Jari Makinen
Space, flying & spaceflight. Cycling. Travels. Science communicator and journalist at Tiedetuubi.fi + contributing Yle and Tekniikan Maailma. 🇫🇮🇫🇷😎
- Reposted by Jari MakinenIt now appears that the US space tracking network failed to detect the reentry infrared flare from the Kosmos-482 SA. We are left with the European radar data and model estimates such as those from the TU Delft group and from Roskosmos.
- #Cosmos482 has very likely re-entered now. Remember, there wasn't communication with it and we can't follow (yet) objects like this in real time. Have to wait for more info.
- Reposted by Jari MakinenMogelijke passages Kosmos 482 voor Nederland (daglicht): passages rond (+- enkel minuten, afhankelijk van precieze baanevolutie!): 6:35 MEZT (zeer laag); 8:05 MEZT (zeer hoog zuid); eventueel indien niet al down ook: 9:35 MEZT (laag zuid).
- Kyhäsin pikaisesti tällaisen pienen tietopaketin Kosmos 482:sta, huomenna alas putoavasta, Neuvostoliiton Venukseen lähettämästä, mutta jumiin Maan ympärille jääneestä luotaimesta.
- Meanwhile, around the moon: the next lunar lander, Ispace’s Resilience, arrived in lunar orbit after flying there slowly for about two months. Landing will happen on 5 June at the earliest.
- Reposted by Jari MakinenPolitiikkaa on mahdotonta välttää, kun kommentoi Nasan tuoretta budjettiehdotusta, @jarimakinen.bsky.social kirjoittaa. "Tulos on kylmäävää luettavaa, sillä tulossa on 25 prosentin leikkaus Nasan rahoitukseen, ja kärsijinä ovat ennen kaikkea tiede sekä kansainvälinen yhteistyö." #tähtitaivas
- Reposted by Jari MakinenTANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
- Reposted by Jari Makinen1/x Our newest TUDAT #reentry model results for the #Kosmos 482 Descent Craft, the lander of a 53-year-old failed Soviet Venus probe. Current forecast: 10 May 7:34 UTC +/- 14h (note the still 28 hour uncertainty window!) See updated blogpost for details: sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/04/kosm...
- Nasan budjettiehdotuksessa on ollut hieman ihmeteltävää, sillä siinä (kuten Yhdysvalloissa nyt muutenkin) järkevät säästötoimet sekoittuvat ideologiseen kostomentaliteettiin ja käsittämättömiin asioihin. Vuodatin hieman ajatuksia aiheesta @ursa.fi:n blogiin. (otsikko on ironiaa)
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- New video! Happy 20th anniversary, @airbus #A380! I had a tour of the first plane, F-WWOW, serving now as a flying lab, in 2003 when making a program about #ZEROe. Rare footage + comments about the future of the plane. English subtitles available.
- Remembering today the first image of the Earth taken from the surface of another celestial body: NASA’s Surveyor-3 sent back this photo from the Lunar surface on 30 April 1967. Beautiful.
- So what has the basic research brought us? Remembering CERN today.
- #OnThisDay in 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web software to the public. Proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web was originally created to allow scientists and institutes working on CERN data to share information accurately and quickly from across the globe. #WorldWideWeb
- Reposted by Jari MakinenDon Pettit wants to go back to space again. And you know what, he should. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
- True. And this applies to almost any Dutch everyday word, like alstublieft (please). Remembering my Dutch learning with doodsangst.
- Kirjoitin tästä putoavasta Venus-luotaimesta myös @ursa.fi:n blogiini – pitkästä aikaa uusi postaus sinne. www.ursa.fi/blogi/tervei...
- Hard hat on 9-10 May! Failed Soviet Venus lander will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and fall somewhere btw 52°N and 52°S. This Venera-type lander was made to survive to Venus's surface, so our atmosphere is child's play for this 500-kg sphere…
- Maan kiertoradalle 1972 nalkkiin jäänyt Neuvostoliiton Venus-luotain putoaa parin viikon päästä, ja sen puolitonninen laskeutumiskapseli selviytyy varmasti maapallon pinnalle saakka – se kun oli suunniteltu selviytymään Venuksen pinnalle. Jännää! 🍿 tiedetuubi.fi/venukseen-su...
- Reposted by Jari MakinenThe first test firing of a P160C booster is set for 24 April at the Guiana Space Centre. The new booster will replace the P120C booster used aboard the Ariane 6 and Vega C rockets. europeanspaceflight.com/ariane-6-boo...
- Reposted by Jari MakinenRemants of the old Soyuz at CSG days still visible on the PFRCS... She was a nice launcher, but that chaper is now closed, waiting for MaiaSpace to take over the launch pad.
