# \#space **URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tag/space/1.md [Latest](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/latest.md) · [Categories](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/categories.md) · [Tags](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tags.md) --- ## [SpaceX Starlink Group 7-9 Launch: First Direct-to-Mobile Satellites](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starlink-group-7-9-launch-first-direct-to-mobile-satellites/4172)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [9 November 2026 16:38 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starlink-group-7-9-launch-first-direct-to-mobile-satellites/4172 "2026-11-09T16:38:58Z")
SpaceX launched 21 Starlink satellites into Generation 2 Group 7 on 2024-01-03 at 03:44 UTC. The launch was from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The first stage boo… --- ## [Space, the Final Frontier](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/space-the-final-frontier/6491)
**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [21 October 2026 17:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/space-the-final-frontier/6491 "2026-10-21T17:12:14Z")
Here’s an interesting link from Kevin Walmsley – a long-established China booster, just so you know. Interesting point is that satellites generate revenue, rocket launches not so much. Normal economics would suggest th… --- ## [arctic satellite launch](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/arctic-satellite-launch/6448)
**Author:** [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [9 September 2026 17:37 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/arctic-satellite-launch/6448 "2026-09-09T17:37:30Z")
what’s notable is that the spaceport is at 69.1087°N 15.5887°E --- ## [SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Thirteenth Flight Test](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-thirteenth-flight-test/6400)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [6 August 2026 11:49 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-thirteenth-flight-test/6400 "2026-08-06T11:49:21Z")
This topic discusses the forthcoming SpaceX thirteenth flight test of the integrated Starship (#40) and Super Heavy booster (#20), currently scheduled for launch no earlier than 2026-07-16 22:45 UTC with a … --- ## [Gravity Metric Engineering Physics Workshop Tuscany May 22-May 26 2023](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/gravity-metric-engineering-physics-workshop-tuscany-may-22-may-26-2023/3053)
**Author:** [@jacksarfatti](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jacksarfatti)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [10 July 2026 18:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/gravity-metric-engineering-physics-workshop-tuscany-may-22-may-26-2023/3053 "2026-07-10T18:13:00Z")
You can participate via ZOOM. Lectures will be posted on Tim Ventura’s Youtube Channel. Notable participants include Travis Taylor - Chief physicist for Pentagon UAP Report works with Jay Stratton US Navy Intelligence b… --- ## [SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Twelfth Flight Test](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [31 May 2026 12:12 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-starship-super-heavy-twelfth-flight-test/6344 "2026-05-31T12:12:56Z")
This topic discusses the forthcoming SpaceX twelfth flight test of the integrated Starship (#39) and Super Heavy booster (#19), currently scheduled for launch no earlier than 2026-05-21 22:30 UTC with a 90… --- ## [A Great Filter You Won't See Anyone But Me Bring Up (For Reasons That Will Become Obvious Presently)](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-great-filter-you-wont-see-anyone-but-me-bring-up-for-reasons-that-will-become-obvious-presently/2729)
**Author:** [@jabowery](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jabowery)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [28 May 2026 21:36 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-great-filter-you-wont-see-anyone-but-me-bring-up-for-reasons-that-will-become-obvious-presently/2729 "2026-05-28T21:36:39Z")
Some benighted folks have noticed a rather strange coincidence involving JFK’s “New Frontier” creating a phony frontier with the Apollo Program: JFK also published “A Nation of Immigrants”, which elided the very existen… --- ## [SpaceX Space Development Agency Transport & Tracking Tranche 0, Flight 2 Launch](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-space-development-agency-transport-tracking-tranche-0-flight-2-launch/3674)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [3 May 2026 20:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-space-development-agency-transport-tracking-tranche-0-flight-2-launch/3674 "2026-05-03T20:43:44Z")
SpaceX plans to launch 13 satellites for the Space Development Agency’s “Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture” Transport (11 satellites) and Tracking (2 satellites) layers. This is a low Earth orbit c… --- ## [Iran launches three satellites](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/iran-launches-three-satellites/4261)
**Author:** [@eggspurt](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/eggspurt)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [6 April 2026 19:36 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/iran-launches-three-satellites/4261 "2026-04-06T19:36:59Z")
The nano-satellites, named Kayhan-2 and Hatef-1, will be used to test narrowband communication and geopositioning technology, state media said. The larger satellite, named Mahda and built by the Iranian Space Agency, w… --- ## [Boeing Starliner “Hangar Queen” Crew Flight Test Delayed Again](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/boeing-starliner-hangar-queen-crew-flight-test-delayed-again/3256)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [20 February 2026 12:01 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/boeing-starliner-hangar-queen-crew-flight-test-delayed-again/3256 "2026-02-20T12:01:57Z")
