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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-75
🗓️ May 1, 2025 - 02:17:00 CEST

🕦 Window: 02:17:00 - 06:48:00
📝 Mission: Starlink Group 6-75
🚀 Rocket: Falcon 9
🏢 Pad: Space Launch Complex 40
📖 Program: Starlink
💙 Status: To Be Confirmed
🚩 Country: United States of America



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🧑‍🚀 Biomass poised for liftoff to unveil forest secrets

After years of careful design and preparation, ESA’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite is set for launch tomorrow, 29 April at 11:15 CEST, aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

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🧑‍🚀 Data architecture is paramount for Golden Dome success — and the Department of Defense is not ready


President Trump recognizes the grave threats posed by adversary ballistic and hypersonic missiles and has issued mandates for the Department of Defense to deploy a “Golden Dome” defense shield for […]
The post Data architecture is paramount for Golden Dome success — and the Department of Defense is not ready appeared first on SpaceNews.

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🔭 Biomass: from Europe to French Guiana

ESA’s Biomass satellite has been at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana since early March, undergoing final preparations for launch aboard a Vega-C rocket. This timelapse video captures key stages of its journey — from its arrival in Kourou to its installation in the launch tower.

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🌌 Head of FAA’s commercial space office takes buyout


The head of the Federal Aviation Administration’s commercial space transportation office is leaving the agency through a deferred resignation program.
The post Head of FAA’s commercial space office takes buyout appeared first on SpaceNews.

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☄️ ACES in space

The Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES), ESA’s state-of-the-art timekeeping facility, is now installed on the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station. This still image, captured by external cameras on the Station, shows ACES after installation. For 25 years, cameras on the Station have documented activities in orbit, providing real-time views of operations like this one – a rare and remarkable perspective from space. 

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🌌 Live coverage: ULA to launch first production Amazon Kuiper satellites on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral

The rescheduled mission comes following the April 9 scrub due to poor weather and a period on the Eastern Range marked by a noted lack of orbital launches. Liftoff from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is targeting Monday, April 28, at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 UTC).

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🌌 Spire Global closes stalled $241 million maritime sale


Satellite operator Spire Global has closed the $241 million sale of its commercial maritime tracking business to Belgian analytics provider Kpler, ending a legal dispute over the stalled transaction.
The post Spire Global closes stalled $241 million maritime sale appeared first on SpaceNews.

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🌌 NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space

Since last fall, NASA scientists have flown an advanced 3D Doppler wind lidar instrument across the United States to collect nearly 100 hours of data — including a flight through a hurricane. The goal? To demonstrate the unique capability of the Aerosol Wind Profiler (AWP) instrument to gather extremely precise measurements of wind direction, wind […]

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🚀 NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space

Since last fall, NASA scientists have flown an advanced 3D Doppler wind lidar instrument across the United States to collect nearly 100 hours of data — including a flight through a hurricane. The goal? To demonstrate the unique capability of the Aerosol Wind Profiler (AWP) instrument to gather extremely precise measurements of wind direction, wind […]

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🚀 Czechia Selects Experiments for Private Astronaut Mission to the ISS

The Czech Ministry of Transport has selected 14 experiments to be conducted by Aleš Svoboda during an Axiom-managed mission to the International Space Station. In September 2024, the Czech government signed an agreement with the US-based commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space. Under the agreement, Aleš Svoboda, one of the twelve ESA astronaut reserves selected in […]
The post Czechia Selects Experiments for Private Astronaut Mission to the ISS appeared first on European Spaceflight.

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🌎 NASA Moon Observing Instrument to Get Another Shot at Lunar Ops

A NASA-developed technology that recently proved its capabilities in the harsh environment of space will soon head back to the Moon to search for gases trapped under the lunar surface thanks to a new Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between NASA and commercial company Magna Petra Corp. The Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operations (MSOLO) successfully […]

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🛰️ How Are We Made of Star Stuff? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 58

How are we made of star stuff? Well, the important thing to understand about this question is that it’s not an analogy, it’s literally true. The elements in our bodies, the elements that make up our bones, the trees we see outside, the other planets in the solar system, other stars in the galaxy. These […]

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🛰️ ESA’s Biomass mission to launch aboard Vega-C

The European Space Agency’s seventh Earth Explorer mission, Biomass, will launch Tuesday aboard an Arianespace…
The post ESA’s Biomass mission to launch aboard Vega-C appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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🚀 Pettit Wants More Spaceflights, ISS Beyond 2030

After just coming back from seven months on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Don Pettit insists there is no reason to “dump” it into the ocean in 2030.  It […]

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🔭 China and Malaysia to study international equatorial spaceport project


China is exploring establishing its first overseas launch site with a proposed equatorial spaceport in Malaysia, carrying strategic, economic, and geopolitical implications.
The post China and Malaysia to study international equatorial spaceport project appeared first on SpaceNews.

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🚀 Space News Recap
Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 28

Biomass poised for liftoff to unveil forest secrets
Read ➡️

Data architecture is paramount for Golden Dome success — and the Department of Defense is not ready
Read ➡️

Biomass: from Europe to French Guiana
Read ➡️

Head of FAA’s commercial space office takes buyout
Read ➡️

ACES in space
Read ➡️

Live coverage: ULA to launch first production Amazon Kuiper satellites on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral
Read ➡️

Spire Global closes stalled $241 million maritime sale
Read ➡️

NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space
Read ➡️

NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space
Read ➡️

Czechia Selects Experiments for Private Astronaut Mission to the ISS
Read ➡️

NASA Moon Observing Instrument to Get Another Shot at Lunar Ops
Read ➡️

How Are We Made of Star Stuff? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 58
Read ➡️

ESA’s Biomass mission to launch aboard Vega-C
Read ➡️

Pettit Wants More Spaceflights, ISS Beyond 2030
Read ➡️

China and Malaysia to study international equatorial spaceport project
Read ➡️
Space News pinned «🚀 Space News Recap Here's what happened in space today 2025 April 28 Biomass poised for liftoff to unveil forest secrets Read ➡️ Data architecture is paramount for Golden Dome success — and the Department of Defense is not ready Read ➡️ Biomass: from Europe…»
🧑‍🚀 Veteran NASA astronaut says ISS can operate past 2030


A veteran NASA astronaut just back from the International Space Station believes the orbiting facility can operate well past its planned 2030 retirement date
The post Veteran NASA astronaut says ISS can operate past 2030 appeared first on SpaceNews.

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☄️ Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center

The mission is the second planned Falcon 9 launch for SpaceX in the span of six hours. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is targeting 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UTC).

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