A painting of mine that may as well be a love letter to those men...and machines, who gave their all so we may know more about our world. "Fly me to the harvest moons".
SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
A massive SpaceX Starship rocket exploded after takeoff again, raining down fiery debris and briefly grounding flights at Orlando International Airport Thursday evening.
#SpaceX #Starship #rocket #explosion #TurksandCaicos #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/spacex-starship-1.7477356?cmp=rss
SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
A massive SpaceX Starship rocket exploded after takeoff again, raining down fiery debris and briefly grounding flights at Orlando International Airport Thursday evening.
#SpaceX #Starship #rocket #explosion #TurksandCaicos #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/spacex-starship-1.7477356?cmp=rss
SpaceX's latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but it lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.
#SpaceX #Starship #rocket #explosion #TurksandCaicos #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/spacex-starship-1.7477356?cmp=rss
#ElonMusk’s #SpaceX Starship #Rocket Breaksup & Disrupts Florida #Airports
But sure yeah put this #SpecialK Presidential Adviser in charge of #AirTrafficControl for airplanes & sure, throw in space #satellites too.
Video showed the upper stage of the most powerful rocket ever built spinning out of control in #space, a repeat of an unsuccessful test flight in January that led to debris falling over the Caribbean.
#USpol #Trump #idiocracy #DrugAbuse
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/science/spacex-starship-launch.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=DF139D51-2C7B-4A6C-869B-58A7D2104A63
Not everyone is convinced, no -
"However, sky watching veteran and reentry tracker, Jonathan McDowell who works at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Inside Outer Space that there is "no obvious space candidate. I am not convinced it's not from an airplane. Don’t see obvious evidence of reentry heating.""
more links:
longer video:
https://apnews.com/video/kenya-international-agreements-aerospace-technology-c71b12d56312425097f33d049dc7e3a7
different image:
https://airlive.net/space/2025/01/02/over-500-kg-1000-pounds-space-debris-fell-in-south-kenya-village/
Spacex Booster9 ring (way bigger than this one!)
https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/08/spacex-reveals-starship-hot-stage-ring
500 kg, 2.5 meter #object from #space crashes into Mukuku village in Makueni county, #Kenya -
It is claimed its sound could be heard from 200 km away.
Current identification says it is a #separation #ring from a #rocket
(and it does in fact resemble one) -
any experts here who recognize the make?
@space @planet4589
@esa
@nasa (more links in first comment)
Spin Me Right Round.
What if Guardians was an actual 80's Disney cartoon?
#cute, #disney, #funny, #guardians_of_the_galaxy, #human, #male, #man, #marvel, #peter_quill, #raccoon, #rocket, #rocket_raccoon, #starlord, #80's_cartoon
Fantastic to see this article about #FreeCAD and #OpenFOAM being used to perform CFD analysis on #rocket designs. Lots of mentions for Dave Carter who is a fabulous FreeCAD contributor and creator of the Rocket Workbench. Check out the excellent Peak Of Flight rocketry newsletter here https://www.apogeerockets.com/Peak-of-Flight/Newsletter641
Aftershock II: How Students Shattered 20-Year Amateur Rocket Records - When it comes to space exploration, we often think of billion-dollar projects—NASA... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/aftershock-ii-how-students-shattered-20-year-amateur-rocket-records/ #blackrockdesert #homemaderocket #aftershockii #spaceflight #studentmade #nevada #record #rocket #space #news #rpl
Imagine not just one but two harvest moons. Makes even a rocket launch have a certain spooky beauty about it...
My own silly little painting, "Fly me to the harvest moons".
Interesting engineering success, but unfortunately not the kind of progress we need most, as humanity, right now.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-flight-5-launch-super-heavy-booster-catch-success-video