🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:34Z
🚀 **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
Latest Space Breaking News: Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-planetary-alignment-nasa-rare-opportunity.html
Summary: When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an opportunity for NASA to improve its understanding of that planet's atmosphere and rings. Planetary scientists call it a stellar occultation and that's exactly what happened with Uranus on April 7.
Latest Space News: Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions
Summary: Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a summary of these epic servicing efforts.
🚀 **Mars Fact**
The color of Mars comes from iron oxide, or rust, on its surface. 🌕
#Mars #SpaceFacts #MarsTrivia
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-27T13:37:00Z
🚀 **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**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-9
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-25T21:40:00Z
🚀 **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 | Starlink Group 6-74
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-25T01:32:00Z
🚀 **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**: Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 20
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-24T09:17:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 2
📖 **Details**: Ninth crewed flight to the Chinese space station.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:34Z
🚀 **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
Latest Space Breaking News: Galaxies at 'cosmic noon': Research gives deep dive into universe's wild growth spurt
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-galaxies-cosmic-noon-deep-universe.html
Summary: A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star formation and black hole growth at "cosmic noon"—a mysterious epoch 2–3 billion years after the Big Bang, when galaxies like the Milky Way underwent an intense growth spurt.
Latest Space News: Scientists confused by missing coastal features on Titan, Saturn's largest moon
Summary: Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-27T13:37:00Z
🚀 **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**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-9
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-25T21:40:00Z
🚀 **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 | Starlink Group 6-74
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-25T01:32:00Z
🚀 **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**: Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 20
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-24T09:17:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 2
📖 **Details**: Ninth crewed flight to the Chinese space station.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:34Z
🚀 **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
Latest Space Breaking News: Scientists improve gravitational wave identification with machine learning
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-scientists-gravitational-identification-machine.html
Summary: A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by looking at the entire posterior distribution instead of making decisions based on individual parameters.
Latest Space News: NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
Summary: NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.
🧑🚀 **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**: Firefly Alpha | FLTA006 (Message in a Booster)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-27T13:37:00Z
🚀 **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