- Reposted by Jari MakinenMinusta ei vaadi suurtakaan älykkyyttä ymmärtää, että kaikki, mitä USAssa tapahtuu nyt, tapahtuu myös Suomessa, jos pidämme populistit (kok, pers, RKP, KD) vallassa. Hallitus pitää kaataa nyt, kun demokratian, median, ihmisoikeuksien, tieteen, oikeuslaitoksen jne. tuhoaminen on vasta aluillaan.
- Severe and serious #aurora alert - I'll check also here in Bordeaux if this reaches also so low latitudes.
- Is it a plane? Is it a boat? Yes. Atol Aurora is both. Yours truly is now helping friends at Atol Aviation with communications & looking at aircraft at #AERO2025. Nice!
- Wanted to see #fram2 from Bordeaux, but it's complicated: no visible passes. I hope they enjoy the views more than I :-) (Check heavens-above.com for stuff like this)
- Reposted by Jari MakinenThe #Framonauts aboard #Fram2 are seeing something that no human eyes have seen before: both of our home world's polar regions in the same orbit. This is also an excellent preview of future #astrobiology expeditions to ice worlds such as Enceladus, Europa - and maybe Hoth ;-)
- Reposted by Jari MakinenSome footage from vol.no showing the rocket explode. Isar Aerospace CEO Daniel Metzler has confirmed that the rocket didn't blow up the pad.
- Not really the desired outcome, but as Isar's CEO Daniel Metzler stated, there are more reasons to be happy than sad. For a new company, getting a new rocket made from scratch and launched from a new launch pad is an enormous achievement.
- That was a short flight, sadly. But beautiful lift-off and important attempt.
- beautiful!!!
- Reposted by Jari Makinen🚀 Jetzt einschalten! #goingfullspectrum www.youtube.com/live/IKLQxe2...
- Photo from Andøya: IsarAerospace will hopefully light this candle in just 19 mins.
- Oops. Someone took a bite of the Sun. (The partial solar eclipse was very well visible from Bordeaux.)
- Reposted by Jari MakinenFarewell, Gaia! Spacecraft Operations Manager Peter Collins confirms that Gaia has fallen silent, having been successfully passivated and switched off after more than a decade spent mapping the cosmos. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
- Saksalaisyhtiö koitti laukaista tänään maanantaina kiertoradalle yltävän raketin Norjasta – ensimmäistä kertaa Euroopan mantereelta. Tulossa on pieni vallankumous Euroopan omavaiaruudessa avaruustoiminnassa. Tässä totaalinen katsaus asiaan Norjasta, Skotlannista ja Kourousta.
- Isar Aerospace: The first test flight of #Spectrum is scrubbed due to unfavorable winds. Launch vehicle and range remain healthy, and the team is working to determine a new launch window together with @AndoyaSpace Spaceport. Well done team for today’s attempt.
- Isar: Standing by for the next weather update. Take a look at our snow-white beauty.
- Hopefully their 9 engines are roaring now!
- Surprisingly published today :-)
- I hope they do the launch better than the communication.
- It’s a launch (attempt) day! Maritime warning is on and Isar Aerospace writes on X: The countdown has started for the first test flight of Spectrum. Subject to weather, launch window opens from 12:30pm - 03.30pm CET.
- Reposted by Jari MakinenThis was a cornerstone of the Artemis Program. It was the way Jim Bridenstine sold the program to gain Congressional support. I can understand hiring on merit alone, but between this & other actions, its gone FAR beyond that. Its erasing history, and writing off the future. This isn't who we are.
- I’m fcking furious: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Let's see if I can ever go to the US after publishing this.
- That's what we have waited for: “Launch period for Isar Aerospace’s first test flight of launch vehicle Spectrum begins today. Subject to weather, safety and range infrastructure, the company is preparing to conduct the launch of Spectrum from Andøya Spaceport.” Text and photo from Isar’s statement.
- This is interesting! In 1963 there was a plan to launch satellites from continental France: from a site near Perpignan, eastwards over the Mediterranean Sea. Not a bad idea!
- Now in French Guyana, my 22nd visit here, now not only checking out rocket stuff, but also exploring this unique corner of South America. 32°C & humid feels good!
- Isar's first flight of the Spectrum launcher takes place possibly tomorrow at the Andøya Space Center. The launch window is 20-30 March 2025. Big step ahead in European space access!
- Ensimmäinen satelliittilaukaisu (läntisen) Euroopan mantereelta tapahtuu kenties jo ylihuomenna, kun saksalaisraketti yrittää nousta kiertoradalle Andøyasta, Norjasta. Kirjoitin tästä hieman @ursa.fi:n blogiini. Iso asia etenkin nykyisessä maailmanpoliittisessa tilanteessa!
