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Meteors and Satellite Trails over the Limay River

By |2025-06-14T12:44:30-04:00June 14th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What are all those streaks in the sky? A galaxy, many satellite trails, and a few meteors. First, far in the distance, the majestic band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs down the left. Mirroring it on the right are several parallel trails of Earth-orbiting Starlink satellites. Many fainter satellite [...]

SpaceX CRS-22 Cargo Dragon Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-06-03T14:37:40-04:00June 3rd, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

SpaceX's 22nd ISS resupply mission on behalf of NASA and the first under the CRS-2 contract, this mission brings essential supplies to the International Space Station using the cargo variant of SpaceX's new Dragon 2 spacecraft. Cargo includes several science experiments, and the external payload is the first two ISS Roll Out Solar Arrays (iROSA). [...]

SpaceX Starlink 28 Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-05-26T16:52:01-04:00May 26th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Starlink-28 will lift off from SLC-40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on a Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks following deployment, the 60 Starlink satellites will use their onboard ion thrusters to reach their operational altitude of 550 km.This will be the 2nd flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster B1063. #SpaceX #Starlink #olhznlive❤❤ [...]

SpaceX Starlink 25 Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-05-04T16:42:18-04:00May 4th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Starlink-25 will lift off from LC-39A. Cape Canaveral, on a Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks following deployment, the 60 Starlink satellites will use their onboard ion thrusters to reach their operational altitude of 550 km.This will be the 9th flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster B1049. #SpaceX #Starlink #olhznlive❤❤ EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FOR MEMBERS [...]

SpaceX Starlink 23 Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-04-07T14:43:39-04:00April 7th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Starlink-23 will lift off from SLC-40. Cape Canaveral, on a Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks following deployment, the 60 Starlink satellites will use their onboard ion thrusters to reach their operational altitude of 550 km.This will be the 7th flight of B1058. B1058 holds the bragging rights for launching the first crewed orbital mission [...]

SpaceX Starlink 17 Launch 🔴 [FEB 28 SCRUB]

By |2021-02-28T21:58:53-05:00February 28th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The 17th operational batch of Starlink satellites (18th overall) will lift off from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center, on a Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks following deployment the Starlink satellites will use onboard ion thrusters to reach their operational altitude of 550 km. Falcon 9's first stage will attempt to land on a [...]

SpaceX Transporter-1 Rocket Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-01-24T12:13:57-05:00January 24th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This is a launch to sun-synchronous polar orbit from Florida as part of SpaceX's Rideshare program dedicated to smallsat customers. The mission again makes use of the Eastern Range's recently reopened polar corridor launching southward with a dogleg maneuver. The mission will also include 10 Starlink satellites, the first to go to a polar orbit. [...]

SpaceX Transporter-1 Rocket Launch 🔴 [JAN. 23 SCRUB]

By |2021-01-23T10:11:07-05:00January 23rd, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This launch attempt was scrubbed. Next attempt will be here: https://youtu.be/-xWqZse3xUAThis is a launch to sun-synchronous polar orbit from Florida as part of SpaceX's Rideshare program dedicated to smallsat customers. The mission again makes use of the Eastern Range's recently reopened polar corridor launching southward with a dogleg maneuver. The mission will also include 10 [...]

SpaceX Starlink 16 Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-01-20T09:04:38-05:00January 20th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

The 16th operational batch of Starlink satellites (17th overall) will lift off from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket. In the weeks following deployment the Starlink satellites will use onboard ion thrusters to reach their operational altitude of 550 km. Falcon 9's first stage will attempt to land [...]

SpaceX Türksat 5A Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-01-07T22:18:37-05:00January 7th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

SpaceX will launch the first of two next generation satellites on contract for Türksat. Türksat 5A is a Ku-band broadcast satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space and based on the Electric Orbit Raising version of the Eurostar E3000 platform. This spacecraft will be delivered into a transfer orbit and will then raise itself to [...]

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