#SLS payload to trans-lunar injection

Block 1 : 27t
Block 1B : 42t
Block 2 : 46t

#LaunchCost ~$4 billion 💰💰💰💰 a launch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System#Launch_costs or see above ☝️

Configurations : https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sls_lift_capabilities_and_configurations_508_08202018_0.pdf

#ESA budget 2025 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/ESA_budget_by_domain_2025 vs. the updated ESA budget for the three-year period 2025-2028 https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corporate/CM25_pressconference_slides.pdf

The three largest contributors:
🇩🇪 #Germany 5,112 million (~23 %)
🇫🇷 #France 3,675 million (~16 %)
🇮🇹 #Italy 3,495 million (~15 %)

#3IATLAS ☄️ will make its closest approach to Earth on 📆 Dec. 19. Until then, expect many more new observations and claims https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/no-comet-3i-atlas-hasnt-exploded-and-no-that-doesnt-mean-its-an-alien-spaceship

Animation : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3I_ATLAS_animation2.webm

📊 The #US government documented 144 reports of #UAPs between November 2004 and March 2021 and it was only able to conclusively explain one 1️⃣ of them. 18 incidents involved UAPs demonstrating unusual movement patterns that could be evidence of some kind of advanced #propulsion technology https://www.statista.com/chart/25180/us-government-reports-of-uap-incidents

#UFO #UAP

#Orbital and #Suborbital Launch Sites of the World 2025 https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/Bryce_Launch_Sites_2025.pdf by #BryceTech https://brycetech.com/reports

In #OpenStreetMap* 🗺️ https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=spaceport#values

*data used by #OsmAnd https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/index.html, https://industry.openmaps.space or #Marble https://marble.kde.org (and many others)

#Spaceport

Number of #planets 🪐 discovered outside the #SolarSystem (5824) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-exoplanets-by-method

#exoplanets #SETI #OurWorldInData

#ESA : "The main challenge stems from the population of middle-size objects, ranging from tens to hundreds of metres in diameter 📏. There are a lot of these #asteroids ☄️, and most have not been spotted🔭 yet" 🙈 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/06/Asteroid_danger_explained

Short: still to be spotted >70% (the ones > 100m)

#AsteroidThreat

Created a #spaceport 🚀 map based on #OpenStreetMap data https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en/map/spaceports_93938. Zoom in and click the boundary (not the label) to see the details.

You may also create your own 🗺️ using an #overpass export and https://umap.openstreetmap.de/en

#SpaceTourism #map