Prof Malcolm Macdonald ⊕

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Same image as above, this time showing the infrared to help remove smoke and emphasis burn area. 🧵2/2

Wildfire near Cannich, Beauly, in the Highlands as viewed yesterday 🔥🚒 Smoke drifting almost 30km to north end of Loch Ness, top-right of image. Burn area and fire front clearly visible on left hand side in below from @sentinel_hub. 🧵1/2

It's been nearly 9.5 years since Europe committed to developing the Ariane 6. These increasingly seem like wasted years. arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…

Big news just in: @orbexspace has announced that CEO Chris Larmour will be stepping down. The press release doesn't give a lot of detail stating simply that the change of leadership will allow the company to "prepare for the next stage of growth."

I am shocked. This is brand new information. I hope no country has built its launch strategy around this..!? If only there had been examples of launch companies starting off with small rockets but moving to big ones & even satellites, like @SpaceX or @RocketLab ohh, err... 🫣

Would be a serious U-turn in launch policy for UK gov. to rescue @VirginOrbit, but given scale of UK investment do we even know how many UK jobs are at 'direct' risk? LinkedIn seems to suggest very few, if any... @BBCAmos?

always good to meet a fellow Malcolm... 👇

Scoop - Virgin Orbit $VORB is pausing operations and beginning a nearly company-wide unpaid furlough, leadership told staff in an all hands meeting minutes ago, sources tell CNBC: cnbc.com/2023/03/15/vir…

Bin-fire Britain, where the Prime Minister is “sceptical” about the value of, well, science, and thinks a £6bn national programme can do the same as a £15bn international one... 🫣 #horizoneurope on.ft.com/3ZCSm0E

NEWS: United Launch Alliance is likely to be sold this year. The potential sale has not been disclosed publicly, but three sources confirmed to Ars that potential buyers have been contacted about the opportunity. arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…

.@celestiaaerospc has just announced that the company will build a new 6000-square-metre nanosatellite facility in Sabadell, Spain and I have questions... europeanspaceflight.com/mysterious-new…

Went for a run. Seems it was windy last night. #stormotto 🍃 This is Low Flenders Road in Clarkson, Glasgow.

The "UFO" shot down over Canada has probably been identified: A tiny amateur radio pico balloon (K9YO-15), launched on 22 Oct 2022, has gone missing in the area of the shot down. It was on it's 7th circumnavigation of the globe, being aloft for 123 days. rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforc…

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On The Seven tonight, @BBCScotland channel with @BBCGaryR, chatting balloons & other aerial vehicles - shall I look out my red mini skirt for this chap on @aineclareob DMs..?

New nighttime #satellite images, from Feb 8, reveal a #military parade in progress to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the #Korean People’s Army. These images were collected at 10:05 pm KST & show a large North Korean flag & thousands of people assembled in Kim il Sung Square.

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