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SpaceX Starlink Mission
On Sunday, January 29 at 9:57 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-7-12
SpaceX Starlink Mission
On Sunday, January 28 at 8:10 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This is the 18th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, Inspiration4, Ax-1, Nilesat 301, OneWeb Launch 17, ARABSAT BADR-8, and now 11 Starlink missions.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-6-38
Photographer snaps extremely rare 'green flash' coming from Venus
Jan 29, 2024
Venus briefly flashed a shimmering green light in the night sky above Sweden, new footage reveals. The rarely seen phenomenon is almost identical to the ethereal green flashes that are occasionally seen around the sun during sunrises and sunsets.
Photographer Peter Rosén captured the colorful flash coming from one of our closest planetary neighbors while he was watching Venus rise above the horizon in Stockholm in the early hours of Jan. 8, Spaceweather.com reported.
The bright flash, which lasted for around a second, was an "unexpected bonus" that added to what was already an awe-inspiring experience, Rosén told Spaceweather.com.
Similar green flashes are occasionally seen coming from the sun as the sun rises above an ocean horizon. The light shows are caused by light from the celestial objects being refracted, or split apart, as it passes through our planet's atmosphere.
Visible light is made up of different wavelengths of colored light, which collectively give the rays a white color. But when light from the sun shines through Earth's atmosphere, the individual wavelengths get partially refracted by gas molecules. This happens all the time: For example, the daytime sky appears blue because blue wavelengths scatter more than any other wavelength.
However, with the right conditions, such as clear skies, light from the sun and nearby planets can fully separate, especially when they are positioned near the horizon because the light has to travel through more of the atmosphere to reach the observer.
When this happens, shorter wavelengths of light, such as blues and violets, are scattered the most, while longer wavelengths, like reds, oranges and yellows, are more readily absorbed by molecules in the atmosphere. As a result, mid-length green wavelengths are sometimes the only colors that reach an observer. However, the angle has to be just right for this to happen, which is why it only appears to the observer as a brief flash.
In the recent footage of Venus, green is the most prominent color that flashes from the planet. But if you look closely you can also see yellow, orange, red and blue light shimmer around as well.
In some circumstances, ice crystals can also refract sunlight in the atmosphere to create rainbow-colored clouds and halos of light around the sun or moon. The same effect can also create rainbow rings around objects as light is refracted by large grains of floating pollen.
Green flashes have been spotted coming from Venus a handful of times before. Similar green flashes have also been captured in images of Mercury and the moon.
But unlike green flashes around the sun, which appear more frequently in the clear air above the ocean, these light shows are more commonly seen through extremely cold air, which magnifies the effect. This means planetary flashes are not so tightly constrained to the horizon, according to Spaceweather.com.
https://www.space.com/photographer-green-flash-from-venus
SLIM moon lander revived after solar power setback
January 29, 2024
Japan’s SLIM moon lander has resumed operations more than a week after its imperfect yet historic lunar landing.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed contact had been reestablished with the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft late Jan. 28. The development comes just days ahead of a likely mission-ending sunset.
The large SUV-sized spacecraft was forced to power down just two over hours after landing Jan. 19 due to its solar cell not generating electricity. SLIM finally powered up again as the position of the sun in the sky changed, finally illuminated SLIM’s solar cell.
The spacecraft suffered a malfunction during descent that resulted in an unintended attitude upon landing and solar panels facing away from the sun.
JAXA stated via X, formerly known as Twitter, that science observations were immediately started with SLIM’s multiband spectroscopic camera (MBC), adding 10-band observations were made. The agency imaged a feature of a rock dubbed “toy poodle” observed by the multi-band observation.
The first hints that SLIM had been revived came from Germany-based amateur radio satellite organization AMSAT-DL. Its Bochum observatory detected a signal later confirmed to be SLIM engaged in a downlink with ground stations.
The sun will set over Shioli crater early Eastern Jan. 31, meaning SLIM has limited time to charge its batteries and conduct science observations.
Neither SLIM nor its rovers carry radioisotope heater units. Thus they are not expected to survive the lunar nighttime, when temperatures will drop to around minus 130 Celsius.
MBC aboard SLIM will attempt to make observations that could generate useful lunar science data. Katherine Joy, a Reader in Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester, told SpaceNews ahead of the landing that the target site is located on an ejecta blanket of a much larger, roughly 100 km diameter, impact crater called Theophilus.
https://spacenews.com/slim-moon-lander-revived-after-solar-power-setback/
I was shown alien bodies held at a secret Nasa base – they had big heads but looked like us, claims Uri Geller
Updated: 16:21, 27 Jan 2024
He claimed the bodies were kept inside a "massive" and refrigerated room deep below Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre, which is about 10km northeast of Washington DC, in Greenbelt, Maryland in the US.
Uri said German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun and astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, brought him to a concrete building at the base.
Three flights of stairs below the building, he claims to have seen about eight bodies - some of which were "not intact but mangled" - in glass containers.
He said: "Before we went in von Braun asked me to put on an orange, Antarctic-style warm coat - with the circular blue NASA logo on it - and he also put one on too.
"Inside it smelled like a hospital.
"I could see what looked like heavy, glass containers, with lifeless bodies lying inside them.
"It was a shocking sight! Like when you see an accident that has happened, and you feel like something has hit you in the stomach."
The transparent containers the "aliens" were kept in were thick and triple-glazed, Uri said.
Inside the "coffins" - which were supposedly misted with frost along the edges and corners - were thin and frail-looking, small-bodied creatures with big heads, according to the magician.
He claimed: "They looked uncannily like us -enough for me to feel repulsed and sorry for seeing these 'victims'.
"They had either been severely injured or had decomposed a lot. But not all."
The famous self-proclaimed psychic also took a chance to hit back at his detractors, stating none of their "cynical and sceptical scoffing comments" would change would he saw.
It is not the first time Uri has shared controversial claims about his supposed dealings with aliens.
In 2021, he said he had been secretly working with Americans for years to contact extraterrestrial beings and had even been shown a piece of a crashed UFO.
He said at the time: "For years I had to deny my true mission and camouflage my work.
"Few people know the truth. I presume all world leaders do - Obama, Trump, Netanyahu - we are communicating with ET."
Uri said that when he first met aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, the rocket designer took an object from a safe and presented it to him and claimed it was a piece from a crashed UFO.
The magician said: "He wanted me to tell him what I felt from the material. I felt it wasn’t terrestrial - it was metallic, elongated and had a hue I have never seen before.
He said the material felt "like it was alive" and "breathing".
Uri's bold new claims come after US officials indicated there is something in the skies, with suggestions they were now considered a threat to national security worth discussing even at the highest levels of government.
Nasa released a groundbreaking UFO report in September which looked at how data about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, is collected across the US government and private sectors.
In July, a new office in the Pentagon, founded to allow servicemen the ability to report UAPs without fear of retaliation, revealed nearly half of the sightings reported were strange and required further investigation.
Eerie film footage supposedly showing a dead alien that had been discovered following the Roswell UFO crash in 1947 fooled the world for a decade before Spyros Melaris revealed in 2018 that it was faked.
Even a CIA scientist thought the fake alien autopsy was real, a bizarre leaked memo revealed.
The 2001 document claimed former CIA scientist Kit Green was "briefed three different times during and after his tenure at CIA on topics relevant to UFOs and the Roswell Incident Alien Autopsy”.
The memo, which was believed to have been leaked from the archives of late astronaut Edgar Mitchell, stated: "After Kit left the CIA he was called into the Pentagon by a person in uniform.
"This person showed Kit the alien autopsy photos and reports etc. The photos of the alien cadaver Kit saw were consistent with the cadaver seen in the 1995 Santilli film/video.
"Kit was asked to professional evaluate the material provided to him at this particular briefing."
Green provided his professional evaluation of the footage in January 2001, according to the leaked document.
A summary of his evaluation stated: "The Alien Autopsy film/video is real, the alien cadaver is real, and the cadaver seen in the film/video is the same as the photos Kit saw at the 1987/88 Pentagon briefing."
The strange video was released to the world by Brit entrepreneur Ray Santilli, who claimed he obtained it in 1992 from a retired US military cameraman while seeking archive footage of Elvis Presley in the US.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25544781/aliens-secret-nasa-base-uri-geller/