A Boeing official said Thursday that the company was “standing down” from an attempt to launch the Starliner spacecraft on July 21 to focus on recently discovered issues with the vehicle. ⋮ The issues … --- ## [Competition for SpaceX](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/competition-for-spacex/6278)
**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [16 February 2026 18:27 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/competition-for-spacex/6278 "2026-02-16T18:27:26Z")
China recovers first rocket booster at sea, marks milestone in reusable technology - Global Times Competition for SpaceX. Remember the days when news like this would have been about NASA? Remember NASA? “China comple… --- ## [Landing Starship on Mars](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/landing-starship-on-mars/1252)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [9 February 2026 23:31 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/landing-starship-on-mars/1252 "2026-02-09T23:31:36Z")
This week, instead of the usual summary of space news, Marcus House takes a deep dive—alongside SpaceX’s Starship—into the atmosphere of Mars, exploring the issues involved in landing Starship on the Martia… --- ## [Servicing and Re-boosting the Hubble Space Telescope with a SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/servicing-and-re-boosting-the-hubble-space-telescope-with-a-spacex-crew-dragon-mission/2110)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [8 February 2026 23:46 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/servicing-and-re-boosting-the-hubble-space-telescope-with-a-spacex-crew-dragon-mission/2110 "2026-02-08T23:46:53Z")
SpaceX and Jared Isaacman have been awarded an unfunded Space Act agreement by NASA to study a servicing and re-boost mission to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope. On the last Space Shuttle ser… --- ## [Falcon 9 Flight 596 (Starlink Launch 352) Deorbit Problem Post-Deployment](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/falcon-9-flight-596-starlink-launch-352-deorbit-problem-post-deployment/6266)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [3 February 2026 13:24 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/falcon-9-flight-596-starlink-launch-352-deorbit-problem-post-deployment/6266 "2026-02-03T13:24:50Z")
During today’s Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink satellites, the second stage experienced an off-nominal condition during preparation for the deorbit burn. The vehicle then performed as designed to successfully passivate the … --- ## [Crew 11 Medical Evacuation](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crew-11-medical-evacuation/6233)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [14 January 2026 23:22 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/crew-11-medical-evacuation/6233 "2026-01-14T23:22:49Z")
Leaves only three people in the station. --- ## [Blue Origin New Shepard 35 "RSS H. G. Wells"](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/blue-origin-new-shepard-35-rss-h-g-wells/6071)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [25 August 2025 10:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/blue-origin-new-shepard-35-rss-h-g-wells/6071 "2025-08-25T10:13:46Z")
Scheduled for August 26, 2025: Instead of space tourists, this one will be carrying “experiments” to maintain the pretense of a business purpose of the New Shepard program beyond sending Bezos’s friends to … --- ## [Wherefore art thou ArianeSpace?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/wherefore-art-thou-arianespace/5975)
**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [21 June 2025 21:37 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/wherefore-art-thou-arianespace/5975 "2025-06-21T21:37:50Z")
If you will forgive me – one last China-related news item. Fast-follower China is apparently in the process of duplicating SpaceX’s success. Blue Origin is limping along somewhere in the background. ArianeSpace and UL… --- ## [Another UFO questionable occurance?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/another-ufo-questionable-occurance/5946)
**Author:** [@Gerard](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gerard)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [25 May 2025 11:49 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/another-ufo-questionable-occurance/5946 "2025-05-25T11:49:36Z")
This showed up on Fox News today. Scientists discover mysterious sphere in Colombia, sparking UFO speculation A short about another. But wait, there’s more! Finally, debunked… --- ## [Biological Twist in Space](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/biological-twist-in-space/5931)
**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [17 May 2025 14:43 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/biological-twist-in-space/5931 "2025-05-17T14:43:18Z")
China reports Tiangong space-station microbe discovery for first time, naming bacterium ‘Niallia tiangongensis’ - Global Times Chinese scientists have reported the discovery of a previously unknown strain inside the Tia… --- ## [Soviet Venus Lander Missions](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/soviet-venus-lander-missions/1732)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [1 May 2025 16:30 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/soviet-venus-lander-missions/1732 "2025-05-01T16:30:30Z")
