025

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/11724… The efficiency of a rocket engine is measured by how long it can exert a thrust equal to the initial weight of its propellant, known as specific impulse. The most efficient #chemical rockets today produce a specific impulse that tops […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117255… "Dedicated launch is pretty essential for us for most of our missions. We could do a rideshare, but it’s much more complicated. For #RocketLab's current capability, we’ve expanded beyond it. ADRAS-J2 and ELSA-M could fit into #Neutron […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/1172411011… There are a number of companies working to leverage the space 🌌 environment for higher-quality #semiconductors, but all face the same difficulty: the limited ability to return a meaningful volume of product. That requires #SpaceX to get […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… #ESA told prospective bidders that proposals using #Ariane6 or another European launcher for their demonstration missions would be eligible for an additional incentive worth up to €50 million 💰

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… A total of €310 million has been allocated to the initial demonstration mission to the #ISS. The remaining €450 million covers options for two additional service missions, these could fly to either the ISS or a future […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: spacey.space/@spaceflight/116433789… #OHB will be responsible for the space and ground segments, i.e., the construction of satellites 🛰️ and ground stations. #Rheinmetall will handle the end-user terminals and integration into the troop's network. #SATCOMBw #Bundeswehr

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… 🇧🇪 #Aerospacelab secured a €2.4 billion contract to design, manufacture and deliver 264 satellite 🛰️ platforms. The remaining 66 satellite platforms in the 330-satellite LEO component of the constellation will be built by […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117242… The #Ariane6 vehicle is flying. But its costs 💰 are high, it is fully expendable, and its flight rate of 10 launches a year feels antediluvian 👴 in the megaconstellation era. It has a maximum lift capacity of about 20 tons. The […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… The #ExplorationCompany has revealed that it is developing a reusable heavy-lift rocket 🚀 powered by its nine Storm engines, capable of producing 180 tonnes of thrust each.* * capable of carrying up to 40 tonnes to #LEO in a […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… “The #UK 🇬🇧 is collaborating with #Germany 🇩🇪 and other allies to establish responsive space launch opportunities through #SaxaVord #Spaceport”

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@europeanspacefligh… #HyImpulse could attempt the second flight of its SR75 suborbital rocket between 5 and 18 October from #SaxaVord 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Spaceport. SR75 is a technology demonstrator for the larger #SL1 orbital launch vehicle, designed to carry […]

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: spacey.space/@spaceflight/114439108… 4 of the 7 #Ariane6 launches in 2026 are for #Amazon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arian… (launches supported by taxpayers with ~65 million € 💰 each)

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight.spacey.space.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

#StokeSpace #factory tour www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OxNZ-N_3vE #EverydayAstronaut #Nova #RocketScience