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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
September 6, 2025
Sardinia Sunset
When the sun sets on September 7, the Full Moon will rise. And on that date denizens around much of our fair planet, including parts of Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa can witness a total lunar eclipse, with the Moon completely immersed in Earth's shadow. As the bright Full Moon first enters Earth's shadow it will darken, finally taking on a reddish hue during the total eclipse phase. In fact, the color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse is due to reddened light from sunrises and sunsets around planet Earth. The reddened sunlight is scattered by a dense atmosphere into the planet's otherwise dark central shadow. When the sun set on August 22, this telephoto snapshot of red skies, blue sea, and the Mangiabarche Lighthouse was captured from Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, Italy.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Another “Save NASA” Protest At NASA HQ on Monday
September 5, 2025
There will be another “Save NASA” protest at NASA Headquarters on Monday Sept. 15th. This is the third “Save NASA” protest in Washington, DC. More below
The organizers say: “we are a peaceful protest group, and we stand in solidarity with other scientific advocacy groups.
This protest intends to raise public awareness and provide information about present and near-future cuts at NASA, and to urge Congress to pass a budget that funds our science and exploration programs before the fiscal year boundary.
We also want NASA leadership to stop undermining NASA’s fundamental principles of science and exploration for the sake of human kind, to stop illegal terminations, and to fulfill their oath to support the Constitution and be faithful to the American people.”
Current NASA leadership, acting on the President’s and OMB’s proposed budget, has already greatly reduced the Agency’s capabilities, by removing thousands of civil servants and contractors with invaluable knowledge and expertise that would otherwise enable them to continue to serve the US. Simultaneously they are declaring the Agency will win the current Space Race.
To win the first Space Race to the Moon, NASA was prioritized and appropriated $68 billion in 1965 alone (adjusted for inflation).
In 2026, with goals to reach Mars, NASA’s proposed budget is only $18.8 billion.
Some of the cuts to NASA science involve turning off spacecraft that are already in space and actively sending back data. NASA contributes to agriculture, weather predictions, and safety.
Without NASA Earth science, early detection for natural disasters and forecasting would be imprecise and difficult and could cost human lives.
Current protest details are listed below, and we have secured a protest permit.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/nasaneedshelp
Date: Monday, September 15, 2025, from 8AM-1PM ET
Location: Outside NASA Headquarters (300 E. St. SW, Washington, D.C., 20546)
https://nasawatch.com/activism/another-save-nasa-protest-at-nasa-hq-on-monday/
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NASA Seeks Industry Input on Next Phase of Commercial Space Stations
Sep 05, 2025
NASA is requesting feedback from American companies on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy to ensure a seamless transition of activities in low Earth orbit from the International Space Station.
The agency released a draft Phase 2 Announcement for Partnership Proposals (AFPP) Friday, asking for feedback from industry partners by 1 p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 12.
NASA will hold an informational industry briefing on Monday, Sept. 8, to provide a top-level summary of the documents and expectations.
Under the direction of acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, the agency reassessed the commercial space stations acquisition strategy to ensure mission continuity, affordability, and national alignment, and to reduce the potential for a gap of a crew-capable platform in low Earth orbit.
“NASA has led in low Earth orbit for 25 years and counting. Now, as we prepare for deorbiting the International Space Station in 2030, we’re calling on our commercial space partners to maintain this historic human presence,” Duffy said.
“The American space industry is booming. Insight from these innovative companies will be invaluable as we work to chart the next phase of commercial space stations.”
In Phase 2, NASA intends to support industry’s design and demonstration of commercial stations through multiple funded Space Act Agreements, selected through a full and open competition.
“NASA is committed to continuing our partnership with industry to ensure a continuity in low Earth orbit,” said Angela Hart, manager, Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Program at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
“The work done under our Phase 1 contracts and agreements have put us in a prime position to be successful for this next funded Space Act Agreement phase.
By leveraging these agreements, we provide additional flexibility to our commercial partners to define the best path forward to provide NASA a safe and affordable crewed demonstration.”
The Phase 2 agreements are expected to include funded milestones leading to critical design review readiness and an in-space crewed demonstration of four crew members for a minimum of 30 days. Agreements are expected to include up to a five-year period of performance.
The agency’s phased approach will culminate in a follow-on Phase 3 using Federal Acquisition Regulation-based contract(s) to purchase station services through a full and open competition.
This final phase will also provide formal design acceptance and certification, ensuring the commercial stations meet NASA’s safety requirements.
NASA remains committed to fostering innovation and collaboration within the American space industry.
The agency’s commercial strategy for low Earth orbit will provide the government with reliable and safe services at a lower cost, enabling the agency to focus on the next step in humanity’s exploration of the solar system while also continuing to use low Earth orbit as an ideal environment for training and a proving ground for Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars.
