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Soyuz-5 project home page: russianspaceweb.com/soyuz5-lv.html
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Roskosmos reports delivery of a flight-worthy Soyuz-5 rocket to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, ahead of its first test launch currently scheduled before the end of the year: russianspaceweb.com/2025.html#so...
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Modi's silence on Mamdani’s victory reveals what terrifies Hindutva supporters. Young, progressive, interfaith, anti-establishment and unafraid, Zohran represents everything whose existence the Hindu Right has spent decades trying to deny.

I write in The Caravan

caravanmagazine.in/politics/mod...
Narendra Modi's silence on Zohran Mamdani’s victory reveals what terrifies Hindutva supporters
Zohran Mamdani represents everything whose existence the Hindu Right has spent decades trying to deny.
caravanmagazine.in
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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This is really good and captures precisely how AI, as a longstanding field of scientific inquiry dating back decades, has been coopted by tech companies into a marketing term for a specific set of practices that bring attention to them.
absolutely. which is why this was the definition for AI that @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I included in our recent TiCS article
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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One of the funner moments from my South Africa trip occurred when these two little borbs decided to chase each other on the edge a lagoon.

(They're Black Crakes, btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"North India, along with pockets in southeastern and southern areas, are the most polluted regions of the world right now. Reason? Open-field biomass burning"
Source: nitter.net/hjethva05/st...
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England.

And they're marked by St George's flags

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’
Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Rocket Lab delays first Neutron launch to 2026

Rocket Lab has delayed the first launch of its reusable Neutron rocket to 2026, saying it wants to maximize the chances that the flight will be a success.
Rocket Lab delays first Neutron launch to 2026
Rocket Lab has delayed the first launch of its reusable Neutron rocket to 2026, saying it wants to maximize the chances that the flight will be a success.
spacenews.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged

One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system.
Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged
One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period, further straining the system.
spacenews.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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The staging orbit for ESCAPADE is an amazing piece of astro wizardry and also a perfect example of why Lagrange points are not actual points arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane.

We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.
November 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#CopernicusAtmosphere daily mean PM2.5 surface concentration forecasts showing development of #airpollution across the Indo-Gangetic Plain between 1 October & 10 November 2025. More info + data access ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam... #airquality @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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So I was expecting any failure that happened to be quite late into the launch given it took some time for the rumor to spread...and so it was with the hypergolic fuel 4th (upper stage) failing 8.5 minutes into its burn (probably 10+ planned).
x.com/raz_liu/stat...
Ace of Razgriz on X: "Mission failed of the Ceres-1 Y 19. The 4th stage shut-down earlier than expected. via https://t.co/HkS5CzjQj7 https://t.co/1jyuP8M46G" / X
Mission failed of the Ceres-1 Y 19. The 4th stage shut-down earlier than expected. via https://t.co/HkS5CzjQj7 https://t.co/1jyuP8M46G
x.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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FAILURE of Gushenxing-1; 4th stage burn problem, just missed reaching orbit.
LAUNCH at 0403 UTC Nov 10 of a Gushenxing-1 from Jiuquan; at this time it is unclear whether or not the launch was successful.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I've summarized the truth about Loeb's 10 "anomalies" about 3I/ATLAS in one post.

Thanks to @deschscoveries.bsky.social @michael-w-busch.bsky.social @cometary.org and @marshall-eubanks.bsky.social for contributing their expertise!
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft.  He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Mmmh la Chine a lancé quatre fusées en l’espace de 36 heures ? o_O
As for the Ceres-1...apparently it did launch at 04:02:53 UTC and, well, rumors seems to start spreading an hour later that this might have failed, but there's enough confusion (not the least of which is yesterday's LM-11 launch!) that I'm not saying this is reliable news yet.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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I'll go out on a limb here and declare that the new blog post, all about the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center's crewed minimum-energy Mars mission study (1967-1969), will be posted by early December.

I anticipate that I will be run over by a bus sometime between now and then. Or struck by lightning.
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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8 Nov 2025: Today, on the 17th anniversary of Chandrayaan-1 entering lunar orbit, ISRO released new radar maps from the Chandrayaan-2 Mission.
More at: www.isro.gov.in/Lunar_Polar_...
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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No update from China's human spaceflight agency on the possible debris impact on the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft. Insiders on weibo suggest a decision soon, which will be very much safety first. We could see Shenzhou-22 launching without crew, and the 3 SZ-20 astros returning on SZ-21
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I have a very stupid gripe with modern launch broadcasting. For some reason there are never mics set up to capture all the sounds the rocket actually makes in the leadup to the launch.

Best example of one not shown on broadcast is Vega-C's insane startup sequence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrup...
Vega-C liftoff with Biomass | Up close and loud
YouTube video by ESA Extras
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Massive dust plume crosses the Persian Gulf! Captured on Nov. 4 by #Copernicus #Sentinel3, this amazing image shows the enormous dust cloud from southern #Iran and #Pakistan making its way to #Oman and #UAE. #AirQuality
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Wallace et Gromit : A Grand Day Out premiered 36 years ago today.

"To replenish their depleted supply of cheese, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit travel to the moon in a homemade rocket-ship."
a cartoon character standing next to a dog with a basket
Alt: a cartoon character standing next to a dog with a basket
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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That AR 4274 has grown bigger! 😍
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy." Witness's @samgregory.bsky.social on Sora's threat to visual truth:
Sora Is Here. The window to save visual truth is closing
Opinion: Sam Gregory argues that generative video is undermining the notion of a shared reality, and that we need to act before it’s lost forever
www.transformernews.ai
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM