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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@spacey.space · 3 weeks ago

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#Competition accelerates #innovation : "What if we actually build a #SpaceStation, launch 🚀 it in #orbit, have a crew 👨‍🚀 of four go to it, spend two weeks at least in the space station, and come back home safely…before the U.S. #government makes their decision?” (in 📆 2026) https://youtu.be/us_V_e0-NVs?feature=shared&t=205

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/vast-interview-2025

#Vast #NASA

Will Tuladhar-Douglas @yetiinabox@todon.nl · 3 weeks ago

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Apropos of discussion around reintroductions into the Highlands of #Scotland, here is a very good study by Ouvrier, Vimal et al on the interactions between #bears, #sheep, #dogs, #government, and #shepherds in the French Pyrenees. It uses a more-than-human geography approach to argue that a patchy, localised analysis has to be the foundation of more comprehensive analysis. #Mountains are inherently patchy sites of analysis!

https://besjournals.pericles-prod.literatumonline.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.70000

IFTAS @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org · 2 months ago

The Fediverse is the real world collection of platforms, apps, and services that implement ActivityPub. They constitute a “federated universe” of interconnected social networks and can freely communicate with one another.

The #Fediverse is considered to be the “next big thing” in social media. Usage has roughly tripled from 2022 - 23, and as larger platforms begin adopting we can expect a tenfold increase in adoption in 2024.

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IFTAS @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org · 2 months ago

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So why should a public agency care?

1. Autonomy.
#Government agencies should not be reliant on advertising-driven media companies to broadcast vital public messaging.
2. Alignment.
Support a person-centric, privacy-focused social network environment grounded in diversity and inclusivity. In many ways it is being built to counter the harms of for-profit social media.

Learn more about the pathways to Fediverse adoption by governments: https://about.iftas.org/2024/03/06/open-social-for-the-common-good/

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Spaceflight 🚀 @spaceflight@techhub.social · 2 years ago

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📆 Nov 17, 2018 #NASA will #retire 🗑️ its new mega- #rocket if #SpaceX or #BlueOrigin can safely launch its own powerful #rockets : "we will eventually retire the #government system, and just move to a #buying #launch #capacity on those [rockets]" Stephen Jurczyk, NASA's associate administrator https://www.businessinsider.in/nasa-will-retire-its-new-mega-rocket-if-spacex-or-blue-origin-can-safely-launch-its-own-powerful-rockets/articleshow/66673026.cms
#Artemis #SLS

#LaunchCost #SpaceCompany #SpaceAgency