#max vandenberg

[misskattylashes]

New characters in The Fire & The Thud...so far...

Paul Weller

Josh Homme

Max Kane

Pauline (Polly) Kane (Miles' mum)

Eli Hewson

Arielle Vandenberg

Jack the Ripper

Nathan Sudders

[the-firebird69]

SpaceX completes Falcon 9 double launch day with Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Station – Spaceflight Now

This is a farce and it's part of Skynet and they're launching it now and it is the Trumps and BGA tried to stop him a little but thinks he can take it over and all of them are screwing around with it and others and we know what to do and we are getting ready. And we'll pick the targets thank you.

Nuada Arrianna I want our boy to be well and to have fun to you and some money to do things with this is ridiculous. Were disgusting dead people you're going to try and attack the Midwest

We're now going after them a lot heavier and we're going to pursue it they're going to wipe them out and there won't be that move at this time and they won't exist anymore.

Frank Castle Hardcastle

We aren't using it to have them entombed and we are lighting that up on purpose and we found out the max are but who cares they're idiots foreigners know by it now. And it's gonna keep going with this moron droning and droning and Poya's he a loser but we see the point we need him out so we're getting to it now.

Duke Nukem Blockbuster

He and I both say it sounds a lot different from our perspective turns out to be greatness and we're appreciative. And we hope to heal them up soon and get me outta here soon and things like that and I know that it's gonna happen and I'm pretty sure Venus goes around the sun more than once a year and a lot more than once every two years or so.

Hera

It is true it goes around two times a year so it just went around June it should be 6 months away in December and we're planning on making an attempt to relocate you at that time.

Thor Freya

And we shall concentrate on it and he says part of it is to prep to make sure they won't have any humongous vessels and I get that. And there are certain things that I don't know he says when you go tomorrow there'll be a lot more activity we have to have the army up to size so ok two things to do and I'm gonna get going on it now and he appreciates it and so do I.

Hera

Olympus

[gpm-maam]

SpaceX Launch from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California

This was the June 18th launch of 20 more Starlink satellites. The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1082 in the SpaceX fleet, launched for a fifth time. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1082 landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ The booster can be seen as a small dot below the widest part of the plume. - photo by Dave Pivin with iPhone 14 Pro Max in Ahwatukee.

[spacenutspod]

