🚀 **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**: 2025-04-20T12:29:00Z

🚀 **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**: Long March 6A | Shiyan 27 01-06

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T22:51:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 6A

📖 **Details**: A group of 6 Chinese satellites reported to be for "space environment probing and other related technological testing". Actual usage not known.

#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Mars Fact**

The average temperature on Mars is -60°C, making it one of the coldest planets. 🥶

#Mars #SpaceFacts #MarsTrivia

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀

🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8 | G60 Group TBD

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T15:50:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8

📖 **Details**: Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government.

Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.

#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀

🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9

📖 **Details**: Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

#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**: 2025-04-20T12:29:00Z

🚀 **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**: Long March 6A | Shiyan 27 01-06

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T22:51:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 6A

📖 **Details**: A group of 6 Chinese satellites reported to be for "space environment probing and other related technological testing". Actual usage not known.

#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

Latest Space News: Lunt SunOculars 8x32 solar binoculars review

Link: https://www.space.com/stargazing/astronomy-kit/lunt-sunoculars-8x32-solar-binoculars-review

Summary: The best possible balance between magnification, size and build quality. The Lunt SunOculars 8x32 are the go-to solar binoculars for eclipses and sunspot viewing.

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀

🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8 | G60 Group TBD

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T15:50:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8

📖 **Details**: Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government.

Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.

#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀

🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9

📖 **Details**: Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

#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**: 2025-04-20T12:29:00Z

🚀 **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**: Long March 6A | Shiyan 27 01-06

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T22:51:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 6A

📖 **Details**: A group of 6 Chinese satellites reported to be for "space environment probing and other related technological testing". Actual usage not known.

#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🧑‍🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**

🌟 **Name**: Nick Hague

🏷️ **Status**: Active

📖 **Bio**: Tyler Nicklaus Hague is an American Flight Test Engineer and a 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.

#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀

🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8 | G60 Group TBD

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T15:50:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8

📖 **Details**: Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom Satellite Technology (SSST) with funding backed by the Shanghai local government.

Initial constellation will consist of 1296 satellites by 2027 with long term plans to expand it to 12000 satellites.

#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀

🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)

🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:00Z

🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9

📖 **Details**: Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.

#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**: 2025-04-20T12:29:00Z

🚀 **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