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I am now (2022) [email protected]

And less cheerfully (unless you are a North Korean missile engineer) the Hwasong-12 missile made its first flight yesterday. It was launched from Kusong to an apogee of 2111 km and splashed down in the Sea of Japan.

In other recent space news, India's South Asia Satellite, launched on May 5, has reached synchronous orbit and is drifting over the Indian Ocean towards its station. The sat provides comms capability for Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

OK that's odd. I went away for a couple of weeks and now the 'home'
panel gives me 'you arent' following anyone yet' except that I checked
I'm still following 70 people. What gives?

Closest approaches to the Saturnian rings by space probes https://mastodon.cloud/media/O5kU922KbUtV3ME5kCU - note how they find the gaps either side of the dense rings (A-F). Black = planet itself

NASA's Cassini probe passed between Saturn's rings and cloudtops this morning. 3 hours till we hear from it - if it survived OK