#SpaceFlight Editor @BIS_spaceflight & @Aerosociety technology columnist. I am available for commissions, contact me here or via https://xitter.cf/t.co/pRGxBiSvjM

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Joined October 2011
🚀@BIS_spaceflight #SpaceFlight #Magazine November 2026 edition now out to members. @isaraerospace Spectrum + #ParisSpaceSummit + @NASAArtemis update + @SpaceX Starbases + @NASARoman Telescope + @esa launcher challenge + China's reusable rockets + cislunar warfare + more! – at Antalya, Turkey
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The opening paragraph to AJP Taylor's "The Course of German History" remains my absolute favourite start to a history book. Nobody's ever hit this hard right off the bat before
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🏆 FINAL CALL  Have you missed the chance to attend in-person? f.mtr.cool/03vqpx17up JOIN us ONLINE!  Contact us to register: [email protected] Join the #BritishInterplanetarySociety for #SirArthurClarkeAwards celebrating #Education and #Outreach. All finalists: f.mtr.cool/v849ikjd4b
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Casablanca | An Unlikely Classic: Behind The Scenes Take a look at the creation of Casablanca in this short documentary which features commentary from directors Steven Spielberg, William Friedkin, and more!
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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Come on. The French have literally weaponized mini salami snack packs. The machine gun even comes with a crew of beret-wearing Frenchmen.
The European mind cannot comprehend the NFL t shirt gun, live from Stade de France.
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La diferencia entre vivir en ARGENTINA 🇦🇷 y vivir en URUGUAY 🇺🇾 que mucha gente desconoce: 🔴 ARGENTINA 🇦🇷
• PIB per cápita: 14.898 $
• Inflación: 33,4 %
• Pobreza: 32,9 %
• Vida: 77,4 años
• Homicidios: 3,8/100K 🔵 URUGUAY 🇺🇾 ↓
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The ninth annual 24H de l'Accordéon festival is underway in Toulouse, France 🇫🇷, running continuously through Sunday evening. In a world roiled by turmoil, cynicism and strife, a much-needed moment of peace, love, and harmony. All the feels. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📹 Les Rustines de l'Ange
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A lighter and more flexible German industrial humanoid robot Germany’s NEURA Robotics has unveiled its 4NE1 Gen 4, featuring a slimmer design, a black textile outer layer and a 20% weight reduction over its predecessor. Based on the previous generation’s 80 kg weight, Gen 4 would weigh around 64 kg, though its exact weight remains unconfirmed. Its brain is Neuron AI, NEURA’s own Physical AI foundation model. It combines vision, touch, force, sound and language to help robots understand their surroundings and execute tasks. Through Neuraverse, learned skills can be shared across connected robots. NEURA is also building a 2,300-square-meter RoboGym with TUM to bridge the gap between training and deployment. Robots learn industrial skills through real-world data, human demonstrations and simulation... while NEURA advances real-world projects with partners such as Schaeffler,which plans to deploy thousands of its humanoids by 2035, and HD Hyundai Samho, where robots are being tested for shipbuilding.
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BREAKING: Pentagon prepares every major US military base to operate for at least 90 days without outside electricity, fuel, water or supplies, anticipating a major war that could cripple power grids, break global supply chains and threaten critical infrastructure on US soil, per Fox News. The plans include portable nuclear reactors, large-scale battery storage and microgrids able to disconnect installations from the civilian electrical grid entirely.
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No one riots like the French.
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Ugly scenes in Hampstead right now. It’s all kicking off
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Hundreds of British paratroopers have taken part in the largest British parachute drop since the Second World War. 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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Found this listed in a government surplus auction recently. No meaningful description, just that it had something to do with military simulations in the 1980s. Located in Colorado Springs.
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🏆 LAST CHANCE to Join the #BritishInterplanetarySociety for #SirArthurClarkeAwards celebrating #InternationalAchievement. The International award Winner is chosen by the #SirArthurCClarkeFoundation. Check to see if there are any tickets left: bis-space.com/shop/product/2… If not, email us: [email protected] before 4pm on Monday 26 Oct to join us ONLINE See all finalists at: f.mtr.cool/m04d3pol7o
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The first steps of Apollo 15. The words of Dave Scott echo to this day. "Houston, as I stand here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature: Man Must Explore."
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THE PLOT THICKENS...
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L'élu LFI Allan Brunon prend la pose, tout sourire, avec des manifestants cagoulés type black blocks qui, quelques minutes plus tard, participeront au saccage du Crédit Agricole place Gustave Rivet. C'est cet individu que Laurence Ruffin maintient président de la commission des finances de la ville de Grenoble malgré toutes ses dérives. Et ils veulent ensuite essayer de nous faire croire qu'ils n'ont aucune responsabilité dans la flambée de violence que nous vivons. Soutien aux commerçants du Cours et des boulevards qui retrouvent ce soir leurs vitrines saccagées, ainsi qu'à tous ceux qui font les frais de ce chaos entretenu par des irresponsables qui soufflent sur les braises. #grenoble #commerce
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apparently the age of exploration ended sometime in the 20th century. nobody told me, so I’ve been flying a single engine-propeller plane around Greenland, and so far I have managed to land at all of the airports including remote ones 🤓🥶 here’s me landing in Paamiut, Greenland (and my copilot in charge of taking videos)
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