Despite multiple scrubs and delays due to weather violations, SpaceX broke its own cadence record in January with 10 launches and landings in a calendar month. Those weather challenges have prevailed into February. Between these and the pad logistics related to launching the Intuitive Machines IM-1 mission, PACE satellite, USSF-124, and an upcoming crewed mission, it currently looks unlikely that the company will repeat this target by the end of February. Nonetheless, SpaceX continues to set milestones, with Falcon 9’s 300th mission occurring with the launch of the IM-1 on Feb. 15. The company almost launched a Falcon 9 from each of its three key launch pads within eight hours on the busy evening of Feb. 14, but the Starlink Group 7-14 mission was scrubbed while on the pad. Two further non-Starlink missions on Falcon 9 are planned from the east coast in the next couple of weeks. The most anticipated of these will be SpaceX’s eighth crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, and mission specialists Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. Crew Dragon Endeavour is flying for the fifth time on Crew-8. This crew can expect to see cargo arrivals during their stay on the ISS from Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus, SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon, and Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane. The astronauts will also get to greet the crew of the Boeing Crew Flight Test during their stay when Starliner arrives in April. Launching on Falcon 9 this week is a new high-throughput communications satellite for Indonesia, which has a 15-year expected lifespan and will strengthen the communications architecture across the archipelago. SpaceX will also loft an additional batch of Starlink satellites into the Group 6 shell. Falcon 9 launches its 300th mission, Intuitive Machine’s IM-1 mission, on Feb. 15. (Credit: Max Evans for NSF) Rocket Lab’s Electron is scheduled to launch Astroscale’s ADRAS-J demonstration mission, which plans to make advancements toward the removal of large-scale space debris from low-Earth orbit. In this first phase of the project, the spacecraft will illustrate a safe and methodical approach toward an unresponsive object in orbit (a discarded rocket upper stage), capturing images and other data as it then orientates around the stage, demonstrating that it can maintain a fixed position close by. Lastly, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its first Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket since May 2023, delivering the successor to the INSAT-3DR weather research satellite. Sporting a six-channel imager and a 19-channel sounder, the INSAT-3DS will provide meteorological and disaster warning services to India from a geostationary orbit. SpaceX Falcon 9 – Starlink Group 7-14 SpaceX will launch another stack of Starlink satellites on Feb. 15 at 1:34 PM PST (21:34 UTC) from Space Launch Complex (SLC) 4E out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Starlink Group 7-14 will carry a payload of 22 Starlink v2 Mini satellites. They will be headed to an inclined 53-degree orbit on a southeastern trajectory with an expected initial orbit of approximately 286 by 295 kilometers. The satellites will be added to the thousands of active Starlink satellites in orbit, giving internet to people all over the world. The booster for this mission is B1082, which will be taking its second flight with this mission. It will land on the Of Course I Still Love You autonomous droneship, which will be stationed 610 kilometers downrange on the west coast. This will be the 29th total orbital launch of 2024 and the 300th launch of Falcon 9.  JAXA/MHI H3-22 | VEP 4, CE-SAT-1E & TIRSAT The second flight of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H3-22 rocket is set for Feb. 17 at 9:22 AM JST (00:22 UTC) from LA-Y2 out of the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. H3 is classified as a medium-lift launch vehicle and uses cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen in its first and second stages, with two or four optional SRBs. This mission will use two boosters along with a short payload fairing, taking three payloads into a Sun-synchronous orbit. The first flight of H3 experienced a failure of the second engine ignitor, causing the test payload to fall short of orbit. While flight two was originally planned to launch the ALOS-4 Earth observation satellite, the vehicle failure caused JAXA to elect to fly the Vehicle Evaluation Payload-4 (VEP-4) mass simulator, although there are also two small satellites onboard for this flight. CE-SAT-1E is a 70-kilogram Earth observation satellite built by Canon Electronics Inc., and TIRSAT is a five-kilogram 3U cubesat from Japan Space Systems to test infrared sensors for Earth observation. While there is an inherent risk to flying an unproven rocket, the customers are confident in the new vehicle’s ability to take their payloads to orbit. GSLV Mk II | INSAT-3DS The INSAT-3DS weather research satellite is scheduled for launch on an Indian GSLV rocket from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Feb. 17 at 5:35 PM IST (12:05 UTC). This will be the 7th flight for the INSAT series of satellites and is the successor to the INSAT-3DR satellite, which was similarly delivered to a geostationary orbit by an expendable GSLV back in September 2016. GSLV-F14/INSAT-3DS Mission:The mission is set for lift-off on February 17, 2024, at 17:30 Hrs. IST from SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota. In its 16th flight, the GSLV aims to deploy INSAT-3DS, a meteorological and disaster warning satellite. The mission is fully funded by the… pic.twitter.com/s4I6Z8S2Vw — ISRO (@isro) February 8, 2024 Built by ISRO, this advanced meteorological satellite will deliver weather surveillance, forecasting, and disaster warning services to India. The mission is fully funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences. An onboard six-channel imager is complemented by a 19-channel sounder, and the satellite will also provide a Satellite Aided Search & Rescue transponder and a message relay for terrestrial data collection platforms. Electron/Curie | On Closer Inspection Rocket Lab’s ‘On Closer Inspection’ mission is scheduled to launch on an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, during a five-hour window that opens on Feb. 18 at 11:45 UTC. Onboard is the Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J) spacecraft, which was selected by JAXA as the initial phase of their Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration Project. ADRAS-J craft approaches the unresponsive discarded upper stage of an H-IIA rocket. (Credit: Astroscale) The goal of the mission is to safely approach, characterize, and fly an observational inspection path around a large uncommunicative piece of space debris in low-Earth orbit. It will follow a series of measures and processes set out in November 2021 after consultation with various space agencies, ministries, and industry experts, including leading private space companies. For this demonstration, the target is the upper stage of a discarded Japanese H-IIA rocket which is still orbiting at around 600 kilometers in altitude. The ADRAS-J craft will approach the stage using a series of corkscrew-style “safety ellipse” maneuvers. Once close, it will continue to execute a series of “Rendezvous and Proximity Operations,” which are a combination of maneuvers and data collection. Images and data will be collected as the spacecraft then performs a further fly-around maneuver, determining the target’s spin rate and axis so that the craft can demonstrate a safe orientation around it. ADRAS-J will complete the demonstration by settling into a stable position a short distance away, aligned with the object’s orientation. In the next phase, the target object would be actively engaged and removed from orbit. This mission is directly informing the company’s other ongoing programs, including Astroscale’s End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-Multiple and Astroscale’s Clearing Outer Space Mission through Innovative Capture missions, which is part of the UK’s Active Debris Removal initiative. Indonesian TelkomSat HTS-113BT is loaded into its container inside the clean room (Credit: Thales Alenia Space) Falcon 9 Block 5 | TelkomSat HTS-113BT The launch of TelkomSat HTS-113BT atop a Falcon 9 is scheduled to occur from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a two-hour window that opens on Feb. 20 at 3:11 PM ET (20:11 UTC), deploying the 4,000-kilogram satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit. Designed, built, and operated by Thales Alenia Space for the state-owned PT Telkom Satelit Indonesia, or TelkomSat, this new broadband communications satellite will strengthen the telecommunications structure across the archipelago. Operating in the Ku- and C-bands, this high-throughout communication satellite is built upon the Spacebus-4000B2 platform and will provide over 32 billion bits per second (Gbps) capacity from its position in geostationary orbit, stationed at 113 degrees east. The satellite left Thales Alenia Space’s clean rooms in Cannes, France, late last year and was shipped to the Cape from Nice, arriving at Port Canaveral in late January to then make a final trip to the integration facility. Thales Alenia Space will be delivering in-orbit support throughout the satellite’s expected 15-year lifecycle, as well as providing the ground control segment and on-site training and support for the customer’s engineering team. Starlink v2 Mini satellites prior to deployment (Credit: SpaceX) Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 7-15 SpaceX will launch the next batch of 22 Starlink v2 Mini satellites from the west coast no earlier than Feb. 20 from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The booster for this flight, which is currently unknown, will land on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You, which will be waiting downrange. The satellites will be sent on a southeastern trajectory into an initial orbit of approximately 286 by 296 kilometers, inclined 53 degrees. Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-39 The latest addition to the Group 6 shell of the Starlink constellation will launch from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Base no earlier than Feb. 24. The booster for this flight is currently unkown, as is the droneship on which it will make its recovery landing further downrange. The payload is another 23 Starlink v2 Mini satellites headed for a low-Earth orbit. Falcon 9 Block 5 | Crew-8 Crew Dragon Endeavour will be carrying SpaceX’s eighth crew rotation mission to the ISS, carrying commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, and two mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. Epps was previously assigned to a Boeing Starliner mission but was later moved to Crew-8. Launch is scheduled to fly from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 1 at 12:04 AM ET (05:04 UTC) All crew members except pilot Michael Barratt are making their first flight into space on this mission. Barratt previously served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 19/20 and has spent a total of 212 days in space, including time aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-133 mission in 2011. SpaceX Crew-8 – Left to Right: Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin, Pilot Michael Barratt, Commander Matthew Dominick, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps. (Credit: SpaceX) This is the ninth human spaceflight as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew program and the maiden flight for booster B1083, which will return to the Cape to land at Landing Zone 1 a few miles south of LC-39A. This is the fifth flight of C206 Endeavour, which has also launched crew for the Axiom-1, Crew-2, Crew-6, and the historic Demo-2 missions. Dragon will perform a series of maneuvers before docking autonomously with the forward-facing port of the Station’s Harmony module. The four astronauts will meet the members of the Expedition 70 crew and spend a few days of handover with the outgoing Crew-7 crew, who will then undock from the Station and splash down off the coast of Florida. During their stay, this crew can expect to see the arrival of three different cargo craft — Cygnus (NG-21), Cargo Dragon (CRS-30), and the maiden flight of Sierra Space’s long-anticipated Dream Chaser spaceplane. They can also look forward to greeting the astronauts of Boeing’s Crew Flight Test on Starliner in April, as well as welcoming three new crew members who are scheduled to arrive on a Soyuz in March (MS-25). They will also see Loral O’Hara depart back to Earth on a Soyuz. (Lead image: Astroscale’s ADRAS-J spacecraft. Credit: Astroscale) The post Launch Roundup: SpaceX to launch next ISS crew rotation; Electron launches debris removal demonstration appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

