#Space fans seem excited about the emerging plans to launch and operate #AIDataCenters in orbit. Sincerely, does anybody realise how difficult that actually is? Did they genuinely have a massive breakthrough in #spacecraft design? Or is this yet another farce designed to siphon off even more taxpayers' money into the pockets of the #billionaires? [1/9]

Not sure what to think of #spacecraft #graveyards on the #moon other than there's got to be a better way

#science #astronomy #space

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/22/patches-of-the-moon-to-become-spacecraft-graveyards-say-researchers

Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

The flight was just 10 minutes but the capsule still managed to soar 105 kilometres up, skimming into space.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-21/first-paraplegic-engineer-in-space/106167430

#Disabilities #Space #Spacecraft #AirTransportIndustry #SpaceExploration

Multi-camera Time-lapse of Roman's Assembly Completion ✨🛰️

#Cleanroom #DarkMatter #Galaxy #Infographic #Integration #MilkyWay #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #Spacecraft

⏩ 3 new pictures and 3 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=19&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20251220125636

3I/ATLAS interstellar comet or alien spacecraft? See it yourself today as it makes closest approach to planet
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=3iatlas-interstellar-comet-or-alien-spacecraft-see-it-yourself-today-as-it-makes-closest-approach-to-planet
"3I/ATLAS: Comet or Spaceship? Witness the Cosmic Mystery Today!"
#space #astronomy #interstellar #comet #alien #spacecraft

The Fastest Space Machines

https://tube.blueben.net/w/sDdJPgtvxupf28VBdRXpv9

NASA’S PUNCH Releases Refined Images of Eruptions from the Sun

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/12/18/nasas-punch-releases-refined-images-of-eruptions-from-the-sun/

Video shows coronal mass ejections erupting from the Sun’s surface from Oct. 21 to Nov. 12, 2025. Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is seen at the top, Venus at the left, and Mercury to the right of center.

Credit: NASA/SwRI

#Heliophysics #Sun #PUNCH #Astrophysics #Astrodon #space #spacecraft #science #news #Comet #CometLemmon #Lemmon #Venus #Mercury #SolarEruptions

Dolphins swim past as support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, March 18. NASA/Keegan Barber

#phototography
#spacecraft
#dolphins

This Week in Astronomy History, December 8 - 14

🔭 December 8, 1908: 60-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson sees first light
🚀 December 11, 1972: Apollo 17 lands on Moon
🛰️ December 14, 1962: Mariner 2 flies by Venus

https://lowell.edu/this-week-in-astronomy-history-december-8-14/

#Astrodon #Astronomy #MountWilson #obsevartory #telescope #Apollo #Apollo17 #Moon #Venus #Mariner2 #space #science #history #Historyofscience #spacecraft

Q3 2025 Global 🌏 #SpaceActivity

• #US 🇺🇸 providers : 47 orbital launches
• #Chinese 🇨🇳 providers : 24 launches
• 1,044 #spacecraft launched globally
• 98% #satellites 🛰️ under 1,200 kg, 86% of total upmass
• ~616,301 kg spacecraft mass launched
• Most spacecraft operated by #commercial companies
• The majority were communications 🛜 satellites, driven largely by continued #Starlink deployments

https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/bryce-briefing-2025-Q3/

HOPE Z-Pinch
https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesignsfusion.php#id--HOPE_(Z-Pinch_Fusion)
#lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #rocket

Update on the appearance of fusion rocket exhaust: https://www.tumblr.com/krismur/802826948086808576/i-reached-out-to-a-number-of-universities-with

#spacecraft #spaceship #fusion #fusiondrive

#NASA just lost contact with #MAVEN #Mars orbiter, and will soon lose another one
Telemetry showed #spacecraft was working normally before passing behind Mars, but spacecraft did not resume communications after emerging from behind the planet.
MAVEN is newest of NASA’s 3 operational Mars orbiters. But NASA’s two other Mars orbiters have been in space for more than 20 years. The older of the two, named #MarsOdyssey, has been at Mars since 2001 and will soon run out of fuel
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/nasa-just-lost-contact-with-a-mars-orbiter-and-will-soon-lose-another-one/

Large Drainage Systems Produced Half Of Mars’ Ancient River Sediment
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2514527122 <-- shared paper
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https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-discover-16-giant-river-networks-on-ancient-mars-where-life-could-have-thrived/ <-- shared technical media article
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#water ##hydrology #dynamic #planet #Mars #extraterrestrial #ecosystems #drainage #landform
#drainageways #drainagesystems #Martian #terrain #geomorphology #geomorphometry #catchments #fluvia #pluvial #river #sediment #solarsystem #sedimentarybasins #life #habitable #sedimenttransport #topography #erosion #impact #crater #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #spacecraft #MRO #marsobservation #exploration #martian #MarsAttack

Several bio-essential #sugars, including ribose (RNA sugar) and #glucose (metabolism substrate) were identified on #asteroid (101955) #Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx #spacecraft. These sugars complete the inventory of ingredients crucial to #life.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01838-6

#space #asteroid #life #science #osirisrex

The #NASA #maven #satellite is one of three currently in orbit of #Mars

Another of those satellites is close to running out of fuel.

#spacecraft

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/nasa-just-lost-contact-with-a-mars-orbiter-and-will-soon-lose-another-one/

Here's hoping that #NASA re-establishes contact with #maven in orbit of #mars

#spacecraft

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/10/nasa-loses-contact-maven-spacecraft-mars