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NASA has officially named the Artemis III crew for the 2027 mission! This mission will launch to low Earth orbit to validate crucial rendezvous and docking operations with Blue Origin and SpaceX landers. 🇺🇸 Randy Bresnik – Commander (NASA) 🇮🇹 Luca Parmitano – Pilot (ESA) 🇺🇸 Andre Douglas – Mission Specialist (NASA) 🇺🇸 Frank Rubio – Mission Specialist (NASA) Reporting for @SuperclusterHQ

Liftoff of Starship!

The Starship recovery team is deployed in one of the most remote environments on Earth to gather critical data on Starship as it returns

Starship’s flight trajectory for today’s test

Live webcast of Starship's twelfth flight test starts now

SpaceX launches the first Falcon Heavy since 2024, carrying a communications satellite for Viasat. The rocket lifted off at 10:13 a.m. ET from LC-39A in Florida. The side cores landed at LZ-40 and LZ-2, while the center core was expended. Reporting for @SuperclusterHQ

It was a beautiful morning to watch Falcon Heavy lift off from Kennedy Space Center. Reporting for @SuperclusterHQ

Some frames you plan. This one, I didn't even know I had until I got home. This is Artemis 2 on the pad one night before launch. My remotes were already deployed, waiting on a @MiopsTrigger sound trigger to fire when the rocket lit. Something tripped them in twilight (best guess: rain hitting the bag, maybe a bird, possibly thunder, but I don’t remember that…) and a couple frames were fired by accident. Because I'd built the rig to adapt to any light, those "wasted" frames came back looking like this. Here's why I never shoot a launch like this in straight manual: the window was two hours. Artemis could've gone in daylight, golden hour (it did) or stretched deep into twilight and night. A locked daytime exposure blows out if it slips late. A locked twilight exposure crushes if it goes early. So I set the camera to think for itself: -Auto ISO range with a minimum shutter speed floor so we don’t run seconds long exposures and miss the action -Center Weighted metering so the camera baises expsoure to the action in the frame -Negative EV to hold highlights at launch since it’s going to bright and backlit -Fixed F/11 aperture for sharpness A rig built to react to whatever the scene decides to give us. I didn't even notice these frames until I was scrubbing the card after the launch weeks later looking for another shot… The first crewed Moon mission in over 50 years and a quiet pad portrait of Artmeis-II I never asked for, taken by a camera I'd trained to make good decisions without me. Preparation isn't about controlling the moment. It's about trusting the system you built. 📷 @CanonUSA 1D X, 16-35mm @ 35mm 🚀 @NASAArtemis 2 Photo credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ

Liftoff of Falcon Heavy!

ULA launches a batch of Amazon Leo internet satellites into orbit aboard an Atlas V 551 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Reporting for @SuperclusterHQ

SpaceX is now scheduled to launch the ViaSat-3 Flight 3 satellite atop the Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center on April 29th during an 85-minute window opening at 10:13 a.m. EDT, after Monday’s attempt was called off due to unfavorable weather. Both Falcon Heavy side boosters will fly home for dual landings at Cape Canaveral shortly after launch, while the core booster will be expended. Reporting for @SuperclusterHQ

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Welcome back to Port Canaveral! The first reflown New Glenn first stage has successfully returned. It arrived aboard the recovery barge Jacklyn after a launch three days ago, when Blue Origin sent AST SpaceMobile communication satellites into space. Although the satellite was deployed, one of the rocket’s second-stage engines failed to produce enough thrust to reach its target orbit, leaving it too low to sustain operations. Reporting for @SuperclusterHQ

NEW: Some of the cosmos’s biggest stars are missing. Red supergiants should be exploding all over the sky, but we can’t seem to find them. Are they hidden by something? Are they blinking out of existence? JWST might offer some answers. Me @NatGeo nationalgeographic.com/science/articl…

Tears in my eyes, seriously. Thank you, @SABEW . My reporting on Ukrainian defence tech development is something I consider very meaningful, personally.

Decent odds for tonight’s rocket launch from Vandenberg to produce a defined jellyfish effect down the west coast in ~2.5 hours 🪼 Here’s the forecast for the Los Angeles area:

Solid 4/20 post

Just coming off an entire week covering SUN ’n FUN in Lakeland as an official photographer, and I’ve got a lot to share. Warbirds, jets, props, demos, golden hour, twilight, night, smoke, explosions, speed, and a few frames I’m really happy with from this year And when NASA shows up at an airshow... naturally I had to do my thing. 🚀 More coming soon.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at NASA Goddard.

I am delighted to announce that I am among the winners of 2025 Best in Business Awards by @SABEW for my reporting on Ukrainian defence tech innovation. Huge thanks to @IEEESpectrum for all the wonderful opportunities!