[beantothemax]

speaking of birds! max vandenberg's hair has been described as being "like feathers" and i think that's lovely

!!!! that is lovely!

might have to steal that for an inbox fic

[your-dietician]

Max Q: Oh my gourd

New Post has been published on https://medianwire.com/max-q-oh-my-gourd/

Max Q: Oh my gourd

Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Will every October issue have a Halloween/autumn pun as its title? I’LL NEVER TELL. In this issue:

Blast off for Crew-5

Russia’s rethinking on the ISS

News from Firefly, TK and more

By the way…We are a little over ONE WEEK away from TechCrunch Disrupt, which is returning live and in-person to San Francisco on October 18-20. Use this link to receive 15% off passes (excluding online and expo).

SpaceX continues to set the industry standard for launch cadence, successfully completing three separate missions in the span of five days. The first was Crew-5 on Wednesday (more on that below), followed by a Starlink mission a scant eight hours later. To cap it all off, it launched two satellites for Intelsat on Thursday night.

Crew-5 was a milestone for a few different reasons. The mission (so named because it’s SpaceX’s fifth crewed mission with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program) took off from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The crew of four — which includes American astronauts Nicole Mann, mission commander, and Josh Cassada, mission pilot; JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, mission specialist; and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, mission specialist — are traveling to the station in a Crew Dragon dubbed “Endurance.” It separated from the Falcon 9 rocket shortly after launch and arrived at the station on Thursday.

SpaceX has now delivered 30 humans to space across eight human spaceflight missions. It also marks the first time that a cosmonaut has flown on a SpaceX Crew Dragon and the first time a cosmonaut has flown on an American spacecraft since 2002. Cosmonaut Kikina’s spot on the spacecraft is part of a recent astronaut transportation deal between the U.S. and Russia. American astronaut Francisco Rubio flew to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz last month as part of the deal.

Looking ahead, SpaceX’s next CCP mission, Crew-6, will launch in February of next year. The Ax-2 mission, Axiom Space’s second private mission to the ISS, will follow in May.

Russia is having internal discussions over continuing its participation in the International Space Station (ISS) beyond 2024, despite statements made earlier this summer that the country will pull out of the station program by the middle of the decade.

Sergei Krikalev, head of human space programs at Roscosmos, said Monday that the Russian space agency is in discussions to extend its “participation in [the] ISS program with our government and hope to have permission to continue next year.”

The about-face comes just a few months after Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov announced Russia’s plans to leave the station after 2024, and instead construct its own orbiting station. The ISS is operated in partnership between the space agencies of U.S., Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe. America has committed to operate the station through 2030.

However, Krikalev admitted that a new Russian station may not be ready by 2025. “We know that it’s not going to happen very [quickly], so probably we will keep flying [on the ISS] until we have any new infrastructure that will allow us to do continuous human presence on low Earth orbit,” he said.

More news from TC and beyond

ArianeGroup conducted a successful hot fire test of the Ariane 6 second stage, a key milestone in stage qualification testing. The European Space Agency is hoping to launch the Ariane 6 rocket sometime next year.

CAPSTONE, NASA’s orbit-charting satellite, has regained three-axis attitude control and remains on track to enter its target orbit around the moon on November 13.

