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Engineer 👷🏻‍♂️ | In a relationship with Rocket Science 🚀 Powered by LOX, sarcasm, and launch schedules. Covering every orbital attempt worldwide.

Third Rock🌏 from The Sun🌞
Joined February 2013
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
NASA has invited @ISRO to join its Moon Base program, deepening the U.S.-India deep space partnership! The news came as @StateDept and @NASA co-chaired the 9th Civil Space Joint Working Group in Bengaluru, advancing the 🇺🇸-🇮🇳 TRUST initiative.
Mankind's next giant leap is underway! @NASA is building a Moon Base: humanity's first outpost on the Moon. The base will drive lunar scientific breakthroughs and prepare for crewed missions to Mars. Check out the trailer and stay tuned as a big announcement drops soon. 🎥 @NASA
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
PowerBank-50 is officially space-proven! 🚀 @tm2space 50 Wh battery pack earned its first mission patch aboard @SkyrootA's maiden launch, Vikram-1 'Aagaman'. 1xPowerBank-50 successfully powered @CosmoserveSpace's payload on the OAM at a 450 km orbit.
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
Starship Flight 13 launched from Starbase, TX at 5:51pm CDT and had an incredible lift-off!! Here are a few of my favorite views from our robotic cams! (Audio warning). Our launch stream is still live, so tune in here: youtube.com/live/lC3RDO7tdLc @NASASpaceflight
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
New photos of Buran's (2.01) ongoing restoration in Verkhnyaya Pyshma museum complex near Yekaterinburg 1/3
Replying to @Blobifie
These are old photos, btw. Last year, they moved it into a museum complex near Yekaterinburg, where they are trying to restore it now
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Replying to @Cosmic_Penguin
Damn this one is even more crazier than Apollo 12 and that Soyuz-2 that got hit launching at Plesetsk several years ago - the lightning strike actually clearly hit the ground here! m.weibo.cn/detail/5323939312…
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
Blastoff! Congratulations on the successful launch of Gravity-1 Y4! All nine satellites have been successfully delivered into their orbits! Come and take a look!
What a success! The #Gravity-1 (Yinli-1) Y4 carrier rocket blasted off from waters off the eastern coast of Shanghai, delivering nine satellites into their preset orbits and simultaneously conducting one payload experiment.
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
Look at how long it takes for even the high-acceleration Gravity-1 to clear its own smoke!
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
Final stages of MOI-1a. A 120w, 13Kg, 6U AI-satellite. Equipped with in-house built power systems, obc, adcs, reaction wheels, torquers, star tracker, sun sensors, imu cube, uhf, triple plate solar panels and AICube+Storage. Also carries imager by EON, SBand by Astrome.
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
Stacking Starship for Flight 13
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
It’s official. 🚀 July 18. 11:30 AM IST. Vikram-1. Test Flight-1. Mission Aagaman. India’s first private orbital launch from the historic First Launch Pad at SDSC-SHAR, Sriharikota. The countdown begins. 🇮🇳 #Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #SkyrootAerospace #OpeningSpaceForAll
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
Welcome to Airbus Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! – at Bremen, Germany
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
#Liftoff! 🚀Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft successfully blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying 👨🏻‍🚀 Anil Menon 🇺🇸, 👨🏻‍🚀 Pyotr Dubrov 🇷🇺and 👩🏻‍🚀 Anna Kikina 🇷🇺 on their mission to the ISS. #Soyuz #ISS #SpaceMission #NASA #Roscosmos #Liftoff
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#Liftoff! The Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft successfully lifted off, carrying NASA Astronauts Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina on their journey to the International Space Station. 🚀 Liftoff: 1447 UTC 🛰️ Scheduled ISS Docking: 1756 UTC
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
.@NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off atop the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT today for a 1:56 p.m. docking to the International Space Station. More... go.nasa.gov/4vyT12W
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🚀 LIFTOFF! Soyuz MS-29 is on its way to the International Space Station. Onboard are NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, who are beginning their journey to join the Expedition crew in orbit.
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
Aagaman means "Arrival." ✨ Proud to unveil the #MissionAagaman patch — the arrival of a new Indian rocket on the world stage, and a new chapter for all of us at Skyroot. The patch honors India's space journey, and the era of private orbital launches it opens. Vikram-1, Test Flight-1. Onwards & Upwards. 🚀 #Vikram1 #OpeningSpaceForAll
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
🌍🚀 Meet the "Space Eye" aboard China's space station The Multi-Spectral Imaging Carbon Observatory (MUSICO), also known as the Tianyun Camera, was launched aboard Tianzhou-10 last month. Designed to detect CO₂ and CH₄ from orbit, MUSICO enables high-resolution monitoring of greenhouse gases across low- and mid-latitude regions worldwide, helping to pinpoint major emission sources. It was jointly developed by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A new step forward for space-based climate science. #CAS #ChinaSpaceStation #HKUST #Tianzhou #SpaceResearch #EarthObservation
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NASA has officially announced the crew for Artemis III 🌕 Commander: Randy Bresnik 🇺🇸 Pilot: Luca Parmitano 🇮🇹 Mission Specialist 1: Frank Rubio 🇺🇸 Mission Specialist 2: Andre Douglas 🇺🇸 #ArtemisIII 🚀
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The Space Pirate🏴‍☠️🥷🏻🚀 retweeted
INTRODUCING: ARTEMIS III Commander, Randy Bresnik 🇺🇸 Pilot, Luca Parmitano 🇮🇹 Mission Specialist 1, Frank Rubio 🇺🇸 Mission Specialist 2, Andre Douglas 🇺🇸 @NASASpaceflight
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