In January 2001 I visited Australia for the first time and experienced 52°C max heat and 40°C-ish normally in Woomera, almost in the middle of the desert with rocket stuff etc. I couldn't imagine it's more or less normal now in Europe. At home, not somewhere far away…

Feeling this trend in a very concrete way today: In general, I like hot, but 35°C at noon is considerably out of the comfort zone. Heat will persist for the next week.

Tiedeykkösessä kivutaan Paranal-vuorelle Chilessä! @eso.org:n uudesta ELT-teleskoopista kertovat Davide Deiana, Tobias Müller ja Marija Ljubenova. Lisäksi juttelen observatorion suomalaisen IT-päällikön Ismo Kastisen kanssa. Yle Radio 1:ssä klo 12.10 ja Yle Areenassa jo nyt: areena.yle.fi/1-77991110

I'm still a pacifist, but these times are not: for peace, you need credible defense - preferably European. So, thank you Airbus Defence for a very interesting day in Manching at the first #AirbusDefenceSummit. Many new things & interesting insights! Before reporting, I need to digest and reflect…

Kudos to Air France and Starlink, I remained connected for almost the whole flight!

Greetings from above the clouds. Sometimes the fluffy stuff & blue sky are so beautiful! #AF1071

Wanha vitsi, mutta sopii Wappuun:

And today we’ll be following this important flight, the 3rd flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn, hopefully the 2nd successful landing and 1st booster reuse. Launch targeted at 12:45 CEST / 13.45 EEST. SpaceX needs competition!

Breaking news: the most recent photo from Artemis2. I want to believe!

Beautiful.

This is the best photo of the flyby up to now: the Orion spacecraft with 4 humans from the US and Canada, the moon, and our dear Earth, in a photo taken by the European service module camera.

Can't believe they're now on the way to Moon - after all these delays. Fabulous!

RIP #MAVEN, NASA’s Mars probe launched in 2013. MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission, and it found - among many things - two new types of aurora on Mars. Contact with MAVEN was lost on 6 December.

Great day today! Not only we had an exuberant kick-off meeting of @spaceconomy.fi project at @heureka.fi (and I saw their new fabulous planetarium!), but also the @aalto.fi Aalto Satellite team's #Foresail1p was released in space & contact was established almost right away. How did your day go?

SpaceX finally has a credible competitor: Blue Origin successfully launched the New Glenn rocket, sent the NASA ESCAPADE mission toward Mars, and landed the first stage safely. Blue Origin is now the second company ever to achieve a recovery of an orbital rocket. Congrats!

Historical flashback: yesterday, 3 September 1970, Air France was the 1st customer of the new Airbus A300 placing an order for 6 aircraft. Important milestone for the renaissance of the European aviation industry! My first flight on an A300B2 (!) was in 1986 with a Air Inter flight from ORY to TLS.

A shitposting “science” account and an AI generated nonsense image = this kind of funny/stupid posting. If you'd like to see real photos of WISA Woodsat, navigate here: www.flickr.com/photos/arcti...

Mikä on Avaruustilannekeskus? Sen tutkassa on avaruusmyrskyjä, satelliitteja, asteroideja ja muita uhkia... Juttelen uuden kansallisen Avaruustilannekeskuksen siviilipuolesta Ilmatieteen laitoksen Ari-Matti Harrin ja Tiera Laitisen kanssa tuoreessa Tiedeykkösessä: areena.yle.fi/1-75862819

This is a jewel of today's work (up to now). After many questions to Grok I wanted to thank it, but remembered that saying thank you to IA uses quite a lot of energy. So, I asked if I should thank or not. And here's the reply. (Yes, I still use X and Grok – not touching politics, they're great)

At T-4h23min, all green in Kourou for the launch of @esa.int @eumetsat.int #metopsga1

Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter seen from Kourou. Bonus: a super bright ISS flyover! Yes, the lights are super bright, too…

Just noting again that “saving” money with low-cost carriers like Volotea is expensive: “save” 51.40 euros, pay additional 139.99 euros. Their business model is fooling passengers and so they have managed to oust good carriers from many routes. I'd like to pay more honestly, not like this.

Apollo astronaut (8 and 13, and Gemini 7) has passed away at the age of 97 years. One legend less…

Bingo!

At about 17:30 CEST / 18:30 EEST, when the riders enter Paris in Meudon, you can surely see on TV also the beautiful Observatory on the hill!

If ever, watch @LeTour on TV today! The race is following the route of the last year's Olympic road race in the cobbles and hills of Montmartre in Paris. The ambience last year on the location was stunning, surely will be today as well (but now I watch TV).

Happy #aphelionday! Today, our lovely planet is at its farthest from the Sun, 152.1 million kilometres this year. The orbit of Earth is slightly elliptical, and the closest distance, on 4 January this year, was about 147.1 million kilometres.

Just casually SpaceX #Transporter14 just launched seven (7) satellites from the Finnish space companies: KuvaSpace’s #Hyperfield1B and 6 SAR satellites from @iceye. Great!

It was slightly different midsummer (important day in Finland) five years ago. Midnight sun & stratospheric flight with Kitsat (followed by extremely nice tour in Lapland and Norway with many COVID restrictions still applied).