RPC Telecom: Satellite & Space / Orbits & Spectrum

@tskelso.bsky.social Hello! I was wondering if you have any feeling for the likely timeline for the publication of the TLEs for the 14 January Transporter-12 mission (IDs in the 2025-009 series)? Many thanks!

Thanks for mentioning us amongst much more august company! You didn't mention:

Astroscale (the UK bit): @astroscale-uk.bsky.social
Dundee Satellite Station: @dundeesat.bsky.social

There is also an inactive ULA feed:

@ulalaunch.bsky.social

Hopefully more commercial space will be here soon!

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[En ligne] Conférence Off de l'UNOC #2 : la couleur de l'eau vue de l'espace Dans le cadre de la programmation Off de l'UNOC, le CNES propose un cycle de six conférences grand public sur le thème « Océan et espace ».

💚🩵 Saviez-vous que les satellites peuvent observer les variations de la couleur de l’eau ? On s'en sert pour surveiller les océans (évolution du phytoplancton, qualité des eaux…) directement influencés par le changement climatique et les activités humaines.

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Vega C Returns to Flight Delivering Copernicus Sentinel-1C | Space Voyaging After two years the European Vega C rocket is back in flight. VV25 successfully launched the Sentinel-1c satellite for the Copernicus Earth Observation program

🚀 Vega C is back in flight.

At 21.20 UTC the European rocket successfully lifted off for the third time from French Guiana. Arianespace's #VV25 mission is carrying the Copernicus Sentinel-1C Earth Observation satellite.

Read more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2024/12...

Scrapbook page with large article headed "This week three men set out for a day on the Moon". The article describes the men, their spacecraft and their mission.

Colour images illustrating the article, with pictures of the three astronauts, and several views of the Apollo and Eagle orbiter and lander.

From 1969 #Apollo #BlueSpace #Moon

Decided to create a starter pack to highlight some of the awesome women of BlueSky that are connected to space in some way! ✨ If you don't want to be on this list (for any reason), please let me know, and I'll be happy to remove you. If I missed someone, suggestions are welcome!
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ

Scrapbook page showing a very young Patrick Moore at hus telescope, with a closeup of the moon in backdrop. The article is headed "What I believe they'll find..." There's a large block of text below the picture (too much to try to put here, for which I apologise).

From 1969 #Apollo #BlueSpace

A scrapbook page, showing a map of the moon's near side, indicating the main craters and seas, including the Sea of Tranquility.

Here's more from my 1969 scrapbook #Apollo #BlueSpace #Moon

Image of scrapbook page, showing a Saturn V rocket blasting off the launchpad. It's a night launchpad, so the sky is dark, contrasting the bright flames billowing around the base of the rocket.

My dear father (88) just had a bit of a clearout, and found my scrapbook from 1969! I'm so grateful to him for keeping it. The 8 year old, glued to the TV, led to my lifelong interest in #space, and my eventual career in the #SatCom sector. Thanks Dad! This 🧵 shares some of the stuff I saved...

Photograph from the JAXA cleanroom at the Sagamihara campus. Four curators wearing protective bunny suits tap on tablets as they work. The bunny suits cover their whole body, including gloves, head covering and mask. You can just see their eyes! They are beside metallic chambers that contain the sample and instruments. Credit: JAXA

JAXA Hayabusa2 cleanroom is crazy clean! It's a "class 1000", meaning that <1000 airborne ≥0.5 µm particles are permitted per cubic foot. The asteroid grains are in vacuum or nitrogen chambers. Regular paper sheds too much and the team must use tablets or special paper!
(📷: 🐦 tinyurl.com/4rahtmbm)

Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth orbit The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate, experts say.

😬 "SpaceX data showed Starlink satellites performed nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance manoeuvres in the first half of 2024, about double the previous six months"

Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth orbit www.reuters.com/science/glob...

I often look at organisations and compamies posting space and satellite stuff through bsky.social accounts, and it's not at all clear if they are genuine or not. It's so easy to use a corporate domain name to authenticate an account handle that I don't understand why more don't do it!

Screenshot of part of the RPC Telecom Bluesky profile page, showing that the account handle is now "@rpctelecom.com"

Not that it really matters for a small organisation like RPC Telecom, but in order to prove our 'bona fides' I have just changed our Bluesky handle to @rpctelecom.com. It's quite easy to do, and I think it would be good if other organisations and companies in space and satellite Bluesky do the same.