Firefly Aerospace can now count itself amongst a small number of space companies to have reached orbit. The company launched its Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2 on October 1 and declared the mission “100% successful” in achieving its primary objectives.

Inmarsat is collaborating with U.K. company Livewire Digital to create a “network of networks” for connectivity across Inmarsat’s geosynchronous satellites, terrestrial 5G and a new constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit.

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire who bankrolled and flew on the Inspiration4 mission last year, outlined his ambitious plans for the Polaris Dawn series of private human spaceflight missions. The first is expected to launch in partnership with SpaceX in March next year.

Redwire is buying QinetiQ Space, a Belgium-based supplier of small satellites and other space infrastructure, for €32 million ($31.1 million).

Rocket Lab’s punnily-named “It Argos Up From Here” mission blasted off from the company’s New Zealand launch site on Friday. The dedicated launch carried a General Atomics satellite bus carrying an environmental monitoring payload named Argos-4.

Skyrora’s head of government affairs, Alan Thompson, expressed concern over the ongoing vacancy of a key science minister position in the British government. “The new Tory administration has yet to recognize and prioritise the massive opportunities held within the UK Space sector, a truth echoed in 80 days of absence despite the previous incumbent’s commitment and readiness to champion UK Space and Science,” he said in a statement.

Space billboards could turn a profit despite costing up to $65 million, according to a new study from Russian researchers at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will see its first launch in over three years. The mission, scheduled for October 28, will deploy two satellites to GEO for the U.S. Space Force.

SpinLaunch completed its tenth successful flight test using its suborbital accelerator. Unlike other tests, this one carried test customer payloads from NASA, Outpost and others. SpinLaunch said the test “demonstrated that SpinLaunch partners’ standard satellite components are inherently compatible” with the company’s unique kinetic launch system.

United Launch Alliance launched two SES satellites aboard its Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The mission is part of SES’ effort to collect almost $4 billion in government payouts to clear the C-band.

Virgin Orbit has completed a full launch rehearsal for its next flight from Spaceport Cornwall. It will be the first orbital space launch to ever take place from the United Kingdom.

York Space Systems is selling a 51% majority stake to AEI (Firefly’s owner) in a deal that values the company at $1.125 billion.

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[obsessedwithallthingsbooks]

rules: name your top 10 favorite characters from 10 different fandoms and then tag 10 people.

Tagged by: @2-dream (thank you so much for tagging me!!!!!)

is this tag asking for favorite characters of all time? because i can’t provide that Incredibly Definite answer right now. i’ll reserve that deep line of contemplation for when im bored at work and not when it’s almost midnight my time (although i’m sure a few of these listed below would make it to That List!)

The Stormlight Archive: Kaladin Stormblessed

Mistborn Trilogy: Vin Venture

The Hunger Games trilogy: Katniss Everdeen/Finnick Odair

Macbeth: his wife lmao

Lord of the Rings trilogy: TIME TO CHEAT--Frodo, Sam, Pippin, Merry, Gandalf, Gollum

The Book Thief: Second cheat--Hans Hubermann, Liesel Memminger, Max Vandenberg

Six of Crows: Inej Ghafa

Lunar Chronicles: Probably Carswell Thorne

Gentlemen Bastards: aaahhh it’s probably Jean Tannen

Chaos Walking: Todd Hewitt

tagging: @aphcanadaisnolongercool @firebolt-101 @copperminds @elviish1 @endlessblankpages @im-a-demon-fight-me @ariapmdeol @bsmr261 @rxpppedjeans @sebarial-the-economist @crazynerdandproud

i tagged eleven people :) instead of ten :) therefore breaking more rules :) and damning myself :) in the process :) it’s okay my best friend @aphcanadaisnolongercool can no longer count as a person (love you it’s okay mwah)

[sassysophiabush]

[myreadingcup]

The Book Thief

By Marcus Zusak

.....

“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”

RATING: 5 / 5

If you don’t want to read my whole vent about how great this book is, let me simplify it to you:

“A simply impressive book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand the nature of humans between life and death while clinging onto a belief.” 

But if you want to hear my whole viewpoint...

What would you feel if the first thing that you read after flipping the first page of the book was: ‘You are going to die.’?

As for me, I felt a little freaked out, but not greater than the feeling of anticipation. And I think that is what the author perfected through this book. From the very first page, he wanted the reader to anticipate what will happen throughout the story. Don’t get me wrong, every writer should consider that in writing their novel. In fact, that is one of the guidelines of writing a material. A hook. 

But going back, The Book Thief is a book of anticipation. 

It will eat you and let you live in this world that you would not believe existed not so long ago. To be precise, just 80 years ago. A historical fiction that concerns the infamous World War II that left a total aghast in the revolutionary world. 

That was my impression of the book, actually.

My impression was that the theme of this book revolves around the war and how it affected the world and the human race at that time. But as I read the last page and closed the book, it was more than that, I gathered.

This book perfected the role of words. Yup, you read it right. Words. If this whole book was given a phrase it would be: Words are stronger than you think. Because without words, Hitler wouldn’t be holding so much power. Because without words, Liesel wouldn’t be aware of the reality of her world. Because without words, Death wouldn’t care that much. Words are stronger than we think, and here I am writing with words and you are reading it, grasping everything that my thoughts are wiring.

 It is crazy how words are so effective, right? Well, that’s the main goal of the author in this book (at least on how I viewed it.)

