According to SpaceX, the Pentagon has spoken to the company about procuring its own fleet of Starship rockets for sensitive missions
jah, right, sure. elno needs money for “starship”, so they digging up the good ol` rocket-point-to-point-on-earth-delivery again. is his tool gwynne shotwell also proposing again to use rockets as planes for commercial passenger-flights? its complete and utter BS, which was debunked years ago;
False color image of a lava flow in Grindavik Iceland posted yesterday via Planet.
Jumma Solar Power Station via SkySat:
it also got boinged yesterday:
( it’s really is such a good story! the radiolab investigation(!?) into it was great. )
Interesting timing. Or some mild paranoia on my part.
Don’t worry, it’s Valentine’s Day, not The Day of the Triffids.
Do they all just coincidentally happen to be over Ukraine?
NASA says its latest take on solar sail technology is ready for proposals for it to be flown on science missions.
The announcement comes after a quarter of the sail was unfurled, demonstrating that the deployment technology works as expected. The system is now at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6, meaning it is an option for scientists considering space missions.
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Intuitive Machines Moon launch: SpaceX blasts private firm’s lunar lander into orbit
NASA has concluded its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire) with a test onboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft after it departed from the International Space Station (ISS).
The final experiment, Saffire-VI, was sent to the ISS in August 2023 and concluded on January 9, when the Cygnus it was traveling on safely burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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The Nova-C is slightly taller than an old British Police Box, made famous by the science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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The US Department of Defense confirmed its payload included two satellites for the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS), and the final four Tranche 0 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) communications constellation.
American defense contractor L3Harris, which designed five of the six satellites, said the launch, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, was a success. The other satellite, a second HBTSS unit, was built by Northrop Grumman.
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okay, but how big is it on the inside?
Alright. The game is afoot!
I suspect the Mobile Orbital Recognisance Interpretive Array Reactive Telemetry is behind this
I love that episode so much… 
