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Meme source: Adrian Beil

Following LandSpace's recent hop test, ExPace also did a hop test.

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RIP Ingenuity (sh.itjust.works)
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https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends/

While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing, and it is no longer capable of flight.

Originally designed as a technology demonstration to perform up to five experimental test flights over 30 days, the first aircraft on another world operated from the Martian surface for almost three years, performed 72 flights, and flew more than 14 times farther than planned while logging more than two hours of total flight time.

Well, it certainly surpassed expectations. RIP Ingenuity, you did well.

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So, where is it going to be, folks? E12? F11? New Zealand? Tasmania?

Image source: https://nitter.net/Afiag/status/1747773647488487657#m

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Berger's law holds once again.

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It is rather incredible how dominant Falcon 9 is in the current launch market.

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Tanksgiving (sh.itjust.works)
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Avio did tanksgiving so well, they gave away tanks they required for the last flight of Vega!

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HLS Updates (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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RELEASE US (sh.itjust.works)
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Official meme from ESA: https://nitter.net/ESA_transport/status/1727723152468316561#m

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

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She has the best twitter account.

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

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Credit to _rykllan

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Credit to GeoffdBarrett

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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.

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IFT-2 Launch Day Details (sh.itjust.works)
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