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That 2024 mass is more likely to be right than the 2021 value, but let's see if someone has a 2026 value...

Hey Roman Space Telescope team friends - web sources give approximate spacecraft mass as 10500 kg wet 8000 kg dry. Now that fuelling is complete I assume a more accurate value is available - at least one more significant figure would be nice. Can anyone help?

The `rocket that launched it` is 67690. 69673 is a subsatellite that the spaceplane deployed and is now playing catch with. And yes, I think we should carry on using the too-deeply-ingrained word TLE and reinterpret it as 'Those Lovable Elements' or something

Space-Track just amended ICEYE X54, X64, and X79 to Country NETH

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From webcast, I estimate 1027:25 UTC as touchdown time

Soyuz MS-28 landed in Kazakhstan at 1027 UTC Jul 26

Soyuz MS-28, with Kud'-Sverchkov, Mikaev and Williams aboard, undocked from the ISS Rassvet module at 0703 UTC. The deorbit burn began at 0931:57 UTC and will last 4 min 42s

Must be something in the water there?

From NASA's press secretary, an update on the Madrid DSN site. Wildfire damage is "primarily to pavement and surrounding vegetation, with no significant structural damage observed to antennas or buildings." x.com/NASASpox/sta...

200m/s then and a further 50m/s at apogee

Manually copying down the numbers from the webcast, yes.

LAUNCH at 1551 UTC Jul 25 of Starlink Group 17-51 from Vandenberg

Starship flight 13: estimated orbit 8 (+/- 5) x 195 km x 26.5 deg, boosted to about 43 x 217 km x 26.5 deg after 17m/s Raptor restart burn.

Yes, they are in the "auxcat" file

LAUNCH at 2333 UTC Jul 23 of a CAS Space Lijian-1 to 0600 LTDN sun-sync orbit with two commercial weather sats, a space debris tracking sat, an imaging sat and a technology sat

LAUNCH at 0254 UTC Jul 22 of an Orienspace Yinli-1 from the DFHT barge in the East China Sea with a set of nine 100-kg-class imaging, radar and technology satellites to 1100 LDTN sun-synch orbit LAUNCH at 1200 UTC Jul 23 of the Tianlian 2-06 data relay sats to geotransfer orbit

Post trip catchup: LAUNCH at 1449 UTC Jul 21 of Starlink Group 17-39 from Vandenberg LAUNCH at 2115 UTC Jul 21 of the Northrop Grumman Mission Robotic Vehicle and three Mission Extension Pods on Falcon 9 from Canaveral to supersync transfer orbit.

Starship flight 13 completed successfully. Booster landing burn didn't light all planned engines; Ship reached planned trajectory, deployed 20 V3 Starlinks on suborbital path, restarted Raptor, landed intact in ocean

LAUNCH at 2251 UTC Jul 24 of Starship flight