- Reposted by Jari MakinenCasino, Ambulance ja ”ATK-yhtiö Pentti Linkola” sekä kyberhyökkäysten inspiroimaa taidetta. Nämä, ja paljon muuta on esillä WithSecuren uudessa, yleisöllekin avoimessa Haittaohjelmataidemuseossa (Museum of Malware Art). Oppaana videolla on legenda Mikko Hyppönen.
- Reposted by Jari MakinenUSS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23) Seawolf-class attack submarine passing through the Hood Canal Bridge heading to Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor - March 15, 2025 #ussjimmycarter #ssn23. SRC: TW-@AtomicAerials
- Reposted by Jari Makinen🔴 NEW 🔴 The Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical pro-Trump Project 2025 agenda, held a private discussion this week about how to dismantle the EU. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report 👇🏻
- Congrats Emilia and Olle! Check out the nice video presentations of them, made by yours truly as a (first?) fruit of cooperation between Tiedetuubi and the Research Council of Finland (Suomen Akatemia).
- Onnea Akatemiapalkintojen saajille! Emilia Nordlund (VTT) ja Olle Järv (Helsingin yliopisto) saavat palkintonsa Tiedefoorumin yhteydessä toukokuussa. Katso jutun lopussa myös videoesittelyt, jotka on tehnyt Tiedetuubi yhteistyössä Suomen Akatemian kanssa. www.tiedetuubi.fi/akatemiapalk...
- Reposted by Jari MakinenThis is a sped up simulation of today's Hera spacecraft flyby of Mars and its Deimos moon - closest approach to Deimos at 12:07 GMT & Mars at 12:51 GMT. The spacecraft has to rotate around to send its images back to Earth so we'll see them tomorrow: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
- Reposted by Jari MakinenPieni päivitys Saturnuksen kuumäärään: niitä onkin 274.
- Reposted by Jari MakinenMy "Trump's Economic Performance Wasn't Good" article aged very well. Handed a decent economy, only policy was a big debt-financed stimulus that did very little—economy just stayed on trend—got lucky for 3 years of no crisis, then mismanaged COVID. Sucks that I had to be proven right the hard way.
- USA vs. Canada. Tragic that you need to distantly think at the military acts between those. Here’s a related article:
- Reposted by Jari MakinenFirst images of @Int_Machines #IM2 Athena from @LRO_NASA Athena did land in a tiny crater than I originally imagined. Its more up north than the low illuminated areas I originally thought. Athena is at 84.7906° S, 29.1957°E but there is a minor small uncertainty in that location.
- Kuu pyörii taas mielessä, siksi pieni tarina @ursa.fi:lle viimeaikaisista tapahtumista. Mukana myös vähän Nokia-asiaa: heidän laitteensa nähtävästi toimi! Kuussa oli mobiiliverkko 25 minuutin ajan. www.ursa.fi/blogi/tervei...
- Reposted by Jari MakinenNASA confirms they are closing their Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist, and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, along with reducing their workforce.
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- The French universities are welcoming the fired US scientists. Great!
- 👨🔬 La France souhaite "naturellement accueillir" des chercheurs qui "s’interrogent sur leur avenir aux États-Unis". Universités et organismes de recherche sont appelés à transmettre "réflexions, analyses et propositions concrètes". #StandUpForScience www.leparisien.fr/sc...
- Reposted by Jari MakinenFor those who wish to monitor the Intuitive Machines/NASA Press Conference with updates on the condition of the #Athena Lander at the lunar south pole - www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-mM...
- This is the most curious lunar landing! 'It looks like we're down'. Hoping all the best. Nice imagery during the descent!
- Reposted by Jari Makinen#IM2 - So it sounds like everything is being turned off on the prop systems except the vent valves, igniters are being deactivated. About 9 min after the planned landing time, still working on venting the engine systems. ARE communicating with the lander, and it's communicating back.
- With my plane safely down in Nice and Ariane 6 launched successfully, tuning now in IM-2 lunar landing. 30 mins to go! www.youtube.com/live/VOPL8nh...
- Reposted by Jari MakinenSecond Moon landing in a week! We will try to track the Moon landing of @intuitivemachines's landing of #IM2 #Athena with the Dwingeloo radio telescope. We will live stream our signal (the frequency of the carrier), starting around 6 March 16:45 UTC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0we...
- This is tragic for the Ukrainians, but also questionable marketing for the US military products. Who wants to buy those if the US can disable them when they want? Somehow, I also think the future Finnish F-35s and others purchased by the European countries.
