SwordPhy

SwordPhy

@swordfi.bsky.social

Interests in space, planes and race cars

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Thought you were done with Night City? Well, Night City isn't quite done with you. Patch notes for Cyberpunk 2077’s Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) are now available for you to ready up and review before going live on the streets tomorrow. Jack in to view the key changes: cp2077.ly/2.5_Patch_No...

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New Edgerunners, new chrome, new playstyle? Sounds like another REDstreams! Join us this Wednesday, Oct 21st at 5 PM CEST for a closer look at Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Update (2.5) and some of the features coming to Cyberpunk 2077: cyberware customization, a new dual-wielding playstyle, and more!

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The jet flyby, led by NASA Administrator Isaacman, of LC-39A ahead of tomorrow's scheduled Falcon Heavy launch of the Roman Space Telescope. (Starship launch tower for scale)

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STATIC FIRE Starship Booster 21 performed what looked like a 14 second multi engine static fire test ahead of flight 14. We will have to wait to find out if this is the final test or SpaceX plans further testing before the booster returns to the production site for final processing.

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Starship 40 is headed home! Our friend Svyatoslav Shanygin has shared the following video and pictures, showing Ship during loading operations onto the Boskalis semi-submersible heavy transport vessel, Forte, at Christmas Island, Australia. Image/video source: Svyatoslav Shanygin

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I once suggested something like this as a back-up system for recovering Starship boosters, before Flight 5 stunned me with the chopsticks catching method. But boy did the most experienced Chinese rocket state institute chose the right way to success... m.weibo.cn/detail/53191...

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First look at LC-36 shows unrecognizable pieces of New Glenn scattered everywhere. While 1 of the lightning towers is still standing, it is heavily damaged. The Transporter-Erector and other lightning tower are completely destroyed. On a positive note, the tank farm looks ok. 📸 Asher B.

Yipeeeeeee

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STARSHIP FLIGHT 12 Ship 39 successfully performs a controlled splashdown in the Indian Ocean, before exploding upon splashdown as expected, bringing Flight 12 to a successful end. youtube.com/watch?v=UfQH...

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NEWS: Kyle Busch, one of the purest racing talents NASCAR has ever seen and winner of more national series races than any driver in history, has died after falling severely ill, NASCAR announced. Busch was hospitalized this week and never recovered. He was 41. www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

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Blue Origin is rolling forward towards flight 4, as New Glenn GS1-3 "No, It's Necessary" booster made a early morning Kennedy Space Center tour as it made its way to Launch Complex 36 for further processing and preflight preparations and testing. nsf.live/spacecoast

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Epic video posted by Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp, of a New Glenn fairing returning back to Earth with the help of exo-atmospheric reaction control system (RCS) following their recent launch. This test as part of the process in order to hopefully recover them on future flights.

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SpaceX launches the first Falcon Heavy since 2024, carrying a communications satellite for Viasat. The rocket lifted off at 10:13 a.m. ET from LC-39A in Florida. The side cores landed at LZ-40 and LZ-2, while the center core was expended. Reporting for Supercluster

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New Glenn GS1 booster "Never Tell Me The Odds" has returned to Port Canaveral following the NG-3 mission, having launched on April 19. MUCH faster turnaround time bringing Jacklyn into port compared to NG-2! 📸 Max Evans for NSF

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New Glenn Flight 3: STATIC FIRE! Blue Origin conducts a Static Fire test at LC-36 ahead of a potential weekend launch. Thanks to NSF's Max Evans for additional views

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Video released by Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp of the New Glenn "Never Tell Me The Odds' Integrated vehicle being lifted onto the Transporter Erector ahead of flight 3 potentially later this month.

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ECLIPSE Images captured aboard Orion Integrity by the NASA Artemis crew of total solar eclipse, as the moon got between the sun and the capsule. The sun's faint Corona visible, the eclipse totality lasted 54 minutes, longer the normally on Earth 📸 NASA images.nasa.gov

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#NASA #ArtemisII - The Artemis II crew with their spacecraft "Integrity" has broken the distance record set by the dual ships "Odyssey" (The wounded Command/Service Module) and "Aquarius" Lunar Module on the Apollo 13 Mission at 1:56 PM EDT ( Time unofficial)

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GOOD MORNING ARTEMIS As the crew wakes up to another day, and gets closer to the moon. NASA shared a number of images captured by the crew of the Crescent Earth as well as a image of of the moon including this Orientale basin on the far side of the moon

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NASA is targeting Wednesday, April 1st, for the launch of the crewed Artemis II mission, sending humans on a journey towards - and around - the Moon for the first time since the final Apollo mission in 1972.

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BREAKING: NASA to launch first Nuclear-Powered mission to Mars called Space Reactor-1 Freedom - First EVER mission with nuclear-electric propulsion to travel beyond Earth orbit - Launching NET December 2028 - Features a nuclear fission reactor to generate electricity 📷 NASA