Jonathan McDowell

planet4589.bsky.social

10 August 2026 12:45

LAUNCH at 1202 UTC Aug 10 of a CZ-7A from Wenchang and FAILURE with explosion during first stage flight. Payload rumoured to be ZX-4B miitary communications sat

Jonathan McDowell

planet4589.bsky.social

07 July 2026 07:26

LAUNCH at 0712 UTC Jul 7 of the Transporter 17 rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg

Jonathan McDowell

planet4589.bsky.social

22 April 2026 07:14

I believe 95 payloads were meant to be deployed from SpaceX's Transporter 16 rideshare. 90 have been cataloged to date, and with some ID'd by radio amateurs and the first IDs on Space-Track, 30 are now identified.

Jonathan McDowell

planet4589.bsky.social

02 April 2026 05:15

Next major Artemis 2 milestone is a perigee-raise rocket burn carried out at 1130 UTC, near apogee. Resulting orbit will be around 191 x 70133 km.

Dr. Miguelito Loveless

drloveless.bsky.social

24 March 2026 15:30

I think the metaphor he wanted was "The one who rang the bell must unring it."