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@DutchSpace
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4 years
Tomcat...
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That time a NASA F-18 joined up with Space Shuttle Endeavour and the 747 SCA for a nice fly-by of the Hollywood sign
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3 years
Had a look at the recent SpaceX footage of the Starship SN15 landing, the gimballing of the Raptors (said Merlins earlier, it's Sunday, I'm awake now :) is pretty interesting... #Starship #SN15
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3 years
N1...
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3 years
Already posted before, but this is a clearer "rover family shot (including the drone)"on @NASAPersevere :)
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3 years
It's Sunday, how about a nice Titan IV vapor cone :)
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3 years
Objects in your mirror may look... wait...what!? ;-) #Shuttle
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2 years
Holy crap, they released an X-37B OTV-6 image WITH the service module ! #X37B #OTV6
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Right, about that "mysterious" port seen on the latest X-37B OTV-7 image, shown for the first time in a "connected" state (to my knowledge) A thread...
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3 years
And we have Webb temperature data ! #Webb #JWST
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18 days
Found it on their instagram longer version welcome :) #Ariane6 #VA262 #CSG
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18 days
This is clearly a screenshot from a movie... so, where is it ? can we have it ? pretty please ? s'il te plaît ? avec du sucre dessus ? #VA262 #Ariane6 #CSG
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3 years
Nice, the full Webb separation from Ariane 5 video ! Full length hi-res video here -> #Webb #VA256 #CSG #ESA
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1 year
Debris much ?... 😬
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Liftoff from Starbase
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3 years
Pretty...
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3 years
So Philip Smith caught the X-37B with his telescope yesterday... However I'm more interested in the object on the right (see the red arrow I added) First view of the service module ? #X37B #OTV6
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3 years
That's some pull-up... #XB70
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3 years
Big rocket.......small truck... (and yes before you ask, it pulls the whole thing to the pad :) #VA254 #CSG #ESA
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3 years
While we wait.... Webb fairing... #Webb #VA256 #Ariane5 #CSG #ESA
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1 year
The view you get when you put a couple of camera's on the Dutch solar array wings during deployment (Hi @Airbus_NL ) on-board @ESA European Service Module, part of the Artemis Orion spacecraft :) Source link-> H/T @go4gordon
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3 years
Seems there are new angles of the SN15 landing in the video SpaceX just posted.... #SN15
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1 year
Probably the best on-orbit Space Shuttle footage ever shot, and I want all of it, uncut... (and yes this is real, shot on-orbit using an IMAX camera during STS-51 using ORFEUS-SPAS)
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3 years
While everyone is looking at the landing, I was distracted by the multicast IP that was briefly on the SpaceX stream... #nerd #SN15
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4 years
I still think @elonmusk watched many Von Braun movies... #Starship #SpaceX
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3 years
Final view of our babies before final fairing encapsulation... #VS26 #CSG #ESA
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3 years
Last view of Webb... bye bye and good luck up there ! source: #VA256 #Webb #CSG #Ariane5 #ESA
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2 years
Interesting Dream Chaser wing deployment test shown in the new video released last week... #DreamChaser
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2 years
I hope the second partially build AN-225 air-frame is still in one piece, could be useful...
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@DutchSpace
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9 months
Awww, little Susie is kinda cute :)
@ArianeGroup
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9 months
Unveiled in Paris last fall during the 2022 IAC show, SUSIE starts to get real today. The reduced-scale demonstrator you see in this video constitutes the first brick in #ArianeGroup 's development plan to swiftly master the key technologies of the #SUSIE concept.
