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SpaceX Make The Same Mistake Twice With Starship Flight 8

timeline and analysis of the full launch

https://www.reuters.com/science/spacex-starship-failure-prompts-diversions-florida-airports-ground-stops-2025-03-07/

again halted and diverted

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/faa-says-spacex-starship-explosion-disrupted-nearly-240-flights-2025-03-07/

240 flights this time

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/1i2hxta/another_day_another_leaked_starship_internal_view/

burn-through from previous flights

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1j69zha/possible_leaked_screenshot_of_s34_missing_an_rvac/

completely missing Raptor RVAC

https://x.com/joebarnard/status/1897797312107495571

caught by its launch tower

NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life

turned off

Was curious what the actual energy available for Voyager 1 & 2 actually is, so I... | Hacker News

operating at around 235W

Plutonium-238 - Wikipedia

Plutonium-238,

MHW-RTG - Wikipedia

Multi-Hundred-Watt Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators

https://www.tandfonline.com/cms/asset/cdf5f3b7-d619-4b10-93ba-dd928398cf8c/unct_a_2410606_f0003_oc.jpg

The Graph

Multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator - Wikipedia

MMRTG, which

NASA to launch Earth science smallsat mission on Firefly Alpha

NASA launch contract

INCUS - NASA Science

INCUS mission

Spacetech Sisir Radar Bags Funding To Offer Imaging Solutions

$1.5M seed round

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/europes-ariane-6-stages-first-commercial-launch-2025-03-06/

Ariane 6 launched from French Guiana successfully on its second mission

https://x.com/AndrewParsonson/status/1897687828915798489

nice separation video

AstroForge | Odin't: A Complete Debrief of Our Deep Space Mission

full debrief

NASA just lost yet another one of its low-cost planetary missions

not looking good for NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer

MOON OPS - Blue Ghost Launches 4 LMS Electrodes & Deploys 8 Foot Mast

deploying a mast and chucking electrodes

Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Seen From Above

LRO imagery confirmed its landing site

QuickMap

here

The International Space Station lacks microbial diversity. Is it too clean?

new study

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00108-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867425001084%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

low microbial diversity and potential health impacts.