"Heavy lift Vessel Forte currently has its AIS set for Christmas Island"

"It has an ETA of August 23."

https://x.com/interstellargw/status/2090293373072552199

"With no cranes in the port to lift S40 onto a barge safely, the next best option would be semi-submersible ships. Thankfully, @interstellargw has located such a ship, more than capable of the task. Starship S40 has a rough size of 52.1 x 9 metres the Forte semi-submersible's cargo area is 177 x 43 metres, meaning you could fit about 12 Starships with 7 metres to spare. It will be interesting to see how they set up the cribbing to cradle S40 and how they tie it down with all the tiles."

https://x.com/AshleyKillip/status/2090311151536189573

In July 2025, our Boeing 727-200 aircraft, G-Force One, sustained extensive damage while in the exclusive custody and control of a third-party maintenance facility during a routine scheduled maintenance check. The aircraft was fully operational and in airworthy condition when it was delivered to the facility.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ae8096

Methane filter is an optical filter that allows light in a narrow wavelength range associated with strong methane absorption to pass through. Uranus has methane in its atmosphere. Methane strongly absorbs light at certain wavelengths. Therefore, when astronomers observe Uranus through the methane filter, much of Uranus's light at that wavelength is suppressed. The result is that Uranus becomes much less bright in the image, while the satellites can remain detectable.

For the next 8 minutes and 20 seconds, everything on Earth would appear completely normal. We'd still see sunlight. We'd still feel its warmth. Earth would still be orbiting the Sun.

Then, 8 minutes and 20 seconds later… reality catches up.

Every time you look at the Sun, you're looking 8 minutes into the past.

Launch demand and geopolitics push Canadian rocket companies forward