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[raging545 @raging545]

Ukrainian drones are now attacking the oil depot in Feodosia in occupied Crimea. This was hit before and almost completely destroyed. Repairs and reconostruction were claimed have been planned, No details if it was done. Geolocated at 45.06932303904868, 35.394479701134685

[hw97karbine @hw97karbine]

US "Amazon" variant of the British "Grand Slam" earthquake bomb dropped by B-29s on reinforced U-boat pens in Germany during post-war trials

full clip: https://t.co/xa9KUmJaBN

The Valentin submarine pens are a reinforced concrete facility on the Weser River at the Bremen suburb of Rekum, built to protect German U-boats during World War II. The factory was under construction from 1943 to March 1945 using forced labor, but was damaged by air-raids and unfinished by the end of the war. The Valentin factory was the largest fortified U-boat facility in Germany, and was second only to those built at Brest in France.

After the war, the facility was used as a target for Project Ruby, a series of joint British and American tests to determine the viability of various munitions against reinforced concrete targets. It had been hit by British "Tallboy" and "Grand Slam" earthquake bombs during a raid on March 27th 1945 and one of the weapons tested in 1947 was "Amazon", the US variant of the 22,000 lb "Grand Slam" that weighed in at 25,000 lbs and was dropped by B-29 Superfortress bombers flying from RAF Marham in England. Fifteen such inert bombs were dropped from 17,000 feet and of these two hits were obtained on the thinner roof section that was approximately 15 feet thick.

#grandslam #barneswallis #bunkerbuster #earthquakebomb #ww2 #wwii

[Red Panda Koala @RedPandaKoala]

Alleged mystery drones reported flying over US Capitol 🇺🇸

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

CNN airs montage of Trump VP contenders saying they “never liked” Trump, they “wouldn’t do business with him,” calling him a “con artist,” and more

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

thinking about this 😭😭

[Gail @GailDuchess]

@lawofruby Trump wants a mistrial

[DrTen @DrTen7]

@makelessnoise Yes, it was taken with a small camera on a small satellite with bespoke design and processing algorithms.

[DrTen @DrTen7]

#GreatConjunction2020 of #Jupiter and #Saturn as seen from orbit by #KazSTSAT satellite through the experimental BDL payload with 27mm aperture.

[DrTen @DrTen7]

@elonmusk Bvgb"**zU'*,5*bid*

[DrTen @DrTen7]

Unlike the airports, the Suez Canal traffic looks as busy as it gets today. Image by #KazSTSAT BDL payload.

[DrTen @DrTen7]

As more flights are being cancelled, the airlines are looking for makeshift parking space. Frankfurt am Main Airport @Airport_FRA acquired by #KazSTSAT with the 3 cm aperture experimental BDL payload. Quite a few planes appear to be parked on runway 07L/25R.

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Apollo 13 in Real Time is now live! Relive @NASA's "successful failure" in real time.

@BenFeist and his team have put together an amazing website which includes mission control audio that has not been heard for 50 years.

Check it out now!

https://t.co/MYBZmY0VOp

#Apollo50

[DrTen @DrTen7]

An opportunistic snap of object 43760 (@SpaceflightInc SSO-A Lower Free Flyer) taken by #KazSTSAT with BDL imager for the timing validation purposes during a recent 8km flyby. Calculated dimensions impliy that it should be the deployed 4m dragsail (mostly) https://t.co/Gt5xkse8uE

[DrTen @DrTen7]

Lompoc, California and Vandenberg AFB captured by #KazSTSAT that is celebrating its first year in orbit today, as it lifted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from SLC-4 at Vandenberg on 3rd December 2018 https://t.co/gD5VXoxFm6

[Surrey Satellites @SurreySat]

Our joint Ghalam-SSTL spacecraft operations team have successfully made contact with KazSTSAT - nominal telemetry received on this first pass. Our thanks to @SpaceflightInc & @SpaceX
Press Release at https://t.co/BsUhTzS6Fn

[DrTen @DrTen7]

A little bit of #astrophotography from an idle part of the #KazSTSAT orbit leveraging its BDL payload and the excellent pointing performance. Two radiometry monitoring images of the #Moon captured half an orbit apart, effectively forming a #stereo pair with a 14000 km base line

[DrTen @DrTen7]

Another panchromatic image taken by the #KazSTSAT experimental BDL imager with 30 mm aperture diameter: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world as seen from the orbit on October 28th.

[DrTen @DrTen7]

An image of Washington DC acquired by #KazSTSAT with #SurreySat SLIM-6 imager using its off-pointing capabilities on 11th October, one week ahead of @AIAA #IAC2019

[DrTen @DrTen7]

A low light image of #KSAT #SvalSat (bottom-left) and Longyearbyen taken by #KazSTSAT yesterday using the experimental BDL imager this time. The Sun was only about 4° above the horizon at the time of acquisition.

[DrTen @DrTen7]

#Siberia #wildfires as seen by #KazSTSAT yesterday. The NIR-RG images are highlightung the areas not affected by fires.

[DrTen @DrTen7]

Smile and wave😀
An unusual picture taken by #KazSTSAT during a recent 2 km close approach with FalconSat-6. Since we were co-passengers on the same #SSOA #SmallSatExpress launch, the orbits still are quite similar, and the relative velocity was only a few meters per second.