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Sauce

Sauce: https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1728093269425369392#m

Sauce: https://nitter.net/culpable_mink/status/1727740469919043673#m

Official meme from ESA: https://nitter.net/ESA_transport/status/1727723152468316561#m

And a reply from Niall Anderson with a subtle dig at SpaceX:

She has the best twitter account.

Silly Elon! To be fair, it is a very good render.

Launch thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/9381398

daily_hopper

Credit to _rykllan

Credit to GeoffdBarrett

The story concerns a satellite constellation now known as Sfera (or Sphere, in English), a modestly ambitious constellation of 264 satellites. The Sphere constellation is intended to provide broadband Internet service from middle-Earth orbit to Russia and high-resolution Earth observation satellites.

"At first it was called Ehfir," Putin said. "And at one of my public speeches I was talking and said it was Sfera. I arrived at the Kremlin, and the former Roscosmos head greeted me and said, 'Vladimirovich, you said it was project Sfera, Sfera you said. That's what it is, project Sfera.'"

Rogozin, who was listening to these remarks, acted immediately—presumably to save his boss from embarrassment. After Rogozin said the constellation was named Sphere, Putin recalled that he asked how's that? Rogozin replied that it had already been renamed Sfera and not to worry.

Laughing, Putin added, "So I didn't even make it back and it's already renamed to Sfera. So I said, well, OK then." Rogozin confirmed the anecdote on his Telegram channel this week.

Credit to u/estanminar for the inspiration:

• https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/micqk7/sn15_launch_day_details/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXMasterrace/comments/n7dx9f/all_knowing_racoon_extended_ama/

Splashdown of Gaganyaan TV-D1!

Launch thread here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/7587373

Happy birthday to the one and only John Insprucker!

Two were allocated to USSF-51 and ViaSat-3 EMEA: Immortal, wisest, and fairest of all payloads,

Seven for the Starliners, greatly delayed clusterf*cks of the Boeing halls,

And eight... eight launches remain for Project Kuiper, (Jeff) Who above all else, desires power.

For within these rockets was bound the thrust and delta-v to govern each orbit.

But they were all of them deceived. For another rocket was made...

Two were allocated to USSF-51 and ViaSat-3 EMEA: Immortal, wisest, and fairest of all payloads,

Seven for the Starliners, greatly delayed clusterf*cks of the Boeing halls,

And nine... nine launches were purchased for Project Kuiper, (Jeff) Who above all else, desires power.

For within these rockets was bound the thrust and delta-v to govern each orbit.

But they were all of them deceived. For another rocket was made...

To my fellow lemmonades,

As your not-so-humble moderator of [email protected] , I ask you to help save the New Horizons project which is threatened with shit-canning from NASA.

New Horizons is the probe that flew by Pluto a few years ago, that took the famous picture of Pluto's heart. It's also the only probe we have out there by Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, and the only one slated to be sent out for 20-30 years. For us millennials, we'll be in our 60's or 70's by the time they choose to send another if they're allowed to shut down New Horizons. Meaning we might never get to see new Pluto pics again.

Pluto's heart cries out for your love. For New Horizons's love.

Our cell phones the world over cry out for new Kuiper Belt wallpapers.

Our hearts cry out for more space content!!

Please sign the petition to save our probe so we can keep getting sweet, sweet Pluto and Kuiper Belt object pics.

Thank you for your time.

SIGN HERE FOR FREEDOM. SIGN HERE FOR JUSTICE. SIGN HERE TO MAKE SURE NASA GIVES US MORE SWEET SWEET SPACE PORN!

P.S. Pluto is still a planet; I don't give a flying fuck what NGT says

P.P.S. Here are some news articles talking about it. I might have already linked one but here it is again just in case:

Universe Today article on the problem

Phys.org article

"Try very hard to delete the host or process. If you're not adding back webcast hosts at least 10% of the time, you're not deleting enough."

The most recent Starlink Group 7-1 webcast had no host. Just views of the rocket and call-outs from mission control. It will be interesting to see if they continue this “no host” format for future Starlink missions.