He made everything in this book come alive and effective through his narration. Through his words. The narration was the best thing in this book. 

The characters are well-written and memorable.

The storyline is pristine.

The world-building is massively done well.

A lot of authors can perfect all of the above (The Book Thief has all of these), but not a lot can perfect a mind-blowing narration. And The Book Thief is one of the books on my shelf that has the power of a poetic, profound, and enthusiastic narration. 

I truly, sincerely, and positively recommend this book to anyone who wants to feel warmth through words. Who wants to understand how wars years ago are destructive and life-changing. Who wants to understand that not all people who followed the movement of a tyrant and brutal dictator are the bad ones. 

This book is perfect for all the readers who want to feel connected through words that they cannot fathom to express. 

“Words are life, Liesel.” - Max Vandenberg 

[shenanigans-and-imagines]

Top 10 Favorite Characters

Rules: List your 10 Favorite Characters from 10 Different Fandoms and Tag 10 People

Tagged by: @jynandtonics​

Tagging: @goshilovehappiness​, @poeticandors​, @hanajimasama​, @eireduchess​, @interwebseriesfan24​, @extraordinarygrrls​, @found-wonderland​, @wolfangelwings​, @scruffandyarn​, @crimsonlostsoul​

In no particular order:

1. Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes): Book Version

2. Max Vandenberg (The Book Thief): Book Version

3. Death (Discworld)

4. Crowley (Good Omens)

5. Thrawn (Thrawn Trilogy)

6. Hawkeye Pierce (M*A*S*H)

7. Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy (Star Trek: TOS)

8. Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)

9. Darth Maul (The Clone Wars)

10. 10th Doctor (Doctor Who)

[spacenutspod]

The first week of September will see only four orbital launches and a single sub-orbital crewed launch. SpaceX will start the week off with its Starlink Group 6-12 mission. China will then launch two back-to-back missions with the Ceres-1S and Chang Zheng 4C. Virgin Galactic will then launch its fourth crewed mission of four months with Galactic-03. Finally, China will end the week with a Chang Zheng 6A launch. Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-12 Starting off the week, SpaceX will attempt to launch its first Starlink mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) in over six months on Sunday, Sep. 3, at 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC). Falcon 9 will launch 21 Starlink v2 Mini satellites to a 284 by 293-kilometer low-Earth orbit, inclined 43.00 degrees. This launch will take the Starlink constellation to 4,704 satellites in orbit, of which 3,963 are in their operational orbits. Overall, SpaceX will have launched 5,048 Starlink satellites, of which 344 have been deorbited either for testing purposes or for on-orbit failures. The booster supporting this mission, B1073-10, first flew on the Starlink Group 4-15 mission in May 2022. Since then, it has supported SES-22, Starlink Group 4-26, Starlink Group 4-35, HAKUTO-R Mission 1, Amazonas Nexus, CRS-27, Starlink Group 6-2, and Starlink Group 5-11. Following liftoff, the booster will attempt to land on SpaceX’s recovery vessel Just Read the Instructions, which was rapidly turned around following the launch of the Starlink Group 6-11 mission, which occurred on Aug. 27.  SpaceX’s multi-purpose recovery ship Doug will provide drone ship support for this mission and will attempt to recover both fairing halves from the water roughly 45 minutes after liftoff. As typical on East Coast Starlink missions, Falcon 9 will conduct two burns of its upper stage, deploying the 21 satellites 65 minutes after launch. This mission marks the second Starlink mission from LC-39A of 2023. In comparison, SpaceX’s Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station has launched 21 Starlink missions this year and Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base has seen 12. Due to the three Falcon Heavy launches and five Dragon launches thus far in 2023, LC-39A has been undergoing near-constant pad conversions. Outbound and down. Falcon 9, Dragon Endurance, and a new crew of 4 climb into the stars & onwards to humanity’s greatest outpost: the ISS. – @NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/7tPapQ5smc — Max Evans (@_mgde_) August 26, 2023 For Falcon Heavy missions, teams must remove the side rainbirds, make changes to the reaction frame to support the propellant loading of three boosters, make changes to the transporter erector, and change the pad’s countdown software to handle the different vehicle, in a process that takes roughly two weeks in both directions. Additionally, for Dragon launches, SpaceX must modify the top of the transporter erector, removing the fairing airconditioning and supply lines for Dragon. This process is quicker than pad conversions for Falcon Heavy, but still adds roughly a week to pad turnaround times. For these reasons, LC-39A has launched significantly fewer missions this calendar year than SpaceX’s other pads. Despite this, Starlink Group 6-12 will mark SpaceX’s 62nd Falcon launch of 2023 — surpassing the company’s 2022 record of 61 orbital launches in a year. If SpaceX’s launch cadence remains roughly constant for the rest of the year, the company is expected to reach roughly 95 launches, including Starship. Ceres-1S | The Little Mermaid On Tuesday, Sep. 5, at 09:40 UTC, the Ceres-1S rocket will launch four internet satellites into low-Earth orbit for China. This launch will take place from the Maritime launching platform, which will be stationed in the Yellow Sea. This will mark both the first maritime launch of the Ceres-1 rocket and the first private Chinese launch from a sea platform. The Ceres-1S is a four-stage rocket that stands 19 meters tall with a fairing diameter of 1.4 meters. The vehicle can place up to 400 kilograms into a low-Earth orbit. This mission will mark its fifth mission of 2023 and ninth overall. Chang Zheng 4C | Unknown Payload A day later, China will attempt to launch its Chang Zheng 4C rocket from Site 9401 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in China. Liftoff is scheduled for 18:18 UTC on Sep. 6. The launch vehicle, launch time, and payload are all highly uncertain, and may change. SpaceShipTwo | Galactic-03 The Galactic-03 mission is Virgin Galactic’s third commercial mission using the SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity spacecraft. The mission, which will provide passengers with a few minutes of weightlessness and incredible views of Earth, is set to launch on Sep. 8, with a currently unknown drop time. This will mark SpaceShipTwo’s 17th mission and fifth of 2023. The spacecraft will be carried to around 45,000 feet by carrier aircraft VMS Eve before being released and igniting its hybrid rocket engine. This engine, burning liquid nitrous oxide and solid rubber, will burn for around 60 seconds, taking the spacecraft to an altitude of roughly 80 kilometers. 4x slow motion footage of drop and ignition from today’s @virgingalactic Galactic 02 mission. @NASASpaceflight Rewatch our stream here: https://t.co/WjVdH5Nv9u pic.twitter.com/zwsJkEQ0yr — Jack Beyer (@thejackbeyer) August 10, 2023 Crew members for this mission purchased their tickets as early as 2005 and the full crew has not been announced. VSS Unity will be piloted by Nicola Pecile and Michael Masucci — veterans of the company. The astronaut instructor is Colin Bennett and the mothership VMS Eve will be piloted by pilots Jameel Janjua and Kelly Latimer. Galactic-03 will mark Virgin Galactic’s fourth spaceflight in four months, with Galactic-02 having just flown 29 days prior to launch on Aug. 10. Chang Zheng 6A | Unknown Payload Ending the week off, China will attempt to launch a Chang Zheng 6A from Launch Complex 9A at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China. Liftoff is scheduled for 04:40 UTC on Sep. 9. However, the launch vehicle, payload, and launch time are still uncertain, and could change. (Lead image: Credit: Falcon 9 returning the port following the Starlink Group 6-11 mission. Credit: Max Evans for NSF) The post Launch Roundup: SpaceX to surpass 2022’s launch count with Starlink Group 6-12; China to launch three missions appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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thank you so much love!!!! 🥰❤️

