Going where nobody has been before: After their extraordinary journey through space and over Earth’s polar regions, the crew of Fram2 sat down with NSF’s @ryancaton.co.uk to reflect on their mission.
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This Week In Spaceflight: NASA has another scheduling nightmare on its hands with regards to the ISS and Cygnus.

Join us for our special 100th episode, premiering on YouTube tonight at 7:30pm EST / 00:30 UTC.

Hosted by Elysia Segal.

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Maximum Eclipse.

Parts of the Northern Hemisphere saw a Partial Solar Eclipse today, with a maximum eclipse of ~40% visible from Norfolk, GB 🇬🇧

This image shows 30, 20, & 10 minutes prior, Maximum, and 10, 20, & 30 minutes after.
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SpaceX isn’t slowing down. Even after the dramatic failure of Starship Flight 8, testing continues, upgrades are in progress, and Starbase is evolving at breakneck speed. S35 has already begun testing, while B16’s status raises some questions—could SpaceX be planning a booster reuse for Flight 9?

This Week In Spaceflight: NASA and SpaceX realign Crew Dragon’s upcoming manifest; Blue Origin lays off 10% of their workforce; Stoke Space announced a redesign of their reusable upper stage engine; and Rocket Lab released more information on their Neutron rocket.
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The Flight 8 vehicles (B15 and S34) are well into their respective testing campaigns, the Pad B chopstick carriage reeving process is nearly complete, and we’ve spotted hardware being prepared for Starship’s first Starlink mission!
To watch the full Starbase Update:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxIa...

We're less than 2 days from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which is carrying several NASA payloads onboard, a number of which will be studying the lunar regolith and how it interacts with various materials.

📷 Firefly Aerospace

During the preview conference of 2 upcoming EVAs, NASA's Bill Spetch confirms to me that they're confident in the current EMUs (EVA Spacesuits) on the station, despite the issues they've faced over the last few years (notably water/coolant going places it shouldn't).

The "high sea state" Blue Origin speaks of appears to be forecasting 4.7 metre (15ft) waves, 20 knot wind gusting 31kt, according to wave data from windy.com, approx where Jacklyn is.

At the new launch time, the waves are forecast to be 3.9m (12.7ft), winds 18kt gusting 30kt.

A thread of yesterday's NASA Mars Sample Return update

Administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency will explore 2 options going forward for Mars Sample Return, with the final decision likely to come in 2026.

@nasaspaceflight.com

It would be great if BlueSky supported more than 300 characters per post. I’d love to bring my X feed here but my most popular X posts are 1000s of characters long. 300 just isn’t enough.

And it’d be nice to not have to put everything into threads.

@support.bsky.team

🆕 This Week in Spaceflight! 🆕

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Check out everything that happened in space this week with NSF’s This Week in Spaceflight! Will China and Europe get their own Starship-like Rocket?

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