The Soviet Union’s Venera program, which ran from 1961 through 1984, performed the first on-site exploration of the planet Venus and accomplished a number of significant “firsts” in planetary exploration: … --- ## [SpaceX IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus Lander Launch](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-im-1-nova-c-odysseus-lander-launch/4358)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [26 February 2025 23:01 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/spacex-im-1-nova-c-odysseus-lander-launch/4358 "2025-02-26T23:01:13Z")
SpaceX plans to launch the first private American lunar lander on 2024-02-15 at 06:05 UTC. The launch will be from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Station in Florida with an instantaneous launch window.… --- ## [This Week’s Book Review - The Wrong Stuff](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/this-week-s-book-review-the-wrong-stuff/5770)
**Author:** [@Seawriter](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Seawriter)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [2 February 2025 00:19 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/this-week-s-book-review-the-wrong-stuff/5770 "2025-02-02T00:19:14Z")
Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is wo… --- ## [New Glenn First Flight 12/26/2024?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/new-glenn-first-flight-12-26-2024/5693)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [14 January 2025 19:39 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/new-glenn-first-flight-12-26-2024/5693 "2025-01-14T19:39:14Z")
Current launch attempt: Prior scrub: https://x.com/blueorigin Speculate away! Still have not done a first stage static fire. Launch will be from LC-36 at CCSFS. Landing will be attempted o… --- ## [Life Among the Natives - Chinese Edition](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/life-among-the-natives-chinese-edition/5695)
**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [1 December 2024 15:35 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/life-among-the-natives-chinese-edition/5695 "2024-12-01T15:35:05Z")
Feng Timo, a marginally-successful Chinese singer with an interesting voice, made a music video of a pleasant little song set among the ethnic Li people of China’s Hainan Island, about 600 miles south-west of Taiwan. Th… --- ## [Mapping the cosmos](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/mapping-the-cosmos/5641)
**Author:** [@owenwengerd](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/owenwengerd)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [23 October 2024 22:21 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/mapping-the-cosmos/5641 "2024-10-23T22:21:34Z")
ESA - Zoom into the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas --- ## [This Week’s Book Review - Reentry](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/this-week-s-book-review-reentry/5631)
**Author:** [@Seawriter](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Seawriter)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [15 October 2024 02:27 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/this-week-s-book-review-reentry/5631 "2024-10-15T02:27:31Z")
Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is wo… --- ## [This Week’s Book Review - The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/this-week-s-book-review-the-barber-the-astronaut-and-the-golf-ball/4903)
**Author:** [@Seawriter](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Seawriter)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [22 September 2024 12:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/this-week-s-book-review-the-barber-the-astronaut-and-the-golf-ball/4903 "2024-09-22T12:59:36Z")
Looking for a good read? Here is a recommendation. I have an unusual approach to reviewing books. I review books I feel merit a review. Each review is an opportunity to recommend a book. If I do not think a book is wo… --- ## [RIP F9 Booster 1062 2020-2024](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/rip-f9-booster-1062-2020-2024/4865)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [28 August 2024 22:54 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/rip-f9-booster-1062-2020-2024/4865 "2024-08-28T22:54:08Z")
B1062- SpaceX - Launches failed on its 23rd recovery: Falcon 9 launches now suspended pending investigation. --- ## [A Barrier to Reusable Spacecraft?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-barrier-to-reusable-spacecraft/4811)
**Author:** [@Gavin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Gavin)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [28 July 2024 19:59 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/a-barrier-to-reusable-spacecraft/4811 "2024-07-28T19:59:17Z")
For most purposes, I prefer text to video. But one has to be flexible. Since the late John Walker sometimes linked to Scott Manley’s videos, let’s continue the tradition. In this relatively short video, Mr. Manley rev… --- ## [The Story Of How The CIA Stole & Returned A Soviet Spacecraft Before Being Noticed](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-story-of-how-the-cia-stole-returned-a-soviet-spacecraft-before-being-noticed/4784)
**Author:** [@jdougan](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/jdougan)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [22 July 2024 06:36 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-story-of-how-the-cia-stole-returned-a-soviet-spacecraft-before-being-noticed/4784 "2024-07-22T06:36:39Z")
60 years ago this week an exhibition of Soviet culture and technology was touring the world, and was packing up in Mexico City to head to the next Location. However one particular item was of great interest… [Next page](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tag/space/1.md?match_all_tags=true&page=1&tags%5B%5D=space)