Getting *fancy* with orbits, huh?
Over the past 5 years the Lucy spacecraft flew by 3 asteroids. Over the next 7 years it will visit 8 more, focusing on the mysterious "Trojan" asteroids that share an orbit with Jupiter.
Lucy will set a record for the most objects ever visited by one spacecraft. 🧪🔭
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Lucy will set a record for the most objects ever visited by one spacecraft. 🧪🔭
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October 31, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Getting *fancy* with orbits, huh?
October 31, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Lula nuked the betting apps from orbits.
Remember what it was like watching football on Sunday and not hearing about how players' performance was impacting Draft Kings and Fan Duel users? We can have that again, gente.
Remember what it was like watching football on Sunday and not hearing about how players' performance was impacting Draft Kings and Fan Duel users? We can have that again, gente.
November 1, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Lula nuked the betting apps from orbits.
Remember what it was like watching football on Sunday and not hearing about how players' performance was impacting Draft Kings and Fan Duel users? We can have that again, gente.
Remember what it was like watching football on Sunday and not hearing about how players' performance was impacting Draft Kings and Fan Duel users? We can have that again, gente.
The kind of people who end up in the orbits of people who wield institutional clout and power are probably not ones with tremendous defense instincts or self-respect, so it just ends up the people who tolerate this are the ones who move up.
November 1, 2026 at 6:14 PM
The kind of people who end up in the orbits of people who wield institutional clout and power are probably not ones with tremendous defense instincts or self-respect, so it just ends up the people who tolerate this are the ones who move up.
🚀 Lift Off! China's second Kinetica-2 rocket successfully launched 18 SpaceSail satellites from Jiuquan on 3 November 2026 at 00:15 UTC. All 18 satellites reportedly reached their intended orbits and are operating normally.
November 3, 2026 at 12:25 PM
🚀 Lift Off! China's second Kinetica-2 rocket successfully launched 18 SpaceSail satellites from Jiuquan on 3 November 2026 at 00:15 UTC. All 18 satellites reportedly reached their intended orbits and are operating normally.
The Three Body Orbits website is an atlas of some of the thousands of stable three-body orbits. You can watch each system play itself out in a wide variety of different trajectories and complexities or even help find a new solution. [kottke.org]
Three-Body Orbits
There are no generalized solutions to the three-body problem. Say you have three planets orbiting each other: it’s impossible to calculate how they will move using Newton’s laws of motion and gravity.
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October 30, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The Three Body Orbits website is an atlas of some of the thousands of stable three-body orbits. You can watch each system play itself out in a wide variety of different trajectories and complexities or even help find a new solution. [kottke.org]
For example:
1. Radio telescopes aren't limited to night-time observing, so prioritising dusk/dawn orbits doesn't lessen the impact
2. These satellites communicate at "permitted" radio frequencies, but their rapid orbits can Doppler-shift the emission to other frequencies (where we do astronomy)
1. Radio telescopes aren't limited to night-time observing, so prioritising dusk/dawn orbits doesn't lessen the impact
2. These satellites communicate at "permitted" radio frequencies, but their rapid orbits can Doppler-shift the emission to other frequencies (where we do astronomy)
November 3, 2026 at 2:49 AM
For example:
1. Radio telescopes aren't limited to night-time observing, so prioritising dusk/dawn orbits doesn't lessen the impact
2. These satellites communicate at "permitted" radio frequencies, but their rapid orbits can Doppler-shift the emission to other frequencies (where we do astronomy)
1. Radio telescopes aren't limited to night-time observing, so prioritising dusk/dawn orbits doesn't lessen the impact
2. These satellites communicate at "permitted" radio frequencies, but their rapid orbits can Doppler-shift the emission to other frequencies (where we do astronomy)
Any time I am inconvenienced, I think "what if your wife orbits my dick" and I don't really know why lol
October 30, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Any time I am inconvenienced, I think "what if your wife orbits my dick" and I don't really know why lol
Unsolvable like predicting movements of three solar bodies in eachother’s orbits
November 2, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Unsolvable like predicting movements of three solar bodies in eachother’s orbits
github.com/LiamDroog/mctl
Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust: live #ISS, Dragon, Hubble, JWST and Roman orbits, passes and schedules. Retro CRT themes, and a mode for Raspberry Pi + composite CRT.
Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust: live #ISS, Dragon, Hubble, JWST and Roman orbits, passes and schedules. Retro CRT themes, and a mode for Raspberry Pi + composite CRT.
GitHub - LiamDroog/mctl: Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust: live ISS, Dragon, Hubble, JWST and Roman orbits, passes and schedules. Retro CRT themes, and a mode for Raspberry Pi + compos...
Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust: live ISS, Dragon, Hubble, JWST and Roman orbits, passes and schedules. Retro CRT themes, and a mode for Raspberry Pi + composite CRT. - LiamDroog/mctl
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November 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM
github.com/LiamDroog/mctl
Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust: live #ISS, Dragon, Hubble, JWST and Roman orbits, passes and schedules. Retro CRT themes, and a mode for Raspberry Pi + composite CRT.
Mission-control style spacecraft tracker in Rust: live #ISS, Dragon, Hubble, JWST and Roman orbits, passes and schedules. Retro CRT themes, and a mode for Raspberry Pi + composite CRT.
need those short lifetimes to compensate for the lack of stable orbits in 4d
November 1, 2026 at 1:41 AM
need those short lifetimes to compensate for the lack of stable orbits in 4d
The asteroid a few hundred orbits from burning up in the atmosphere:
November 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
The asteroid a few hundred orbits from burning up in the atmosphere:
given to understand that most weapons are designed to intercept in low-to-medium orbits, but it's the stuff in high geosynch orbits that would have the worst cascade effect. Dunno how many satellites you could shoot down before Putin freaks out about all the missiles and starts a nuclear war though
November 3, 2026 at 2:49 PM
given to understand that most weapons are designed to intercept in low-to-medium orbits, but it's the stuff in high geosynch orbits that would have the worst cascade effect. Dunno how many satellites you could shoot down before Putin freaks out about all the missiles and starts a nuclear war though
i mean technically we all are as the earth orbits the sun, but no not independently…yet
October 31, 2026 at 11:24 AM
i mean technically we all are as the earth orbits the sun, but no not independently…yet
🎃 “Halloween fireballs” are real! The Taurid meteor showers, active around Halloween, come from debris shed by Comet Encke, which circles the sun every 3.3 years, one of the shortest known comet orbits.
October 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🎃 “Halloween fireballs” are real! The Taurid meteor showers, active around Halloween, come from debris shed by Comet Encke, which circles the sun every 3.3 years, one of the shortest known comet orbits.
Orbits so close
They’re destined
To succumb
To common gravity.
To pull away
From mortal toil
And ascend to
What they’re meant to be.
They’re destined
To succumb
To common gravity.
To pull away
From mortal toil
And ascend to
What they’re meant to be.
November 1, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Orbits so close
They’re destined
To succumb
To common gravity.
To pull away
From mortal toil
And ascend to
What they’re meant to be.
They’re destined
To succumb
To common gravity.
To pull away
From mortal toil
And ascend to
What they’re meant to be.
22 More Orbits for the Sun. Just 4–5 for Earth.
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#solarsystem #sun #earth #earthScience #astronomy #universe #cosmos #space #science #physics #research
22 More Orbits for the Sun. Just 4–5 for Earth.
This story was inspired by a niece of mine, my brother’s younger daughter. It’s a long text and a preview of what to expect is probably…
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November 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
22 More Orbits for the Sun. Just 4–5 for Earth.
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#solarsystem #sun #earth #earthScience #astronomy #universe #cosmos #space #science #physics #research
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#solarsystem #sun #earth #earthScience #astronomy #universe #cosmos #space #science #physics #research
Omg LLMs even reproduce mansplaining 😭
November 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Omg LLMs even reproduce mansplaining 😭
Der Widerstand der Erdatmosphäre lässt das Weltraumteleskop Hubble immer weiter absinken. Nun will die NASA prüfen, ob sich ein Absturz noch hinauszögern lässt. #NASA
Absturz bis 2034: NASA prüft jetzt doch die Anhebung des Hubble-Orbits
Der Widerstand der Erdatmosphäre lässt das Weltraumteleskop Hubble immer weiter absinken. Nun will die NASA prüfen, ob sich ein Absturz noch hinauszögern lässt.
www.heise.de
November 2, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Der Widerstand der Erdatmosphäre lässt das Weltraumteleskop Hubble immer weiter absinken. Nun will die NASA prüfen, ob sich ein Absturz noch hinauszögern lässt. #NASA
use billions of dollars to enfranchise billionaires u dont get it bro it's so peak don't you love when RAM orbits the earth 500000000000 times and causes kessler syndrome
November 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
use billions of dollars to enfranchise billionaires u dont get it bro it's so peak don't you love when RAM orbits the earth 500000000000 times and causes kessler syndrome
Could also be a plane (mechanical) issue, not unusual to do orbits like that while running the checklists for return to airport.
October 29, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Could also be a plane (mechanical) issue, not unusual to do orbits like that while running the checklists for return to airport.
@PhilosophyOfPhy
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the...
https://x.com/i/web/status/2117158973141033265
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the...
https://x.com/i/web/status/2117158973141033265
November 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
@PhilosophyOfPhy
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the...
https://x.com/i/web/status/2117158973141033265
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the...
https://x.com/i/web/status/2117158973141033265
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October 30, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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