Aerospace/Transit/Tech/Motorsport nerd. Lead Video Editor, Broadcast Operator, Journalist, & Host @NASASpaceflight. Also appear on @TMRO’s Live Show. 🇬🇧
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The Difference A Week Makes
I photographed the Moon in the week leading up to the 2026 Total Solar Eclipse, with Totality captured in León, Spain.
Available now as a print - link below.
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Space Force shifts missile-warning, cislunar missions from Vulcan to SpaceX spacenews.com/space-force-sh…
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The Cape Canaveral skyline has healed. It was really weird not seeing a tower at LC-36.
T-65 days until the extremely provisional December 28 launch date.
Final segment of the Launch Complex 36A tower being lifted into place
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Everybody knew Artemis had problems.
SLS needs a beefier upper stage. Orion can't reach Low Lunar Orbit. The spacesuits won't be ready.
We just got a big update - here's my take on @NASA's solutions → piped.video/NLHrM2E954w
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Alex tried explaining this to me and my brain stopped working so I drew it in MS Paint and now I understand. I'll share with the class in case it helps anyone else.
Yes, HLS is refuelled by the same depot, twice, in two different orbits...
So... Depot launches to LEO, gets refilled by Tankers in LEO, then HLS launches to LEO, gets refilled in LEO by Depot, then heads to a higher orbit. Depot then gets refilled again and also heads to the higher orbit. Then HLS gets refilled again.
How is this "6 to 8" flights?
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It's taken so long but we've finally seen a real THING! even if it's 5 holes cut in a nosecone. but it's a THING!!!
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BREAKING: The first indication of @BlueOrigin's New Glenn Return-To-Flight is here...
December 28, 2026.
The CADENA air traffic advisory lists this mission as "New Glenn 4.1". The rocket which exploded was "New Glenn-4".
As ever, these dates are extremely provisional, and should be taken with a pinch of salt until more concrete information is released.
📷 @thenasaman/@NASASpaceflight
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The update also lists the next two Starship flights, Flight 15 (perhaps Starlink Group 31-2), and Flight 16 (officially Starlink Group 30-1)
A new high profile missions slide has been published. While the Starship launch dates remain the same, New Glenn's return to flight has been added with a NET date of December 28
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Well it was going to happen one day. But just like the mega wind-down in launch cadence from Florida, it's sooner than some were expecting.
scoop: SpaceX declined to offer Falcon for three future Space Force missions, and no other company offered to fly them either — an early sign of the launch crunch politico.com/news/2026/10/22…
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Ryan Caton retweeted
Starship Update with Max Evans (@_MaxQ_).
➡️piped.video/jpmXdGzy4gk
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Rocket Lab has provided the first update on Neutron Stage 2 in about a year - sounds like it's headed to Wallops soon.
This follows last week's update on Stage 1 production, which suffered a delay due to voids forming during Automatic Fiber Placement (AFP) of the carbon fiber.
We have completed breakover operations for the Neutron Stage 2 tank assembly, rotating the stage horizontal – a critical step in the handling of large rocket sections for integration and assembly.
Here’s a last look at Stage 2 on the Neutron Factory floor before it’s wrapped up (literally) for barge shipment to LC-3 on Wallops Island where its fluid systems will be tested and its Archimedes vacuum engine installed.
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Ryan Caton retweeted
From outer space to inside our garage 🚀
We are delighted to welcome former Astronaut Reid Wiseman as an official Team Ambassador, bringing his unique perspectives and experience to our world 🙌
Catch Reid at our Austin Fan Hub this weekend, and learn more about the appointment via the link below 🔗
bit.ly/ReidWisemanAnnounceme…
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For those wondering, no Human Landing System updates unfortunately in this earnings call.
There is the NASA Artemis Update on Friday, however no SpaceX or Blue Origin representatives are currently scheduled to appear.
Q3 2026 Financial and Operational Results nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNbLZ…
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Earlier this year, @Space_Station's Canadarm robotic arm underwent some repairs. More recently, the mobile platform it sits on suffered communications problems.
Upcoming Spacewalks 100 and 101 are reliant on these, so I asked @NASA if they were monitoring any concerns:
Canadarm2 is operating nominally, and the agency is not tracking any issues, according to Gaurang Patel, Operations Integration Manager, Low Earth Orbit Program.
The moving platform, known as the Mobile Transporter, had some transaction errors on communications Channel A. Because of this, Channel B has been made the prime communications channel for these upcoming EVAs.
The team continues to conduct checkouts on Channel A, and when redundancy is required, it continues to show an ability that it can be utilized.
📷 @NASA
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I 100% support replacing the lifeboat station on Cromer Pier with an orbital launch pad
Back during the Blue Streak era, when Britain had one of the most powerful rockets in the world and could have been a third space power, the Norfolk coast was considered as a launch site.
You can fly north over the North Sea into a polar/sun-synchronous orbit. The latter being a major orbit for space based data centres.
Ultimately it was dropped over concerns about the risk to North Sea gas platforms; but in an age of reusable rockets that don’t fall out of the sky when they complete their burns, is that still a blocker?
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A quick size comparison between the @SpaceX expansion at the Kennedy Space Center, and what currently exists at Starbase, Texas.
Images are the same scale.
🗺️ @GoogleMaps
Earlier this month, NASA's Kennedy Space Center posted the Draft PEA for SpaceX's expansion of its Roberts Road campus for Starship. This would expand the site from 167 acres to nearly 400 acres, more than doubling the existing footprint at the site.
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Ryan Caton retweeted
This Week In Spaceflight with Elysia Segal (@elysiasegal).
piped.video/TUiyzHFJlJ0
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