🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Starship | Flight 10
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T23:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Starship
📖 **Details**: 10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T19:05:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space News: NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams home haunting view of distant Earth (photo)
Summary: NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal asteroid, has delivered a stunning perspective of our home planet from deep space.
❓ **Space Question of the Day**
What would be the first thing you'd do if you landed on the Moon? 🌕
#SpacePoll #Engagement
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-11
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-27T05:49:00Z
🚀 **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
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-26T18:53:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO.
The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.
Also on board the launch is Dhruva Space's LEAP-1; Planet's Pelican-3 and Pelican-4; and Exolaunch’s Acadia-6, FFLY-1, FFLY-2, and FFLY-3.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-26T12:30:00Z
🚀 **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**: Starship | Flight 10
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T23:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Starship
📖 **Details**: 10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T19:05:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
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Latest Space Breaking News: Molten rock raindrops help trace the history of Jupiter's formation
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-molten-raindrops-history-jupiter-formation.html
Summary: Four and a half billion years ago, Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, called planetesimals. This caused them to smash into each other at such high speeds that the rocks and dust they contained melted on impact and created floating molten rock droplets, or chondrules, that we find preserved in meteorites today.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-11
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-27T05:49:00Z
🚀 **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
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-26T18:53:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO.
The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.
Also on board the launch is Dhruva Space's LEAP-1; Planet's Pelican-3 and Pelican-4; and Exolaunch’s Acadia-6, FFLY-1, FFLY-2, and FFLY-3.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-26T12:30:00Z
🚀 **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**: Starship | Flight 10
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T23:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Starship
📖 **Details**: 10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T19:05:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Dangerous Asteroids Near Earth:
- (1999 RA32) (Size: 313.3574170739 meters)
- (2000 HP40) (Size: 93.3340215038 meters)
- (2013 AM20) (Size: 118.5877908577 meters)
- (2016 SC) (Size: 17.948988478 meters)
- (2017 HE) (Size: 27.1668934089 meters)
- (2020 BA5) (Size: 89.9580388169 meters)
- (2020 QX4) (Size: 143.893103228 meters)
- (2021 EH2) (Size: 34.836938254 meters)
- (2021 PW2) (Size: 43.4550224647 meters)
- (2023 CN1) (Size: 33.7318358913 meters)
- (2023 TQ3) (Size: 45.2939273097 meters)
- (2024 JF1) (Size: 15.7050737 meters)
- (2024 PR4) (Size: 74.4800533014 meters)
- (2025 KV12) (Size: 457.1302685904 meters)
- (2025 PO) (Size: 228.370487393 meters)
- (2025 PR2) (Size: 99.2293116713 meters)
- (2025 QS1) (Size: 105.3998465938 meters)
- (2025 QU2) (Size: 200.7428005981 meters)
- (2025 QV3) (Size: 17.6620039995 meters)
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2025-08-25): The Meteor and the Star Cluster
Sometimes even the sky surprises you. To see more stars and faint nebulosity in the Pleiades star cluster (M45), long exposures are made. Many times, less interesting items appear on the exposures that were not intended -- but later edited out. These include stuck pixels, cosmic ray hits, frames with bright clouds or Earth's Moon, airplane trails, lens flares, faint satellite trails, and even insect trails. Sometimes, though, something really interesting is caught by chance. That was just the case a few weeks ago in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia when a bright meteor streaked across during an hour-long exposure of the Pleiades. Along with the famous bright blue stars, less famous and less bright blue stars, and blue-reflecting dust surrounding the star cluster, the fast rock fragment created a distinctive green glow, likely due to vaporized metals. Jigsaw Universe: Astronomy Puzzle of the Day
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NAOS
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-26T18:53:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys (Luxembourg Earth Observation System). Its purpose is to provide high resolution images to national and international governmental and military organizations such as NATO.
The 800 kg satellite is built by OHB Italia and is equipped with a very high-resolution optical camera with a ground reolution of 50 cm in an around 450 km high sun-synchronous orbit. It will have a operational life time of 7 years.
Also on board the launch is Dhruva Space's LEAP-1; Planet's Pelican-3 and Pelican-4; and Exolaunch’s Acadia-6, FFLY-1, FFLY-2, and FFLY-3.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-26T12:30:00Z
🚀 **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**: Starship | Flight 10
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T23:30:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Starship
📖 **Details**: 10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T19:05:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T11:30:00Z
🚀 **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**: Starship | Flight 10
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-24T23:30:01Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Starship
📖 **Details**: 10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-24T06:45:36Z
🚀 **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.
The CRS SpX-33 Mission will be the first mission including a boost module inside the dragons trunk for ISS orbit raising.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Electron | Live, Laugh, Launch
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T22:42:00Z
🚀 **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**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T19:05:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T11:30:00Z
🚀 **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**: Starship | Flight 10
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-24T23:30:01Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Starship
📖 **Details**: 10th test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-33
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-24T06:45:36Z
🚀 **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.
The CRS SpX-33 Mission will be the first mission including a boost module inside the dragons trunk for ISS orbit raising.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Electron | Live, Laugh, Launch
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T22:42:00Z
🚀 **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**: Electron | Live, Laugh, Launch
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-23T22:42:00Z
🚀 **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
Latest Space Breaking News: Alien aurora: Researchers discover new plasma wave in Jupiter's aurora
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-alien-aurora-plasma-jupiter.html
Summary: Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have made a new discovery by observing and analyzing the first new type of plasma wave in Jupiter's aurora. This research helps us understand "alien aurora" on other planets, which in turn teaches us more about how Earth's magnetic field protects us from the sun's harmful radiation.
Latest Space News: Put a ring on it: Saturn trivia quiz!
Link: https://www.space.com/astronomy/saturn/put-a-ring-on-it-saturn-trivia-quiz
Summary: Could you be the Lord of the rings (of Saturn)? Try your hand at our Saturn-themed space quiz!
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-08-25T19:05:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience