🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Minotaur IV | NROL-174
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-16T19:33:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Minotaur IV
📖 **Details**: Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: 'Cosmic radio' detector could discover dark matter within 15 years
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-cosmic-radio-detector-dark-years.html
Summary: Published in Nature, scientists at King's College London, Harvard University, UC Berkeley and others have shared the foundation of what they believe will be the most accurate dark matter detector to date.
Latest Space News: Every 'Black Mirror' Season 7 episode, ranked from worst to best
Link: https://www.space.com/entertainment/every-black-mirror-season-7-episode-ranked-from-worst-to-best
Summary: Netflix's award-winning dystopian anthology from twisted British creator Charlie Brooker is back!
🧑🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**
🌟 **Name**: Claude Nicollier
🏷️ **Status**: Retired
📖 **Bio**: Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission. In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA Astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-9
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-24T22:22:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 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 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-21T08:15:34Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-145
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-19T10:41:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Tenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T13:37:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Firefly Alpha
📖 **Details**: Sixth flight of the Firefly Alpha small satellite launcher, launching the demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin's new LM400 satellite bus, which will carry a communications payload. The satellite bus is customizable to support different missions, including remote sensing, communications, imagery and radar Earth observations. It can also support different kinds of orbits and launch configurations.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Minotaur IV | NROL-174
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-16T19:33:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Minotaur IV
📖 **Details**: Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: Astronomers discover two more double-faced white dwarfs
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-astronomers-white-dwarfs.html
Summary: For many years it was believed that the surface of most, if not all, white dwarfs was made up primarily of hydrogen. But then, two years ago, a white dwarf was spotted by a team of researchers that had a hydrogen surface on one side and a helium surface on the other. Since then, five more of the stars have been found, including two new ones by a team working in Oklahoma.
Latest Space News: 'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Summary: A Q&A with Lindley Johnson, a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an asteroid or comet.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-9
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-24T22:22:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 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 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-21T08:15:34Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-145
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-19T10:41:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Tenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T13:37:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Firefly Alpha
📖 **Details**: Sixth flight of the Firefly Alpha small satellite launcher, launching the demonstration mission for Lockheed Martin's new LM400 satellite bus, which will carry a communications payload. The satellite bus is customizable to support different missions, including remote sensing, communications, imagery and radar Earth observations. It can also support different kinds of orbits and launch configurations.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Minotaur IV | NROL-174
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-16T19:33:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Minotaur IV
📖 **Details**: Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🧮 **Space Travel Simulator**
🚀 Destination: Alpha Centauri
🌌 Distance: 41316187000000.00 km
⏱️ Estimated Travel Time: 34430155.8 days
Let the countdown begin! 🚀
#SpaceTravel #Exploration
Latest Space News: Germany's military wants its own Starlink-like satellite constellation
Summary: Germany's armed forces are planning to build their own constellation of satellites, to avoid becoming reliant on SpaceX's Starlink or other orbiting communications networks.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-9
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-24T22:22:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 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 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-21T08:15:34Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience