Eric Berger

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Senior Space Editor, Ars Technica. Likes rockets.

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Hello all! Tomorrow is the first set of talks in our ExoExplorers 2024 series!! Please join us to hear from Fuda Nguyen and Garrett Levine on their awesome exoplanet research and support these fabulous early career exoplaneteers.

Exoplanet Program: ExoExplorer Science Series: Fuda Nguyen (U. Arizona) & Garrett Levine (Yale)exoplanets.nasa.gov NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program, the search for planets and life beyond our solar system.

Living in a simulated Mars habitat for 12 months is not for me, but it might be for you? NASA applications open today. chapea.nasa.gov

Russia can fuck right off. abcnews.go.com/Politics/whi...

Republican warning of 'national security threat' is about Russia wanting nuke in space: Sourcesabcnews.go.com The White House will meet with congressional leadership as a top Republican is requesting President Biden declassify information on a "serious national security threat"

Again and again, at JPL, in the upper floors of NASA's headquarters building in Washington, DC, and in the halls of Congress, critics attempted to kill the Ingenuity helicopter. And on multiple occasions, they almost succeeded. arstechnica.com/space/2024/0...

Before Ingenuity ever landed on Mars, scientists almost managed to kill itarstechnica.com "The Mars 2020 science team wasn't interested in Ingenuity."

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Big layoffs coming at JPL tomorrow. www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-wor...

It sounds like the situation is rather dire for Voyager 1. arstechnica.com/space/2024/0...

Humanity’s most distant space probe jeopardized by computer glitcharstechnica.com "It would be the the biggest miracle if we get it back. We certainly haven't given up."

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I am incredibly proud of my wife, Diana Trujillo! On Friday, she had her 'pinning ceremony,' which marked the start of her first official shift running Mission Control for the International Space Station at the Johnson Space Center as NASA's 108th Flight Director.

A week ago I wrote a feature on Ingenuity that explained why it was truly revolutionary. I'm now working on an even better, insider's perspective of the very nearly successful campaign to kill the program. Hope to publish in about a week. arstechnica.com/space/2024/0...

I'm coming back here after taking a few months off. Can anyone point me to a good space list?

It's a big day for the Lucy mission tomorrow! arstechnica.com/space/2023/1...

Scientists will soon find out whether the Lucy mission works as intendedarstechnica.com On Wednesday, the spacecraft will come close to the small asteroid Dinkinesh.

Russia can make, at most, 40 satellites a year. This is one result of not investing in your space program for decades. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/russian-space-chief-explains-why-country-can-only-build-40-satellites-a-year/

Putin wants to know why Russia can only build 40 satellites a yeararstechnica.com "It turned out we weren't ready for this."

Wow. The Russian space program is such a hot mess.

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China launches Shenzhou-17 crew for a six-month stay on Tiangong space station: www.collectspace.com/news/news-10...

Stole this world class meme from reddit. From yesterday's OSIRIS-REx event.

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Viasat expects to file insurance claims for both the ViaSat-3 Americas and I6 F2 satellites before year end, together totaling $768 million. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/v... Here's what industry executives told me about the state of the space insurance market last month: www.cnbc.com/2023/09/14/i...

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From the latest TLEs it looks like the Chinese Space Station did a significant orbit reboost around 0830 UTC Oct 11, probably using the engines of the Tianzhou-6 freighter. Delta-V about 5.5m/s, about 200 kg of prop, raising orbit by 9 km. Last big CSS reboost was May 14.

The asteroid mission's co-investigator, Daniel Glavin, is pumped up. Lots of carbon, lots of organics. "We picked the right asteroid, and we brought back the right sample. This is an astrobiologist's dream."

Ten minutes until we see the first pebbles and dust from the asteroid Bennu!

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I am so, so, SO done with Twitter. badastronomy.substack.com/p/goodbye-tw...

Goodbye, Twitterbadastronomy.substack.com Yeah, I’m done. Elon’s just awful.

Well, it's a start. arstechnica.com/space/2023/0...

NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordablearstechnica.com "At current cost levels the SLS program is unsustainable."

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Hello just popping in to say that apparently fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite and you’re so welcome 🧪

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No shade like @sciguyspace.bsky.social shade: ====== "We noticed some specific behavior with the control bench. We needed to understand why this occurred. Today, everything is OK and clearly explained." Alas, she did not explain what was explained. arstechnica.com/space/2023/0...

NASA is about to initiate coverage of the landing of Crew-6. Endeavour will splash down at approximately 12:17 a.m. ET Monday, Sept. 4, near Jacksonville off the coast of Florida. www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5...

NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TVwww.youtube.com Direct from America's space program to YouTube, watch NASA TV live streaming here to get the latest from our exploration of the universe and learn how we dis...

First they came for Facebook, and I said nothing. Then they came for Flickr and I was silent. And now …

I strongly recommend against joking about Chandrayaan 3. arstechnica.com/space/2023/0...

Police are investigating an Indian actor for joking about the country’s Moon landerarstechnica.com There is a lot of national fervor surrounding Chandrayaan 3.

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Here's an afternoon update on Tropical Depression 9, heading for Texas, possibly as a tropical storm Tuesday. Rain confined to the far south. Meanwhile, #Franklin is a growing flood threat for the Dominican Republic and possibly Haiti. theeyewall.com/tropical-dep...

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Senator Ted Cruz falls for the classic Hurricane Shark hoax

Moscow, we have a problem. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/russia-seems-to-have-lost-contact-with-its-first-lunar-probe-in-half-a-century/

Russia seems to have lost contact with its first lunar probe in half a centuryarstechnica.com "The management team is currently analyzing the situation."

Peter Beck has his shit together. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/rocket-lab-pivoting-to-downrange-neutron-landings-to-meet-customer-demand/

Peter Beck pushes toward a Neutron debut in 2024, but acknowledges challengesarstechnica.com "We don’t believe in signing janky, fake contracts."

Maui wildfire truthers are not the brightest lights in the sky. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/how-a-5-year-old-spacex-photo-fueled-maui-wildfire-conspiracy-theorists/

Maui truthers are so dumb they’re using a Falcon 9 photo as wildfire evidencearstechnica.com You can always count on conspiracy theorists to make a tragedy worse.