Launch Info @LaunchInfo

Today the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be launched on top of a @SpaceX #FalconHeavy from #Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in #Florida, #USA. Lift-off is scheduled for 11:26 UTC, 07:26 EDT, 13:26 CET. @elonmusk @NASA @NASAKennedy @NASAScience_ youtube.com/live/9wq3VHsL_…

Falcon Heavy in the hangar at pad 39A in Florida ahead of Sunday’s launch of @NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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I'm wondering if the Chinese launch market will have a similar shakeout as the US market did

CNSPACE @CNSpaceflight

4 days ago

LINKSPACE, the startup that made the first hop test in China, is allegedly out of business.

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Pictured below, Seth Weil, Staff Test Engineer at Stratolaunch, celebrates his inaugural flight. According to Seth, “The flight was amazing, a proper career milestone for me. I was fortunate enough to have great mentors who trained me for over a year to get to this point, and I did not want to let them down! Most people don't realize that there is a team of 15 engineers in our control room backing up all our decisions and actions, so it's a quintessential team effort!” #Teamwork #Stratolaunch #Hypersonic

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This morning’s @SpaceX mission from pad 40 was the last planned Falcon 9 Starlink launch from Florida (and it launched on the fleet leading booster!!), marking the end of an era for these launches on the East Coast. From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship. The West Coast team will continue regularly launching Starlink from Vandenberg.   Super proud of this incredible team. You’ve made Falcon 9 the most reliable launch vehicle in history. You also helped build the largest low-Earth orbit satellite constellation providing connectivity to millions around the world, and you’ve set the foundation for what’s next.   In the last seven years, Falcon has flown ~260 Starlink missions from the Cape… can’t wait until we launch that and many more with Starship!

Pre-flight testing with Hungry Hippo is underway 🦛 We're opening and closing the Hippo's two permanently attached fairing halves under flight-like conditions to simulate how they'll perform for Stage 2 deployment and Neutron's return to Earth. After testing, Hippo will return to its hangar and wait to be attached with Neutron's interstage when it arrives in Virginia.

I see lots of Chinese space fans saying this was going to fly again later this year.

CNSPACE @CNSpaceflight

a week ago

Photo from another angle confirms the Zhuque-3 Y2 booster tipped over

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Day 190 orbit 2945 — Woohoo! First spacewalk: ✅ You could probably hear it in my voice over the radio, but I L-O-V-E-D working in the vacuum of space! It's truly an adventure within the adventure, made all the more special because it's a team effort. 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀 Only two of us go outside, but we're supported by a huge team: Mission Control in Houston, with @AstroAnnimal as our voice link on the radio, not to mention our crewmates aboard the Station. We know how much time and energy went into planning every task, testing every possible scenario, preparing backup plans B, C and D for contingencies, and being ready to adapt the objectives in real time if needed. There may be only two of us in spacesuits, but we're backed by the work, expertise and collective experience of hundreds of people, and that makes an EVA even more intense! I was also very happy to share this spacewalk with @astro_anil. We already knew it from training together in the NBL, but this EVA confirmed just how complementary we are. We each have our own strengths, and that allowed us to overcome challenges efficiently and in good spirits. We were extremely well prepared, which was a really good thing, because not everything went exactly as planned! DIY enthusiasts, mechanics, and anyone who does hands-on work knows that there's sometimes a gap between theory 📚 and practice 🛠️. Sometimes you have to try several approaches before finding the right one, and sometimes you simply have to put all your strength and energy into it. During a spacewalk, it's exactly the same! 🚀 🎥 Screengrab from Anil's helmet camera Credit: @esa / @NASA #εpsilon • @esaspaceflight • @Space_Station • @NASAJohnson

I wonder where this announcer is today

Introducing GHOST. We’ve mastered the art of building launch sites. Now we’re making them deployable worldwide. GHOST = Global Hypersonic & Orbital Spaceport Technology. A containerized, deployable launch site system that enables Electron and HASTE launches anywhere, anytime. Missile defense. Responsive launch. Sovereign launch capability. Delivered where it's needed most. Coming soon across two pads in Alaska in 2027.

We’re built to accelerate U.S. leadership in hypersonics. At Stratolaunch, we operate the Talon-A, an autonomous, reusable, air-launched hypersonic platform, which enables replication of operational complexity and adapts to real-time flight. Watch as the Talon-A comes in for a completely autonomous landing. #Hypersonic #Autonomous #Stratolaunch #Talon

@BarbaraJo647020 @MarcusHouse I think it is really hot, not so cool...😅

Apparently they tow it tail first. @SpaceX #Starship. I heard the trip back to Australia takes about a month... or was it one month to get back to #Starbase? I heard that somewhere.

jacobruh 🚀 @jrxcket

4 weeks ago

SATELLITE IMAGES OF SHIP 40 BEING TOWED BY NORMAND RANGER!!! 👀🔥🔥 📸: Vantor via CNN

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@ScottLikedSLS This is made with AI.

Emergency crews in Spain are fighting to shield NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex from wildfires. Robledo de Chavela is 1 of only 3 sites in NASA’s Deep Space Network that provides 24/7 global coverage for spacecraft & tool the 1st image of earth from the apollo 11

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@DJSnM Where can I find a video of the Pegasus launch?

🚀 Watch the full replay of #VA269. Relive Ariane 6's successful mission carrying 36 Amazon Leo satellites into orbit. 🔥 First flight with P160C boosters 📦 Heaviest Ariane payload ever #LaunchingAmbitions #Ariane6 #VA269 @AmazonLeo @ArianeGroup @esa @CNES @EuropeSpacePort

We are standing down from today’s launch attempt. We are still detecting off nominal behavior in the vehicle's fluid systems, the teams are analyzing the new data to isolate the root cause.

@planet4589 Do you know how many satellites have to be launched to make this constellation complete? And how many launches that would require?

Day 109, orbit 1691 — So happy to see my little plants 🌱 growing as part of the @CNES ChlorISS experiment! More than 260,000 students also took part in this educational project from their classrooms, exploring the influence of light and the effects of gravity on plant growth. I hope the students had a great time, enjoyed learning about the scientific method and that ChlorISS sparked their curiosity. Congratulations to everyone 👏 and a big thank you to all the teachers who embarked on this adventure! This timelapse video shows the very first step of the experiment: watering each substrate to trigger germination. 🙏 Special thanks to all the teams behind #ChlorISS: CNES, Sorbonne University, the French Ministry of Education, the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, and ESA! 🎥 @esa / @NASA Edited by @CNES #εpsilon • @esaspaceflight •  @Space_Station • @NASAJohnson