☄️ 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
🛰️ SAIC wins $55 million Space Development Agency contract for satellite network integration
By introducing a program integrator role, SDA aims to ensure better compatibility among satellites and cohesion across the network
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By introducing a program integrator role, SDA aims to ensure better compatibility among satellites and cohesion across the network
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🛰️ Northwood raises $30 million to establish ground station network
SAN FRANCISCO — Northwood Space raised $30 million in a Series A round to establish a global network of phased array ground stations. Alpine Space Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz led […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Northwood Space raised $30 million in a Series A round to establish a global network of phased array ground stations. Alpine Space Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz led […]
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🚀 Space News Recap
Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 22
OMB suggests NOAA scale back plans for geostationary satellites
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SpaceX launches third mid-inclination rideshare mission
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NASA Tests Ultralight Antennas to Benefit Future National Airspace
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Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner PRISM is Using AI to Enable Insights from Geospatial Data
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Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance
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ATMOS Space Cargo Tentatively Declares PHOENIX 1 Flight a Success
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Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System
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Sunshine on Earth
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First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7
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Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
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NASA Wins Six Webby Awards, Six Webby People’s Voice Awards
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SAIC wins $55 million Space Development Agency contract for satellite network integration
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Northwood raises $30 million to establish ground station network
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Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 22
OMB suggests NOAA scale back plans for geostationary satellites
Read ➡️
SpaceX launches third mid-inclination rideshare mission
Read ➡️
NASA Tests Ultralight Antennas to Benefit Future National Airspace
Read ➡️
Entrepreneurs Challenge Winner PRISM is Using AI to Enable Insights from Geospatial Data
Read ➡️
Animal That Once Lived With Dinosaurs Helps Keep NASA Kennedy In Balance
Read ➡️
ATMOS Space Cargo Tentatively Declares PHOENIX 1 Flight a Success
Read ➡️
Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System
Read ➡️
Sunshine on Earth
Read ➡️
First Results from the Eclipse Soundscapes Project: Webinar on May 7
Read ➡️
Planetary Alignment Provides NASA Rare Opportunity to Study Uranus
Read ➡️
NASA Wins Six Webby Awards, Six Webby People’s Voice Awards
Read ➡️
SAIC wins $55 million Space Development Agency contract for satellite network integration
Read ➡️
Northwood raises $30 million to establish ground station network
Read ➡️
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🛰️ Iridium shields supply chain as higher tariffs loom
TAMPA, Fla. — Iridium is ramping up tariff countermeasures to shield the U.S.-based satellite operator from import tax hikes as global trade tensions escalate. The operator has historically imported satellite […]
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TAMPA, Fla. — Iridium is ramping up tariff countermeasures to shield the U.S.-based satellite operator from import tax hikes as global trade tensions escalate. The operator has historically imported satellite […]
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🌌 Astra targets cargo delivery with Rocket 4 in Pentagon-backed plan
Former public rocket startup focusing on defense applications after going private
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Former public rocket startup focusing on defense applications after going private
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🔭 Atmos Space Cargo declares first test flight a success despite reentry uncertainty
German startup Atmos Space Cargo says it considers the first flight of its reentry vehicle a success despite limited data on how it performed during reentry.
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German startup Atmos Space Cargo says it considers the first flight of its reentry vehicle a success despite limited data on how it performed during reentry.
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🗓️ Pic of the day: 2025 April 23
📸 An Almost Everything Sky
This surprising sky has almost everything. First, slanting down from the upper left and far in the distance is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. More modestly, slanting down from the upper right and high in Earth's atmosphere is a bright meteor. The dim band of light across the central diagonal is zodiacal light: sunlight reflected from dust in the inner Solar System. The green glow on the far right is aurora high in Earth's atmosphere. The bright zigzagging bright line near the bottom is just a light that was held by the scene-planning astrophotographer. This "almost everything" sky was captured over rocks on Castle Hill, New Zealand late last month. The featured finished frame is a combination of 10 exposures all taken with the s...