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space/leo-economy/nasa-seeks-industry-input-on-next-phase-of-commercial-space-stations/
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/commercial-space/low-earth-orbit-economy/commercial-destinations-in-low-earth-orbit/
https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/080ae9f595d9490d982efb0f4842a0fc/view
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https://www.nasa.gov/missions/analog-field-testing/chapea/nasa-announces-chapea-crew-for-year-long-mars-mission-simulation/
NASA Announces CHAPEA Crew for Year-Long Mars Mission Simulation
Sep 05, 2025
Four research volunteers will soon participate in NASA’s year-long simulation of a Mars mission inside a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
This mission will provide NASA with foundational data to inform human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Ross Elder, Ellen Ellis, Matthew Montgomery, and James Spicer enter into the 1,700-square-foot Mars Dune Alpha habitat on Sunday, Oct. 19, to begin their mission.
The team will live and work like astronauts for 378 days, concluding their mission on Oct. 31, 2026. Emily Phillips and Laura Marie serve as the mission’s alternate crew members.
Through a series of Earth-based missions called CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), carried out in the 3D-printed habitat, NASA aims to evaluate certain human health and performance factors ahead of future Mars missions.
The crew will undergo realistic resource limitations, equipment failures, communication delays, isolation and confinement, and other stressors, along with simulated high-tempo extravehicular activities.
These scenarios allow NASA to make informed trades between risks and interventions for long-duration exploration missions.
“As NASA gears up for crewed Artemis missions, CHAPEA and other ground analogs are helping to determine which capabilities could best support future crews in overcoming the human health and performance challenges of living and operating beyond Earth’s resources – all before we send humans to Mars,” said Sara Whiting, project scientist with NASA’s Human Research Program at NASA Johnson.
Crew members will carry out scientific research and operational tasks, including simulated Mars walks, growing a vegetable garden, robotic operations, and more.
Technologies specifically designed for Mars and deep space exploration will also be tested, including a potable water dispenser and diagnostic medical equipment.
“The simulation will allow us to collect cognitive and physical performance data to give us more insight into the potential impacts of the resource restrictions and long-duration missions to Mars on crew health and performance,” said Grace Douglas, CHAPEA principal investigator.
“Ultimately, this information will help NASA make informed decisions to design and plan for a successful human mission to Mars.”
This mission, facilitated by NASA’s Human Research Program, is the second one-year Mars surface simulation conducted through CHAPEA. The first mission concluded on July 6, 2024.
The Human Research Program pursues methods and technologies to support safe, productive human space travel.
Through applied research conducted in laboratories, simulations, and aboard the International Space Station, the program investigates the effects spaceflight has on human bodies and behaviors to keep astronauts healthy and mission-ready.
Primary Crew
Ross Elder, Commander
Ross Elder, from Williamstown, West Virginia, is a major and experimental test pilot in the United States Air Force. At the time of his selection, he served as the director of operations of the 461st Flight Test Squadron.
He has piloted over 35 military aircraft and accumulated more than 1,800 flying hours, including 200 combat hours, primarily in the F-35, F-15E/EX, F-16, and A-10C.
His flight test experience focuses on envelope expansion, crewed-uncrewed teaming, artificial intelligence, autonomy, mission systems, and weapons modernization.
Elder earned a Bachelor of Science in astronautical engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and commissioned as an Air Force officer upon graduation.
He earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs and a master’s degree in flight test engineering from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Ellen Ellis, Medical Officer
Ellen Ellis, from North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is a colonel and an acquisitions officer in the United States Space Force. She currently serves as a senior materiel leader in the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Communications Systems Directorate.
She is responsible for fielding commercial cloud and traditional information technology hosting solutions and building modernized data centers for the NRO.
She previously served as an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile operations officer and GPS satellite engineer, and she also developed geospatial intelligence payloads and ground processing systems.
She earned a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering at Syracuse University in New York and holds four master’s degrees, including a Master of Science in systems engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in California, and a Master of Science in emergency and disaster management from Georgetown University in Washington.
Matthew Montgomery, Science Officer
Matthew Montgomery, from Los Angeles, is a hardware engineering design consultant who works with technology startup companies to develop, commercialize, and scale their products.
His focus areas include LED lighting, robotics, controlled environment agriculture, and embedded control systems. Montgomery earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida.
He is also a founder and co-owner of Floating Lava Studios, a film production company based in Los Angeles.
James Spicer, Flight Engineer
James Spicer is a technical director in the aerospace and defense industry.
His experience includes building radio and optical satellite communications networks; space data relay networks for human spaceflight; position, navigation, and timing research; and hands-on spacecraft design, integration, and tests.
