Starlink Group 6-66 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2024-11-21 16:07 UTC, or 2024-11-21 11:07 local time (EST). Booster 1069-20 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

• NextSpaceflight page
• SpaceX mission page

Webcasts:

• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3JBoubQ7qY
• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PpxSk6RjWc
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/@NASASpaceflight/streams
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaunchPad/streams
• SpaceX:
• The Space Devs:

Another three months, another Progress resupply to the International Space Station.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-21, 12:22 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-11-21, 17:22 (AQTT) | | Docking scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-11-23, 14:40 | | Mission | Progress MS-29 | | Launch site | Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan | | Launch vehicle | Soyuz 2.1a | | Spacecraft | Progress | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and docking to the ISS |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Roscosmos | (launch) https://www.youtube.com/@tvroscosmos/streams | | Roscosmos | (docking) https://www.youtube.com/@tvroscosmos/streams | | NASA+ | (launch) https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/progress-90-cargo-ship-launch/ | | NASA+ | (docking) https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/progress-90-cargo-ship-docking/ | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaunchPad/streams | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUYMPbgXLPM |

Mission Details

• NASA
• NextSpaceflight

Mastodon.

Smallsat launch integrator SEOPS has purchased a Falcon 9 launch for a dedicated rideshare mission to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).

SEOPS announced at Space Tech Expo Europe here Nov. 19 that it signed a contract with SpaceX for the mission, planned for late 2028 from Florida. It is also acquiring capacity on unspecified other SpaceX launches through 2028.

“With the surge demand for access to cislunar space, we’re approaching a pivotal moment where prolific access to GTO is a must,” Chad Brinkley, CEO of SEOPS, said in a statement, describing the contract as a way to “proactively generate the options the market demands” for rideshare missions.

Brinkley said at the conference that the company does not have any firm customers yet for that mission. However, the strong interest SEOPS has seen from commercial and government customers was enough to warrant signing a contract.

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Citizen Sleeper, a light RPG with dice-based gameplay, feels like a classic sci-fi story with contemporary ideas and worries. It's tight gameplay; I felt on edge most of my time in this decaying space station, always a sense of urgency maintaining my body and getting enough scrip for my greater goals.

All this is underpinned by some great prose. It's not quite on the level of Disco Elysium or Planescape: Torment, but even after taking in positive initial impressions, Citizen Sleeper has a surprising amount to say. The developer said they wanted to tell a story about those on the fringes of capitalism, where many of us have had to learn to survive. I think they nailed it.

The player is a sleeper, a human-machine hybrid detached from the corporate network, having to start from zero. An interesting concept itself, the story is that sleepers came about as a loophole in AI prohibition: put a human to sleep and copy them into an artificial body for indentured servitude. The means of corporate control is a built-in body deficiency. You'll degrade without a very specific chemical. The sociological concerns presented by these concepts and putting these kinds of escapees in a "normal" society are also interesting. I never know who to trust as I try to survive, knowing that merely being off the corporate leash puts me at the mercy of someone looking for a cut of the bounty. Or, I might be taken advantage of by someone that knows I can't survive without stabilizer. That's just the start of it.

Very cool experience, and refreshingly compact (I was through the main story in under 10 hours). There's a sequel coming, and I'm eager to get more of a taste of the game world.

Can someone help my man out?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47902662

First, I have no idea what some of these things are called or I think I know but I'm also second guessing myself the whole time. Also, I've never bought glass from anywhere but a local head-shop. For instance, this bong is almost 20yo. Please forgive me, if I apply incorrect nomenclature to any of the parts.

My bong's inner pipe, I think it's called a joint, broke several months back. I searched online shortly after but there were so many variables to consider that it kind of seemed overwhelming. I'm hoping there's someone within this community who has experience replacing a bongs' hardware. I have some measurements and images with the measurements included if anyone needs to see them. All of the measurements below are approximate mm -> inch conversions.

• Depth from rubber grommet to lowest part of chamber: 115 mm, 4.5 in

• Inner glass diameter (joint?): 14 mm, 0.5 in

• Inner glass diameter (bowl?): 8 mm, 0.3 in

• Diameter of lowest chamber (don't know if this is needed): 107 mm, 4.25 in

• Diameter of bowl chamber (don't think this matters): 30 mm, 1.25 in

I would appreciate recommendations you all have for reputable glassware replacement sellers (from first-hand experience, preferably). In addition, I don't think the depth of the join needs to be that long, that's just the max depth. Thank you in advance for any suggestions, recommendations, or numbers to filter for when finding a replacement!

I really enjoyed the Witcher 3 so I thought I would go back and play the first two games even though some people seemed to have mixed opinions on what they think of them both. Then after playing the first two games my partner got interested in W3 so we then played through that together. I feel like now I have some good perspective to offer on the whole series and what people should do if they really enjoyed 3 but haven't gone back.

Witcher 1

Witcher 2

Witcher 3

Thanks for reading and let me know if you've played these and what you think or if you want play these in the future!

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