RETROBURN.SPACE / cosmos updates, in plain text

Latest news:

  • 2025-08-25 ORB SpaceX Dragon Docks to Station Delivering New Science, Supplies / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-25 INT JUICE team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus / esa.int
  • 2025-08-25 ORB SpaceX’s latest Dragon mission will breathe more fire at the space station / arstechnica.com
  • 2025-08-24 ORB NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 33rd SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-23 MSC SpaceX Starship Faces $500M Losses from 2025 Explosions / webpronews.com
  • 2025-08-22 MSC UK independent space agency scrapped to cut costs / bbc.com
  • 2025-08-22 LXS Falcon-9 B1092.6 rocket launches USSF-36 (OTV-8/USA-555) @0350 UTC / nextspaceflight.com
  • 2025-08-22 MUN China detects echo signals from NGLR-1 laser reflectors on the Blue Ghost lander / edu.cn
  • 2025-08-22 INT Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-22 MUN Race to Build Lunar Nuclear Reactor Heats Up / ieee.org
  • 2025-08-21 LXS Angara 1.2 launches Kosmos-2591 @0830 UTC / nextspaceflight.com
  • 2025-08-21 ORB ESA signs contract for new generation of Galileo / esa.int
  • 2025-08-21 INT Newly discovered interstellar object may be oldest comet ever seen / ac.uk
  • 2025-08-21 INT Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-21 MSC US Space Force prepares X-37B Mission 8 for launch / spaceforce.mil
  • 2025-08-21 MSC L3Harris Expansion of Florida Plant to Focus on Golden Dome / defensedaily.com
  • 2025-08-21 INT Brightest Ever Fast Radio Burst to Date Provides Clues to its Origin / keckobservatory.org
  • 2025-08-20 ORB China’s Guowang megaconstellation is more than another version of Starlink / arstechnica.com
  • 2025-08-20 LXS Soyuz-2.1b launches Bion-M No.2 capsule @1713 UTC / tass.ru
  • 2025-08-20 INT IBM and NASA Release Groundbreaking Open-Source AI Model on solar weather / ibm.com
  • 2025-08-20 INT Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-20 ORB Alaska Airlines to Switch to Starlink for Fleet-Wide In-Flight Connectivity / satellitetoday.com
  • 2025-08-19 INT New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using JWST / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-19 LXS Lijian-1 launches rideshare mission @1033 UTC / nextspaceflight.com
  • 2025-08-19 INT Psyche Spacecraft Captures Images of Earth and Moon / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-18 MSC Firefly Aerospace may launch Alpha Rocket from Hokkaido Spaceport / hokkaidospaceport.com
  • 2025-08-18 LXS Falcon-9 B1088.9 launches x24 Starlink-294 (17-5) @1626 UTC / nextspaceflight.com
  • 2025-08-15 MUN China's Long March-10 carrier rocket succeeds in first static fire test / news.cn
  • 2025-08-13 ORB After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for Vulcan rocket / arstechnica.com
  • 2025-08-08 MSC Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-05 ORB NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies / nasa.gov
  • 2025-08-03 MSC Blue Origin’s New Shepard Completes 34th Mission to Space / blueorigin.com

Most recent orbital launch attempts:

| NORAD ID | Date and time   | Launcher            | Series        | Mission                             | Launchpad    | Co | R |
|----------+-----------------+---------------------+---------------+-------------------------------------+--------------+----+---|
| 2025-183 | 2025-08-22 0350 | Falcon 9            | B1092.6 F519  | USSF-36/OTV-8 (USA-555)             | CC LC40      | US | S |
| 2025-182 | 2025-08-21 0830 | Angara-1.2          | ??            | Kosmos-2591                         | GIK-1 LC35/1 | RU | S |
| 2025-181 | 2025-08-20 1713 | Soyuz-2.1b          | Ya15000-059   | Bion-M No.2                         | GIK-5 LC31   | RU | S |
| 2025-180 | 2025-08-19 0733 | Lijian-1            | Y10           | Hashiao-2                           | JQ LC130     | CN | S |
| 2025-179 | 2025-08-18 1626 | Falcon 9            | B1088.9 F518  | Starlink-294 (Starlink Group 17.5)  | VSFBS SLC4E  | US | S |
| 2025-178 | 2025-08-17 1415 | Changzheng 6A       | Y10           | WHWD-09                             | TYSC LC9A    | CN | S |
| 2025-177 | 2025-08-17 0855 | Changzheng 4C       | Y64           | Shiyan 28B02                        | XSC LC3      | CN | S |
| 2025-F06 | 2025-08-15 0117 | Zhuque-2E           | Y3            | WHJSW-07                            | JQ LC43/96A  | CN | F |
| 2025-176 | 2025-08-14 1229 | Falcon 9            | B1085.10 F517 | Starlink-293 (Starlink Group 10.20) | CC LC40      | US | S |
| 2025-175 | 2025-08-14 0505 | Falcon 9            | B1093.5 F516  | Starlink-292 (Starlink Group 17.4)  | VSFBS SLC4E  | US | S |
| 2025-174 | 2025-08-13 0643 | Changzheng 5B       | Y8            | WHWD-08                             | WEN LC101    | CN | S |
| 2025-173 | 2025-08-13 0056 | Vulcan Centaur VC4S | V-003         | USSF-106 (NTS-3/GSSAP)              | CC SLC41     | US | S |

About the website:

The purpose of this website is to share news related to space exploration in a text-only format (no script, no trackers, not even images). It is primarily intended for personal use (essentially a public collection of my bookmarks) but I also hope others will find it useful. The project began as a weekend experiment after reading a thread on Hacker News about the beauty of text-only webpages: I wanted to see whether I could generate such a website from Emacs and Org Mode. Many thanks to Jonathan McDowell for his invaluable historical data from GCAT: General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects, to Oskar Wickström for his Monospace Web (which was used as a starting point for the CSS used here) and to David Wilson and his script, found on a System Crafters blog post.


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