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Satellite breaking up recently seen from ISS (Chris Williams, April 27th)

My article on the history of the ISS' forgotten Science-Power Platform and its Mir-2 origins now available on The Space Review. thespacereview.com/article/5210/1

Falcon 9 orbital launches by year, 2010-2025 spacestatsonline.com/rockets/falcon9

For those who like to know what is inside. @NASAArtemis @SpaceX @blueorigin @FelixSchlang

Saturn’s rings, captured by Voyager 2 in 1981

Mars - Cloudy North Polar Cap - CNSA Tianwen-1 CreditImage Processing: Andrea LuckRaw Images Copyright: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC

NASA’s Artemis II mission is nearing its final stage, with the Orion spacecraft set for a high-speed return to Earth and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Here’s everything you need to know about Artemis ll's return to earth aje.news/22dvfa

Molniia 4-stage rocket carrying Venera-5 probe to Venus. An image reconstructed from video frames.

Apollo CSM VS the proposed Orion + Centaur V that would carry Orion from a Low Earth Orbit into a Low Lunar Orbit. (also converted the units to metric)

Made a few upgrades to the real time Artemis mission tracker: - More accurate: the spacecraft is now shown using live data straight from NASA. - Mission Time” is now a slider, so you can move backward and forward through the mission timeline! LINK 🔗👇

Handy comparison between the Apollo's command module and Orion. Orion is slightly taller and four feet wider. Habitable volume = 210ft^3 vs 314ft^3

Artemis II launch from the tower in slow motion

That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

Artemis II flight plan

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

Number of orbital launches by Russia, 1957-2025. Notable decline after Cold War period. Close to it's lowest level since early 1960s. Details: spacestatsonline.com/launches/count…

Buran in storage in the Orbiter Assembly and Test Facility (MIK OK) at site 254, which later became the processing area for Russian-launched ISS modules and Soyuz spacecraft. Buran remained there until 1997, and its stay briefly overlapped with Zarya's visit before launch!

A massive galaxy known as LEDA 1313424. It is 2.5 times bigger than the Milky Way & is known as a collisional ring galaxy, having nine rings confirmed observations, rippling from its center caused by another galaxy passing through it. Image spans about 530,000 light-years.

Comet West shined at its brightest 50 years ago this month. Reached peak brightness of -3 in March 1976.

My tribute to one of my fav space missions ever - Cassini–Huygens mission to Saturn. 2017, painted in @Procreate on iPad Pro. #humanArt #NoAI