🔭 Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
In this photo released on April 14, 2025, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514. Using mid-infrared data showed the “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material […]
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In this photo released on April 14, 2025, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514. Using mid-infrared data showed the “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material […]
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🛰️ NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell
Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to explore […]
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Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operates NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to explore […]
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🚀 Launch Roundup: China to launch crew, Falcon 9 to launch Bandwagon rideshare
This week, China will launch three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9…
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This week, China will launch three taikonauts to the Tiangong space station. SpaceX’s Falcon 9…
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🔭 Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX’s manifest lists three customers who are sending their payloads to a mid-inclination orbit. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 8:48 p.m. ET (0048 UTC).
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SpaceX’s manifest lists three customers who are sending their payloads to a mid-inclination orbit. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 8:48 p.m. ET (0048 UTC).
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🚀 Space News Recap
Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 21
Chinese orbital logistics startup InfinAstro raises angel round funding
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ACES on its way to space
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NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission
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SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS with additional crew supplies
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ATMOS Raises €1M in New Funding as it Prepares for Inaugural Flight
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Taking ‘remote care’ to new heights — how space can shape the future of healthcare
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DARPA requests proposals for water-prospecting lunar orbiter
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Sols 4515-4517: Silver Linings
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Celebrating Earth as Only NASA Can
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Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
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NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell
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Launch Roundup: China to launch crew, Falcon 9 to launch Bandwagon rideshare
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
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Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 21
Chinese orbital logistics startup InfinAstro raises angel round funding
Read ➡️
ACES on its way to space
Read ➡️
NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 32nd SpaceX Resupply Station Mission
Read ➡️
SpaceX launches cargo Dragon to ISS with additional crew supplies
Read ➡️
ATMOS Raises €1M in New Funding as it Prepares for Inaugural Flight
Read ➡️
Taking ‘remote care’ to new heights — how space can shape the future of healthcare
Read ➡️
DARPA requests proposals for water-prospecting lunar orbiter
Read ➡️
Sols 4515-4517: Silver Linings
Read ➡️
Celebrating Earth as Only NASA Can
Read ➡️
Fuzzy Rings of a Dying Star
Read ➡️
NASA’s SPHEREx Team To Ring New York Stock Exchange Bell
Read ➡️
Launch Roundup: China to launch crew, Falcon 9 to launch Bandwagon rideshare
Read ➡️
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Bandwagon-3 rideshare mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
Read ➡️
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☄️ OMB suggests NOAA scale back plans for geostationary satellites
SAN FRANCISCO – A White House budget proposal calls for replacing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s future geostationary satellite constellation, GeoXO, with a far less expensive and ambitious program. […]
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SAN FRANCISCO – A White House budget proposal calls for replacing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s future geostationary satellite constellation, GeoXO, with a far less expensive and ambitious program. […]
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🗓️ Pic of the day: 2025 April 22
📸 Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows
What's different about this Moon? It's the terminators. In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator -- the line that divides the light of day from the dark of night. That's because the featured image is a digital composite of many near-terminator lunar strips over a full Moon. Terminator regions show the longest and most prominent shadows -- shadows which, by their contrast and length, allow a flat photograph to appear three-dimensional. The overlay images were taken over two weeks in early April. Many of the Moon's craters stand out because of the shadows they all cast to the right. The image shows in graphic detail that the darker regions known as maria are not just darker than the rest of the Moon -- they are...
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📸 Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows
What's different about this Moon? It's the terminators. In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator -- the line that divides the light of day from the dark of night. That's because the featured image is a digital composite of many near-terminator lunar strips over a full Moon. Terminator regions show the longest and most prominent shadows -- shadows which, by their contrast and length, allow a flat photograph to appear three-dimensional. The overlay images were taken over two weeks in early April. Many of the Moon's craters stand out because of the shadows they all cast to the right. The image shows in graphic detail that the darker regions known as maria are not just darker than the rest of the Moon -- they are...
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🧑🚀 SpaceX launches third mid-inclination rideshare mission
SpaceX launched the third in its series of mid-inclination dedicated rideshare missions April 21, but with very few rideshare payloads on board.
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SpaceX launched the third in its series of mid-inclination dedicated rideshare missions April 21, but with very few rideshare payloads on board.
