🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-98
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-13T18:28:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL
📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD.
This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:09:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy.
Also launching on this launch are ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-10T18:34:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-08T18:29:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space News: Hubble Telescope spies 'wake' of supergiant Beutelgeuse's hidden companion star
Summary: Using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories on Earth, scientists have confirmed the existence of Betelgeuse's elusive companion star, named Siwarha.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-98
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-13T18:28:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL
📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD.
This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:09:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy.
Also launching on this launch are ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-10T18:34:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-08T18:29:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: New census of sun's neighbors reveals best potential real estate for life
Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-census-sun-neighbors-reveals-potential.html
Summary: A new study led by a Georgia State University astronomy graduate student is a major step forward in the search for stars that could host Earth-like planets that may prove to be good havens for life to develop. Sebastián Carrazco-Gaxiola shared the results at the January 2026 meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, Ariz.
Latest Space News: SpaceX stacks Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship megarocket's 12th test flight
Summary: SpaceX recently stacked the giant Super Heavy booster that will help launch the upcoming 12th test flight of the company's Starship megarocket.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-98
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-13T18:28:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL
📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD.
This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:09:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy.
Also launching on this launch are ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-10T18:34:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-08T18:29:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: Webb finds early-universe analog's unexpected talent for making dust
Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-webb-early-universe-analog-unexpected.html
Summary: Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way.
Latest Space News: NASA's Curiosity rover sends stunning new panorama from high on Mars' Mount Sharp
Summary: NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a striking new "postcard" from high on the slopes of Mount Sharp, offering a dramatic look at the rugged Martian landscape it's been exploring for more than a decade.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL
📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD.
This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:09:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy.
Also launching on this launch are ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: Rare 'firework morphology' of supernova remnant Pa 30 may be due to white dwarf wind
Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-rare-firework-morphology-supernova-remnant.html
Summary: In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely remnants of this event were rediscovered and tentatively linked to the 1181 supernova and dubbed supernova remnant (SNR) Pa 30. Yet, this supernova remnant was unique in appearance and researchers have struggled to understand why.
Latest Space News: Historic Artemis 2 moon launch may be just 1 month away
Summary: Artemis 2, NASA's next astronaut mission to the moon, is gearing up for a launch that could occur as soon as Feb. 6.
🧑🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**
🌟 **Name**: Nick Hague
🏷️ **Status**: Retired
📖 **Bio**: Tyler Nicklaus Hague is a retired American Flight Test Engineer and NASA astronaut of the class of 2013.
Selected to be a flight engineer of Expedition 57 / 58 to the International Space Station, he launched on board Soyuz MS-10, which aborted shortly after launch on October 11, 2018. He flew again on Soyuz MS-12 and SpaceX Crew-9, completing two stays and four spacewalks at the International Space Station.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL
📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD.
This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:09:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy.
Also launching on this launch are ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: Jupiter's moon Europa lacks the undersea activity needed to support life, study suggests
Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-jupiter-moon-europa-lacks-undersea.html
Summary: The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is thought to possess a vast ocean of liquid salt water. For decades, scientists have wondered whether that ocean could harbor the right conditions for life, placing Europa near the top of the list of solar system bodies to explore.
Latest Space News: Congress rejects President Trump's deep NASA budget cuts, proposes $24.4 billion for the agency
Summary: Congress plans to allocate $24.4 billion to NASA for fiscal year 2026, nearly $6 billion more than President Trump had proposed.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-10T00:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-07T18:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-88
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-04T05:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | CSG-3
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-03T02:09:19Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: CSG-3 is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, part of a reconnaissance constellation using synthetic aperture radars operating in the X-band.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 7A | Shijian 29 A-B
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-30T22:40:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 7A
📖 **Details**: 2 satellites officially described as for "demonstration of new technologies for spatial targets detection" purposes.