Spicer earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in aeronautics and astronautics, and holds a Notation in Science Communication from Stanford University in California. He also holds commercial pilot and glider pilot licenses.
Alternate Crew
Emily Phillips
Emily Phillips, from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, is a captain and pilot in the United States Marine Corps.
She currently serves as a forward air controller and air officer attached to an infantry battalion stationed at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California.
Phillips earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and commissioned as a Marine Corps officer upon graduation.
She attended flight school, earning her Naval Aviator wings and qualifying as an F/A-18C Hornet pilot. Phillips has completed multiple deployments to Europe and Southeast Asia.
Laura Marie
Born in the United Kingdom, Laura Marie immigrated to the U.S. in 2016. She is a commercial airline pilot specializing in flight safety, currently operating passenger flights in Washington.
Marie began her aviation career in 2019 and has amassed over 2,800 flight hours. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and a Master of Science in aeronautics from Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
In addition to her Airline Transport Pilot License, she also possesses flight instructor and advanced ground instructor licenses. Outside the flight deck, Marie dedicates her time to mentoring and supporting aspiring pilots as they navigate their careers.
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NASA Wallops to Support Launch Operations Sept. 5-19
September 5, 2025
A suborbital rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a window extending from Sept. 5-19, 2025.
The launch will not be live streamed, and updates will not be provided during the countdown.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/wallops/2025/09/05/nasa-wallops-to-support-launch-operations-sept-5-19/
https://www.youtube.com/@NASAWallops
Space Biomedical Research Wraps Week as Station Gears Up for Two Cargo Missions
September 5, 2025
Space-based production of human tissues and preventing space-caused head and eye pressure were the main research topics at the end of the week for the Expedition 73 crew.
The International Space Station is also gearing up for a pair cargo missions this month supplying the orbital residents with food, fuel, science experiments, and more.
The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft delivered bioprinted liver tissues to the orbital outpost on Aug. 25 to help researchers understand how microgravity affects the formation of blood vessels in engineered tissue.
Flight Engineers Zena Cardman of NASA and Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency took turns on Friday processing the bioprinted tissue samples for placement inside an artificial gravity-generating research device. Researchers are monitoring how the tissues progress and develop over several weeks in weightlessness to gain new health insights.
Result may lead to advanced treatments protecting astronauts on long-duration spaceflights and improve bioprinting techniques for patient therapies on Earth.
A common symptom of living in space is called “puffy face” where an astronaut’s face appears swollen and redder. This results from blood pooling toward an astronaut’s head potentially leading to eye structure and vision changes.
NASA Flight Engineers Mike Fincke and Jonny Kim joined each other in the Columbus laboratory module and tested a specialized thigh cuff that may counteract the fluid shifts in weightlessness and reduce pressure on a crew member’s head and eyes.
Fincke wore the thigh cuff as Kim measured his blood pressure and scanned his veins with the Ultrasound 2 device while chest electrodes collected cardiac data. A variety of other space station medical tools and techniques are used throughout the investigation to understand how an astronaut’s eyes, heart, and blood vessels respond to the thigh cuff.
Roscosmos Flight Engineer Oleg Platonov wrapped up a 24-hour session wearing sensors measuring his blood pressure and heart rate.
Doctors were monitoring his cardiac activity as he worked, exercised, then slept for their ongoing biomedical research in microgravity.
Station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky set up the TORU, or tele-robotically operated rendezvous unit, simulator they will train on soon inside the Zvezda service module.
The duo will practice remote-controlled spacecraft rendezvous techniques on the TORU simulator in the unlikely event an approaching Roscosmos spacecraft is unable to dock to the orbital outpost on its own.
The training comes ahead of the launch of the Progress 93 cargo craft scheduled for 11:54 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 11 to deliver about three tons of cargo to the Expedition 73 crew two days later.
One day after the Progress 93 docks to Zvezda’s aft port, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo craft will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:11 p.m. on Sept. 14 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Cygnus XL, carrying over 11,000 pounds of new science and supplies, will orbit Earth for two-and-a-half days before it catches up to the space station where the Canadarm2 robotic arm will capture it then install it on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/09/05/space-biomedical-research-wraps-week-as-station-gears-up-for-two-cargo-missions/
New Mexico Scientific Balloon Campaign Update- Sept. 4
September 5, 2025
The High-Altitude Student Platform 2 (HASP2) successfully launched at 8:28 a.m. MDT (10:28 a.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 4 and reached a float altitude of nearly 122,000 feet.
HASP remained in flight for a total of 11 hours,40 minutes. Science reports a successful flight. The balloon and payload have safely landed, and recovery efforts are underway.
