I'm Joff, I live in Melbourne/Naarm in Australia. Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Some form of #leftist#queerish#enm cis-human who ideally would live in some sort of technohippie commune with all my friends
Things I'm very into #aviation I've been (very slowly) working on getting my Private Pilots Licence. I currently hold an RPL. Planes are cool! #photography Nice photos! #swingdancing. Okay, it's been quite a while since I've done that, but I'm still gonna count it. #spaceflight and #rockets.
Playing all together far too much #RocketLeague
The few grey hairs in my beard are the evidence I've been a software engineer for quite some time now. Done most things, but I have a special place in my heart for #Elixir and #DevOps. Trying hard not to make this my entire personality. Currently working in the #ClimateChange space
Boeing Starliner is scheduled for its first crewed launch on May 6. The history of this spacecraft is MESSY — here’s the full story on why it’s seven years late.
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In spaceflight news today, China is about to launch three of its astronauts on Shenzhou 18 towards the Tiangong space station: liftoff is in about 7 minutes from now.
Should be going on CGTN within the next hour to talk about the mission & international collaboration in space exploration.
The latter is certainly an interesting question given the current geopolitical context 😬
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MethaneSAT jetzt im Orbit, nachdem SpaceX .. Mission .. gestartet hat. .. Satellit .. von einer gemeinnützigen Umweltorganisation entwickelt .., wird Methanemissionen erkennen, .. ebnet damit den Weg für mehr Verantwortlichkeit und eine schnellere Reduzierung. Eine Pressemitteilung des Environmental Defense Fund.
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A daring mission to revive a defunct NASA telescope? Let's talk about Spitzer Resurrector and speculate on why the Space Force (and not NASA!) is interested in this mission.
Transferring around 80GB of videos from my phone to a backup drive: lots of interesting things taken over the past three years or so.
Here's one: my view of Ariane 5 VA256 in the BAF at CSG Kourou in French Guiana on 23 December 2021, with #JWST on top, ahead of rollout to launch pad ELA-3 & their flight into space legend on Christmas Day.
The reason I didn’t do any live posting about the Starship launch is I was frantically working on this. Here's my take on the launch (including video from the launch and flight because WOW SpaceX put on a good show here)
Gwynne Shotwell’s #SpaceX did incredible work today. #Starship is a monster!!! Including the 1st stage booster, it stands ~120m tall. What an absolute unit.
If you call today's launch a “failure”, you have no idea how experimentation works.
Look, I honestly think EM is a terrible person, and I'd wager that his personal contributions to SpaceX's progress over the last few years have been minimal – while the rest of the company has been working their collective asses off.
Just got the email confirmation from SpaceX -- Starship's third test launch is set for tomorrow morning. Checked with the FAA, and yep, there's the launch license:
Via Mike Acs on Flickr, an image of what I believe was the proposed Saturn MLV-11.5 configuration -- basically a Saturn IB with four five-segment solid boosters strapped to it.
The idea was to hit a middle spot for payload between the IB's 18.6 tonnes and the Saturn V's 118 -- around 40 tonnes.
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