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@downshift.eth
SpaceX's Starship has achieved orbit for the first time on its 14th test flight 🚀
“The upcoming flight is planned to be the first to send Starship into orbit around Earth. Flight tests until this point have intentionally flown passively safe suborbital trajectories to maximize public safety while allowing for maximum learning. By going to orbit, the next phase of developing Starship to be fully and rapidly reusable can begin.
This will also mark the first time we plan to deploy Starlink V3 satellites into the constellation, delivering a payload that will dramatically expand connectivity speeds and reliability around the world.*
Starship’s initial orbital mission is expected to fly at an altitude approximately 275 km above Earth and complete approximately six orbits around the planet over the course of a nearly 10-hour flight, with splashdown targeted in the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile.”
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-14
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@swabbie.eth
this is a smart strategy for xAI given how far behind they are, but this entire acquisition is far too distracting for SpaceX
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@downshift.eth
looks like v3 will attempt to fly before 2027 (and gta6)
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2044841722556063843?s=46
by far, the most powerful vehicle of any kind ever built by humans.
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@duaneking
The LM-L0 Star Chart (A) was a volvelle wheel flown on the Apollo 11 mission and depicted the night sky as projected for the time the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle was scheduled to lift off the lunar surface to rendezvous with the orbiting command module Columbia.
https://apollo.moonshot.ooo
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@downshift.eth
Artemis II will begin its observations of the moon in just a few hours.. and amazingly all will be live-streamed! (using literal space lasers) nasa.gov
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@duaneking
Passage artificiel de Vénus sur le Soleil, Pierre Jules César Janssen, 1874
Before cinema, there was Passage de Vénus — a planetary transit recorded through a mechanical camera gun. It’s the oldest “film” on IMDb and Letterboxd.
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@swabbie.eth
Mandela Effect; I thought it had already been cancelled
https://x.com/deltaiv9250/status/1967977751291498613
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@swabbie.eth
GPT-5 Pro summary of yesterday's NASA announcement of signs for life on Mars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09413-0
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@downshift.eth
grid fin for the second generation SpaceX Super Heavy booster. three of these will be used for aerodynamic (including supersonic) control of the booster as it returns to be caught by the launch tower
https://x.com/spacex/status/1955715300256616451?s=46
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@duaneking
Atlas of Space. An interactive visualization to explore the planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in the Solar System.
https://atlasof.space
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@eddieosh
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-the-interstellar-object-3i-atlas-alien-technology-b59ccc17b2e3
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