Hadrian 2.0

#space_security, occasionally watch #middle_east. #post_grad policy research nerd - NextGen peace & conflict. #visualizer🇧🇩🇮🇱🇵🇸

[Hadrian 2.0 @Hadrion_2]

@DutchSpace Polarized sunglasses slapped on phone camera 😃

[Hadrian 2.0 @Hadrion_2]

@xan_saz The population density map explains a lot.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

🌕 Sims today, Lunar South Pole soon

We’re getting close to the final stretch of training for our first Blue Moon MK1 mission. This month, we’re running end-to-end, high-fidelity simulations of several mission phases —launch, apogee‑raise burn, lunar orbit insertion, descent orbit insertion, landing, and surface ops. From our lunar Mission Control in Washington, controllers execute real procedures, send commands into a flight‑representative sim, and read telemetry from an emulation of the global network of ground stations and satellites we’ll use during the flight.

[NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day @apod]

Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky. Known to some as an analemma, the figure-eight curve was captured in exposures taken on the indicated dates only at 18:38 UTC from the exact same location south of Stephenville, Texas. The Sun's position on the 2024 solstice dates of June 20 and December 21 would be at the top and bottom of the curve and correspond to the astronomical beginning of summer and winter in the north. Points that lie along the curve half-way between the solstices would mark the equinoxes. The 2024 equinox on September 22, and in 2025 the equinox on March 20 (today) are the start of northern fall and spring. And since one of the exposures was made on 2024 April 8 from the Stephenville location at 18:38:40 UTC, this analemma project also reveals the solar corona in planet Earth's sky during a total solar eclipse.

Image Credit & Copyright: Hunter Wells

[Hadrian 2.0 @Hadrion_2]

Nik Smith from Lockheed UK on using AI resources in modeling and simulation in space sector. Day 2, @SpaceCommExpo London

[AMSAT-DL @amsatdl]

What an incredible landing of #BGM1 #BlueGhost @Firefly_Space ! Congratulations to the whole team 👏👏 📡〰️〰️That was the smoothest and most stable communications link I have ever observed!!! See the Downlink RF signal during the actual landing 🔽

[Dr. Buzz Aldrin @TheRealBuzz]

“Contact light, engine stop!”
Congratulations FireFly Aerospace for Blue Ghost’s Mission 1 successful Moon landing today!
It also marks a new milestone in the collaborations between NASA and private Space companies, as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program.
@Firefly_Space
#BlueGhostMission1 #BGM1
@NASA
@SpaceX
#moonlanding
#dibs!

[Marcus House @MarcusHouse]

Hell yes, touch down! 🥳 Freaking nailed it you champions! Congrats @Firefly_Space!

[【公式】Astroscale Japan | アストロスケールジャパン @astroscale_JP]

【本日公開】
ADRAS-Jがデブリの後方約15mに接近時の映像です
将来のミッションで捕獲箇所として想定している衛星分離部（PAF）にググーっと移動していく様子がわかると思います✨
15mは民間企業がRPO（ランデブ・近傍運用）を通じて実際のデブリに接近した、世界で最も近い距離です🛰️

[Jimmy Corsetti @BrightInsight6]

Lidar scanning at Gobekli Tepe reveals immense field of Ancient ruins buried below destructive tree orchards 🌳🤯

[Astro Alexandra 🪐 Space Communicator @astro_alexandra]

BREAKING SPACE NEWS: Scientists have analyzed samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu and discovered amino acids, nucleotide bases, minerals from salt water, and more. #nasa #astronomy #space #solarsystem #science #news

[Andrew Jones @AJ_FI]

Heads up: A spent stage from a Long March 3B hypergolic rocket launched yesterday fell in Zhenyuan County, Guizhou. Another terrifying close call with the CZ-3B.

[ARCHIVED - NASA Moon @NASAMoon]

The Moon's atmosphere is much too thin to produce the kind of weather we're familiar with on Earth. Lunar “weather” comes straight from space in the form of galactic cosmic rays, solar wind, impactors, and more: https://t.co/cWcbHTIxNo

#MoonCrushMonday

[Yuri Beletsky @YBeletsky]

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) - A View from an Observatory 😃 I took this image at the ESO Paranal Observatory on January, 19. The comet is setting in the twilight next to one of the auxiliary telescopes (AT). This time, I used a 70mm lens to capture the whole scene. I hope you enjoy the view! 👍

#comet #c2024g3 #atlas #paranal #eso #chile #twilight #astronomy #astrophotography #canon #planitpro

[Yuri Beletsky @YBeletsky]

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) has finally arrived in the Southern Sky! 🤩 It's clearly visible as a very bright object shortly after sunset. Although the tail is still quite short, the comet is truly beautiful. We are so looking forward to capturing more tonight !

#comet #c2024g3 #atlas #paranal #eso #chile #twilight #astronomy #astrophotography #canon #planitpro #alerta

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

If you close your eyes aboard a spaceship, you sometimes see flashes of light, as radiation/high-energy particles hit your optic nerve (on Earth the magnetic field protects us). It messes with our computers too - @NASA is testing new lunar tech https://t.co/gwVhk3J0Ch
(video: 2001 A Space Odyssey)

[Dr. Tamitha Skov @TamithaSkov]

Aurora isn't just beautiful, it also impacts radio communications! Looking at HF/VHF propagation during the peak of the recent G4 #solarstorm, we can see #auroral propagation occurs quite far south even during the daylight hours in Europe and the USA.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Yesterday's Very Long Duration Solar Flare

[Space Telescope Science Institute @SpaceTelescope]

As Earth ceremoniously completes its orbit around the Sun, let’s take a moment to think about #NASAWebb’s path around the Sun at Lagrange point 2. This route, along with the telescope’s sunshield, offers Webb protection from the Sun’s light and heat.

Credit: NASA-GSFC.

[Yuri Milner @yurimilner]

Lightsails are an elegant solution to “the tyranny of the rocket equation.” With @NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System, photon propulsion is taking an important step on a journey that could one day revolutionize deep space exploration.
https://t.co/5zOF5HzTw5