Rockets, history & technology, remote places, extreme weather &the blues. AIS Station operator (MarineTraffic). NASA Spaceflight (NSF) camera custodian.
Cape Canaveral, FL USA
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JohnCn retweeted
The US Defense Intelligence Agency's latest report on space warfare contains some fascinating graphics dia.mil/Portals/110/Images/N…
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Huhh, so this is what a supersonic sea-skimming target interception looks like (Unseen IR cam Footage from US navy).
USS Philippine Sea & USS Mason engaging a GQM-163A Coyote target using AEGIS combat system and SM-2 interceptors during SWATT training in the Atlantic.
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Ship 42 just wrapped a full 6-engine static fire at Massey’s, following its single-engine test yesterday.
Flight 15 gearing up quickly
@NASASpaceflight
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Ship 42 has completed both its single- and six-engine static fire tests, paving the way for Flight 15 in November. These events occurred during a busy period at Starbase that included Ship 43 testing ahead of Flight 16.
➡️youtu.be/pdRxsdBDV98
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Space freighters.
Scenes from this morning at the Kennedy Space Center turn basin, where NASA’s Pegasus and SpaceX’s Marmac 31 "You’ll Thank Me Later" barges are docked.
This is the first occasion they've been seen together in such close proximity, offering a rare opportunity to witness two vessels purpose-built to transport large spaceflight hardware.
📸 - @NASASpaceflight
nsf.live/spacecoast
JohnCn retweeted
Hi guys
I was tired of missing cool sunsets so I made a bot and website to show sunset quality forecasts.
SkyGrade compares several recent runs of a high resolution weather model to grade every spot's sunrise and sunset from A+ to F, based on how much high cloud there is to catch the color, whether lower clouds block the light, and how much smoke or haze is in the air.
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Halo-51 and Halo-53, 2 Missile Defense Agency High Altitude Observatory GLF5's, are outbound from Tulsa enroute to Australia for upcoming hypersonic missile testing. NASA WB-57 N926NA arrived Hawaii yesterday with support GLF5 N95NA and will record video of the launch. 🧵
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Behold: The US Defense Intelligence Agency has released a report on challenges to security in space, including an NEI image of China’s spaceplane from Maxar, taken in 2024.
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Meanwhile at Starbase:
Ship 42 single-engine static fire at Massey's
Ship 43 catch testing on the tower.
They really are doing everything everywhere all at once.
@NASASpaceflight
JohnCn retweeted
Chapter 2: Meet Big Iron
Our 1 MW satellite design:
• 5 racks of GPUs
• 6 laser links at 1.2 Tb/s each
• About 132 meters across when deployed
• The upper stage becomes the satellite
A deployed span longer than an American football field.
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Leo Vulcan 1 (LV-01) payload on the move.
LV-01 is the first of 38 Leo missions on @ulalaunch’s heavy-lift Vulcan rocket, and last week, teams successfully transported the 40-satellite payload—encapsulated inside a 70-foot-tall fairing—to the new Amazon Vertical Integration Facility (VIF-A) at Cape Canaveral.
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With support from @SpaceX, the AFRL agile cargo pods were recovered after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Each pod contained representative mission equipment to study the effects of temperature, shock, and vibration of the cargo environments during launch and reentry. #Readiness
ALT AFRL agile cargo pod recovery after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean
ALT AFRL unpacking and assessing agile cargo pod contents after recovery in Long Beach, CA
AFRL conducted a test of preliminary Rocket Cargo capabilities via @SpaceX Bandwagon-5 on a Falcon 9 launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station @SLDelta45. This test involved a SpaceX Starfall capsule loaded with #AFRL agile cargo pods for point-to-point delivery missions.
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S43 departing Masseys entrance on the right and S42 arriving on the left. @NASASpaceflight
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The team also made progress at LC-36B yesterday. Roughly 450 truckloads of concrete, lined up bumper-to-bumper and stretching nearly 3 miles up the coast, supported a 4,500-cubic-yard pour for the pile caps. Three more placements to go for a total of 15,000 cubic yards. This is the foundation for our New Glenn 9x4 pad.
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Starship Flight 15: Booster 22 Static Fire!
youtube.com/live/BlyqwOjCJzA
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@SpaceX Super Heavy Booster 22 static fire. 🔊 🚀🇺🇸
