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IMHO @JEF_300 your post explains Space Twitter. Y'all complain when @NASA doesn't answer your personal brain fart ideas. But when @NASAAdmin with ~100K employees and 300m+ taxpayers to serve responds and talks about the big picture, y'all complain.
Why does Jared do this thing, where he picks a post, at most tangentially responds to it, and then goes off for a few paragraphs about the bigger recent narratives on space-Twitter?
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NASA Watch retweeted
The LaserSETI network, built and operated by the SETI Institute, has reached Asia. Two stations are now operational at AlUla Manara in Saudi Arabia, the network’s first location on the continent.
My team and I have been working on this project for several years, and it is rewarding to see these stations collecting data and extending our search for optical technosignatures to a new part of the sky.
Thank you to the Royal Commission for AlUla for your trust and support in bringing this facility to life, and to everyone who helped make the installation possible.
My team and I have been working on this project for several years, and it is rewarding to see these stations collecting data and extending our search for optical technosignatures to a new part of the sky.
Thank you to the Royal Commission for AlUla for your trust and support in bringing this facility to life, and to everyone who helped make the installation possible.
PRESS RELEASE
🔭 LaserSETI has reached a new milestone!
Two new LaserSETI stations are now operational at AlUla Manara in Saudi Arabia, establishing the SETI Institute's first LaserSETI observing site in Asia and the fifth worldwide.
Unlike conventional telescopes that focus on erSETI continuously monitors large areas of the night sky for brief flashes of light. These could reveal unusual astronomical events—or potentially signs of technology beyond Earth.
By expanding the network across the globe, scientists can observe more of the sky for longer periods and compare unusual events detected from different locations.
Learn more about this collaboration between the SETI Institute and the Royal Commission for AlUla: seti.org/news/laserseti…
#SETIInstitute #LaserSETI #Astronomy #Technosignatures
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NASA Watch retweeted
The first workshops of the Space Settlement Summit 2026 took place this morning. Dr. Pascal Lee, Co-founder and Chairman of the Mars Institute, led a working session to answer the questions: Why the Moon, and why now?
The room was fully engaged. Participants dug into lunar base gh the realities of a shifting political landscape and the changes that come with it. Perspectives varied, and the group was united around the mission of building a sustainable future on the Moon and beyond. 🚀
Students, scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders were all at the table, turning big ideas into plans that can hold up.
The room was fully engaged. Participants dug into lunar base gh the realities of a shifting political landscape and the changes that come with it. Perspectives varied, and the group was united around the mission of building a sustainable future on the Moon and beyond. 🚀
Students, scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders were all at the table, turning big ideas into plans that can hold up.
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NASA Watch retweeted
On Oct 27 6pm ET, join us for Bracing for the Strongest El Niño on Record, an exclusive webinar on #ColumbiaGivingDay eve, with our panel of climate experts, @columbiaclimate professors of climate Sheila Foster, Radley Horton, and Mingfang Ting. RSVP: columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
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Here we go! Space Settlement Summit 2026 is officially underway!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Orlando for #SpaceWeek!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in Orlando for #SpaceWeek!
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ICYMI @NASA is finally getting serious about the Moon and @NASAAdmin is willing to adjust things to reflect reality of here/now and 'stay on target'.
-- "No one in NASA's civil servant leadership saw a credible path to developing EUS and ML-2 in parallel, spending billions more and launching that configuration in time to meet our objectives. We have a more achievable path now. There will always be reasons to defend the architecture of yesterday, which is part of why we have the rocket we have today and its challenges. But let's put aside the politics and emotion, because at some point the engineering, economics, and schedule have to matter more, and let's just finally go back to the Moon, people." --
-- "No one in NASA's civil servant leadership saw a credible path to developing EUS and ML-2 in parallel, spending billions more and launching that configuration in time to meet our objectives. We have a more achievable path now. There will always be reasons to defend the architecture of yesterday, which is part of why we have the rocket we have today and its challenges. But let's put aside the politics and emotion, because at some point the engineering, economics, and schedule have to matter more, and let's just finally go back to the Moon, people." --
@Robotbeated mission kit" would be a good idea for ULA. For a lot of reasons, there will certainly be more users interested in a stretched Centaur than just what we will require for SLS and Moon Base.
