☄️ NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Complete Space Station Expedition
NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth Saturday, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, concluding a seven-month science mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio departed the space station at 5:57 p.m. EDT aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft before making a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. on Sunday, […]
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NASA astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth Saturday, accompanied by Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, concluding a seven-month science mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio departed the space station at 5:57 p.m. EDT aboard the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft before making a safe, parachute-assisted landing at 9:20 p.m. (6:20 a.m. on Sunday, […]
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🧑🚀 NASA’s Pettit Celebrates 70th Birthday Returning to Earth After 7 Months in Space
NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian crewmates landed in Kazakhstan this evening, April 19, which was April 20 local time at the landing site. The time zone difference is […]
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NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian crewmates landed in Kazakhstan this evening, April 19, which was April 20 local time at the landing site. The time zone difference is […]
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🗓️ Pic of the day: 2025 April 20
📸 The Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared
The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. Long exposure, multi-wavelength images like this, however, show the Orion Nebula to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. This digital composite features not only three colors of visible light but four colors of infrared light taken by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope as well. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula (M42) is the Trapezium - four of the brightest stars in the nebula. Many of the filamentary structures visible are actually shock waves - fronts where fast moving mater...
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© Infrared: NASA, Spitzer Space Telescope; Visible: Oliver Czernetz, Siding Spring Obs.
📸 The Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared
The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the constellation of Orion. Long exposure, multi-wavelength images like this, however, show the Orion Nebula to be a busy neighborhood of young stars, hot gas, and dark dust. This digital composite features not only three colors of visible light but four colors of infrared light taken by NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope as well. The power behind much of the Orion Nebula (M42) is the Trapezium - four of the brightest stars in the nebula. Many of the filamentary structures visible are actually shock waves - fronts where fast moving mater...
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© Infrared: NASA, Spitzer Space Telescope; Visible: Oliver Czernetz, Siding Spring Obs.
🔭 NRO reaches milestone with over 200 satellites deployed in two years
The NROL-145 mission lifted off Sunday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:29 a.m. Eastern.
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The NROL-145 mission lifted off Sunday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:29 a.m. Eastern.
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🧑🚀 What’s Happening in Space Policy April 20-26, 2025
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of April 20-26, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess […]
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Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of April 20-26, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess […]
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🌌 Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 32nd resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station
The Cargo Dragon spacecraft, tail number C209, will carry 6,659 lbs. (3,021 kg.) of science and supplies to the orbiting outpost. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is targeting Monday, April 21, at 4:15 a.m. EDT (0815 UTC).
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The Cargo Dragon spacecraft, tail number C209, will carry 6,659 lbs. (3,021 kg.) of science and supplies to the orbiting outpost. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is targeting Monday, April 21, at 4:15 a.m. EDT (0815 UTC).
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🚀 Space News Recap
Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 20
NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Complete Space Station Expedition
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NASA’s Pettit Celebrates 70th Birthday Returning to Earth After 7 Months in Space
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NRO reaches milestone with over 200 satellites deployed in two years
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What’s Happening in Space Policy April 20-26, 2025
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 32nd resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station
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Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 20
NASA Astronaut Don Pettit, Crewmates Complete Space Station Expedition
Read ➡️
NASA’s Pettit Celebrates 70th Birthday Returning to Earth After 7 Months in Space
Read ➡️
NRO reaches milestone with over 200 satellites deployed in two years
Read ➡️
What’s Happening in Space Policy April 20-26, 2025
Read ➡️
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 32nd resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station
Read ➡️
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🗓️ Pic of the day: 2025 April 21
📸 Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from Webb
Is this one galaxy or two? Although it looks like one, the answer is two. One path to this happening is when a small galaxy collides with a larger galaxy and ends up in the center. But in the featured image, something more rare is going on. Here, the central light-colored elliptical galaxy is much closer than the blue and red-colored spiral galaxy that surrounds it. This can happen when near and far galaxies are exactly aligned, causing the gravity of the near galaxy to pull the light from the far galaxy around it in an effect called gravitational lensing. The featured galaxy double was taken by the Webb Space Telescope and shows a complete Einstein ring, with great detail visible for both galaxies. Galaxy lenses like this can reveal new information abou...
