Anatoly Zak

Author of Russia in Space; journalist, illustrator. Clients: Popular Mechanics, Aviation Week, Air & Space Smithsonian, Aerospace America & others.

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ISS from a very rare vantage point of another satellite:

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Engineering at its finest.

The International Space Station, imaged in orbit above the coast of French Guiana.

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@P1L0T Probably unrelated.

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A Soyuz-2-1b rocket launches a military payload from Plesetsk, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense quoted by official media:

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@JohnEPike Unlike Vanderbilt, we can't afford life without justice.

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On the left is my artwork, which took months to develop, and on the right, it is disfigured into AI slop, which floods the Internet, despite clear copyright notices and without permission. If you have a professional idea how to legally challenge this, please contact me privately.

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@JohnEPike Makes sense, but I think, at least some legal guardrails could be imposed if the creative industry fights. There is also misinformation element in this process, which goes far beyond just copyright.

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A view of today's classified Soyuz launch from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic, downrange from Plesetsk:

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@RussianSpaceWeb След в небе Сыктывкара. Из местного астрономического паблика

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@kolesglock Большое спасибо!

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...and last but not least: it was the 131st mission of the Fregat which is the upper stage delivering GLONASS satellites from a suborbital trajectory to their deployment orbit some 19,000 kilometers above Earth: https://t.co/gXNWgnED5j

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...another piece of statistics: this is the 70th mission to deploy and replenish the GLONASS constellation (the Soviet/Russian equivalent of the GPS system): https://t.co/Q6xlx32JWI

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@CollectPanda33 They do have special teams specialized in removal of rocket debris downrange from launch sites, for example: https://t.co/EK0JY2LXEs

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@nark_of @GeraldJr1997 @Gabiepzkmndntin You are welcome to use all my images "as is" privately for your research. Obviously, I encourage everybody to subscribe to my "Insider Content" section, which contains enormous and constantly growing collection of carefully curated material.

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...for the Soyuz-2-1b version, it was the 107th launch: https://t.co/0HhjHIovFx

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...It was also the 198th mission for the Soyuz-2 series of rockets (by my calculations, excluding now-retired Soyuz-2-1v variant): https://t.co/6qUDycKTVe

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@p8S9GaQU90xZYAg Думаю, это серая зона юриспруденции пока нет обратного прецедента. Не говоря о том, что в данном случае генерируется не "ответ на запрос", а заведомая дезинформация.

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@p8S9GaQU90xZYAg У меня такое количество таких примеров, что, я думаю, этот аргумент не выдерживает критики.

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Moscow-based operator of geostationary satellites has eight spacecraft in the development pipeline, with two quartets to be launched in 2029-2030.
DETAILS: https://t.co/5JWOdFdLMP

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.@Astro_Kutryk and @Astro_Anil completed their spacewalk at 3:35 p.m. EST today after installing the eighth and final roll-out solar array. This completes the upgrade of the International Space Station's power generation system. More... https://t.co/JNTjNfzFld