As for all the EUS love, it's kind of wild to see the goalposts move for people who love the SLS rocket and our space program. We are adding an Artemis mission that didn't exist in 2027, working a path to finally get Orion to LLO, improving affordability and pace of launch readiness, giving ourselves a better shot at returning to the Moon before the Chinese, and rebuilding the workforce and building hardware again to own our outcomes.
No one in NASA's civil servant leadership saw a credible path to developing EUS and ML-2 in parallel, spending billions more than the Centaur pivot, and launching that configuration in time to meet our objectives. We have a more achievable path now.
There will always be reasons to defend the architecture of yesterday, which is part of why we have the rocket we have today and its challenges. But let's put aside the politics and emotion, because at some point the engineering, economics, and schedule have to matter more, and let's just finally go back to the Moon, people.
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NASA Watch retweeted
Mengtian module's exposed payloads transfer mechanism in action
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NASA and college football… two of my favorite things!
From talking Moon and Mars with students, to presenting a flag that flew around the Moon on Artemis II, to seeing @NASAAdmin’s flyover roar over Bryant-Denny before kickoff, NASA was everywhere in Tuscaloosa!
Some of the terday will help build, fly, and lead the missions that come next. That’s what the Inspiration Tour is all about 🇺🇸🚀
From talking Moon and Mars with students, to presenting a flag that flew around the Moon on Artemis II, to seeing @NASAAdmin’s flyover roar over Bryant-Denny before kickoff, NASA was everywhere in Tuscaloosa!
Some of the terday will help build, fly, and lead the missions that come next. That’s what the Inspiration Tour is all about 🇺🇸🚀
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NASA says Artemis program adjustments improve shot at 2028 moon landing cbsnews.com/news/nasa-arte… by @cbs_spacenews #Moon #Lunar #Artemis
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NASA Chief Warns China Is Closing Gap in ‘New Space Race’ newsweek.com/nasa-space-rac… #Moon #Lunar #Artemis
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NASA Watch retweeted
And my book is now out! One Light-Day is about the Voyager 1 mission and its journey to one light-day out of Earth. That’s an important occasion that I think needs to be celebrated.
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ICYMI @GeorgeAlderman_ is really getting into the lunar groove now. - Thanks @grok
Here we go...
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NASA Watch retweeted
It's tough to grasp the scale of lunar landers so here's a comparison of China's Lanyue, Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mk2, and SpaceX's Starship HLS. Apollo LM for reference.
The future of lunar landers looks insanely bright!
The future of lunar landers looks insanely bright!
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Wow. Texas really really REALLY wants #SpaceAcademy
"An Exclusive First Look at Texas A&M’s New $200 Million Space Institute"
texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
"An Exclusive First Look at Texas A&M’s New $200 Million Space Institute"
texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
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NASA Watch retweeted
"As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing system providers Blue Origin and SpaceX have streamlined the designs and changed both concepts of operations for its future NASA established initial contracts with Blue Origin and SpaceX for crewed missions to the Moon, the agency has redefined Artemis III to demonstrate rendezvous and docking capabilities between test versions of landers from each provider and the agency’s Orion spacecraft in low Earth orbit next year. In parallel, the companies are also developing crew and cargo versions of their landers for near-term Artemis missions."
Full release nasa.gov/missions/artem…
Full release nasa.gov/missions/artem…
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NASA Watch retweeted
Maybe I missed this. Posted on LinkedIn by someone from @NASAJPL but nowhere else that I can recall. @NASA @NASAScience_ #Mars linkedin.com/posts/georgina…?
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NASA Watch retweeted
28.1 miles. A new off-world record on Mars.
After more than 2,000 Martian days exploring Jezero Crater, @NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to show what’s possible when science, technology, and exploration come together.
Congratulations @NASA and @NASAJPL. Here’s to pushing d beyond.
After more than 2,000 Martian days exploring Jezero Crater, @NASA’s Perseverance rover continues to show what’s possible when science, technology, and exploration come together.
Congratulations @NASA and @NASAJPL. Here’s to pushing d beyond.
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This launch happened *exactly* 9 years before I was born and a year after another Nazi V-2 came within meters of killing my father in London. I owe my existence to those few meters. Yet 10-20,000 slaves/prisoners died building this rocket weapon. nasawatch.com/2024/03/18/tha…
80 years ago, Johns Hopkins APL helped capture the first photos of Earth from space.
On Oct. 24, 1946, James Van Allen and APL colleagues launched cameras and scientific instruments aboard a captured German V-2 rocket, giving humanity its first glimpse of Earth from space.
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