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🇰🇷 #Innospace delays 1st commercial orbit launch https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/tech-science/20251220/korean-startup-again-delays-1st-commercial-orbit-launch
No new launch date yet https://www.innospc.com/myboard/sub04_02
RE: https://flipboard.com/@spacecom/space.com-06o8ff5iz/-/a-4hLxvkbET1a5UoXKzyhozA%3Aa%3A1693190246-%2F0
#Innospace liftoff 🚀 07:45 PM CET Friday December 19, 2025 https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/8011 from Alcântara Launch Center 🇧🇷 https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Alcântara+Launch+Center&layer=Esri+Satellite
#Asteroid ☄️ impact 💥 simulation https://neal.fun/asteroid-launcher
It took 225 years ⏳ to find the 1.5 million #asteroids ☄️ known to date. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory 🔭 @VRubinObs will double this number in less than a year. ⏱️ https://www.heise.de/en/news/Simulation-New-telescope-soon-to-detect-millions-of-objects-in-the-solar-system-10425160.html
More than half of the “city killer” 🌃 #asteroids ☄️ that might threaten Earth remain undiscovered. The blast from an #asteroid of 140 meter 📏 would be roughly 600 times 📈 more destructive 💥 than #Chelyabinsk, because a doubling in diameter increases a space rock’s kinetic energy by eight times. Observing 🔭 in the infrared, #NEOSurveyor* will see those hidden asteroids glow like fireflies in the night https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-telescope-will-hunt-down-city-killer-asteroids
* Launch 🚀 September 2027 https://science.nasa.gov/mission/neo-surveyor
#Europe 🇪🇺 2025 : mostly statements of intent, words like “plan,” “capacity,” “investment,” and “build”. The growth in public and private funds 💰 was due to the widespread recognition that #space is vital to the modern age. While there was a lot to celebrate in 2025, the work is only just beginning https://payloadspace.com/2025-europe-in-review
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115743081636399840
• 2028 lunar landing 🧑🚀
• Lunar outpost (seems deliberately ambiguous 🤔)
• #Nuclear reactors on the #Moon 🌙
• Private launch 🚀
• End of #ISS ⤵️
• Leaner procurement 💵
• End the National #SpaceCouncil
No mention of a concrete plan to send humans to #Mars 🔴
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115735371472929659
#Exoplanet 🪐 so close to its massive star (with the mass of the sun ☀️ but only the size of a city) that it is stretched into a “strange lemon 🍋 shape” by its gravity
Civilian and #military operators alike need spacecraft that can withstand the brutal conditions of #space 🌌. That means resistance to #radiation ☢️, to heat, to #electromagnetic pulses and to targeted disruption. Forms of technology that make #satellites more resilient will also cut costs and improve #civilian services. #Berlin plans to spend 35 billion euros 💰 on military space capabilities between now and 2030. The challenge is speed ⏱️ and #regulation https://spacenews.com/what-germany-got-right-and-wrong-in-its-first-ever-space-strategy/
#Silicon is relatively heavy and inflexible. In contrast, organic #SolarCells ☀️ can be #flexible and are much lighter. Organic solar cells made with small molecules showed no damage after three years worth of #radiation ☢️ https://news.umich.edu/light-flexible-and-radiation-resistant-organic-solar-cells-for-space/