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5 years
This is why some lectures are better than others.... so, it was Cassini-Huygens.... and this is how you pronounce Huygens...by eindbaas Professor Lewin #Huygens
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3 years
Little truck pulling big rocket....This is what that looks like from above :) (ATV-5)
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3 years
Dataset coming in... #MarsHelicopter
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3 years
Meanwhile the baby shuttle has been on-orbit for 300 days... #X37B #OTV6
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3 years
This warrants repeating, as it is often overlooked, the importance of the launch pad/GSE, or as @elonmusk aptly calls it "stage zero" is much harder to make (or replace) than even the booster or starship (let that sink in for a minute...) Clip via @Erdayastronaut
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3 years
BIg mirror on the move... Source: #Webb #CSG #VA256 #Ariane5 #ESA
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3 years
Who needs a Cessna when you can use a Tomcat as your banner plane... ;-)
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2 years
Meanwhile, our little friend X-37B OTV-6 has passed 720 days on-orbit, closing in the OTV-5 record of longest on-orbit time (~780 days) #X37B #OTV6
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2 years
"So, what outfit are you wearing for Halloween ?" SCA: *mic drop*
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7 months
Sneaky ! but I got it 😇 During the SpaceX USSF-52 launch broadcast they showed a 2 second clip of X-37B OTV-6 with the service module during deployment on-orbit ! (the big structure sticking out is FalconSat-8 btw) #X37B #OTV6
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1 year
To speak with Ace Ventura... "It's alive !"
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1 year
But will it start ?? Live-stream !
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2 years
First hi-res images coming in... via -> #Orion #Artemis1
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2 years
Meanwhile our little friend the X-37B OTV-6 is getting closer to 900 days on-orbit (891 days and counting) #X37B #OTV6
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3 years
That time after STS-68 when you could view 2 space shuttles, one just landed and one taking off on-top her 747 :) (via Tony Landis)
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4 years
Errhm....right... ;-)
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3 years
THIS is how you watch a launch
@drbecky_
Dr Becky Smethurst
3 years
An astrophysicist’s nervous live reaction to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope from a kitchen cooking a Christmas turkey in Lancashire, England - we like the word NOMINAL! 🥳 #JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #UnfoldTheUniverse @NASAWebb @ESA_Webb
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3 years
So you dunk your rocket model in the ocean, surely you use corrosion resistant stainless bolts right ? ....
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Interesting view of Falcon 9 going transonic towards Max-Q... #SpaceX #Starlink
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5 years
Just because I like this clip... #DreamChaser
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2 years
Oh, Hi there X-20 Dyna-Soar....
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5 years
Speaking of interesting artists concepts, how about this Space Shuttle concept circa 1969...
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6 years
Nice shots... #FalconHeavy
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4 years
Wait, did they just show a separation image of a X-37B from its upper stage ? yes they did.... #X37B #OTV6 #USSF7
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Nice shots of the European Robotic Arm (ERA) being finally mated to Nauka/MLM #ESA #ERA images via @roscosmos
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4 years
How to start a Soyuz.... well as seen in this rare view, you shove in some igniters, connect a couple of wires, and off you go :) (yes seriously...) image source -> #ProgressMS15
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So you are saying you take one SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) stick it on the back of a Boeing 747 and put it into a 60 deg climb and launch the ALSV (Air Launched Sortie Vehicle ) ? Sure.😲
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7 years
"You go kid, i'll watch from here" #Shuttle #X37B #OTV #SLF
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9 months
Meanwhile, at Tonopah TTR, someone patient and with a long lens got lucky and got a pair of F-117s Full vid in hi-res here ->
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2 years
Now they are both gone... 📷 @LucLucreation
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3 years
Also nice, Atlas II launch raw tracker cam
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5 years
It's 1980, let's do a test run of the Space Shuttle Forward RCS
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3 years
Ever seen an Ariane 5 main engine dance ? Now you have ;-) 📷ESA/CNES #Vulcain
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3 years
Titan IV lift-off slow-mo and umbilical disconnect galore...
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2 years
Zoomed in and slowed down...not a happy engine... Good luck to the teams working the issue and getting back to flying again !
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Interesting X-40A image I hadn't seen before...
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3 years
On the CZ-5B core stage reentry, I missed this interesting image before, the Italian MoD used its MFDR-LR Doppler radar to track it, and show it was tumbling... image via @EU_SST
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4 years
I really must commend @Virgin_Orbit for being open and showing the failure, this is something some people in Europe really need to learn, show the failure, so we can learn from it, stop worrying about "the bad PR" in my opinion it is worse if you try to hide it.
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Zoomed in and slowed down last moments of the booster... #Starship
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Full sequence of the booster sep, flip and oopsie #Starship
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1 year
New footage of X-37B OTV-6 during pre-launch processing, rarely seen video of the bottom side and close-up of the service module with payloads, including falconsat 8 In typical Boeing fashion, they like to "hide" this stuff just a bit, but I shall uncover it 😇 #X37B #OTV6
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Say @SierraSpaceCo any new images of the crewed Dream Chaser ? here she is looking a little shy in the back, hiding behind the ETA ;-)
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4 years
Sexy...
