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Interplanetary Life 2026 March of the Robots!
iLife26 explored some of most important @NASA Flagship, Discovery and New Frontiers robotic space exploration missions. Missions lighting the way for an enduring human presence beyond Earth!
Check out the full article here > nitter.net/Spacepointorg/status/2…
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Great to have @_MaxQ_ join us for Interplanetary Life 2026!
A brilliant gallery and even better person.
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Interplanetary Life 2026 - March of the Robots!
1 Week until we convene key leaders of current and future @nasa Flagship, Discovery, and New Frontiers Missions in Boise, Idaho to talk Robotic Exploration.
Roman, Europa Clipper, Psyche, Curiosity, Perseverance and... Dragonfly slated to fly July 2028!
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Launch Image Credits:
Roman: Spacepoint/Victoria Buckman
Europa Clipper, Psyche: SCP/John Winkopp
Mars2020: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Spacecraft Rendering Credits: NASA
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A new platform, a new ship added to the fleet.
Congrats @nasa, @NASAGoddard, @NASAJPL
Numerous amazing shots of this beautiful launch. Here a simple unedited Seestar S30 Pro video.
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Roman Delivered.
Ahead of schedule, Under budget and launched on time.
Next stop: L2.
ALT SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope on Sunday, August 30th.
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After years of extraordinary work, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope has successfully launched from @NASAKennedy yesterday on @SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and is on its 3-month journey to L2. >> Latest reports indicate Solar Array Sun Shield and Lower Instrument Sun Shade have successfully deployed, powering the observatory and shading instruments! GO ROMAN!
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Roman Space Telescope "Impossible to possible and sometimes routine." - Shawn Domagal-Goldman,Director, NASA's Astrophysics Division
We are ready for launch tomorrow at 7:26am EDT from Kennedy Space Center, FL on SpaceX Flacon Heavy rocket!
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Interplanetary Life 2026 - March of the Robots!
30 Days until we convene mission leaders of some of the most significant @nasa Flagship, Discovery, and New Frontiers robotic exploration missions to tell their stories.
Roman, Europa Clipper, Psyche, Dragonfly and of course, the nuclear powered Rovers Curiosity and Perseverance on the Robot Planet.
ALT Left to right: Roman, Europa Clipper, Psyche, Dragonfly, Curiosity, Perseverance.
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Interplanetary Life 2026 - March of the Robots!
Join us for an extraordinary event featuring the scientists, engineers, and innovators leading NASA's robotic exploration missions. Every robotic mission is a step toward humanity's future in space. Explore the missions. Meet the pioneers. Imagine what's next. ONE AMAZING EVENT.
📅 Saturday, September 26, 2026
Early Bird tickets on sale one week only!!
spacepoint.org/ilife26
ALT Roman, Europa Clipper, Psyche, Dragonfly, Curiosity, Perseverance
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Spacepoint was at @NASAKennedy, participating in this weekend’s comparative events honoring the 15 year anniversary of STS-135, and welcoming back the final crew to fly Atlantis.
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#NASA completed a successful launch to boost the #NeilGehrelsSwiftObservatory at 8:36 pm Marshal Islands Time (4:36am EDT) on Friday, July 3 from Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific Ocean after several delays.
#NorthrupGrumman's L-1011 Stargazer aircraft carried the Pegasus XL rocket to an altitude of 40,000 feet where it separated from the Pegasus rocket, after which, the rocket's stages were fired in sequence to reach its intended altitude.
Pegasus is a three-stage launch vehicle capable of delivering up to 1000 pounds into low earth orbit. It can launch from virtually anywhere on Earth with minimal ground support which makes it ideal for missions as critical and time sensitive as this, where other launchers would never have been able to meet the time constraints.
