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Thursday, May 15, 2025

NASA Revives Voyager 1's thrusters

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Maybe the better wording is NASA resurrected the thrusters since they've been considered dead since 2004.    Engineers ...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Wait... a first what flew where?

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For the first time in the US , a rotating detonation engine flew a test flight at New Mexico's Spaceport America. A rotating det...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

It looks like Starship Flight Test 9 is in final preparations

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On Monday, May 12, SpaceX performed a long duration - 60 second - static fire test on Ship 35, apparently clearing the way for preparat...
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Monday, May 12, 2025

ESA Mission tests precision formation flying - aces test

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The European Space Agency today announced the results of a test of the precision flying ability of two satellites in their Proba-3 ...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

A Rare Meme Dump

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Most of the times when I do an "I got nothing" post, it's because the day got away from me.  Today it's because I...
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Saturday, May 10, 2025

The Last Photo of Cosmos 482

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If we're to believe Space.com's story , the end of the 53 year wandering of the failed Cosmos 482 Venus lander occurred this ...
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Friday, May 9, 2025

The Re-Entry Window for that Russian Satellite is getting smaller

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Back in Monday's post about the return of the Soviet Union's Cosmos 482 lander originally intended to land on Venus looking ...
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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Rocket Lab's Neutron awarded US Military contract

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Rocket Lab's heavier lift platform, Neutron, is under development so it's fitting that the Neutron has been picked for a US A...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

NASA looks at reducing the ISS operating expenses

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With the release of NASA's first 2026 "skinny budget" last week , one of the glaringly obvious things was that, like ever...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

A couple of small SpaceX stories

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It's a slow news day, and as I wait for tonight's SpaceX launch, a couple of small stories caught my eye.  Starbase at Boca...
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Monday, May 5, 2025

What goes up, must come down*

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In 1972, the former Soviet Union launched an ambitious mission to Venus called Cosmos 482.   That mission fell apart in Earth orbit.  ...
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Sunday, May 4, 2025

The problem with AI hardly being talked about

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There's a big problem with AI that just isn't getting talked about enough.  The vast majority of stuff we read about AI is how ...
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It's Star Wars Day

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My brain fart of the day was thinking it was the fourth on Saturday and not the third.  I caught on fairly late in the day when I had t...
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Friday, May 2, 2025

The White House “skinny” for NASA is out

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The White House released its 2026 “skinny” budget by agency Friday morning, May 2nd .  A "skinny" budget is just another te...
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Thursday, May 1, 2025

NASA Swaps a 10 year old engine off Artemis II...

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We've commented many times that SLS has jokingly been said to refer to the "Shuttles' Leftover Shit" - to point out t...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Isaacman's nomination clears Senate committee

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On the journey to being accepted as NASA's next administrator, Jared Isaacman passed the next big hurdle today , being confirmed by...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Small Space News Story Roundup 58

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Two stories:  one on the positive side, one on the negative. On the positive side, Atmos Space Cargo's First Test  Back in the ...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

NASA's next helicopter clears next major milestone

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The Dragonfly helicopter headed for Saturn's moon Titan has very little in common with the Mars helicopter, Ingenuity.  Ingenuity w...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Solar Cycle 25/26 Update

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A bit ahead of being a six month update; my last update was last December 28th , but there's a couple of things that are interestin...
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