Claudiu Tănăselia

@planet4589 Is that a chair under the Martian flag or a wooden parabolic antenna?

Ready for the next shipping container. A tatttered Martian flag (from one of my Martian-birthday parties) stands proud over the remaining boxes. Sixteen sols ago I turned 35 Martian years old!

@bes_dev @NASA Please let me know if you need any data from Dennis Jenkins' Space Shuttle: Developing an Icon book, I can help with that (or if you need to double-check some Wikipedia data).

7,811 lines. 44 subroutines. 10 fixes. Wikipedia. One `make run`. bes-dev.com/posts/shuttle-… github.com/bes-dev/sssp @NASA

How was your weekend? I spent mine launching the Space Shuttle. With NASA code from 1970 that nobody could run for 50 years.

@konstructivizm Sharing a photo made with AI won't help your case against conspirationsits...

The Moon Landing Conspiracy Ends with India. For decades, skeptics have claimed the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 was staged. But an independent space agency has delivered undeniable proof.India’s Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, flying at about 100 km above the lunar surface, passed over the Sea of Tranquility and captured high-resolution images of the exact landing site.Right there, inside the marked circle, sits the descent stage of the Lunar Module Eagle — the very hardware Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left behind on July 20, 1969.This isn’t NASA imagery. It’s ISRO — captured by Indian scientists with their own spacecraft and their own camera (the Orbiter High-Resolution Camera).The hardware is still exactly where history says it should be, casting a long shadow across the lunar dust more than 55 years later.Third-party confirmation from a completely independent nation. No collaboration needed. Just clear orbital evidence.The Moon landings happened. The proof keeps piling up — now from another country that has reached the Moon with its own technology.Case closed.

@dpoddolphinpro The New New Space era has begun.

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

@s8mb I would argue that the LHC still holds the distinction of being the world’s most complex object ever made.

Europe has one of the most essential and irreplaceable companies in the global AI supply chain: ASML, which produces the machines that TSMC uses to make its chips. These machines are roughly the size of double-decker buses. To ship one requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks. They are the world’s most complex objects. Each contains over one hundred thousand components, all of which have to be perfectly calibrated for the machine to produce light consistently at the right wavelength. ASML was once seen as an also-ran compared to its arch-rivals Nikon and Canon. It succeeded thanks to involvement in a US program to develop extreme ultraviolet lithography, which only happened because the Americans were so worried about losing to Japan. ASML also outsourced much of its R&D instead of trying to do it all in house, which allowed it to spread its bets across many different companies. Today, the entire global AI industry depends on ASML. Understanding its success is crucial to understanding Europe's position in AI today, and how it can leverage that to avoid being left behind tomorrow. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worl…

@blueorigin Does the booster being so exceptionally clean after a reentry have anything to do with the fuel being methane (fewer carbon atoms, thus less soot)?

Welcome back to the Space Coast, again, "Never Tell Me The Odds."

@planet4589 @momentusspace @VardaSpace @SpireGlobal Owner of Romanian EMISAR satellite claims their satellite is 2026-067M (68427): facebook.com/share/v/1CC4wn…

I'm particularly waiting for news, and a catalog number, on @momentusspace 's Vigoride-7 and @vardaspace's W-6, as well as the @spireglobal, OHB-I and DreamBig sats.

I believe 95 payloads were meant to be deployed from SpaceX's Transporter 16 rideshare. 90 have been cataloged to date, and with some ID'd by radio amateurs and the first IDs on Space-Track, 30 are now identified.

@peterrhague Maybe it's from the sunrise?

Its down... but lots of orange smoke?

@NASAAdmin @ShuttleAlmanac @NASAMoonBase I love the new vibe the Artemis program has! Let’s go!

With Artemis II complete, we’re preparing to roll Artemis III into the VAB. Artemis III will rendezvous with our partners in earth orbit as we continue building toward the @NASAMoonBase. Artemis missions will launch every year, with Artemis IV landing on the Moon in 2028.

19473 days since the last crewed mission to the Moon. Let’s hope this will have been the longest gap between two crewed lunar mission launches in the history of our species.

@ShuttleAlmanac @katlinegrey It’s a fair point, but using this definition would mean that neither Skylab nor Salyut were space stations either :)

@superparsec @katlinegrey Well one module (in my opinion) doesnt make a 'Space Station'. Its a recreational vehicle in Space. The Chinese did the same with their Tiangong-1 & 2, those turned out to be early tests of their cargo craft Tianzhou. I was right about those at the time, not Space Stations.

Regarding the changes in the US space program, news appeared that Russia and the United States are discussing extending the operation of the International Space Station after 2028. It was mentioned by Sergey Krikalev today.

@katlinegrey @ShuttleAlmanac Vast will launch Haven-1 (allegedly) next year. Or do you mean "the first module out of many"?

@ShuttleAlmanac IMHO, the ISS will be operational until one of the major countries involved will launch the first module of the new station. Which will not happen NET 2035, maybe even later.

@katlinegrey It's an item in "The NASA Authorization Act of 2026" (pre-Ignition) and I remember reading that NASA will begin discussions with the international partners about the extension: commerce.senate.gov/services/files…

@planet4589 Exactly on Leonov's first EVA anniversary! :D

Spacewalk US EVA-94 is underway on the ISS. Astronauts Meir and Williams, in suits 3015 and 3003 and with SAFER packs 15 and 18 depressurized the airlock past 50 mbar at 1246 UTC, opened the hatch at 1251 UTC and put suits on batt power at 1252 UTC

@planet4589 But wasn't NG-23 launched on September 14 and berthed to the ISS 4 days later? It was briefly unberthed to make room for Soyuz MS-28, but it has been at the ISS since September 18, right?

The Cygnus NG-23 cargo ship was released into orbit by Canadarm-2 at 1106 UTC Mar 12; it has been at ISS since Dec 1. [I don't have the unberthing time, anyone have it?]

@katlinegrey Did he just pull a "Deke Slayton maneuver" and assign himself to a space mission (since he's acting director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center)?

Wow. Just wow. Old guard is still alive and kicking! According to the GCTC site, Oleg Kononenko, veteran of 5 space flights, will be the commander of #SoyuzMS31 crew: gctc.ru/main.php?id=155. The flight is scheduled for November 2027.

@planet4589 And that's the 11th consecutive Falcon 9 launch, a continuous streak uninterrupted by any other orbital launcher since 2026-031.

LAUNCH at 0256 UTC Mar 2 of Starlink Group 10-41 from Canaveral

From 2026-031 to 2026-040, all launches were Falcon 9 missions, an incredible 10-launch streak of the same rocket, never before seen in the history of orbital launches.

@Erdayastronaut @SciGuySpace He said he wants the SLS launching every 10 months.

@SciGuySpace Wait. Is that what he said?! No way they’ll have another SLS ready by then nor another one (or two) in 2028 🤔

So the big question, what rocket is going to launch Orion into LEO for Artemis III?! 👀 certainly they won’t waste an SLS rocket for a LEO mission.