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European satellite constellation for very low earth orbit to launch in two years EDA has brought together two EU Member States to develop a satellite demonstrator that can manoeuvre from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) – and back again.

A european satellite constellation for very low earth orbit to launch in two years. The €10 million project will design, develop, launch and operate a constellation of up to four satellites. The project will have the capability to support military operations.

#EU #LowEarthOrbit #satellites

Outer-Orbit: Space Economics and Industrial Strategy Outer-Orbit: Space Economics and Industrial Strategy Links. Available on all popular platforms.

“More than half of the UN Sustainable Development Goals are facilitated by space based tech.”

“…Know that our lives and livelihoods depend on space technology.”

Our Head of Business Strategy & Analysis, Pat Mathewson

🎧 Listen in👇
li.sten.to/economics

New ELSA-M Video! 🚀

Watch our MD, Nick Shave, with ESA, @ukspaceagency.bsky.social and Eutelsat OneWeb discuss the crucial partnership for the ELSA-M IOD mission and its importance for #SpaceSustainability.

spacenews.com/astroscale-a...
@spacenews.com.web.brid.gy

#SpaceDebris | #Space

People Fixing The World - Sorting extreme waste - BBC Sounds Removing waste from Everest and defunct satellites from space.

People Fixing the World - That’s Us! 🙌

Listen to BBC Sounds' latest ‘People Fixing the World’ podcast to hear from our AIV Engineer, Anna Nash, explaining how we are dealing with extreme waste in space. 🚀

In a rush? Slide 12 minutes in.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I've added a few accounts over the past week but the Xodus for the spaceflight community hasn't really happened yet, and it won't until the big lynchpin accounts start to at least post here too.

Spaceflight Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/6D39dM8
Spaceflight Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Not an LEO topic, but just so cool. NASA has confirmed that one of its greatest ever missions, Voyager 1, is back in business with communications restored following an incident in October. Now 47 years old, Voyager 1 is 15.4 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) from Earth.

#space #voyager1 🔭🧪

Astroscale approaches critical design review for OneWeb de-orbit mission The British subsidiary of Japan’s Astroscale is preparing for a critical design review early next year of a servicer that will attempt to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit in…

Japan’s Astroscale, a leader in resolving Low Earth orbit space junk issues, is preparing for a critical design review early next year of a servicer that will attempt to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit (LEO) in 2026. Good luck Astroscale! #spacejunk #astroscale #earth
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YouTube video by Astroscale Astroscale's ELSA-M Mission | A Space Sustainability Partnership

More on Astroscale: The ELSA-M demonstration project brings together Astroscale, Eutelsat’s OneWeb, the UK Space Agency, and European Space Agency to help make space more sustainable.
#spacejunk #astroscale #earth #sustainability #LowEarthOrbit
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The international space sector generated US$400 billion in 2023.

- SIA, State of the Satellite Industry Report 2023 (2024)

And much more to come!!!

#spaceeconomy #LowEarthOrbit

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Commercial Earth Observation Market to Surpass $8 Billion by 2033 | Space Voyaging "Market growth isn’t just about replacing aerial geolocation systems. It’s about scaling up Earth Observation capabilities to provide insights over time"

📊🛰 According to a recent report by Novaspace, the commercial EO market will surpass $8 billion by 2033.

Defense contracts and advanced Earth observation products are highlighted as the primary engines behind this market expansion.

Find out more: www.spacevoyaging.com/news/2024/11...

Direct-to-device satellite internet sparks competing concepts Learn about aerospace industry developments in AIAA’s Aerospace America Magazine, the voice of the aerospace industry.

SpaceX received FCC approval for its direct-to-cell Starlink service this week.

I wrote recently for Aerospace America about what these services entail, and what it'll mean for your phone.

aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/departments/...

Text of a tweet saying that space junk is just like ships.

Map of north america covered in purple dots

Kessler denialism: believing that the Kessler Syndrome and the problems with space junk in Earth orbit are made up to paint Elon Musk as the bad guy. 🧪

An excellent infographic overviewing the future heavy-lift launch market.