Stephen Braham

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No more Nordspace launch attempts this week, as need hardware work to handle their pad fires: share.google/CczcqcV9QFix...

Live - NordSpace First Sub-Orbital Flight YouTube video by NordSpace

Nordspace live for this mornings Canadian launch attempt www.youtube.com/live/iyw2Lv2...

How EchoStar-SpaceX deal reshapes wireless, satellite How EchoStar-SpaceX deal reshapes wireless, satellite

But the other three space players still have a better design: www.lightreading.com/satellite/ho...

Elon Musk Says Grok Will Be Fixed After It Sided With OpenAI CEO In Heated Argument Musk threatened to sue Apple on Monday night, accusing the company of favoring OpenAI on its app store.

At this rate, Elon is going to want to type all Grok output by hand: www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

It’s offical: the Minor Planet Centre record 3I/Atlas - the third interstellar visitor detected in tge Solar System. Very tentative reports of cometary activity, much more to come minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25...

Doris Lessing, who wrote science fiction and was the Guest of Honor at the 1987 Worldcon, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2007. When informed she had won the award, she famously said "Oh, Christ!"

youtu.be/vuBODHFBZ8k

For the first time, the type of long-range ODFM/OFDMA planetary exploration wireless network that #SFU and spaceflight partners have been advocating since late 90s was transmitted by Nokia on the lunar surface last week. But it couldn't be tested end-to-end:

www.nokia.com/about-us/new... #LTE #3GPP

IM-2 | Intuitive Machines

Pity, we won't see a rover and hopper test #lunar #LTE this time. #IM2 mission ended, while sitting in a shadow looking at Earth from the easiest place to land in the hard lunar south pole:

www.intuitivemachines.com/im-2?questio...

MDSCC (Madrid) DSS34 on the #DSN is seeing carrier, as is AMSAT DL, but looks real weak, comms seem really problematic, for #IM2 #Athena

Intuitive Machines-2 Lunar Landing (Official NASA Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

LTE gear, linked to our work at #SFU with #NASA since late 90s, should arrive on the Moon in less than an hour: www.youtube.com/live/VOPL8nh... #Space #3GPP

Landed! Three contact sensors out of 4, data returned still! First 100% successful #NASA #CLPS landing!!!! #blueghost #Firefly

Here is our paper on the general aims for #NASA and #3GPP, in which #IM2 is a component: ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20...

YouTube video by NASA Space Tech We're setting up the first mobile network on the Moon!

Awesome colleague and co-author in NASA #wireless networking activities, Bernie, on what is on way to #lunar surface:

youtu.be/rdxe6bFdi5s?...

Phew, had to run out for a few minutes to pick up some peanuts. You don't want an exploration launch with no peanuts. Bad luck! And, given we've pushed/tested for these comms to be launched to moon and Mars for the last 27 years, not going to risk it! #IM2 #LunarComms #LTE #3GPP

Verizon completes its first satellite to cellular enabled video call with AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 2 MIDLAND, Texas, Feb. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon and AST have yet again pushed the boundaries of what can be done with mobile devices by...

Most excellent #ASTS #SCS #5G

www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong Vast’s schedule for deploying a mini-space station in low-Earth orbit was always ambitious.

With what looks like 3rd failure of an
F9 S2 in six months, may be reaching the production limit of S2s/max flight rate of F9s. Interesting, as recent re-entry rate for Starlinks may be close to this maximum replacement rate:

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

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Doug Ford says Ontario will rip up Starlink contract with Elon Musk company Ontario will rip up a $100-million contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to deliver high-speed internet to remote areas, as part of the province's response to U.S. tariffs, Premier Doug Ford announced.

As expected, #Starlink starts to get cancelled in Canada: ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cp-news...

Verizon's 'Can you hear me now' guy returns – for satellites Remember Verizon's 'Can you hear me now' guy? He's back, this time touting Verizon's nascent satellite-messaging capabilities. The move is part of Verizon's efforts to keep pace with its rivals.

My lunar and public safety satcom worlds just crossed over for Verizon's ad for upcoming ASTS-based satcom services, via Buzz Aldrin ;). I almost went for a drive in the Antarctic with Buzz once, so fits ;)

www.lightreading.com/satellite/ve...

YouTube video by Nick Badley The Northumberland Line Has Opened!

And just like that, VIDEO!
Riding the first services on the Northumberland Line!

youtu.be/lPOEWt9VPiY

Amit Kshatriya for NASA Admin ;)

Starships, Space Policy and Power Plays On Nov. 19, SpaceX launched its Starship vehicle on its sixth test flight. While the flight showcased key technical advancements, such as a successful engine relight on the Starship upper stage, it…

Will be an interesting ride. I think Gateway is the most at risk, as is CLPS, which impacts international collaboration with NASA, both in terms of missions and instruments flown, and crew and science collaboration inside Artemis:

spacenews.com/starships-sp...

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

Three scientists stand before a workbench. On it are a computer, tools and some laboratory glassware. they are made of chunky pixels the size of golf balls. One of the scientists says “our budget has been cut so from now on we’ll be working with low-res equipment”.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

This needs to be watched by every Canadian.

NASAspaceflight's Flame Trench today went awesome, as they spent about half talking acoustic #physics

Der linke Teil der erdzugewandten Seite der Sonne in gelber Farbe. Aktive Regionen sind hier heller als die übrige Oberfläche dargestellt. Von ihnen gehen Strahlen weit ins All aus. Besonders gut heben sie sich am Rand vor dem schwarzen Hintergrund des Weltraums ab. Da sehen sie wie gewaltige Fächer aus Licht aus.

Guten Morgen zusammen - wie immer mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne via Satellit SDO.

NASA weighing options for continuous human presence in LEO after ISS NASA is rethinking its desire for a “continuous human presence” in low Earth orbit during the transition from the International Space Station to commercial platforms to include options where, at le…

NASA may not have continuous human presence in #space after ISS:

spacenews.com/nasa-weighin...

OMG

FWIW I used a PDP-11 in college.

One missing and probably dead in Coquitlam debris flow. From CBC