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Amazing footage caught of Starship "remnants" whizzing by the Florida keys... I'd say Starship FTS might need some looking into for IFT 3... Attached a clip of the enhanced version here, full 4k video in the post below
@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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Here is the processed and stabilized footage of @SpaceX 's IFT-2 Starship explosion, which I filmed from the Florida Keys! Be sure to click the length for the full 4K version, including contrast enhanced versions of the video! @DJSnM @Erdayastronaut
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3 years
You know...for above the desk or something... source: #JWST #Webb
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Speaking of liquid hydrogen fun (Hi SLS) here it is from an Ariane 5 point of view :) #LH2 #SLS #Ariane5 #VA256 #ESA
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Meanwhile... the X-37B OTV-6 baby shuttle has been on-orbit for 600 days... #X37B #OTV6
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10 months
I spy with my little eye...... a Dragon capsule ?😇
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2 years
Still an interesting view, X-37B OTV-2 landing in IR... #X37B #OTV2
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MOar slow-mo's please... (in HD/4k please...) #VA254 #CSG © ESA-CNES-Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG
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And here a video of the LH2 side of the SLS ML-1 TSMU retract during testing #Artemis #SLS
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2 years
As I'm a visual person, had a bit of a dig, no image yet of the famous SLS TSMU QD seal, but this one its pretty close This is the LH2 side of the Tail Service Mast Umbilical. (Overview image via @NASASpaceflight more background reading here: ) #Artemis
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Super sexy slow-mo's dropped ! #VA262 #Ariane6 #CSG #ESA source in 4k ->
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10 months
Belly rub ? #STS117
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4 years
THERE IS ONLY ONE Endeavour !
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3 years
Transport time for our babies... #VS26 #CSG #ESA #Galileo
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1 year
You know what would be nice ? if @BoeingSpace would release the full footage of this X-37B landing tracking shot...
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1 year
Speaking of the magnetometer boom on JUICE, here is a test version of the boom being deployed at ESTEC :) 📸 ESA - G. Porter
@ESA_JUICE
ESA's Juice mission
1 year
We’re pleased to share a first taste of #ESAJuice science data! 🤩 The magnetometer boom (J-MAG) recorded the change in magnetic field as it deployed. J-MAG will help characterise Jupiter & Ganymede's magnetic fields, and the moons' oceans. 📈
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4 years
Nice Long March 5B shot, via weibo -> #LongMarch5B
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4 years
Lamps these days.... #Falcon9 #SpaceX (via )
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3 years
Rainbirds....CSG style :) and a nice slow-mo at the end #Ariane6 #ELA4 #CSG #ESA More info and full video here ->
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Recreating the Sputnik transmitter from the original schematic -> #Sputnik60 #Sputnik #Sputnik1
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2 years
Oh, Hi there, if you were wondering why I haven't tweeted or replied for the past 12 hours, it was because @Twitter @TwitterSupport in their newly found wisdom *cough @elonmusk * thought that a X-37B OTV-4 landing video was an 'intimate' video and locked my account...
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4 years
And here we see "miss sassy ass" owning her launch pad ;) #VS24 #CSG #ZLS #ESA
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3 years
Somewhere in some archive the full video of this is hiding, hopefully we'll see it someday... #V112 #L503 #Ariane5 #OCAM #CSG #ESA
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3 years
So it has been 3 days, still no public temperature telemetry... any update on that @NASAWebb ?
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1 year
Now I'm no materials expert, but the material used for this tank dome certainly is....interesting...
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@joshjonsmith
Josh Smith
1 year
Photos of what South Korea says are likely part of the failed North Korean space launch vehicle fired today
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Tomorrow will be 1 month since the test flight attempt of Starship, I wonder when they will release the flap cam footage in full... Normally SpaceX is pretty good in showing failure, which I applaud, although I have some ideas, I wonder why not this time...
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3 years
Proper lift-off shot of my babies :) #VS26 #CSG #ESA
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4 years
The ISS at 20....amazing ! #SpaceStation20th
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