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🔭 NASA Tests Ultralight Antennas to Benefit Future National Airspace
NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones and other future air transportation options. Developed by NASA, this ultra-lightweight aerogel antenna is designed to enable satellite communications where […]
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NASA engineers are using one of the world’s lightest solid materials to construct an antenna that could be embedded into the skin of an aircraft, creating a more aerodynamic and reliable communication solution for drones and other future air transportation options. Developed by NASA, this ultra-lightweight aerogel antenna is designed to enable satellite communications where […]
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🌎 Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner PRISM is Using AI to Enable Insights from Geospatial Data
NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to invite small business start-ups to showcase innovative ideas and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals. To potentially leverage external funding sources for the development of innovative technologies of interest to NASA, SMD involved the venture capital community in Entrepreneurs Challenge […]
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NASA sponsored Entrepreneurs Challenge events in 2020, 2021, and 2023 to invite small business start-ups to showcase innovative ideas and technologies with the potential to advance the agency’s science goals. To potentially leverage external funding sources for the development of innovative technologies of interest to NASA, SMD involved the venture capital community in Entrepreneurs Challenge […]
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🔭 Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance
They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is one of more than 1,500 types […]
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They’re known as “living fossils”. For over 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have been an ecologically vital part of our planet. They’re one of the few surviving species on Earth dating back to the dinosaurs. At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is one of more than 1,500 types […]
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🌌 ATMOS Space Cargo Tentatively Declares PHOENIX 1 Flight a Success
German space logistics company ATMOS Space Cargo has tentatively declared the inaugural flight of its PHOENIX 1 re-entry capsule a success, despite not yet completing a full analysis of the data collected during the mission. ATMOS Space Cargo was founded in 2021 with the aim of developing a recoverable in-orbit research capsule called PHOENIX. The […]
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German space logistics company ATMOS Space Cargo has tentatively declared the inaugural flight of its PHOENIX 1 re-entry capsule a success, despite not yet completing a full analysis of the data collected during the mission. ATMOS Space Cargo was founded in 2021 with the aim of developing a recoverable in-orbit research capsule called PHOENIX. The […]
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🛰️ Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System
Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets. Which planet is biggest? Which is smallest? What is the order of the planets as we move out from the Sun? This is a simple guide to the sizes of planets based on the equatorial diameter – or width – at the equator […]
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Our solar system has eight planets, and five officially recognized dwarf planets. Which planet is biggest? Which is smallest? What is the order of the planets as we move out from the Sun? This is a simple guide to the sizes of planets based on the equatorial diameter – or width – at the equator […]
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☄️ Sunshine on Earth
The Sun’s glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. The space station serves as a unique platform for observing Earth with both hands-on and automated equipment. Station crew members have produced hundreds of thousands of images, recording phenomena […]
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The Sun’s glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025. The space station serves as a unique platform for observing Earth with both hands-on and automated equipment. Station crew members have produced hundreds of thousands of images, recording phenomena […]
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🌎 First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7
How do the sudden darkness and temperature changes of a solar eclipse impact life on Earth? The Eclipse Soundscapes project invited you to document changes in the environment during the week of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, using your own senses or an audiomoth sound recorder. Thanks to your participation, the Eclipse Soundscapes […]
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How do the sudden darkness and temperature changes of a solar eclipse impact life on Earth? The Eclipse Soundscapes project invited you to document changes in the environment during the week of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse, using your own senses or an audiomoth sound recorder. Thanks to your participation, the Eclipse Soundscapes […]
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🚀 Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
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. […]
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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. […]
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☄️ NASA Wins Six Webby Awards, Six Webby People’s Voice Awards
NASA was recognized today by the 29th Annual Webby Awards with six Webby Awards and six Webby People’s Voice Awards, the latter of which are awarded by the voting public. The Webbys honors excellence in eight major media types: websites and mobile sites; video and film; advertising, media and public relations; apps and software; social; podcasts; artificial intelligence, […]
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NASA was recognized today by the 29th Annual Webby Awards with six Webby Awards and six Webby People’s Voice Awards, the latter of which are awarded by the voting public. The Webbys honors excellence in eight major media types: websites and mobile sites; video and film; advertising, media and public relations; apps and software; social; podcasts; artificial intelligence, […]
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 11-9
🗓️ April 25, 2025 - 21:40:00 CEST
🕦 Window: 21:40:00 - 02:11:00
📝 Mission: Starlink Group 11-9
🚀 Rocket: Falcon 9
🏢 Pad: Space Launch Complex 4E
📖 Program: Starlink
💙 Status: To Be Confirmed
🚩 Country: United States of America
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🗓️ April 25, 2025 - 21:40:00 CEST
🕦 Window: 21:40:00 - 02:11:00
📝 Mission: Starlink Group 11-9
🚀 Rocket: Falcon 9
🏢 Pad: Space Launch Complex 4E
📖 Program: Starlink
💙 Status: To Be Confirmed
🚩 Country: United States of America
For more information and to stay up to date on new space launches, follow our Go4Launch channel: https://t.me/go4launch