#KatalystSpace built LINK, a robotic servicing spacecraft that will deploy and rendezvous with the Swift Observatory to perform the boost to bring Swift back to a safe orbit. Now that the mission is finally underway, the next step is to await for a signal from LINK to confirm the solar panels have deployed as planned and that all power systems are running as needed. We will follow NASA's Swift blog as this mission progresses. Read more about the Swift Mission on our original story HERE -> spacepoint.org/post/saving-s….
Photo: Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket launched Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft, supporting a mission to boost NASA’S Swift Observatory. (Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman)
ALT Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket launched Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft, supporting a mission to boost NASA’S Swift Observatory. (Photo Credit: Northrop Grumman)
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We are at @NASAWallops today viewing @northropgrumman Pegasus XL rocket carrying @katalystspace robotic servicing spacecraft called LINK scheduled to soon launch on a rescue mission to save NASA’s Swift Observatory. Stay tuned for our story on today’s media briefing.
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Watching the sun this morning... solar activity is minimal lately with only four active regions. While most of us love the aurora the solar flares bring, these events also release dangerous amounts of high-energy particles that can damage spacecraft and harm humans. We continue to study these impacts to ensure the safety for a lasting future in space. This image was photographed at 7:45am EST Jun 15, 2026 using Sony A7IV, 200-600mm at 600mm with solar filter. **Never attempt to photograph the sun without a proper solar filter! ** #solarweather #sunspots
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Recon for our next astrophotography Dark Sky Tour...
6,000' elevation with a near vertical wall cirque in the background soars 2,000 feet above us generating a lot of avalanche activity.
ALT Iceberg Lake.
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"There are only 4 places we know of in the entire Universe that have a thick atmosphere and solid surface like we do here on Earth. Those are Venus, Earth, Mars and Titan."
- Dr Jason Barnes, Dragonfly Deputy Principle Investigator
Full article here >
ALT Titan, Saturn's largest moon orbiting the gas giant.
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Pretty exciting to be at @NASAKennedy today to hear the announcement of the Artemis III crew by @NASAAdmin in the rocket garden today! But hey, this place is an exciting place to be any day 🚀
#artemisIII #humanspaceflight
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As we wait for @spaceX Starship 12...
2012: @nasa first commercial resupply mission.
CRS-34 adds another successful mission. 57 CRS missions now to date, 14 years of repetition, the type of logistics/resupply capability needed for enduring human presence on the Moon.
ALT CRS-34 launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Ahead of Schedule. Under Budget.
We intend to “debrief our success stories, learn from them, and also recognize, reward, and inspire the top tier in the agency when we do have extraordinary outcomes.”
- NASA Administrator Isaacman
Full article >
ALT The Roman Space Observatory and some of the team that delivering the newest NASA Flagship Mission.
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Roman.
Launch date September 7, 2026. Ahead of schedule. Under budget. 100,000 Exoplanets await.
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@nasa media day for the Roman Space Telescope. A mission to find 100,000 Exoplanets!
Three key platform functions, Transit, Microlensing and Direct Imaging via a new Coronograph technology demonstration.
Launch targeted AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, no earlier than September 2026.
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A new day... and our future.
Simple iPhone shot of the VAB and Seestar s30 Pro of the moon from the same location.
> S30 Pro really shines on DSOs but still fair at best on Moon and Planetary imaging. Still a great tool, portable, simple.
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NG-24 brings @northropgrumman CRS total to 34. Combined with @spaceX, CRS will exceed 67 EoY 2026.
Repeatable logistics, 25 years on orbit ISS presence,
@NASAArtemis Human Spaceflight success.....
The future of permanent human presence on the Moon and beyond is bright...
ALT SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Northrup Grumman Cygnus to the ISS on April 11th, 2026.
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Friday, Artemis II returned home another step towards sustainable human presence on the moon.
Saturday, NG-24 launched a resupply mission to the ISS. 25 Years of sustaining human presence on orbit.
Can we do it? Yes we can.
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Several memorable @NASAArtemis II shots but we love this one for context. 4 explorers and their ship, traveling further than any human in history.
