Jesus - there’s going to be two competing webs of those things gunking up the sky?
That’s just the free market coming up with solutions. Don’t worry, the market is working on a solution for it.
looks like there’s going to be more junk up there
Don’t look up: pre-teen giraffe-sized asteroid strikes Earth.
https://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1503400626008596487?s=20&t=XgU8lnfiACKywg1d7InceA
https://spacechannel.com/nasa-extends-ingenuity-helicopter-mission/
Pretty good for something that was only planned for up to 5 flights of 90 seconds each.
JJ Abrams Space Telescope is operational!
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For comparison, here’s the same star and region of space from the Spitzer space telescope:
https://twitter.com/gbrammer/status/1504369779540480002
And from the WISE space telescope:
https://twitter.com/Kevin_Hainline/status/1504202023696097282
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Damn, you called it
https://oneweb.net/resources/oneweb-resume-satellite-launches-through-agreement-spacex
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America’s human access to space depends on 4 capsules being refurbished now, at least until Boeing can get its shit together.
My nephew-in-law works for some company trying to design an unmanned space shuttle in the same vein. Apparently the govt was funding a half-dozen companies on the chance one of them came through. His company sounds like it did not come through and is winding down operations.
Not a big story but this was done at my old stomping grounds. Now owned by Northrup, which is a few companies since I was there.
Imo naming things after people is not a good idea.
https://twitter.com/adamspacemann/status/1511018437140647937?t=rbetxx_uF6417pZRNZbMUQ&s=19
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Zeno’s rocket inches ever closer to launch:
Still very live as to whether Starship or SLS makes orbit first.
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Phobos crosses the Sun - as seen by the Perseverance Rover 
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https://www.scientiststudy.com/2022/04/evidence-of-agriculture-on-exoplanets.html
It may be possible to detect this signature on other planets using today’s observatories. The researchers point out that the James Webb Space Telescope, currently being commissioned, should be able to detect ammonia at the level of five parts per million in the atmosphere of a hydrogen-rich planet orbiting a nearby red dwarf. Current levels of ammonia on Earth are about ten parts per billion.