Amazing

It’s not every day that you get name checked on an album that’s number 1 in the UK midweek album charts

Let alone it being a 42 minute, two track prog concept album about the cosmic perspective that considering the vastness of space brings to our ephemeral lives

Kudos to Steven Wilson for the stunning music – it’s a privilege to be involved along with my good friend, @alexandermilas

#TheOverview
#SpaceRocks

Coming at 1800CET/1700GMT today: conversation about Jeff Wayne’s “The War of the Worlds” as it goes out on tour & the possibility of life on Mars.

With Sara Russell of the Natural History Museum & me on the science, Dave Rowntree of Blur, Brian Cox, & my #SpaceRocks co-founder @alexandermilas talking with Jeff about his classic album, plus Rou Reynolds of Enter Shikari who’s in the new show.

Was a fun day in London with Alex et al who made the film

https://www.youtube.com/live/yEyiKOLfnBI?si=gp1204uRI6kbHP3z

I'm busy with a creative project of my own (more of which soon), but just a quick one to flag the release Steven Wilson's space-inspired album "The Overview" yesterday

I've had it for a few weeks & it's brilliant – immersive epic prog with zero pandering to the nano-attention span, oh so knowing world of streamed sludge

It was a privilege to be part of the album premiere event at the BFI IMAX in London & I'm proud of the #SpaceRocks connection – thanks, Steven

https://theprogressiveaspect.net/blog/2025/02/27/steven-wilson-presents-the-overview/

In London this week for a few events & meetings, some of which I can't talk about yet (ooh, mystery! )

But this one's public – I'll be at the British Film Institute this evening for a premiere of Steven Wilson's new space-inspired album "The Overview", with visuals on the IMAX screen.

We'll have a panel discussion after with Steven, the film maker Miles, my ESA colleague Miho, & my #SpaceRocks compadre, Alex.

Tonight is sold out, but there are more dates in Europe before the album tour

Even if last night’s New Year’s Eve show on BBC One was an “awkward & breathless mess”, you at least have to applaud the set decoration team for their impeccable taste

#HappyNewYear2025
#JWST #NASA #ESA #CSA
#SpaceScience
#SpaceRocks

Looking forward to “The Overview”, the new album from our friend Steven Wilson, prog musician & producer extraordinaire, & his 2025 tour

Inspired by the perspective gained by looking down at Earth from space or outward into the cosmos, & as you’ll see, a conversation that started with Space Rocks

It’s late on Friday night & in honour of Steven Strait / James Holden of #TheExpanse appearing at ESTEC’s Open Day with #SpaceRocks in Noordwijk this weekend, ESA have just announced the latest design of the EnVision mission to Venus

Meteor this morning?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/comments/1f9mtgt/meteor_this_morning/

Heads up (literally, if you’re in the South Pacific)

At ~18:48UTC / 20:48CEST tomorrow, 8 Sep, the first of the four ESA Cluster II satellites, Salsa, will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere, bringing an effective end to the constellation’s 24-year mission to probe our magnetosphere & its interactions with the solar wind.

I’ll be back at ESOC in Darmstadt, helping film this sad but celebratory moment for a documentary coming soon from #SpaceRocks

#SpaceScience

https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2024/09/07/all-is-ready-to-observe-salsas-reentry-from-the-air-at-1848-utc-sunday-8-september/

If you’re in the neighbourhood of the Randstad on Sunday 6 October, consider spending it with us at the annual ESA ESTEC Open Day

Lots to see & do linked to space science & technology, & many astronauts to meet, after the Association of Space Explorers get-together in Noordwijk that week.

I’ll be back there with #SpaceRocks & our friend Steven Strait aka James Holden of #TheExpanse will be too

Tickets are free, but limited

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/ESA_Open_Days_2024/ESA_Open_Day_at_ESTEC_2024_Registration_open

Ha – that’s no asteroid

Rewatching S1 of #TheExpanse from 2016 & am further reminded how obviously influenced the production team was by Rosetta’s adventures at Comet 67P/C-G over the preceding two years

What goes around comes around though, as at #SpaceRocks, we’ve since worked with Dominique Tipper, Steven Strait, Shohreh Aghdashloo, & the writers, James SA Corey

Stay tuned for more science meets science fiction

Steven Strait from #TheExpanse experiences Zero-G for the first time thanks to #ESA and #SpaceRocks. Check out the entire series, its great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJsvGHIjPUc

And if you enjoyed that stunning Olympics performance by Gojira & the Headless Maries,
then I can but recommend that you take a watch of the #SpaceRocks #Uplink livestream we did during the pandemic with Gojira front man, Joe Duplantier

We also had Hayley Evers-King from EUMETSAT on the show & much of the conversation was about Joe’s interest in environmental issues

https://www.youtube.com/live/Yc-Ain8xDM8?feature=shared

Good morning

In Paris today to give one of my regular #ESA science highlights talks to our Space Science Advisory Committee

One of the topics concerns new results about the Cygnus X-1 high-mass x-ray binary system, as introduced in this slide.

Forgive me

#ESA's #JUICE mission lifts off: