I’ve caused a problem with our
@haya2e_jaxa
account.
Today is the launch anniversary. To get twitter’s balloon animation, I put the launch date as the account birthday.
Whereupon, Twitter locked the account for being underage. I’m sorry everyone: We’ve contacted
@TwitterSupport
64 logos, 6 and a half rounds, and thousands upon thousands of votes have all led up to this:
Congratulations JAXA on winning the "official" SUPER-OMEGA-ULTRA-ELITE-DELUXE aerospace logo tournament (featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series & Knuckles!)
F-15s Chase the Moon's Shadow During a Solar Eclipse
In 2017, the 366ᵗʰ Fighter Wing, stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, undertook a mission to intercept the total solar eclipse and remain within the Moon's shadow for 3 minutes.
The mission was successful and
Así se vio el segundo lanzamiento de la Starship desde México.
🇲🇽 🚀
Ni Obama tiene esas vistas.
Video por Juan Correa desde la frontera con Estados Unidos en Faro Bagdad en Tamaulipas.
The little cam that could.
This is the camera that toughed it out for us to watch that forward flap hang on and show Ship 29 complete its mission. 🔥🚀🔥
@NASASpaceflight
The Hubble team successfully recovered the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph instrument on Sunday, Nov. 28, bringing Hubble closer to full science operations.
Three of Hubble's four active instruments are now collecting science data once again:
The era of powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet has come to an end – for now. The
#MarsHelicopter
proved that it was possible and paved the way for future explorers.
#ThanksIngenuity
, for taking Mars exploration to new heights.
Another booster safely back to Earth.
In total, this was the 300th landing attempt and 289th overall successful landing, but incredibly, this is now the 215th consecutive successful landing.
We intentionally placed one thin heatshield tile and removed two tiles completely from the Ship to measure how hot things get without tiles in those locations, while also testing some thermal protection options
Sounding a little more like yourself,
#Voyager1
.
For the first time since November, Voyager 1 is returning useable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. Next step: Enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again:
NASA astrophysics director Mark Clampin announces that the Hubble space telescope is moving into "one gyro mode," with the agency planning to use just 1 of the spacecraft's 3 gyroscopes to continue science operations.
The Sun being eclipsed by Mars' moon Phobos, captured by
@MarsCuriosity
's MastCam on April 4 2020 (Sol 2723). Adjusted for true time rate (39 seconds start to finish).
I just completed an important space history video restoration project, there's an often shared video showing a Mac Portable ejecting a floppy disk in zero G, but it's painfully low quality, so I found a better source and cleaned it up.
To all the Flat Earthers & those who say that
#Apollo
Moon Landing were fake.
These are some of the clearest images from a non-NASA space agency.
Detailed images of the
#Apollo11
and
#Apollo12
landing sites on the Moon, via India's
#Chandrayaan2
orbiter.
To those who only joined recently, I made this tournament because a previous tournament of the same concept escaped our niche corner of twitter and got a bunch of people voting based on patriotism alone.
I tried to avoid that, but it happened again.
Did you catch today's annular solar eclipse? Did you know they happen on Mars, too? These three shots from the
@MarsCuriosity
rover show the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passing directly in front of the Sun. Details:
JAXA's deep space station began calling
#SLIM
at 2024-01-24T07:14 UTC.
Despite the improving Sun angles on the suspected west pointing solar panel the lander has not responded yet. Solar angle still remains poor but improving.
I will update if things change.
The last segment of data from listening to the lunar echo from JAXA's attempt to contact
#SLIM
produced some unusual data. The stepped change in frequency and rapid sequence of commands is unusual. No downlink detected here but it may be weak.
@amsatdl
Following this morning's docking of the Nauka module to the
@Space_Station
, the module's thrusters started firing at 12:45pm ET inadvertently and unexpectedly, moving the station 45 degrees out of attitude. Recovery operations have regained attitude and the crew is in no danger:
The
@JAXA_jp
deep space network is calling
#SLIM
again and started around 04:40 UTC.
Presently, no response from the lander.
My present theory is we won't have a high chance of success in contacting SLIM until after January 24th.
The Crew-1 astronauts are a fun bunch:
A few photos of the four (Commander
@Astro_illini
, Pilot
@VicGlover
, Specialist Shannon Walker and Specialist
@Astro_Soichi
) training last week at SpaceX headquarters.
Current
@SpaceX
flight leader booster B-1062 just entered the Space Force Station for refurb after 19 trips to space & back! 👍🏻🚀🤯
Next up, the CRS-30 Falcon 9 launch to the ISS & sonic boom 💥 landing at the Cape’s LZ-1. Watch live on NSF’s stream:
Hello to the newest lunar resident! Our
@NASAMoon
orbiter (LRO) captured images of
@JAXA_en
’s SLIM lander 5 days after its Jan. 19 touchdown. This image pair shows the site before & after landing. The slight change in reflectance is due to engine exhaust sweeping the surface: