While we wait for the cold weather to pass, pad 39B with Artemis II certainly gives us some nice images...

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The US National Reconnaisance Office has declasslifed the JUMPSEAT program, which had signals intelligence satellites in Molniya orbit starting in 1971.

THAAD has the largest and oldest KKV of the theater interceptors

Meanwhile at pad 39B, the emergency slide wire baskets are going back up...

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NEW: The PLA flew a surveillance drone through Taiwanese airspace over Pratas on January 17, possibly marking the first confirmed PLA violation of Taiwanese territorial airspace in decades.

Read the full January 23, China & Taiwan Update: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...

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Some nice images of Boeing-Rockwell-RD LEAP III kinetic kill vehicle. You can also see it mounted on what looks like a Minuteman ICBM next to a RV.

Eight new munition images were added to the OSMP following U.S. strikes on Venezuela:

-AGM-88 HARM air-to-surface missile
-AGM-154 JSOW series air-delivered bomb
-AGM-114 Hellfire/AGM-179 JAGM missile
-9M38/9M317 series surface-to-air missiles

View all: osmp.ngo/location/ven...

People checking Bluesky to see if twitter really went down.

Only thing left is for Putin to call for a 30-day ceasefire between Musk and Trump.

Musk being deported back to South Africa might kill me with irony.

Could whoever is responsible for Elon Musk's ketamine get some more of it to him urgently, we need more content.

Today we are going learn about Light Exo-Atmospheric Projectile's first flight test. So what is LEAP? LEAP was a program aimed at developing extremely lightweight and small KKVs. The program first spawned from an SDI effort develop a light kill vehicle for ground or space based hyper-velocity guns.

Yet another stunning KH-7 GAMBIT spy satellite image. This one shows Dalian (Dairen), China on Jan 23, 1966 at about 60cm/pixel.

I was led here after seeing a declassified imagery report on the site (more on that soon-ish).

spacefromspace.com/declassified...

Epic dust storm on Mars - North Polar Cap

HD video: flic.kr/p/2qzy1b7 🔭

Credit:
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Raw Data: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin

ESA Mars Express HRSC 2018-04-03

A camera on the ISS caught the Starship launch plume!

Credit: Sen www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytu-...

Very high resolution satellite images of SpaceX's flight 6 Starship ahead of tomorrow's/today's launch attempt.

Via Airbus Space: x.com/AirbusSpace/...