I’ve always been a bit unlucky when flying out if Florida to never get a good view of Kennedy Space Center… until today that is
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I’ve worked with commercial spaceflight companies a few times now. This an insanely bad idea. Launch on a fundamental level is an incredibly violent affair, and a LOT of work has gone into making it coexist well with nature at Cape Canaveral.
SpaceNewsProposed rule would exempt commercial launch licensing from environmental regulations The Department of Transportation is proposing to exempt commercial space launch licensing from many environmental regulations, a move praised by industry but criticized by environmental groups....
I got tickets to the Dutch Grand Prix
Derek NewsomeShould I be insane and go to the Dutch Grand Prix...
Genuinely it is such a shame that this hasnt been green lit. This was such a fun movie and the post theatrical popularity of it would make a sequel a slam dunk IMO
IGNDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein says the script for a sequel already exists, but he's not expecting it to see the light of day any time soon. https://bit.ly/4bIsrNA #SDCC
There's another insane shot in this thread of this incident, but this one might be my favorite because you can actually see the lightning starting to form around the rocket. It's straight out of a movie. That's insane
Cosmic PenguinBack to Xichang, someone captured the lightning strike from another angle: m.weibo.cn/detail/53239...
I'd just like to say that by the day Robert Irwin *somehow* continually improve my opinion of him as a person? This guy rocks. Just across the board. petapixel.com/2026/07/21/a...
Every single major spaceflight achievement has either been done by or was pioneered by a government agency first.
Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈Ya may want to sit down for this one.
I remember when Formula E was first starting out and it was laughed at quite a lot. But bit by bit they’ve gone from an underpowered racecar that couldn’t even finish an entire race, to the absolute beast that is the Gen 4. Next season is going to absolutely rock. youtu.be/DQQPuu3yxEQ?...
It’s pretty damn amazing to watch the LM-10 flight test unfold like this after the constant rhetoric of “Oh its iterative design” from certain other programs… Turns out you can set your expectation as success from day 1 and it can work, even with a new idea.
Cosmic PenguinI once suggested something like this as a back-up system for recovering Starship boosters, before Flight 5 stunned me with the chopsticks catching method. But boy did the most experienced Chinese rocket state institute chose the right way to success... m.weibo.cn/detail/53191...
Ever wondered what it might be like to stand on the launch pad during a launch? Well wonder no more as this 360 view of the LA-08 launch takes you right up to the Atlas V rocket as it launches into the night sky! youtu.be/UHkq-ZStzQ4?...