💕- your top two favorite fictional characters

this is really goddamn tough. but i’m going to have to go with sansa stark from game of thrones and max vandenberg from the book thief!

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NASA InSight Team on Course for Mars Touchdown

NASA's Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet on Nov. 26, the Monday after Thanksgiving. But it's not going to be a relaxing weekend of turkey leftovers, football and shopping for the InSight mission team. Engineers will be keeping a close eye on the stream of data indicating InSight's health and trajectory, and monitoring Martian weather reports to figure out if the team needs to make any final adjustments in preparation for landing.

"Landing on Mars is hard. It takes skill, focus and years of preparation," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Keeping in mind our ambitious goal to eventually send humans to the surface of the Moon and then Mars, I know that our incredible science and engineering team — the only in the world to have successfully landed spacecraft on the Martian surface — will do everything they can to successfully land InSight on the Red Planet."

InSight, the first mission to study the deep interior of Mars, blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California on May 5, 2018. It has been an uneventful flight to Mars, and engineers like it that way. They will get plenty of excitement when InSight hits the top of the Martian atmosphere at 12,300 mph (19,800 kph) and slows down to 5 mph (8 kph) — about human jogging speed — before its three legs touch down on Martian soil. That extreme deceleration has to happen in just under seven minutes.

There's a reason engineers call landing on Mars 'seven minutes of terror,'" said Rob Grover, InSight's entry, descent and landing (EDL) lead, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "We can't joystick the landing, so we have to rely on the commands we pre-program into the spacecraft. We've spent years testing our plans, learning from other Mars landings and studying all the conditions Mars can throw at us. And we're going to stay vigilant till InSight settles into its home in the Elysium Planitia region."

One way engineers may be able to confirm quickly what activities InSight has completed during those seven minutes of terror is if the experimental CubeSat mission known as Mars Cube One (MarCO) relays InSight data back to Earth in near-real time during their flyby on Nov. 26. The two MarCO spacecraft (A and B) are making good progress toward their rendezvous point, and their radios have already passed their first deep-space tests.

"Just by surviving the trip so far, the two MarCO satellites have made a giant leap for CubeSats," said Anne Marinan, a MarCO systems engineer based at JPL. "And now we are gearing up for the MarCOs' next test — serving as a possible model for a new kind of interplanetary communications relay."

If all goes well, the MarCOs may take a few seconds to receive and format the data before sending it back to Earth at the speed of light. This would mean engineers at JPL and another team at Lockheed Martin Space in Denver would be able to tell what the lander did during EDL approximately eight minutes after InSight completes its activities. Without MarCO, InSight's team would need to wait several hours for engineering data to return via the primary communications pathways — relays through NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey orbiter.

Once engineers know that the spacecraft has touched down safely in one of the several ways they have to confirm this milestone and that InSight's solar arrays have deployed properly, the team can settle into the careful, three-month-long process of deploying science instruments.

"Landing on Mars is exciting, but scientists are looking forward to the time after InSight lands," said Lori Glaze, acting director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. "Once InSight is settled on the Red Planet and its instruments are deployed, it will start collecting valuable information about the structure of Mars' deep interior — information that will help us understand the formation and evolution of all rocky planets, including the one we call home."