Inspiration is over used but whatever word we use, how does this not drive one to think, we have to move faster?
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Apollo to Artemis, yes 50 years, but in 500 Years no one will care. The only thing they'll know is this is the moment in time when humanity established permanent presence beyond Earth orbit.
All Artemis Images Credit: John Winkopp for Spacepoint.
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Time to go back...
"...not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone...” - JFK
ALT Moonrise over Artemis II.
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@NASAArtemis Rollout, Rollback, Rollout. The differentiator, this time, we're going back to stay.
Image Credits: John Winkopp for Spacepoint.
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@NASAArtemis II - Roll out, Roll back, a minor delay, and now once again on the verge of history.
ALT Credit: Space Coast Pictures
ALT Credit: Space Coast Pictures
Engineers are targeting 8 pm ET on Thursday, March 19, for rollout of Artemis II.
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 will carry the 11-million-pound stack at about 1 mph along the four-mile route from the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy to the launch pad.
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@NASAArtemis Rollout Rollback and Rollout again.... NET 19 March, on the way to permanent human presence on the Moon, Mars and beyond.
ALT Artemis II initial rollout
ALT Artemis II initial rollback.
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As we wait for @NASAArtemis II, a look at the beutiful Soul Nebula.
An emission nebula in the Constellation and Asterism Cassiopeia. 7,500 light-years distant and 300 light-years across.
ALT The Soul Nebula.
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The Rosette Nebula. 5,200 light years away and 130 light years across in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. 10,000 solar mass nursery home to ~2,500 stars.
Just 4 hours of imaging, no post processing.
@NASAArtemis, just the beginning of our journey.
ALT Rosette Nebula
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Hours away from our LISA Event with Dr Shane Larson @ClarksonUniv and member of the @NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Board (LISA).
LISA... Three spacecraft, one mission... gravitational waves, the fingerprints of colliding Black Holes...
Credit: Simon Barker
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Honored to announce our new Spacepoint Advisors;
Steve Swanson - Human Spaceflight
Ben Weiss - Planetary Science, Robotic Exploration
Matt Dethlefsen - Engineering
Read about these amazing explorers here and their contributions to space exploration > spacepoint.org/advisors
ALT Steve Swanson; Shuttle, Soyuz, Space Station Commander, 5 Spacewalks, CAPCOM and counting....
ALT Ben Weiss; Psyche, Mars, Europa Clipper and too many to list here....
ALT Matt Dethlefsen, First VTVL Differential Thrust Vehicle, First Liquid Cooled Heat Shield and many more firsts ahead.
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Born in space, live in space, traveling in space.
We've been there, we're going back. And then....
Images Credit: John Winkopp
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2025 Global Spaceflight Photo contest is complete, but not without thanking our panel of judges; Erik, John, Cyprus, Karina, Anna and Rox!
ICYM Check out the winners here > spacepoint.org/gspc
An amazing 2026 ahead for space exploration. Save your work!
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2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Launch, Night, Humans, Video and Founders.
2025 Honorable Mention - Video.
Congratulations Jay Castro!
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2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Launch, Night, Humans, Video and Founders.
2025 Honorable Mention - Founders.
Congratulations Scott Ferguson!
ALT Credit: Scott Ferguson 2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Honorable Mention - Founders.
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2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Launch, Night, Humans, Video and Founders.
2025 Honorable Mention - Launch
Congratulations David Diebold!
ALT Credit: David Diebold 2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Honorable Mention - Launch.
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2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Launch, Night, Humans, Video and Founders.
2025 Honorable Mention - Night.
Congratulations Nickolas Wolf!
ALT Credit: Nickolas Wolf 2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Honorable Mention - Night.
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2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest. Launch, Night, Humans, Video and Founders.
2025 Honorable Mention - Humans.
Congratulations Robert Opel!
ALT Credit: Robert Opel 2025 Global Spaceflight Photo Contest: Honorable Mention - Human Category.
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