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📸 An Almost Everything Sky
This surprising sky has almost everything. First, slanting down from the upper left and far in the distance is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. More modestly, slanting down from the upper right and high in Earth's atmosphere is a bright meteor. The dim band of light across the central diagonal is zodiacal light: sunlight reflected from dust in the inner Solar System. The green glow on the far right is aurora high in Earth's atmosphere. The bright zigzagging bright line near the bottom is just a light that was held by the scene-planning astrophotographer. This "almost everything" sky was captured over rocks on Castle Hill, New Zealand late last month. The featured finished frame is a combination of 10 exposures all taken with the s...
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☄️ Lifting the canopy on Earth’s forests
ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass mission has been designed to shed new light on the health and dynamics of the world’s forests, revealing how they are changing over time and, critically, enhancing our understanding of their role in the global carbon cycle. It is the first satellite to carry a fully polarimetric P-band synthetic aperture radar for interferometric imaging. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, the radar signal can slice through the forest canopy and whole forest layer to measure the ‘biomass’, meaning the woody trunks, branches and stems, which is where trees store most of their carbon.
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ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass mission has been designed to shed new light on the health and dynamics of the world’s forests, revealing how they are changing over time and, critically, enhancing our understanding of their role in the global carbon cycle. It is the first satellite to carry a fully polarimetric P-band synthetic aperture radar for interferometric imaging. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, the radar signal can slice through the forest canopy and whole forest layer to measure the ‘biomass’, meaning the woody trunks, branches and stems, which is where trees store most of their carbon.
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☄️ Ariane 6 Booster Upgrade Test Set for 24 April
The French space agency CNES has announced that the first test firing of the P160C solid-fuel booster is scheduled to take place on 24 April at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The booster will be used on the ArianeGroup-built Ariane 6 Block 2 variants, as well as the Avio-built Vega C and, eventually, […]
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The French space agency CNES has announced that the first test firing of the P160C solid-fuel booster is scheduled to take place on 24 April at the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The booster will be used on the ArianeGroup-built Ariane 6 Block 2 variants, as well as the Avio-built Vega C and, eventually, […]
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🌎 Nine Finalists Advance in NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge
NASA has named nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes. Contestants were challenged to explore how NASA has powered some of its most famous science missions, and to dream up how their personal “superpowers” […]
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NASA has named nine finalists out of the 45 semifinalist student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national writing competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes. Contestants were challenged to explore how NASA has powered some of its most famous science missions, and to dream up how their personal “superpowers” […]
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🛰️ The guardian’s rifle: why mission-essential space support cannot be outsourced
In matters of national defense and credible deterrence, some capabilities are simply too vital to outsource. If they falter, armies lose battles and nations can lose wars. Today, commercial space […]
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In matters of national defense and credible deterrence, some capabilities are simply too vital to outsource. If they falter, armies lose battles and nations can lose wars. Today, commercial space […]
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🌌 Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit
In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of images that were recently taken by Hubble has been released today. This stretches from the planet Mars to images of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. After over three decades of scrutinising our Universe, Hubble remains a household word as the most well-recognised telescope in scientific history.
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In celebration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, an assortment of images that were recently taken by Hubble has been released today. This stretches from the planet Mars to images of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent neighbouring galaxy. After over three decades of scrutinising our Universe, Hubble remains a household word as the most well-recognised telescope in scientific history.
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🛰️ NASA Stennis Continues Prep for Future Artemis Testing
Crews at NASA’s Stennis Space Center recently completed activation of interstage gas systems needed for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket stage to fly on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. The activation marks a milestone in preparation for future Green Run testing of NASA’s exploration upper stage (EUS) in the […]
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Crews at NASA’s Stennis Space Center recently completed activation of interstage gas systems needed for testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) rocket stage to fly on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. The activation marks a milestone in preparation for future Green Run testing of NASA’s exploration upper stage (EUS) in the […]
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