This is the last one with a fairing, but there are still 4-6 Atlas V cores booked for Starliner missions.

AntennaPod. It’s available through F-Droid.

“man I could’ve gone pro before the injury”

“I’d like to pay rent for my heated seats!” -Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

They have played us for absolute fools

Yeah, this is a huge sticking point for me. I use nav for routes I’ve driven a hundred times because someone will always manage to roll their semi or something in the middle of my drive home.

Favorite RSS apps? I use Feeder on my phone

Roman is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026.

Great work by the team! Being ready to launch sooner than scheduled is really impressive for a program like this.

If I didn’t have autopay I’d have creditors bashing down my doors

Agreed on brightness and deorbiting. There are some efforts underway for those.

FCC licensing includes how operators are reducing constellation brightness:

https://spacenews.com/fcc-directing-more-satellite-constellations-to-mitigate-effects-on-astronomy/

And their 5 year rule for deorbiting:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-adopts-new-5-year-rule-deorbiting-satellites-0

Yogurt Dysfunction

And concerts

Those corporate lawyers need to prove to themselves that they aren’t just a bullshit job

Yeah, my old Chromecast is so much faster and more responsive than my 2020 cheap smart TV

1 teragram?

Artemis is in an interesting place right now. It’s a bit of a mess. But it has a lot of cool and interesting parts.

Artemis 2 might launch in 2026 with 4 astronauts for a loop around the moon. Artemis 3 might launch this decade for a lunar landing with 2 astronauts aboard a SpaceX Starship lander. A lot needs to happen for that to work, like massive progress on the Starship program and Axiom space suits, and continued progress on Lockheed’s Orion capsule.

Artemis 2 and 3 aren’t givens anymore in the DOGE era, but they might still happen. A4+ rely on a new SLS stage from Boeing (EUS) and a new launch tower from Bechtel that are both running way over cost. Also in the mix is Lunar Gateway, a space station around the moon that isn’t really needed to get to the surface, but includes some different parts from international partners. So, who knows. We’ll see what happens.

SpaceX’s Starship contracts with NASA are fixed price and milestone based. So, if they blow it up, that cost is on them. Just like Boeing has had to shell out a lot of money from continuing to fail on Starliner.

and achieved a navigation fix

I set low expectations when I saw the headline, but that means they saw at least 4 GNSS sats at once, which is pretty big step forward.

Maarva got it, too

Agreed, I’ve had some success using it essentially as a replacement for how I used to use Stackexchange, which is to remind me of a syntax or make a little function when I have to do some scripting once every few months, but I don’t trust it for anything more than the basics.

I’m confused, because doesn’t Duckduckgo Maps already use Apple Maps?