"Previous missions haven't gone more than skin-deep at Mars," added Sue Smrekar, the InSight mission's deputy principal investigator at JPL. "InSight scientists can’t wait to explore the heart of Mars."

JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.

A number of European partners, including France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are supporting the InSight mission. CNES and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) provided the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, with significant contributions from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany, the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Switzerland, Imperial College and Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and JPL. DLR provided the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) instrument, with significant contributions from the Space Research Center (CBK) of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Astronika in Poland. Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) supplied the wind sensors.

For more detailed information on the InSight mission, visit:

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight

For more information about MarCO, visit:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cubesat/missions/marco.php

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The Book Thief

The film is based on the 2005 best-selling historical novel of Markus Zusak. The novel was adapted as a film on 2013 starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Sophie Nélisse.

The novel is about a girl name Liesel Meminger who is traveling in a train with her mother and brother. The mother decides to give them up because of a poor life but along the way, Liesel’s brother died. Graving for his brother, Liesel met her adaptive parents, Hans and Rosa Humbermann. Liesel doesn’t know how to read and write but with the help of her adaptive father, Hans help her to learn. Rudy Steiner, a boy living next door fell in love with her. During the Nazi book burning, Liesel was upset to see books that were burning. Also had realize that her father was persecuted for being a Communist, and that her mother was likely killed by the Nazis for the same crime.

In keeping his promise, Hans kept a Jew named Max Vandenberg in his basement. Max and Liesel instantly became friends. Keeping Max in the basement for so long, a time has come when he needs to leave for the family’s and he’s safety. Hans was drafted into the military at a time when air raids over major German, Liesel had promised that he wouldn’t forget Max. Liesel fell asleep in the basement while writing the story of her life. She miraculously survives but Hans and Rosa—her parents, Rudy his friend and everyone else died the next morning because of an air raid in their city. Liesel and Max saw each other again after years and Liesel died due to an old age.

 What made the film interesting? 

The story is interesting for me because you would see how people live during the war, especially during the Nazi war. Interesting also to see how the books are very important during their time. Books were their only resource to learn and read stories. It was also surprising to see how a small amount of money can give them support to eat atleast 3 times a day. That’s how simple their life is.

Best part of the film 

Most of my favorite were during the scenes in the basement. But my most favorite part was when Liesel brought snow in their basement for Max to feel and see the weather outside, Hans and Rosa join them in playing the snow in their basement. I remember Max saying to Liesel that her eyes speaks more

The Characters

The actors made a very great job in the film especially Liesel. The role suits her the most because of her innocence. You can see how her eyes speaks, how innocent and curious it is. The actors give justice to the role that were given to them.  

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Michael Schenker Group: Universal (2022)

Michael Schenker Group: Universal (2022) - https://metalindex.hu/2022/06/19/michael-schenker-group-universal-2022/ -

A ’80-as évek közepén a Scorpions Lonesome Crow és Lovedrive albumai, valamint a Michael Schenker Group Assault Attack stúdió- és Rock Will Never Die koncertlemeze emelte a német muzsikust legnagyobb gitárhőseim közé. 1986 nyarán ott voltam az MTK pályán, ahol a már McAuley Schenker Group nevet viselő formáció a Scorpions előzenekaraként okozott libabőrt a nagyérdeműnek, többek között az Into the Arena és a Doctor, Doctor előadásával.

Onnantól viszont nálam se kép, se hang, amit nem is igazán értek, hogy miért történt. Csupán hírfoszlányok jutottak el hozzám az ifjabb Schenker fivér ide-oda csapódásáról: McAuley Schenker Group, UFO, Michael Schenker Group, ezzel párhuzamosan szólóalbumok sora látott napvilágot, illetve rövidéletű projektek következtek (Contraband, The Plot, Under Construction, Schenker Pattison Summit, Schenker/Barden Acoustic Project), miközben mind gyakrabban lehetett hallani a gitáros alkoholizmusáról, szétcsúszásáról, a testvérek közötti kapcsolat megromlásáról. Michael azonban folyamatosan alkotott, voltak olyan évek, konkrétan 2000 és 2003, amikor a közreműködésével öt (!) hangzóanyag is megjelent. A 2010-es években pedig, hogy még jobban összezavarja rajongóit :-), a Michael Schenker Group mellett létrehozta a Michael Schenker’s Temple of Rock és a Michael Schenker Fest nevű formációkat is, és számos neves zenész vendégszereplésével hol az egyik, hol a másik égisze alatt adott ki albumokat.

Ahogy tavaly (Immortal), úgy idén is az MSG volt soron, amelynek alapcsapatát a szőke gitáros mellett Ronnie Romero énekes (Rainbow, Vandenberg), Barend Courbois basszusgitáros (Blind Guardian, Zakk Wylde), Bodo Schopf dobos (Eloy) és Steve Mann gitáros-billentyűs (Lionheart, ex-Eloy, ex-Tytan) alkotja. Vendégzenészként pedig ez alkalommal olyan nagyságok tették tiszteletüket a stúdióban, mint Michael Kiske (Helloween), Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear), Gary Barden (ex-MSG) és Michael Voss (Mad Max) énekesek, Simon Phillips (Toto, The Who), Brian Tichy (Whitesnake, Foreigner) és Bobby Rondinelli (Axel Rudi Pell, ex-Rainbow) dobosok, Bob Daisley (ex-Rainbow, ex-Ozzy, ex-Black Sabbath) és Barry Sparks (Malmsteen, Dokken) basszusgitárosok, valamint a veterán billentyűs Tony Carey (Zed Yago, ex-Rainbow).

