Confirmed orbital.

Jonathan McDowell: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mobsyaa4ic2b

It is now confirmed that the Jun 11 HASTE launch reached orbit, with the Electron stage 2 and kick stage shown on Space-Track’s satcat page in 189 x 204 km x 40.0 deg and 198 x 199 km x 40 deg orbits. No actual TLEs, at least so far.

2026-06-14:

• Massey’s: Road delay for “Production to Masseys” still scheduled for Jun 14th 23:59 to Jun 15th 04:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive)

How long have you had yours? I tried one of these and loved it, but it stopped working after a few months of use.

Who is Safari Ron?

refrance

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Korn?

The joke is that sweetmeats are a type of confectionary?

Pretty good summary. I’ll add a couple corrections:

This usually involves liquid oxygen. That’s heavy and under pressure

The critical point of oxygen is below room temperature, meaning it is not possible to keep oxygen liquid using pressure alone. For rockets, liquid oxygen is typically loaded within hours or minutes prior to launch, before it has a chance to warm up and boil off.

winning solution that could escape earth’s gravity well was the Falcon 9. A multi-stage rocket with different fuels for different stages

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket, but it uses the same propellants (kerosene and liquid oxygen) on both stages.

Also, I’m not sure if I would call the Falcon 9 the winning solution, just the “winningest” solution so far. SpaceX’s Starship, Stoke Space’s Nova, and any of the upcoming Falcon 9 clones have the potential to improve on the Falcon 9 design or solve the challenge of reusability in slightly different ways.

Orbital info from Jonathan McDowell:

https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mo7c2hkdic2n

The six H3 payloads have been cataloged in a 556 x 572 km x 97.7 deg, 0945 LTDN sun-sync orbit, confirming successful launch.

Maybe it briefly went orbital and then deorbited?

Jonathan McDowell: https://bsky.app/profile/planet4589.bsky.social/post/3mo7dwmuhvk2n

US Space Force has cataloged the Electron rocket stages from the Jun 11 HASTE launch as being in orbit, but with no associated orbital data.
Does this mean CURVEBALL reached orbit and then the payload was deorbited on first orbit? Are there NOTAMs?

cost plus

The Human Landing System contracts are fixed-price, no?

2026-06-13:

• Massey’s: Road delay for “Production to Masseys” is posted for Jun 14th 23:59 to Jun 15th 04:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive)
• Launch site: Work on the Pad 2 chopsticks continues. (Nerdplysgames / NSF)

Dark.

I wonder which Tchaikovsky piece this is. We only have a single bar, and no key signature, which makes the search a bit difficult…

I’m beginning to think that the residents of Moominvalley are just generally very gullible.

It’s still wild that we managed to put a Lander on Titan. Can’t wait for the Dragonfly mission. Nuclear powered octacopter on Titan. We’re going to learn so much.

“Peace among worlds.”

How the mini-universe works

Barontini used a cloud of 24,000 ultracold atoms—just a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero—to create a hermetically sealed quantum system that mimics a simple “universe.”

Okay, so they didn’t create a new universe. They just sectioned off a portion of the universe we already have, and did experiments on it. Still neat, though.

Welcome back H3! It’s like Delta IV never retired…

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2065428750959771655

Deployment of 29 @Starlink satellites confirmed

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3mo5izfdm7c2k

#Falcon9 fairing halves of Starlink 10-54