🗓️ Pic of the day: 2025 April 24
📸 NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg
Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. Seen at the center of the cosmic cloud, the star is a mere 3 to 4 million years old. In another three to four million years the massive star will end its life in a supernova explosion. Spanning around 4 light-years, the nebula itself has a bipolar symmetry. That makes it similar in appearance to more common and familiar planetary nebulae - the gaseous shrouds surrounding dying sun-like stars. Also like many planetary nebulae, NGC 6164 has been found to have an extensive, faint halo, revealed in this deep image of the region. Expanding into the surrounding interstellar medium, the material in the halo is likely from an earlier active phase...
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📸 NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg
Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the Sun. Seen at the center of the cosmic cloud, the star is a mere 3 to 4 million years old. In another three to four million years the massive star will end its life in a supernova explosion. Spanning around 4 light-years, the nebula itself has a bipolar symmetry. That makes it similar in appearance to more common and familiar planetary nebulae - the gaseous shrouds surrounding dying sun-like stars. Also like many planetary nebulae, NGC 6164 has been found to have an extensive, faint halo, revealed in this deep image of the region. Expanding into the surrounding interstellar medium, the material in the halo is likely from an earlier active phase...
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© Daniel Stern
🌎 DARPA Seeks Proposals for Lunar Orbiter to Prospect Water Ice and Test Low Orbit Operations
DARPA Seeks Proposals for Lunar Orbiter to Prospect Water Ice and Test Low Orbit Operations
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DARPA Seeks Proposals for Lunar Orbiter to Prospect Water Ice and Test Low Orbit Operations
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🔭 SpaceX Launches Sparse Bandwagon-3 Mission with Just Three Payloads
SpaceX Launches Sparse Bandwagon-3 Mission with Just Three Payloads
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SpaceX Launches Sparse Bandwagon-3 Mission with Just Three Payloads
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🛰️ China’s InfinAstro Secures Early Investment for Orbital Space Bus Program
China’s InfinAstro Secures Early Investment for Orbital Space Bus Program
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China’s InfinAstro Secures Early Investment for Orbital Space Bus Program
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🔭 LIVE COVERAGE! China Shenzhou 20 Crew Launch
LIVE COVERAGE! China Shenzhou 20 Crew Launch
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LIVE COVERAGE! China Shenzhou 20 Crew Launch
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🌎 Sentinel-1 captures ground shift from Myanmar earthquake
On 28 March 2025, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, sending shockwaves through the region. While the country is still dealing with the devasting aftermath, scientists have used radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites to reveal a detailed picture of how the ground shifted as a result of the quake – offering new insights into the mechanics of the tectonic Sagaing Fault and the scale of the seismic rupture.
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On 28 March 2025, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, sending shockwaves through the region. While the country is still dealing with the devasting aftermath, scientists have used radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites to reveal a detailed picture of how the ground shifted as a result of the quake – offering new insights into the mechanics of the tectonic Sagaing Fault and the scale of the seismic rupture.
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☄️ Watch Biomass launch live
ESA's Biomass mission is on the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Don’t miss the live coverage of liftoff on Tuesday 29 April, on ESA WebTV. Coverage will start at 10:55 CEST with commentary live from Kourou and ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany. The Vega-C rocket carrying Biomass is scheduled for liftoff at 11:15.
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ESA's Biomass mission is on the launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Don’t miss the live coverage of liftoff on Tuesday 29 April, on ESA WebTV. Coverage will start at 10:55 CEST with commentary live from Kourou and ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany. The Vega-C rocket carrying Biomass is scheduled for liftoff at 11:15.
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🧑🚀 Katalyst Space acquires Atomos to accelerate in-space services
Arizona-based Katalyst completed the acquisition of Colorado-based Atomos in March for an undisclosed amount.
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Arizona-based Katalyst completed the acquisition of Colorado-based Atomos in March for an undisclosed amount.
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🧑🚀 Boeing reports progress on containing Starliner costs
Boeing executives said the company is making progress on containing the costs of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle, but offered few details on technical work.
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Boeing executives said the company is making progress on containing the costs of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle, but offered few details on technical work.
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🛰️ New Chinese Space Station Crew Lifts Off
A crew of three Chinese taikonauts lifted off this morning to the Tiangong-3 space station. Shenzhou-20 will replace the Shenzhou-19 crew who have been aboard for the past six months. […]
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A crew of three Chinese taikonauts lifted off this morning to the Tiangong-3 space station. Shenzhou-20 will replace the Shenzhou-19 crew who have been aboard for the past six months. […]
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🌌 Okapi raises 13 million euros to expand space traffic management suite
SAN FRANCISCO – German space traffic management startup Okapi:Orbits raised 13 million euros ($14.75 million) in a seed funding round announced April 24. With the new investment, Okapi will expand […]
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SAN FRANCISCO – German space traffic management startup Okapi:Orbits raised 13 million euros ($14.75 million) in a seed funding round announced April 24. With the new investment, Okapi will expand […]
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🚀 Hidden and hampered: elevating the Office of Commercial Space Transportation
Winning the new space race with China is contingent on the competitiveness of the United States commercial space industry. While the Chinese space program enjoys the full financial and regulatory […]
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Winning the new space race with China is contingent on the competitiveness of the United States commercial space industry. While the Chinese space program enjoys the full financial and regulatory […]
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🚀 NASA Engineering Sparks Innovative New Battery
Nickel-hydrogen technology is safe, durable, and long-lasting – now it’s affordable too.
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Nickel-hydrogen technology is safe, durable, and long-lasting – now it’s affordable too.
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🔭 Fear, greed and glory with Lori Garver
In this week's episode of Space Minds, Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator sits down with host David Ariosto. Garver describes what drives spaceflight-and what that means for the agency's shifting priorities.
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In this week's episode of Space Minds, Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator sits down with host David Ariosto. Garver describes what drives spaceflight-and what that means for the agency's shifting priorities.
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Long March 3B/E | Unknown Payload
🗓️ April 27, 2025 - 15:55:00 CEST
🕦 Window: 15:44:00 - 16:19:00
📝 Mission: Unknown Payload
🚀 Rocket: Long March 3
🏢 Pad: Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
💙 Status: Go for Launch
🚩 Country: China
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🗓️ April 27, 2025 - 15:55:00 CEST
🕦 Window: 15:44:00 - 16:19:00
📝 Mission: Unknown Payload
🚀 Rocket: Long March 3
🏢 Pad: Launch Complex 2 (LC-2)
💙 Status: Go for Launch
🚩 Country: China
For more information and to stay up to date on new space launches, follow our Go4Launch channel: https://t.me/go4launch
🌎 China Report: Debris risks, startup funding and previewing Space Day
China’s megaconstellation launches spark debris concerns; commercial space expands; Lightyear Explorer raises funds; key updates expected during China’s Space Day and Shenzhou-20 launch.
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China’s megaconstellation launches spark debris concerns; commercial space expands; Lightyear Explorer raises funds; key updates expected during China’s Space Day and Shenzhou-20 launch.
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🔭 NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop
The image marks what may be the first time one of the agency’s Mars orbiters has captured the rover driving. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28 — the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission — Curiosity […]
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The image marks what may be the first time one of the agency’s Mars orbiters has captured the rover driving. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28 — the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission — Curiosity […]
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