Latest Space Breaking News: Scientists find proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-09-scientists-proof-asteroid-north-sea.html
Summary: A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New evidence confirms that it was caused by an asteroid or comet impact about 43–46 million years ago.
Latest Space News: Mission to the moon: The Artemis challenge
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/mission-to-the-moon-the-artemis-challenge
Summary: Test your knowledge of the Artemis program—from cutting-edge tech and lunar missions to the astronauts leading the way.
🚀 **Mars Fact**
Mars is home to the tallest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, standing at 22 km high! 🗻
#Mars #SpaceFacts #MarsTrivia
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-15
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-25T08:36:00Z
🚀 **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 | IMAP & others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-24T11:30:35Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models.
The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On - L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth's exosphere.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-24T07:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Smart Dragon 3
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: HASTE | JENNA
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T23:45:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-48
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T17:38:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eleventh 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
Latest Space News: Watch SpaceX launch 3 space weather probes early on Sept. 23
Summary: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), and you can watch the action live.
🧑🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**
🌟 **Name**: Anne McClain
🏷️ **Status**: Active
📖 **Bio**: Anne Charlotte McClain is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army currently assigned to NASA Astronaut Group 21.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-24T07:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Smart Dragon 3
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-23T11:32:15Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models.
The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On - L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth's exosphere.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: HASTE | JENNA
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T23:45:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-48
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T17:38:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eleventh 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
Latest Space Breaking News: Observations explore a rare type Iax supernova
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-09-explore-rare-iax-supernova.html
Summary: An international team of astronomers has conducted detailed multicolor photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2022xlp—a type Iax supernova. Results of the observational campaign, published September 9 on the arXiv pre-print server, could shed more light on the nature of this rare subclass of supernovae.
Latest Space News: 'If it's possible, it must be done': Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck has his eyes on missions to Mars and Venus
Summary: Space company Rocket Lab wants to bring NASA's Perseverance rover samples back from Mars.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-15
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-25T08:36:00Z
🚀 **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**: Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-24T07:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Smart Dragon 3
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-23T11:32:15Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models.
The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On - L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth's exosphere.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: HASTE | JENNA
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T23:45:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-48
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T17:38:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eleventh 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
Latest Space News: See the sun transform into a fiery crescent in breathtaking photos of the September 2025 partial solar eclipse
Summary: The partial solar eclipse was visible to over 16 million people when it darkened the sky over the Pacific on Sept. 21-22
🧮 **Space Travel Simulator**
🚀 Destination: Alpha Centauri
🌌 Distance: 41316187000000.00 km
⏱️ Estimated Travel Time: 34430155.8 days
Let the countdown begin! 🚀
#SpaceTravel #Exploration
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-15
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-25T08:36:00Z
🚀 **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**: Smart Dragon 3 | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-24T07:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Smart Dragon 3
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space News: Happy Autumnal equinox 2025! Fall begins in the northern hemisphere today
Summary: Astronomical fall begins on Sept. 22 as the sun moves southward across the celestial equator.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: HASTE | JENNA
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T23:45:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Electron
📖 **Details**: Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-48
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-22T17:23:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eleventh 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**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-27
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-21T10:53:00Z
🚀 **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
Latest Space News: Astronaut Chris Hadfield explores murder in space in new Cold War space thriller 'Final Orbit' (exclusive)
Summary: Hadfield's 'Kaz' Zemeckis returns for this third entry in the bestselling author's 'The Apollo Murders' series
Latest Space News: A massive dark matter halo may explain the strange 5th point of this 'Einstein Cross'
Summary: Astronomers have discovered a rare cosmic alignment that may reveal hidden dark matter, offering a new way to study the invisible substance that makes up most of the universe.
🚀 **Mars Fact**
A Martian day, called a Sol, is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35 seconds long. 🕒
#Mars #SpaceFacts #MarsTrivia
Latest Space News: Landing site for Rosalind Franklin rover may be ripe with clues about ancient Mars life
Summary: Natural geologic processes at Mars' Oxia Planum may improve the Rosalind Franklin rover's chances of detecting organic compounds.
Latest Space Breaking News: A tale of two pulses: Observational evidence for two distinct polarized emission sites in gamma-ray burst outflow
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-09-tale-pulses-evidence-distinct-polarized.html
Summary: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the brightest explosions in the universe. In just a few seconds, they can outshine all the stars in their host galaxy combined, releasing more energy than our sun will emit over its entire lifetime. Yet, despite decades of observations, key mysteries remain unsolved: What powers the prompt emission? What is the jet's structure? And what is it made of?
Latest Space News: Sony A7 III now $400 off in this limited-time deal — be ready to capture October's full moon
Summary: This limited-time deal gets you the Sony A7 III for just $1498 ahead of Amazon Prime Day in October and the Harvest moon — but it ends in three days.
🚀 **Mars Fact**
Mars is home to the tallest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, standing at 22 km high! 🗻
#Mars #SpaceFacts #MarsTrivia
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-18T13:00:00Z
🚀 **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 | NROL-48
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-21T17:37:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Eleventh 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**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-12
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-17T15:41:00Z
🚀 **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**: Long March 2C/YZ-1S | SatNet test satellites
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-16T01:06:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 2C/YZ-1S
📖 **Details**: Officially described as "Satellite-Internet Technology Demonstration Satellite(s)".
Probably test satellites for the Chinese state-owned LEO communication satellite constellation SatNet.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space News: 'A game changer': Space shuttle astronaut Pam Melroy joins Venus Aerospace after revolutionary rocket engine breakthrough
Summary: Former NASA deputy chief and shuttle commander Pam Melroy has joined Venus Aerospace's board after its groundbreaking RDRE flight, bringing her decades of experience to help scale the startup's propulsion technology.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-27
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-21T09:20:00Z
🚀 **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**: New Shepard | NS-35
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-18T13:00:00Z
🚀 **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 10-61
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-18T09:30:00Z
🚀 **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 | Starlink Group 17-12
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-09-17T15:41:00Z
🚀 **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