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2025-12-31): HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula
What created the Waterfall Nebula? The origin is still being researched. The structure, officially designated Herbig-Haro 222, appears in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex. The elongated gaseous stream stretches about ten light years but appears similar to a long waterfall on Earth. Recent observations indicate that HH-222 is likely a gigantic gaseous bow shock, similar to a wave of water caused by a fast-moving ship. The origin of this shock wave is thought to be a jet outflow from the multiple star system V380 Orionis off the lower left of the frame. Therefore, gas does not flow along the waterfall, but rather the entire structure moves toward the upper right. The Waterfall Nebula lies about 1,500 light years away toward the constellation of Orion. The featured image was captured earlier this month from El Sauce Observatory in Chile. Jigsaw Nebula: Astronomy Puzzle of the Day
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-10T00:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-07T18:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-88
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-04T05:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 7A | Shijian 29 A-B
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-30T22:40:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 7A
📖 **Details**: 2 satellites officially described as for "demonstration of new technologies for spatial targets detection" purposes.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-07T18:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space News: 10 years later, 'The Force Awakens' stands as the blueprint for a 'Star Wars' that never was
Summary: Back in December 2015, the Force awakened in Star Wars, but it quickly went back to sleep.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 4B | Ziyuan-3-04
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-16T03:17:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 4B
📖 **Details**: The ZY-3 (Ziyuan-3, 'Resource-3') series represents China's first high-resolution, stereoscopic mapping satellites for civilian use.
The second satellite is managed by the Satellite Surveying and Mapping Application Center (SASMAC).
The imaging payload consists of a three-line camera array and a multispectral imager.
The three-line panchromatic camera array to acquire stereoscopic imagery consists of three telescopic cameras with one oriented to the nadir and the other two each offset by 22° forward and backward in flight direction. The stereo mapping camera of ZY-3 has a resolution of 2.1 m for the nadir camera, and 2.6 m for the offset cameras. The swath width is 51 km.
The multispectral imager for environmental and vegetation monitoring consists of a three-mirror telescope and a cooled detector system sensitive to four wavelength bands to capture full-color imagery as well as near-infrared data. The ground resolution of this system is 5.8 m.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-99
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-17T12:19:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Electron | Bridging The Swarm (NeonSat-1A)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-16T00:55:44Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: The NeonSat-1A, carrying a high-resolution optical camera, is designed to test the constellation capabilities of the South Korean government's Earth observation micro-satellite constellation NeonSat (New-space Earth Observation Satellite), in particular technology improvements identified from operations of NeonSat-1 after its launch in April 2024. These technologies will in turn be incorporated into the next 10 NeonSat under construction, as well as providing more site re-visiting capabilities along with NeonSat-1.
The NeonSat constellation is the first satellite system developed by the government using a mass-production approach for precise monitoring of the Korean Peninsula, lead by the Satellite Technology Research Center (SaTReC) at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea’s leading university dedicated to science and technology. Designed to capture near-real time natural disaster monitoring for the Korean peninsula, KAIST’s NEONSAT constellation is a collaboration across multiple Korean academic, industry, and research institutions, including SaTReC, which is leading the program’s system design and engineering.
The NEONSAT program is funded by the Korean government’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Electron | Raise and Shine (RAISE-4)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-09T03:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: RAISE-4 (RApid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite-4) is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) satellite for on-orbit demonstrations of 15 demonstration components and equipment selected by public solicitation. The satellite will be operated in response to requests from the demonstration theme proposers, and will provide experimental data of the demonstration devices and environmental data during the experiments.
6 of the demonstration payload, as well as as well as 4 cubesats originally planned to ride on the same launch vehicle, are re-flight of those planned for RAISE-3, which failed to reach orbit in October 2022.
The launch vehicle was switched from Epsilon-S to Rocket Lab's Electron due to continuous testing problems with the Epsilon-S' 2nd stage motor. The original 8 hitch-hiking cubesats will be launched on another Electron rocket later.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 15-10
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-02T02:10:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-86
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-01T05:00:30Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
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Latest Space News: See a half-lit moon shine among the stars of Aquarius on Nov. 27
Link: https://www.space.com/stargazing/see-a-half-lit-moon-shine-among-the-stars-of-aquarius-on-nov-27
Summary: Saturn shines near the half-lit moon at sunset on Nov. 27
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-30
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-11-23T08:48:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience