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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️"China Practicing ‘Dogfighting in Space,’ US Space Force Says" by Air & Space Forces Magazine (<a href="https://spacey.space/tags/FPNF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FPNF</a> Fediverse presence not found - if you know them, invite them) - USSF presentation pointed out commercial public data which showed China experimenting with close maneuvering between military satellites. <a href="https://www.airandspaceforces.com/china-practicing-dogfighting-space-force/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.airandspaceforces.com/china-practicing-dogfighting-space-force/</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️"Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their data bounced off an airplane" by <a href="https://flipboard.com/@Spacecom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Spacecom</a> - Mystery solved how television broadcast radio signals sometimes interfere with Murchison radiotelescope in Western Australia, even though the distant transmitters are not in line-of-sight. Now knowing the radio signals are reflecting off passing airplanes, astronomers can more easily filter them out of their science data. <a href="https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/astronomers-realize-mysterious-tv-signal-in-their-data-bounced-off-an-airplane" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/astronomers-realize-mysterious-tv-signal-in-their-data-bounced-off-an-airplane</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radio</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aviation</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#avgeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️It's already February 1st here in Australia. So this will seem early for my friends back home in America. I always remember the anniversary of the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia accident because I was an eyewitness. I saw the smoke trail it left in the pre-dawn sky over Northern California. <a href="https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/111858299986968510" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/111858299986968510</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NASA</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Ian Kluft ✈️🎈🌋Online friends finally meet in person... I've known <a href="https://avgeek.social/@Leighton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Leighton</a> for years from <a href="https://mstdn.social/@JetCityStar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JetCityStar</a>'s biweekly Aerospace Chat. He's a fellow <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#avgeek</a>, <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>, <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/mapgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mapgeek</a>, pilot and flight instructor. Now he's showing me around <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sydney</a>. <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://avgeek.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️"Human Altitude" by XKCD comic (mirror bots <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@xkcd</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/@xkcdbot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@xkcdbot</a> ) - After false starts, in the larger scale of history Humans have rapidly increased the maximum altitude achieved since first taking flight in balloons, then airplanes, then spacecraft. Since the 1970s our maximum altitude has remained in Low Earth Orbit. It goes to show the Cold War competition pushed us to the Moon before we were ready to sustain the effort. Let's try again. <a href="https://xkcd.com/3039/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/3039/</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aviation</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#avgeek</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️<a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Starship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starship</a>🚀 is larger in mass and volume than a Space Shuttle orbiter, which explains why the debris field from Starship was much bigger than recently-observed re-entries of satellites or rocket bodies. Also lighting was ideal for observation in the Caribbean and Greater Antilles Islands with clear skies just after sunset. Since there was no crew on Starship, it was safe to enjoy a spectacular and very rare view. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️Remarkable day with engineering test flights of 2 giant American commercial <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> rockets, <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> & <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Starship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starship</a>🚀 flight test 7, about 16 hours apart. Rocket science once again proved to be hard. Interesting opposite results: New Glenn's 2nd stage got to orbit, but 1st stage was lost on the landing attempt. Starship 33 (new Block 2 model) failed to reach orbit, while Booster 14 was successfully caught by the tower arms. <a href="https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/113829189563034434" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://spacey.space/@AstroHawk/113829189563034434</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️"Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket" by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@arstechnica</a> / <a href="https://journa.host/@sciguyspace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sciguyspace</a> - Excellent first flight of the new heavy-lift rocket achieved it's primary goal of reaching orbit. The booster landing attempt should be viewed as good that they tried and got data from the attempt. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/blue-origin-reaches-orbit-on-first-flight-of-its-titanic-new-glenn-rocket/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/blue-origin-reaches-orbit-on-first-flight-of-its-titanic-new-glenn-rocket/</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️"Getting to orbit is hard. And we did it on our first go." True. They've earned the celebration we're seeing now. New Glenn is about 90% the size of a Saturn V, to point out how big this is. I noticed the shape of the shock diamonds in the rocket thrust looked like consistent stable combustion. Well done! <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️Webcast says 1st stage booster was lost during landing burn near the landing ship. They promise more details. But expect the mood to be of celebration with success of 2nd stage reaching orbit. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️"GS2 is now orbital". Second stage engine cutoff. Primary objective successful! <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️2nd stage continues climbing toward orbit, which is the primary goal of this mission. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️Booster data feed frozen on descent for attempted landing. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️2nd stage climbing toward orbit. 1st stage re-entering for attempted landing. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️MECO. Stage separation. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️Liftoff! <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️T-5 minutes. Go for launch. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️T-10 minutes. <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning could be exciting with <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Starship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starship</a>🚀 flight test 7 and <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> currently scheduled 8 hours apart. However, engineering flight tests are not conducted for spectators. It's realistic to set expectations for possible delays. <a href="https://go4liftoff.com/launches?item_count=20&upcoming=true&tbd=true" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://go4liftoff.com/launches?item_count=20&upcoming=true&tbd=true</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️"Blue Origin reschedules orbital debut of New Glenn rocket, then re-reschedules it" by GeekWire / <a href="https://mastodon.social/@alanboyle" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alanboyle</a> - <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/BlueOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlueOrigin</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewGlenn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewGlenn</a>🚀 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NG1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NG1</a> now planned for Thu Jan 16 at 0100 ET (Wed Jan 15 2200 PT). Still no technical details offered in public statements. <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-origin-turnaround-new-glenn-rocket/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-origin-turnaround-new-glenn-rocket/</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NewSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpace</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/spacegeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spacegeek</a>

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