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The First and the Last...

#V88 #VA261 #Ariane5 #CSG #ESA

The last one, sexy slow-mo time...

📸ESA-CNES-Arianespace / Optique vidéo du CSG
#VA261 #Ariane5 #CSG #ESA

Meanwhile...at the Skunk Works...

Interesting live view showing the NASA JPL Clean Room and Europa Clipper being constructed

Oh, Hello, what do we have here ?
This is an @Maxar satellite image of VAFB, taken on the 1st of February 2022 showing what seems to resemble an X-37B, curiously vehicle 1 was still flying OTV-6 back then, and vehicle 2 should have been at KSC, so this is either X-37 ALTV or ???

Ariane 6 verification model during Mobile Gantry removal tests

📸 ESA - M. Pedoussaut

The Euclid signal and the ESA dish receiving it :)

#ESA #Euclid

Euclid before encapsulation

📸 via SpaceX

#ESA #Euclid

A nice shot before lift-off...

📸 ESA - S. Corvaja

#Euclid #ESA

Lift-off

📸 ESA - S. Corvaja

#Euclid

Well, it looks like twitter is an absolute shit show, so let's continue here :)

Our little friend the Chinese reusable spacecraft/plane has maneuvered and might be going somewhere...

Meanwhile over at ESA's
Space Heritage Image Project archive, some nice images of our ANS satellite being tested at ESTEC back in 1974 have been added
https://ship.esa.int/ISS/

More Juicy ESA JUICE
launch images coming in...

📸ESA - S. Corvaja
#VA260 #CSG #JUICE #ESA

Great, a little X-37B conundrum on a Sunday, this image below is often quoted (including on a government website) as depicting X-37B "taxi" tests at VAFB circa 2009, however image data says September 19 2007....So...which one is it...more research...🤪

The sad state of the Arecibo Observatory, still wish this could have been saved...

Another look at the X-37B landing gear doors of vehicle 1 (OTV-6 and OTV-3) pretty much every mission the edge has changed, I wonder if they are having fitment/sealing issues, not seen on Vehicle 2...

You know what would be nice ? if @BoeingSpace
would release the full footage of this X-37B landing tracking shot...