Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

beamjockey.bsky.social

17 October 2026 03:27

The first aircraft to fly on a celestial body, the Vega 1 Balloon, still holds the distance record, flying 11600 kilometers before going dark on 13 June 1985. Second place belongs to its sister Vega 2 Balloon, whose traverse covered 11100 km. These records will be tough for Dragonfly to beat. 🎈🎈 🔭

Paul Byrne

theplanetaryguy.com

10 October 2026 23:30

At the VEXAG 2026 meeting in Boulder just now, we've learned that NASA's VERITAS mission has been scheduled for a November 2032 launch. Folks, this is CRAZY good news. Earlier this year we were concerned that NASA would *cancel* VERITAS!

David S. F. Portree

dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social

10 October 2026 23:02

Reading about the Japanese MMX sample-return mission to Phobos (set to launch 20 October) made me think of this old study: spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/2023/03/viki...

Katie Mack

astrokatie.com

05 October 2026 03:39

Just a girl and her* airplane 🥰 * actually it is emphatically the Canadian Aviation Museum’s airplane but they do let me fly it a lot

Jenny Chase

solarchase.bsky.social

28 September 2026 13:57

This is a pet peeve but I hate (eg) "9x cheaper" as a phrase. You mean a ninth of the cost? I think? Seems to me that cost is a thing that can be multiplied but cheapness isn't.