Sean Blair
@MoonZeroTwo
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#Scicomm, writing about space for #ESATech, writing other real and made-up stuff for anyone paying
The Netherlands
Joined October 2009
Where there’s a wing there’s a way! Time-lapse of a section of aircraft wing being 3D printed in lightweight plastic. Startup Wren Aerospace – based at @SBICNoordwijk – is developing uncrewed aircraft to perform satellite-like communication or observation functions while
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#ESAhighlights 2025 is out now. 👀 Read our free ESA Highlights magazine, summarising a complete year of space activity in impactful images and in-depth articles. 📅 👇 https://t.co/SSOgLGkWiW
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Check out ESA's 50 milestone achievements during our first half century in our ESA Delivers brochure: https://t.co/S7DIYgQd4S
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One small step for a European... On this day in history - 20 Oct 1995 - ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter performed the first ESA spacewalk, during his Euromir mission to the Mir space station
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One year ago #HeraMission was stranded on Earth, its launcher grounded, as a hurricane closed in on its launch site. 12 months later sees it cruising on the far side of the Sun. Learn the story of Hera in space: https://t.co/z3BJdv5P8w
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Tomorrow’s the day! 🚀 ⏰ On Monday 8 September, registration opens for the ESA ESTEC Open Day! Don’t miss your once-a-year chance to explore space up close – including a special look at the Plato mission, ESA’s upcoming planet-hunting spacecraft 🌌🔭 📅 Open Day: Sunday, 12
🇳🇱 Morgen is het zover! 🚀 De inschrijving voor de ESA ESTEC Open Dagis geopend. Mis deze unieke kans niet om de ruimte van dichtbij te verkennen, inclusief een speciale blik op de PLATO-missie, ESA's aankomende ruimtesonde voor het zoeken naar planeten. 🌌🔭 📲 Mis geen updates
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Read all our 50 hallmark achievements to mark ESA's first half century in our ESA Delivers booklet, downloadable here: https://t.co/S7DIYgPFfk
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An agency is defined by taking action - so what has the European Space Agency been doing during its first 50 years? Find out in our new brochure: https://t.co/S7DIYgPFfk
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ESA Delivers: discover 50 ways Europe’s space agency changed our world (& the universe!) during the last five decades: https://t.co/S7DIYgPFfk
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As #HeraMission flew past planet Mars it autonomously locked onto dozens of impact craters and other prominent surface features, tracking them over time, to test the self-driving technology the mission will employ to navigate around its target asteroids https://t.co/wLEfhqxtoU
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This Wednesday our #HeraMission flies past Mars & its Deimos moon. On Thursday join our star-studded webcast - featuring ESA astronaut @Astro_Alex , SF author @AndyWeirAuthor & a surprise special guest - to see the images the car-sized spacecraft returns to Earth!
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The Collection: Season 7 TRAILER | Doctor Who https://t.co/VK3TXWL8vE via @YouTube
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Seed-sized space chip🤏The task of this tiny signal amplifier designed by @esa is to boost faint signals to usable levels, making future radar-based and telecommunications space missions possible📡 👉 https://t.co/nHHKn3Tbri
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Proba-3 twin satellites separated!🛰️🛰️Under the watchful eye of operations team at @esa's ESEC, the pair said goodbye to each other last night, 14 January 23:00 GMT. When their Sun-observing mission starts, the two will adopt a stable configuration at 150 m away from each other,
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Space can be a dangerous place – which is why we need the Guardians of Earth! @DrBrianMay of @QueenWillRock introduces the free VR app from Italian startup DIVE. This showcases the @ESA_Hera mission, following up on NASA’s asteroid-impacting #DARTmission. VR headset users can
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Happy holidays from @ESA_Hera! This Christmas you can enjoy two free gifts from Europe’s asteroid mission for planetary defence... Talk ‘directly’ to Hera using the AI-powered Hera Space Companion and anyone with Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest 3 or 3S VR glasses can download the
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Proba-3 is officially in space! Congratulations to our partners at @ESA, Sener and our Redwire teams on a successful launch! 🚀 Today our Redwire Flight Director Stijn Ilsen gave the final GO for launch from mission control center in Redu, Belgium and Proba-3 successfully
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🚀 Our Proba-3 mission is ready for lift off! The double-satellite is the most ambitious member yet of our Proba family of experimental missions and will help uncover the mysteries of the Sun's corona. ⏰ Liftoff targeted TODAY at 10:38 GMT/11:38 CET. 📍 Satish Dhawan Space
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15 minutes until the start of the Proba-3 pre-launch transmission from Sener & @RedwireSpace at the ESEC mission control centre in Redu 🇧🇪. You can watch it here: https://t.co/mubB28rs77
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