Az embernek lehetnek bizonyos ellenérzései az ilyen sokszereplős projektalbumokkal szemben. Nem tudom, hol a határ a „még elmegy” és az „ez már túl sok” között, amikor jólesően nyugtázzuk egy-egy vendég feltűnését, illetve amikor szinte valamennyi nótát más felállás játssza. Utóbbi egy válogatás- vagy tribute albumra emlékeztet, amelynek dalai nagyon különböző karakterrel bírnak, és csak a közös koncepció tartja őket össze. Ha nem akarunk nagyon tájékozottak lenni, csupán élvezni szeretnénk a jó nótákat, akkor ne nagyon olvasgassuk a stáblistát. Nekem első hallgatásra Kiske hangja volt ismerős, lógott ki a Romero által felénekelt témák közül, s csak a sajtóanyagot böngészve csapkodtam a homlokom, hogy „hát persze, Scheepers meg Voss, ők is jó ismerőseim!”, ahogy Barden is, hiszen első találkozásunk alkalmával ő volt az MSG frontembere.

A muzsika, amit hallunk, inkább hard rock, mint metal. Schenker játéka, azt gondolom, sokat változott az évek során: nem a virtuozitásra, a szólókra helyezi a hangsúlyt, inkább visszafogott, zenekar- és dalcentrikus. Mindezek mellett pedig nagyon Ritchie Blackmore-os: nem csupán egyetlen számmal tiszteleg a nagy brit előd előtt (lásd lejjebb), dallamvilága, hangzása okán több nóta (Emergency, Sad Is the Song) is egyfajta főhajtás, és nem csak Romero jelenléte és teljesítménye miatt, ami kifejezetten tetszik, de mintha Schenker emblematikus hangszere, a Flying V helyett többször is Fender Stratocaster, vagy legalábbis egy olyanra hangolt gitár szólna.

Ha jót akarsz magadnak, ne a nyitó Emergency alapján alkoss ítéletet, nem ez a lemez húzónótája, juss el legalább a harmadik szám végéig! Fogós, vokálos refrénjével már a másodikként elhangzó Under Attack is remek nóta, egyik kedvencem az albumról. A program első fénypontja azonban a Tony Carey által Moog szintin játszott intróval (Calling Baal) felvezetett A King Has Gone. A Ronnie James Dio emlékének ajánlott dalt Michael Kiske énekli, szövege elsősorban az 1976-os Rainbow Rising albumra reflektál, az intróban az azt a lemezt indító Tarot Woman nyitánya köszön vissza, a legendás szivárványos csapat egykori tagjai közül pedig hárman (Carey mellett Daisley és Rondinelli) is szerepelnek benne.

A folytatás is egy nagyobb döccenőktől mentes slágerparádé. A The Universe, amelyben Romero a csapat korai korszakának frontemberével, Gary Bardennel énekel duettet, éppúgy lehet valaki kedvence, mint a Michael Voss által előadott Long Long Road vagy a Ralf Scheepers főszereplésével elhangzó Wrecking Ball. Önmagukban ezek a nóták is rendben vannak, az utánuk következő Yesterday Is Deadnél viszont már feltűnt a nagyon is hasonló hangzás és ritmusozás. Összességében ez a blokk egy kicsit egyhangú, a végére némileg lankadt a figyelmem. De aztán jön kedvenc dalom a lemezről, a London Calling, aminél máris ritmusosan mozdul a fej és a kéz, a hallgató pedig ellenállhatatlan késztetést érez, hogy együtt énekelje a refrént szólistával, jelen esetben Michael Voss-szal. 50+-os muzsika, talán éppen ezért jön be annyira. Nyilván sokan tudják, hogy a MSG is a brit fővárosban alakult 1979-ben, nem véletlen hát, hogy hősünk visszavágyik oda. Schenker és csapata a Sad Is the Songban is hasonló hangnemben folytatja, az alapprogramot záró Au Revoir tempója pedig, amelyben a zenészek Párizsnak intenek búcsút, a régi idők tekeréseit (Captain Nemo, Into the Arena) idézi.

Azonban, mint egy koncerten, a főműsort (a CD- és az earbook-, vagyis a nagyméretű digipak-változaton) itt is két ráadásnóta követi. Sajnos egy kicsit ezek is egy kaptafára készültek, szerencsére a másodikként elhangzó Fighter refrénje megint nagyot üt, aminek köszönhetően ez a dal is feliratkozik a kedvenceim közé.

Nyilván egész más a MSG pályafutását folyamatosan nyomon követve, mint – az egyéb Schenker-formációkat is beleszámítva – 16 stúdióalbum kihagyása után meghallgatni az új lemezt. Mint egy rokon, akit nem havonta, hanem hosszabb idő elteltével látsz újra: izgalmasan újnak, szimpatikus idegennek találod őt. Én is így vagyok a Universallal, ami az általam ideálisnak tartottnál valamivel lágyabb, ám egy-két szám kivételével az elejétől a végéig élvezetes muzsika. Tetszik.