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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA's ESCAPADE spacecraft, two probes on their way to Mars.

The rocket's first-stage booster, "Never Tell Me The Odds," successfully landed on Blue Origin's recovery barge, Jacklyn.

Reporting for Supercluster

Go ESCAPADE, go Blue Origin!

This was the view from Jetty Park Beach of the 3:55pm (ET) Thursday launch of the New Glenn rocket.

Wow, just, wow.

Congratulations to the BO team!

#Aurora tonight in Southeastern North Carolina

Another pretty Starlink launch tonight!

Hurricane Melissa's historic journey through the Caribbean and Atlantic.

Just watched the venting second stage pass overhead from today's launch of an Ariane 6 rocket. It carried the Sentinel-1D satellite to orbit.
#Ariane6 #Sentinel-1D

Wow. This is easily the most ridiculous dropsonde I’ve ever seen.

188 knot mean winds in the low-levels with gusts over 250 mph

Absolutely scary and historic hurricane headed into SW Jamaica this morning

Extremely intense Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa is nearing landfall on Jamaica.

#Melissa unfortunately is still intensifying. A 9am EDT Tropical Cyclone Update indicates that winds are up to 180 mph, with an estimated minimum pressure of 896 mb.

You can see how GLM lightning has 📈 in the past hour, encircling the eye, with eye WV temp still increasing!

From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.

Hurricane #Melissa is approaching Jamaica as a powerful category 4 hurricane.

Cal's HR was BIG... Geno's Grand Slam was even BIGGER!

30min seismogram from the end of Game 5.

🔱 Mariners Win!!! "The City is Shaking!"

#SeizeTheMoment
@Mariners @MLB @TMobilePark @FoxSports

I saw Starship flight 11 just after SECO from North Carolina!

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather missions to space. Signals have now been successfully acquired from all three - NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) - as they begin their journey to L1, an Earth-Sun lagrange point. L1 is about 1.5 million kilometers in the sunward direction from planet Earth. Appropriately, major space weather influencers, aka dark sunspots in active regions across the Sun, are posing with the transiting rocket. In fact, large active region AR4225 is just right of the rocket's nose.

🔭 A Rocket in the Sun

Image Credit & Copyright: Pascal Fouquet

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25092...

No, it's not. That's clearly AI.

8 years ago today, on the morning of September 5, #Irma intensified to a Category 5 hurricane for the first time as it approached the Leeward Islands. It maintained that status for an incredible 78 hours of terror.

A collection of satellite & radar loops: bmcnoldy.earth.miami.edu/tropics/irma...

B1067-30's entry burn, which is when the booster lights 3 engines to protect against parts of atmospheric re-entry.

B1067 launched its 30th mission this morning shown here performing its entry burn after launching yet another batch of Starlinks.

With Starship Flight 10 (finally) in the books, enjoy a nice gallery of a few pre-launch, liftoff, and in-flight photos, taken by our team in the field. Thank you to Jack, Max, Ceaser, and Tyler for such incredible dedication to providing high-quality photos of such an exciting event!!

I've seen speculation it could be ablative material beneath the tiles, or the effects of tile experiments.
We might never know the real answer though, unless m*sk talks about it on the bird app.

If it was glowing that significantly, if at all, it would not have survived reentry.

At this point in flight there has been little aerodynamic heating for the past few minutes, so for it to be glowing by the time it made it to the ocean, it would have needed to be much hotter during peak heating.

Panorama of the Monument Geyser basin. Numerous fumaroles and hot springs dot this remote geyser basin.

A view facing the namesake of the basin, Monument Geyser.

A telephoto view of one of the bottle shaped 'Monuments' from a respectable distance.

I recently hiked up to the Monument Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park!
The basin is named for the unique bottle shapes that the now inactive geysers take. It is thought that this basin was underwater during the last glacial maximum, despite being 800 feet above the Gibbon river!

Photo from the perspective of the NOAA Hurricane Hunter aircraft in the eye of Hurricane Erin. A blue ocean can be seen along with the clouds marking the edge of the hurricane's eyewall.

📸August 16: Images from the NOAA Hurricane Hunter and our NOAA Satellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov

Okay sharing one more loop, this one from @cyclonicwx.bsky.social zoomed in visible 1-min meso over Category 5 #Hurricane #Erin.

Thanks to the 500 meter resolution of GOES-19 channel 2, you can still see features like the stadium effect & mesovortices rotating around the tiny eye. 🌀 🤯

Lightning flashes within a powerful, Category 4 Hurricane Erin.

An incredible view this morning from GOES-19.

Vulcan is ready. Let’s go to space.

Jim Lovell

Jim Lovell and Tom Hanks, who plays Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 (1995).

Jim Lovell and David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

Jim Lovell.

RIP Jim Lovell.

One of the first three astronauts to fly to and orbit the Moon in Apollo 8. Then he survived Apollo 13. . Prior, he flew on two Gemini missions (7 & 12).

He was 97.

☝️He played himself in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) and the captain of the USS Iwo Jima in Apollo 13 (1995).

ULA's Atlas V rocket launches SBIRS-GEO 6 at sunrise.

Falcon 9 launches South Korea's KPLO mission to the Moon.

3 Years ago today, ULA and SpaceX combined for 2 launches at Cape Canaveral, SBIRS-GEO 6 and KPLO.

Crew-11 lifts off from Florida on their way to the International Space Station.

The heat signature from the launch could be seen from GOES-18.

As the exhaust plume of Falcon 9's second stage is illuminated by the sun, it provides an excellent light show here on the ground, where it is still dark.

Falcon 9 launched Starlink 10-26 early this morning.