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Object 69094 (2025-135BX) based on TLE analysis appears to have come off W-4. It is probably too early to conclude it is the reentry vehicle, with a failed deorbit burn, but I look forward to an update from @VardaSpace.

💨🔫 En image, le modèle réduit de la capsule ExoMars utilisé lors du test supersonique (8 cm de diamètre). Le canon balistique à poudre lui a permis d’atteindre 4 300 km/h (Mach ~3,5) avec une accélération maximale de 17 000 G ! 📷 : ISL

China's Tianwen-3 planetary exploration mission is scheduled to launch around 2028 and bring samples from Mars back to Earth around 2031, with five international and Hong Kong and Macao cooperation projects selected to join the mission.

Chang'e-7 mission patch, showing lander, rover, shadowed crater hopper/probe, orbiter and Queqiao-2 relay satellite. Launch NET August. Source: m.weibo.cn/detail/5294332…

Cool video of New Glenn’s fairing re-entry. For this flight we installed an exo-atmospheric reaction control system (RCS) in the fairing to control re-entry and enable recovery of the fairing. We’re planning a parachute recovery later this year, and the data from these fairings gives us the learnings needed to develop and refine that capability.

ESA has completed sterilisation of the ExoMars parachute that will slow the Rosalind Franklin rover’s descent for a safe touchdown on the Red Planet. europeanspaceflight.com/esa-completes-…

GOOD NEWS! ArcaSpace (the water rocket people) have relaunched their website. We're so back...

The more I learn about the Soviet space program after the death of Korolev, the more I think that his successor's middle name must have been 'Failed'. Vasili "Failed" Mishin "failures under him included Soyuz 1 & 11, loss of three stations, and four probes sent to Mars"

The mirror inside the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was donated to @NASA by the @NRO_gov. It was originally built in the late 1990s/early 2000s for Earth-imaging spy sats. The donation was under the condition that NASA pinky-promises to never point it at Earth! promise!!!! Roman can survey the sky ~1000x faster than Hubble. Roman will downlink 1.4 terabytes of data per day. All from a 3-decade-old mirror. If this is what "obsolete" (for reconnaissance) '90s NRO tech can achieve, just imagine what insane optics are pointing back at Earth right now, that we'll (probably) never know about. 😳 📷 L: @NASA | R: @L3HarrisTech

Tianwen-3 Mars return mission. Plan to launch at 2028 & return at 2031.

Una Crew Dragon japonesa. Propuesta de Mitsubishi de cápsula espacial tripulada reutilizable para 4 astronautas lanzada por el H3 (resolución aumentada por IA, así que algunos kanjis están mal).

ESA has released a first look at a full-scale Space Rider model that will be used in a final series of drop tests to validate its recovery system. The tests are expected to take place later this year at the Salto di Quirra test range in Sardinia, Italy.

I love that the Navy divers were taking images of Orion's heat shield before it was brought onto the ship:

Re-entry of Artemis II crew captured by the astronaut in International Space Station

嫦娥七号探测器已经运抵文昌发射场，预计今年下半年发射。（图 1 来自 CMS）

This clever little rover is now officially hitched aboard Griffin-1! Once on the lunar surface, this joint mission called "BEACON" will explore with our CubeRover hardware, navigate with @MissionCtrlSS Spacefarer™ platform, and even flex its AI muscles with Spacefarer AI™. BEACON will enable operators in Canada and US to perceive and navigate the lunar surface, demonstrate onboard machine learning capabilities, and even gather data for rovers operating in shadowed regions

A sample return mission from... the surface of Venus! It proposes to use a balloon-launched carbon monoxide rocket and a solar-powered flying drone, but does anyone have more details on this NIAC selection? nasa.gov/general/sample…

@MikeRathbone86 @esaagar There will be uncrewed HLS landings in advance of Artemis IV

NASA claims the Art. 2 reentry will be the fastest crew entry ever at "about 25000 mph" (i.e. somewhere in the range 10.95 to 11.40 km/s). However the Horizons trajectory for Art2 appears to give 11.06 km/s (inertial) while Apollo 10 is cited at 11.094 km/s. Can anyone clarify?