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📸 Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from Webb
Is this one galaxy or two? Although it looks like one, the answer is two. One path to this happening is when a small galaxy collides with a larger galaxy and ends up in the center. But in the featured image, something more rare is going on. Here, the central light-colored elliptical galaxy is much closer than the blue and red-colored spiral galaxy that surrounds it. This can happen when near and far galaxies are exactly aligned, causing the gravity of the near galaxy to pull the light from the far galaxy around it in an effect called gravitational lensing. The featured galaxy double was taken by the Webb Space Telescope and shows a complete Einstein ring, with great detail visible for both galaxies. Galaxy lenses like this can reveal new information abou...
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☄️ Chinese orbital logistics startup InfinAstro raises angel round funding
Chinese startup InfinAstro has secured early funding for its plan to fill a gap in China’s commercial on-orbit services.
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Chinese startup InfinAstro has secured early funding for its plan to fill a gap in China’s commercial on-orbit services.
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🌌 ACES on its way to space
Today at 10:15 CEST, ESA’s Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) began its journey to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States.
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Today at 10:15 CEST, ESA’s Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) began its journey to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States.
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☄️ NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission
Following the successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying approximately 6,700 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA, lifted off at 4:15 a.m. EDT Monday, on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch […]
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Following the successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying approximately 6,700 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA, lifted off at 4:15 a.m. EDT Monday, on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch […]
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🔭 SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS with additional crew supplies
SpaceX launched a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station April 21 whose cargo includes more crew supplies and fewer science experiments than usual.
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SpaceX launched a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station April 21 whose cargo includes more crew supplies and fewer science experiments than usual.
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Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 20
🗓️ April 24, 2025 - 09:17:00 CEST
🕦 Window: 09:07:00 - 09:47:00
📝 Mission: Shenzhou 20
🚀 Rocket: Long March 2
🏢 Pad: Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921)
📖 Program: Shenzhou
💙 Status: Go for Launch
🚩 Country: China
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🗓️ April 24, 2025 - 09:17:00 CEST
🕦 Window: 09:07:00 - 09:47:00
📝 Mission: Shenzhou 20
🚀 Rocket: Long March 2
🏢 Pad: Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921)
📖 Program: Shenzhou
💙 Status: Go for Launch
🚩 Country: China
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☄️ ATMOS Raises €1M in New Funding as it Prepares for Inaugural Flight
Germany’s ATMOS Space Cargo has secured €1 million in new funding as the company prepares for the launch of its re-entry capsule demonstration mission. Founded in 2021, ATMOS is developing a returnable in-orbit research platform called PHOENIX. The platform will be capable of carrying up to 100 kilograms to low Earth orbit for missions lasting […]
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Germany’s ATMOS Space Cargo has secured €1 million in new funding as the company prepares for the launch of its re-entry capsule demonstration mission. Founded in 2021, ATMOS is developing a returnable in-orbit research platform called PHOENIX. The platform will be capable of carrying up to 100 kilograms to low Earth orbit for missions lasting […]
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☄️ Taking ‘remote care’ to new heights — how space can shape the future of healthcare
Imagine you’re on the moon, digging up lunar regolith. You’re focused on the task at hand when you suddenly slip and fall, right into your pickaxe. Even in the moon’s […]
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Imagine you’re on the moon, digging up lunar regolith. You’re focused on the task at hand when you suddenly slip and fall, right into your pickaxe. Even in the moon’s […]
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🚀 DARPA requests proposals for water-prospecting lunar orbiter
DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that could be used to test operations in very low orbits while prospecting for water ice.
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DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that could be used to test operations in very low orbits while prospecting for water ice.
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🔭 Sols 4515-4517: Silver Linings
Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, April 18, 2025 As the APXS operations person today, I was hopeful that we could plan a compositional measurement after brushing one of the bedrock blocks in front of the rover. However, it soon became clear that the rover was not on […]
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Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick Earth planning date: Friday, April 18, 2025 As the APXS operations person today, I was hopeful that we could plan a compositional measurement after brushing one of the bedrock blocks in front of the rover. However, it soon became clear that the rover was not on […]
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