🌌 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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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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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…
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The European Space Agency’s seventh Earth Explorer mission, Biomass, will launch Tuesday aboard an Arianespace…
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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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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.
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China is exploring establishing its first overseas launch site with a proposed equatorial spaceport in Malaysia, carrying strategic, economic, and geopolitical implications.
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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
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Data architecture is paramount for Golden Dome success — and the Department of Defense is not ready
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Biomass: from Europe to French Guiana
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Head of FAA’s commercial space office takes buyout
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ACES in space
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Live coverage: ULA to launch first production Amazon Kuiper satellites on Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral
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Spire Global closes stalled $241 million maritime sale
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NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space
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NASA 3D Wind Measuring Laser Aims to Improve Forecasts from Air, Space
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Czechia Selects Experiments for Private Astronaut Mission to the ISS
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NASA Moon Observing Instrument to Get Another Shot at Lunar Ops
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How Are We Made of Star Stuff? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 58
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ESA’s Biomass mission to launch aboard Vega-C
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Pettit Wants More Spaceflights, ISS Beyond 2030
Read ➡️
China and Malaysia to study international equatorial spaceport project
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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
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A veteran NASA astronaut just back from the International Space Station believes the orbiting facility can operate well past its planned 2030 retirement date
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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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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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🛰️ First Operational Project Kuiper Satellites Reach Orbit
Weather cooperated tonight and the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket sent the first 27 operational Project Kuiper satellites into orbit for Amazon. Similar to SpaceX’s Starlink system, Project Kuiper […]
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Weather cooperated tonight and the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket sent the first 27 operational Project Kuiper satellites into orbit for Amazon. Similar to SpaceX’s Starlink system, Project Kuiper […]
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🗓️ Pic of the day: 2025 April 29
📸 Saturn's Rings Appear to Disappear
Where are Saturn's ears? Galileo is credited, in 1610, as the first person to see Saturn's rings. Testing out Lipperhey's recently co-invented telescope, Galileo did not know what they were and so called them "ears". The mystery deepened in 1612, when Saturn's ears mysteriously disappeared. Today we know exactly what happened: from the perspective of the Earth, Saturn's rings had become too thin to see. The same drama plays out every 15 years because Saturn, like Earth, undergoes tilt-driven seasons. This means that as Saturn goes around the Sun, its equator and rings can tilt noticeably toward the Sun and inner Solar System, making them easily visible, but from other orbital locations will appear almost not at all. The featured pictu...
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📸 Saturn's Rings Appear to Disappear
Where are Saturn's ears? Galileo is credited, in 1610, as the first person to see Saturn's rings. Testing out Lipperhey's recently co-invented telescope, Galileo did not know what they were and so called them "ears". The mystery deepened in 1612, when Saturn's ears mysteriously disappeared. Today we know exactly what happened: from the perspective of the Earth, Saturn's rings had become too thin to see. The same drama plays out every 15 years because Saturn, like Earth, undergoes tilt-driven seasons. This means that as Saturn goes around the Sun, its equator and rings can tilt noticeably toward the Sun and inner Solar System, making them easily visible, but from other orbital locations will appear almost not at all. The featured pictu...
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© Natan Fontes
☄️ In the Starlight: Jason Phillips’ Unexpected Path to Johnson Procurement
Sometimes an unexpected turn in a carefully planned career path leads to surprising opportunities for growth and exciting new experiences. For Jason Phillips, that turn steered toward NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Phillips joined the U.S. Air Force in 1994 and planned to serve for at least 20 years, but in 2010—while preparing for […]
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Sometimes an unexpected turn in a carefully planned career path leads to surprising opportunities for growth and exciting new experiences. For Jason Phillips, that turn steered toward NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Phillips joined the U.S. Air Force in 1994 and planned to serve for at least 20 years, but in 2010—while preparing for […]
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🛰️ ESA’s Biomass mission launches on Vega-C
ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 29 April 2025 at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).
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ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 29 April 2025 at 11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).
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