According to NASA’s latest statement, the Artemis II rollout is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:00 UTC on Saturday, Jan. 17. Preparations for the crawler-transporter 2 began on Jan. 9

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Today is my "Space Sunday," so I was coding a bit for @wawn and I hit a snag.
The JPL ephemeris data places comet 24P/Schaumasse in the wrong quadrant — I double-checked the math, so the error must be in the Horizons data.
The JPL Orbit Viewer shows the comet in the "correct" region, but its trajectory doesn't match the official perihelion on 08.01.
Maybe there's new epoch data in the API I can't find, but either way, something is off.

I might need a new hobby to recover from my hobby.

A Christmas letter to Santa?
Nah, not exciting enough...

Did you know the Moon had an unauthorized "mail service'?
Apollo astronauts were allowed to bring Personal Preference Kits. And so, valuable contraband postal covers, often sought by collectors, were successfully flown on missions 11, 13, and 14.
But the unauthorized covers carried by the Apollo 15 crew sparked a major scandal when they were sold for profit.

Photo: David Scott canceling an envelope on the lunar surface.

A few weeks ago, I deployed a server instance for a private PoC. Since it was nothing important, I forgot about it. It ran for days with a bare-bones setup: default SSH port, no key auth, no fail2ban, nothing. The server endured thousands of brute-force login attempts.
This sparked my interest, so I threw the data into Python for better visualization.

I think I'll keep the instance as a honeypot, just for fun, to see if Mitch from Paris is still knocking on my door.

Grense Jakobselv, Norway.
I took this unprofessional photo a few years ago.
It was summer. The cold windy Arctic Ocean behind me. Russia to my left. No cell coverage, the frontier of civilization, you might think. But not yet.

It became the frontier on 24.02.2022 when the nation on my left side started the unprovoked invasion.
This picture reminds me how easily the 'frontier of civilization' shifts.

I had already forgot about the photo. But this week, I had to think about it every fucking day.