So exciting to brief #Starliner to the #CFT #NASASocial today at the C3PF. Thanks for coming by and asking some great questions. Enjoy the show on Monday night! 🚀

Happy birthday Alexander Gerst!

China launches Chang’e-6 mission to collect first samples from the moon’s far side spacenews.com/china-launches…

Big red screen. Chang'e-6 launch a complete success.

#SpaceChina China to launch Chang'e-6 Friday afternoon news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-0…

Yuri’s Night London is NEXT WEEK!

Fri May 10, 6:30pm til late
Dockside Vaults, E1W 1AT

Details and tickets: yurisnight.net/london/tickets

THANK YOU Support (Managed to lock myself out of my own account... oops!)

The launch of two Galileo satellites aboard a Falcon 9, initially assigned to Ariane 6, is further proof of the programme's failures.
europeanspaceflight.com/falcon-9-galil…

3wks ago today the shadow of the Moon raced across North America from Mexico to Canada putting on the greatest show in the solar system.

All of my imagery from the event can be seen here (Prints, free downloads & settings available):
daviddphotography.smugmug.com/Astrophotograp…

With news the HyImpulse Technologies
SR75 launch has been pushed back to May 2nd,there's plenty time to catch me and (mostly) SpaceKate give you the lowdown on this and other #UK #space news. #teamspace #Australia

youtu.be/iJNBS2tGF5Q

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will not fly private missions yet.
#Boeing ⁩ says it may sign up private #astronauts for future #Starliner #missions , but the focus is on #NASA for now.

READ FULL STORY👇🏻
⁦Boeing Space NASA space.com/boeing-starlin…

With launch costs to orbit dropping are the dreams of cheap 24/7 space-based solar power now within reach? SpaceKate reports from the 2024 'International Conference on Energy from Space' conference #energyfromspace #SBSP ow.ly/nbIS50RoSau

With launch costs to orbit dropping are the dreams of cheap 24/7 space-based solar power now within reach? SpaceKate reports from the 2024 'International Conference on Energy from Space' conference #energyfromspace ow.ly/F67q50RoRGC

Another great Space Shuttle 'insiders story' from Wayne Hale - 'One final change: when it came my turn to set the rules for the MMT, I added one more step after launch: the MMT had to stay on station at KSC, where there was data and good communications, until after the ‘go for…

🚨 I found 小型月着陸実証機SLIM using the Orbital high-resolution camera of ISRO on board Chandrayaan-2. The below picture was captured on 2024.03.16 at a pixel resolution of 16cm per pixel! Because of the low elevation of the sun, you see long-drawn shadows.

I've shared three…

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'With the results we got on Saturday, we have now confidence that we can put together the pieces we need to now get back the science data.'

arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/…

When you do a radio interview on space stuff, you never know what the previous item is going to be. Today it was a young lad who did an excellent (if slightly alarming at this time of night) impression of seagulls. Thank goodness the #Voyager1 story was also a goodun!