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@BellikOzan You might say that for the wrong rocket & wrong spacecraft on the wrong mission, it's good to see NASA doing it so well 🫡. Excepting toilets.

It's cool, but not even top 10 in my book, and this is why:

@KenKirtland17 Tbf, SpaceX has had a bit more practice 😂

Not trying to be negative but it’s just insane that Starlink rando launch 900 of the week or any Rocketlab flight has live views and Artemis 2 first crew to the moon in 50 years doesn’t.

Really got to get external cams for the landing mission. It is just a must. Too important not to have that.

@Erdayastronaut Nice composition there!

Look at this moonrise after the launch! Are you kidding?!?

@planet4589 Re-entry estimate if TLI fails?

Next major Artemis 2 milestone is a perigee-raise rocket burn carried out at 1130 UTC, near apogee. Resulting orbit will be around 191 x 70133 km.

@DJSnM @Apple But ...

50 years ago @Apple was founded, today astronauts are using iPhones on their way to the moon

@StephenClark1 I know he thinks he can't miss, but ...

The US military is developing a strategy for the Moon. Here's where things stand. arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/…

#Artemis II problem 1: #toilet. What genius thought it a good idea to test a new toilet with 4 crew on a 10 day flight in that can?? Lord have mercy ...

It's that time of year again.... arxiv.org/abs/2603.29324

@planet4589 gold

@planet4589 Thank you!

Jonathan's Space Report issue no. 854 published at planet4589.org/jsr.html

Green rinse time. Been a while. Hope junior doesn't freak out when she sees me 🤣.

Reasons I like #GreenHair #29 #Suzura @suzuran_ro

Reasons I like #GreenHair #28 #AkariAkase @Akase_Official

Answering myself, it was the highest MECO speed of any Transporter mission, necessitating ASDS recovery. The booster is worked harder when more 2nd stage performance is required, usually for multi-orbit deployments or difficult orbits as was also the case for Transporters 15 & 14

I had #Grok estimate the aggregated payload mass of #Transporter16 and it came up with <5500 kg. Surely a RTLS landing was possible with that payload so why then did it land on #OCISLY? #RTLS landings at #Vandenberg have never been deterred by sonic booms in the early hours.

@NASASpaceflight Answering myself, it was the highest MECO speed of any Transporter mission, necessitating ASDS recovery. The booster is worked harder when more 2nd stage performance is required, usually for multi-orbit deployments as was the case for Transporters 15 & 14.

@NASASpaceflight I had #Grok estimate the aggregated payload mass of #Transporter16 and it came up with <5500 kg. Surely a RTLS landing was possible with that payload so why then did it land on #OCISLY? #RTLS landings at #Vandenberg have never been deterred by sonic booms in the early hours

LAUNCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 B1093-12 launches Transporter 16 from SLC-4E, Vandenberg. Overview: nasaspaceflight.com/2026/03/transp… Live:

2/ We've characterized this event as likely caused by an internal energetic source rather than a collision with space debris or another object. Due to the low altitude of the event, fragments from this anomaly will likely de-orbit within a few weeks.

@NASASpaceflight Nice hardware but there’s a lot of it for 12T to LEO/7.8T to SSO. However, performance should improve with uprated engines as the current T/W ratio is poor (753T/625T), evident in the slow lift-off.

Superb footage!

On Sunday, March 29, Starlink satellite 34343 experienced an anomaly on-orbit, resulting in loss of communications with the satellite at ~560 km above Earth. Latest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or to the upcoming launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission. We will continue to monitor the satellite along with any trackable debris and coordinate with @NASA and the @USSpaceForce. The event also posed no new risk to this morning’s Transporter-16 mission, which was designed to avoid Starlink with payload deploys well above or well below the constellation. The SpaceX and Starlink teams are actively working to determine root cause and will rapidly implement any necessary corrective actions.