1st year PhD student showing up at the 8 am panel with 25 expertly crafted slides, 57 backup slides, and print-outs prepared four weeks in advance vs Tenured professor giving the keynote with two slides of mood pictures clicked together in the hotel lobby 15 minutes earlier

“Progress is the pathway from primitive over complex to simple.” Wernher von Braun

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Classic British humour.

Mistakes made by RFA: - Trying to copy an engine designed by an entity with 70 years of experience - Going for staged combustion with zero prior experience - Going for a 75t launcher with zero prior experience - Totally underestimating weight increase in design phase

The first Starships to Mars will launch in 2 years when the next Earth-Mars transfer window opens. These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years. Flight rate will

Would be awesome. 🚀

I gave up trying to make sense of all this years ago.

Wer mehr zur geplanten Stationierung von US-#Waffen erfahren möchte: Lesenswerte Einordnungen von Ulrich Kühn & Markus Schiller gibt es in diesem DER SPIEGEL-Text: spiegel.de/wissenschaft/t… #DarkEagle

"Chamran-1", a 60 kg satellite was successfully launched by Iran's "Ghaem 100" SLV. The satellite was placed at 550 km LEO. The launcher - solid propelled -was developed and operated by IRGC.

Second orbital launch of Ghaem-100 - and second success. IRGC did it again - unlike the poor reliability of Iran's space agency led launchers.

The ballistic missile launched from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis at central Israel this morning fell apart in the air, the IDF says, citing an initial investigation. The missile was launched at around 6:21 a.m., and sirens sounded across central Israel at 6:32 a.m. "From a

#Yemen’s Houthis revealed the Palestine-2 missile, prominently displaying "Hypersonic" in bold red letters to emphasize its alleged capabilities. They claim a range of 2150 km, powered by solid fuel in two stages, and supposedly equipped with stealth technology. According to

Looks like the Sarmat test was not quite successful, to put it mildly. It's a big crater...

Well, there is a long history of German media and politicians obviously not having a clue what they are talking about when they mention Iron Dome. 🙄

Sunday fun day.

This was absolutely amazing. Congratulations #SpaceX ! You actually did it!!! Incredible! 🚀🚀🚀

Booster caught!

This summarizes things quite well

This should hold its place as greatest Space Flight Footage of all time until the first catch attempt for the ship right??