~orbitalindex | Issue No. 252 (46)
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Moon Monday #144: On the most precise planetary landing attempt by SLIM, sprawling SLS rocket costs, and more
Jatan did a rundown of planetary landing accuracies
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Starlink launches first “cellphone towers in space” for use with LTE phones
featured six Starlink sats equipped with the company’s upcoming direct-to-cell (DTC) capabilities
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“Such signal, much wow”: Starlink’s first texts via “cellphone towers in space”
successful text messaging
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First SpaceX Satellites Launch for Breakthrough Direct to Cell Service with T-Mobile - T-Mobile Newsroom
T-Mobile, the US cellular partner
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Iridium Unveils Project Stardust; Developing the Only Truly Global, Standards-Based IoT and Direct-to-Device Service
announced its newly rebranded ‘Project Stardust’
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John Deere to Use SpaceX Starlink for Digital Farming - TeslaNorth.com
John Deere just announced a partnership with Starlink
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Einstein Probe lifts off on a mission to monitor the X-ray sky
inspired by the eyes of lobsters
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https://twitter.com/astrobotic/status/1744835489838854215
Astrobotic’s current hypothesis about the Peregrine spacecraft’s propulsion anomaly is that a valve between the helium...
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NASA Science, Data Collection Ongoing Aboard Peregrine Mission One – Artemis
Some are also gathering data on cislunar space
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Update #17 for Peregrine Mission One | Astrobotic
will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn up tomorrow
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Team Clears Hurdle to Access Remaining Bennu Sample – OSIRIS-REx Mission
successfully removed two fasteners
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SpaceX says propellant venting caused loss of second Starship
Starship IFT-2 failed to reach orbit due to venting liquid oxygen
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https://x.com/nasajpl/status/1744886924685554060?s=46&t=O4DjbjnpfZSRNsn7FTYICA
flew for its 71st time
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Japan launches IGS-Optical 8 reconnaissance satellite
optical reconnaissance satellite
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Europe considers launching Copernicus satellite on Falcon 9
on a Falcon 9 instead of Vega C
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Blue Origin's first New Glenn stages are now at the launch site
now at Kennedy in Florida
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Orienspace breaks Chinese commercial launch records with Gravity-1 solid rocket
delivered three satellites to LEO
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Fermi's 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky
time-lapse of 14 years of gamma-ray observations
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Fermi's 14-Year Time-Lapse of the Gamma-Ray Sky
here’s a version superimposed on a fireplace
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https://twitter.com/13ericralph31/status/1745948804011208878?s=61&t=x2_sPEA_uncQxpGOEUO-xQ
is now used by 2.3M users, and later this year will launch a new backpack-size “mini”...
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https://x.com/umbraspace/status/1740828848386687154?s=46&t=O4DjbjnpfZSRNsn7FTYICA
sharing one beautiful SAR image per day
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https://twitter.com/umbraspace/status/1633150436361338880
This one of the Grasberg mine in Papua, Indonesia
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Elon Musk: SpaceX needs to build Starships as often as Boeing builds 737s
SpaceX will need to make an order-of-magnitude more Starships than Boosters
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