🧑🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**
🌟 **Name**: Thomas Pesquet
🏷️ **Status**: Active
📖 **Bio**: Thomas Gautier Pesquet is a French aerospace engineer, pilot, and European Space Agency astronaut. Pesquet was selected by ESA as a candidate in May 2009, and he successfully completed his basic training in November 2010. From November 2016 to June 2017, Pesquet was part of Expeditions 50 and 51 on the International Space Station as a flight engineer.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-24T06:45:09Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: 33rd 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
📸 **Mars Photo**
🌌 **Sol 3900**
📷 Camera: MAST
Guarda la foto: 
#Mars #Space #NASA
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Electron | Live, Laugh, Launch
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T22:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: 'Live, Laugh, Launch' is the second of two dedicated missions on Electron for a confidential customer in 2025. Possible customer candidates include EchoStar and E-Space. This mission will deploy 5 satellites to a 655 km circular Earth orbit.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T12:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: New Shepard
📖 **Details**: NS-35 is the 35th flight for the New Shepard program. This flight will fly more than 40 scientific and research payloads to space and back, including 24 experiments from NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge and payloads for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-6
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-22T17:04:49Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 24 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 | OTV-8 (X-37B) (USSF-36)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-22T03:50:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eighth flight of the X-37B program.
The X-37B is a dynamic and responsive spacecraft responsible for conducting a range of tests and experiments that expedite the development of critical next-generation technologies and operational concepts for reusable space capabilities.
The OTV-8 mission in Low Earth Orbit includes operational demonstrations and experiments of next-generation technologies, including laser communications and the highest performing strategic grade quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space. Mission partners include the Air Force Research Lab and the Defense Innovation Unit, respectively.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 07:24Z UTC
📖 **Description**: Faint loop CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T07:24Z, as well as by GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. This event is not visible in SOHO LASCO C3, and is obscured in STEREO A COR2 by a data gap from 2025-08-22T07:23Z to 2025-08-22T14:08Z. There is no clear source seen for this CME, and the lack of STEREO A COR2 imagery to triangulate makes determining a source location difficult.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:48Z UTC
📖 **Description**: CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:48Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, STEREO A COR2 and GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. The source of this event is field line opening seen in the SE by SDO AIA 94, 171, 193 and 211 beginning at approx. 2025-08-22T04:01Z, tracing back to approx. S30E65. This CME heavily overlaps with CME: 2025-08-22T05:24Z.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:24Z UTC
📖 **Description**: Faint CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:24Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, GOES CCOR-1 and STEREO A COR2 in later frames. The source of this event is field line movement seen in the SE in SDO AIA 94, 171, 193 and 211, beginning at approximately 2025-08-22T04:24Z tracing back to approx. S50E35. This CME heavily overlaps with CME: 2025-08-22T05:48Z.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:12Z UTC
📖 **Description**: CME first seen to the NE by SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:12Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, STEREO A COR2 and GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. The source of this event is a slow erupting filament seen along the NE limb (approx. N35E90) seen beginning to liftoff at approx. 2025-08-22T02:51Z in SDO AIA 304. Field line opening is also visible in SDO AIA 171, 193 and 211.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:48Z UTC
📖 **Description**: CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:48Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, STEREO A COR2 and GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. The source of this event is field line opening seen in the SE by SDO AIA 94, 171, 193 and 211 beginning at approx. 2025-08-22T04:01Z, tracing back to approx. S30E65. This CME heavily overlaps with CME: 2025-08-22T05:24Z.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:24Z UTC
📖 **Description**: Faint CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:24Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, GOES CCOR-1 and STEREO A COR2 in later frames. The source of this event is field line movement seen in the SE in SDO AIA 94, 171, 193 and 211, beginning at approximately 2025-08-22T04:24Z tracing back to approx. S50E35. This CME heavily overlaps with CME: 2025-08-22T05:48Z.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:12Z UTC
📖 **Description**: CME first seen to the NE by SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:12Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, STEREO A COR2 and GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. The source of this event is a slow erupting filament seen along the NE limb (approx. N35E90) seen beginning to liftoff at approx. 2025-08-22T02:51Z in SDO AIA 304. Field line opening is also visible in SDO AIA 171, 193 and 211.
#SpaceWeather #CME
Latest Space Breaking News: Asteroid Bennu: A time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-asteroid-bennu-capsule-materials-witness.html
Summary: Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of materials from throughout, and even beyond, our solar system. Over the past few billion years, its unique and varied contents have been transformed by interactions with water and the harsh space environment.
Latest Space News: 'Invasion' Season 3 showrunner Simon Kinberg on creating ''War of the Worlds' meets 'Babel'' (exclusive)
Summary: 'I went to the folks at Apple and told them I had this idea for a show and it's 'War of the Worlds' meets 'Babel.'
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:48Z UTC
📖 **Description**: CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:48Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, STEREO A COR2 and GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. The source of this event is field line opening seen in the SE by SDO AIA 94, 171, 193 and 211 beginning at approx. 2025-08-22T04:01Z, tracing back to approx. S30E65. This CME heavily overlaps with CME: 2025-08-22T05:24Z.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:24Z UTC
📖 **Description**: Faint CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:24Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, GOES CCOR-1 and STEREO A COR2 in later frames. The source of this event is field line movement seen in the SE in SDO AIA 94, 171, 193 and 211, beginning at approximately 2025-08-22T04:24Z tracing back to approx. S50E35. This CME heavily overlaps with CME: 2025-08-22T05:48Z.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:12Z UTC
📖 **Description**: CME first seen to the NE by SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:12Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, STEREO A COR2 and GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. The source of this event is a slow erupting filament seen along the NE limb (approx. N35E90) seen beginning to liftoff at approx. 2025-08-22T02:51Z in SDO AIA 304. Field line opening is also visible in SDO AIA 171, 193 and 211.
#SpaceWeather #CME
🚨 **Space Weather Alert: CME**
📅 **Date**: 2025-08-22
🕒 **Time**: 05:48Z UTC
📖 **Description**: CME first seen to the SE in SOHO LASCO C2 beginning at 2025-08-22T05:48Z, as well as by SOHO LASCO C3, STEREO A COR2 and GOES CCOR-1 in later frames. The source of this event is field line opening seen in the SE by SDO AIA 94, 171, 193 and 211 beginning at approx. 2025-08-22T04:01Z, tracing back to approx. S30E65. This CME heavily overlaps with CME: 2025-08-22T05:24Z.
#SpaceWeather #CME
❓ **Space Question of the Day**
If you could name a new planet, what would you call it? 🌌
#SpacePoll #Engagement
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-24T06:45:09Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: 33rd 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
📸 **Mars Photo**
🌌 **Sol 3898**
📷 Camera: MAST
Guarda la foto: 
#Mars #Space #NASA
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Electron | Live, Laugh, Launch
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T22:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: 'Live, Laugh, Launch' is the second of two dedicated missions on Electron for a confidential customer in 2025. Possible customer candidates include EchoStar and E-Space. This mission will deploy 5 satellites to a 655 km circular Earth orbit.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T12:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: New Shepard
📖 **Details**: NS-35 is the 35th flight for the New Shepard program. This flight will fly more than 40 scientific and research payloads to space and back, including 24 experiments from NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge and payloads for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-6
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-22T17:02:20Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 24 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 | OTV-8 (X-37B) (USSF-36)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-22T03:50:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eighth flight of the X-37B program.
The X-37B is a dynamic and responsive spacecraft responsible for conducting a range of tests and experiments that expedite the development of critical next-generation technologies and operational concepts for reusable space capabilities.
The OTV-8 mission in Low Earth Orbit includes operational demonstrations and experiments of next-generation technologies, including laser communications and the highest performing strategic grade quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space. Mission partners include the Air Force Research Lab and the Defense Innovation Unit, respectively.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space News: SpaceX launches Space Force's X-37B space plane on 8th mystery mission
Summary: The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket tonight (Aug. 21), carrying a variety of high-tech gear to Earth orbit.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Electron | Live, Laugh, Launch
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T22:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: 'Live, Laugh, Launch' is the second of two dedicated missions on Electron for a confidential customer in 2025. Possible customer candidates include EchoStar and E-Space. This mission will deploy 5 satellites to a 655 km circular Earth orbit.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T12:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: New Shepard
📖 **Details**: NS-35 is the 35th flight for the New Shepard program. This flight will fly more than 40 scientific and research payloads to space and back, including 24 experiments from NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge and payloads for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | OTV-8 (X-37B) (USSF-36)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-22T03:50:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eighth flight of the X-37B program.
The X-37B is a dynamic and responsive spacecraft responsible for conducting a range of tests and experiments that expedite the development of critical next-generation technologies and operational concepts for reusable space capabilities.
The OTV-8 mission in Low Earth Orbit includes operational demonstrations and experiments of next-generation technologies, including laser communications and the highest performing strategic grade quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space. Mission partners include the Air Force Research Lab and the Defense Innovation Unit, respectively.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Angara 1.2 | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-21T09:32:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Angara 1.2
📖 **Details**: Unknown classified payload for the Russian military.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
📸 **Mars Photo**
🌌 **Sol 3896**
📷 Camera: MAST
Guarda la foto: 
#Mars #Space #NASA
❓ **Space Question of the Day**
If you could visit one celestial body, where would it be? 🌕 Mars, Europa, or beyond?
#SpacePoll #Engagement
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T12:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: New Shepard
📖 **Details**: NS-35 is the 35th flight for the New Shepard program. This flight will fly more than 40 scientific and research payloads to space and back, including 24 experiments from NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge and payloads for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-6
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-22T15:44:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of 24 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 | OTV-8 (X-37B) (USSF-36)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-22T03:50:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eighth flight of the X-37B program.
The X-37B is a dynamic and responsive spacecraft responsible for conducting a range of tests and experiments that expedite the development of critical next-generation technologies and operational concepts for reusable space capabilities.
The OTV-8 mission in Low Earth Orbit includes operational demonstrations and experiments of next-generation technologies, including laser communications and the highest performing strategic grade quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space. Mission partners include the Air Force Research Lab and the Defense Innovation Unit, respectively.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
📸 **Mars Photo**
🌌 **Sol 3894**
📷 Camera: MAST
Guarda la foto: 
#Mars #Space #NASA
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Angara 1.2 | Kosmos (Unknown Payload)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-21T08:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Angara 1.2
📖 **Details**: Unknown classified payload for the Russian military.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Soyuz 2.1b | Bion-M No. 2
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-20T17:13:10Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Soyuz 2.1b
📖 **Details**: Bion-M is the next generation of Russian biological research satellites. While retaining the Vostok/Zenit-derived reentry module of the earlier Bion, the propulsion module has been replace by a Yantar type module, which provides maneuvering capabilities and longer mission support. The mission duration has been increased to up to 6 months by using solar cells for energy generation. The weight of scientific equipment has been increased by 100 kilograms.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience