I’d recognize Kopaka anywhere…

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Orbital parameters from Jonathan McDowell: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mjugttdyis2w

The Qianfan 07 orbits are now out, showing 800 x 820 km x 89.0 deg deployment orbits as expected.

Orbital parameters from Jonathan McDowell: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mjugttdyis2w

China’s Daqi-2 satellite cataloged in a 682 x 689 km x 98.3 deg orbit in 1025 LTDN orbit plane.

Nominal liftoff, booster landing, and Starlink deploy: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2045913150827225527

Deployment of 25 @Starlink satellites confirmed

This mission marked the 600th successful landing of a Falcon booster.

With a few exceptions (CZ-5B), don’t most upper stages start off in a suborbital trajectory? I don’t think the mission failure was the booster’s fault…

I think in this case, “transit” means “passes in front of from our perspective” rather than “travels to” :)

I don’t recall ever hearing proposals to boost the ISS all the way to lunar orbit. Lunar gateway was to be a separate space station in lunar orbit, but those plans were recently abandoned in an effort to focus on (more useful) surface habitats.

NG-3 Update: We have confirmed payload separation. AST SpaceMobile has confirmed the satellite has powered on. The payload was placed into an off-nominal orbit. We are currently assessing and will update when we have more detailed information.

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mjulieh6dc2w

ASTS confirms unrecoverable failure but without any specific orbital parameters www.businesswire.com/news/home/20…

Welp. RIP BlueBird 7.

2026-04-19:

• Quiet Sunday.
• Massey’s: Overnight, test tank S39.1 undergoes another cryo test. (ViX)
• Build site: Gigabay construction continues. (Doehring)

NASA Artemis II Reentry and Splashdown webcast :)

2026-04-18:

• Side-by-side comparison of eight B19 propellant loading tests. (NSF)
• Launch site: Photo of flame trench after static fire. (RGV Aerial)
• Build site: Components for the Pad 1 launch mount at Sanchez. (RGV Aerial, Killip)

Welcome!

Why does the boy on the left look familiar?

Until it breaks, or I obtain media which it cannot display. Actually, I wouldn’t discard it in that case, it would just become my second monitor.

Tall waves moving in slow motion

I guess that’s kind of to be expected when you have:

• Low gravity
• Low density ocean
• High density atmosphere

Upvote for Parks and Rec. I think I’ve watched the series at least twice, and my favourite episodes many more times.

Yeah, that’s honestly not bad. I think the only crime here is not peeling the avocado before serving.

2026-04-17:

• Launch site: Overnight, the booster transport stand approaches Pad 2. (ViX)
• The electrical bunker moves from the Starhopper parking lot to the air separation unit. (ViX)
• The chopsticks remove B19 from the launch mount. (Avid Space, ViX, StarshipGazer, rocketjunkie94, NSF, colleenliedtke 1, colleenliedtke 2, EzekielOverstr1)
• Road closure end time is extended from 16:00 to 22:00. (ViX)
• B19 moves from Pad 2 to Megabay 1. (Avid Space, ViX, TrackingTheSB 1, TrackingTheSB 2, NSF 1, NSF 2, NSF 3, Sorensen, RGVaerialphotos, cnunez 1, cnunez 2, rocketjunkie94)
• Build site: The pez dispenser for S41 enters Megabay 2. (Avid Space, ViX)
• Parts for the Pad 1 launch mount begin to arrive at Sanchez. (Killip)
• McGregor: Venting from the mystery tent is observed. (ufotinik)

The old one was better.

#NeverForget

get priority before

You, like the city’s Transportation Management director, may have just fallen for the Phase Order Fallacy:

Fact-checking the TTC about signal priority

Vice-chair Mihevc asked whether the order of phases matters given that the signal cycle is a cycle. The City’s Transportation Management director responded that it matters since they want to serve streetcars earlier. But this is inherently false because, as Vice-chair Mihevc correctly interjected, there’s no such thing as “earlier” or “later” in a cycle. On Spadina, where the streetcar phase comes “after” the left turn phase, it also comes two phases before the left turn phase.