The HASP2 program is a collaborative effort between Louisiana Space Grant Consortium at Louisiana State University (LaSPACE – LSU), NASA SMD:
Astrophysics Division, NASA Balloon Program Office (BPO) and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) to develop and operate an inexpensive platform that can be used to flight test compact satellites, prototypes and other small payloads designed and built by students.
The High Altitude Student Platform 2 (HASP2) is designed to carry up to twenty-four (24) student payloads at a time to an altitude of about 110,000 feet with flight durations of 15 to 20 hours.
Student Payloads and Organizations for 2025 include:
Big Red Sat 1.5 – The University of Nebraska Lincoln
STRAINS 4.0 – Sint-Pieters College Jett
Bat Sat – University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
FLC Ionizing Radiation vs Solar Insolation (IRSI) Experiment – Fort Lewis College
Strato Sentinal – University of Boston Massachusetts
Ozone Sensors Payload – University of North Florida
Astrolab – Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
Spectra Solis – College of the Canyons
Astro Tracker II – Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
MSTRI – McMaster University
OLIMPO – Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/wallops/2025/09/05/new-mexico-scientific-balloon-campaign-update-sept-4/
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NASA to Provide Coverage of Progress 93 Launch, Space Station Docking
Sep 05, 2025
NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station.
The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 93 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 11:54 a.m. EDT (8:54 p.m. Baikonur time), Thursday, Sept. 11, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Live coverage will begin at 11:30 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.
After a two-day journey to the station, the spacecraft will dock autonomously to the aft port of the station’s Zvezda module at 1:27 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13. NASA’s rendezvous and docking coverage will begin at 12:30 p.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more.
The Progress 93 spacecraft will remain docked to the space station for approximately six months before departing for re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew.
Ahead of the spacecraft’s arrival, the Progress 91 spacecraft will undock from the Zvezda Service Module on Tuesday, Sept. 9. NASA will not stream the undocking.
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-coverage-of-progress-93-launch-space-station-docking/
https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/
Learn to Use Remote Sensing for Climate-Sensitive Infectious Diseases
Sept. 5, 2025
Many infectious diseases are sensitive to certain climates and thrive in others.
Consider malaria, which is rife in warm, humid, wet climates, and practically nonexistent in areas with cold temperatures or high altitudes.
Given the fact that many of these climate variables can be observed from space, this allows users to predict where certain disease outbreaks may occur.
On October 7 and 9, 2025, NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) is offering a two-part, live, online training on the use of NASA satellite data for tracking climate-sensitive vector-borne disease outbreaks.
Those who attend will learn about general approaches when applying satellite remote sensing data to studying or forecasting climate-sensitive infectious diseases.
These will be illustrated with a case study example showing how remote sensing has been used to forecast malaria outbreaks.
This training will also present some common, freely available NASA remote sensing datasets used in these applications, as well as where and how to access them, and how to decide which datasets are fit for this purpose.
This training is open to the public and is recommended for biostatisticians, medical students, vector ecologists, biologists studying disease vector organisms, public health officials, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) tasked with monitoring and preparing for infectious disease outbreaks.
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/learn-use-remote-sensing-climate-sensitive-infectious-diseases
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/trainings/remote-sensing-climate-sensitive-infectious-diseases
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Why Aren't Full Photos Of The Milky Way Real? A NASA Analyst Explains The Obvious
September 5, 2025
Aformer NASA analyst on TikTok has explained the (hopefully obvious) reason why photographs of our galaxy – the Milky Way – are not real.
Responding to the question "How do we take pictures of the Milky Way if we are in it?", science communicator and former NASA space analyst Alexandra Doten explained that we simply do not have pictures of the Milky Way.
"Every full image you see of the Milky Way is an illustration," Doten explained in the video (see below).
"We cannot see the Milky Way like this, and I don't think humans ever will," she added.
The reason for this is quite simple: we have never been able to view the Milky Way from any other vantage point than the edge of a spiral arm of our galaxy. Think of it like with Earth, with a few added complications.
We knew the shape of the Earth for a long time through mapping the surface, studying the motions and shapes of the planets and stars, and taking careful measurements of Earth's gravity at different points.
Through this, we determined the shape of the Earth, including that it isn't perfectly round. But we could never have a complete image of the Earth until we left it and got far enough to photograph it all.
The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronaut Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon.
This was the first time that an Apollo mission's trajectory made such a photo possible, and the result was the iconic "Blue Marble" image.
Leaving the galaxy far enough to photograph it is a whole different undertaking for a species that has not yet left the Solar System.
"To get [images of the Milky Way] a spacecraft would have to travel either up or down from the disk of the Milky Way, and travel so incredibly far," Doten explains.
But that doesn't mean we don't know what the Milky Way looks like. Most of the objects you see when you look up at the night sky are stars in our own galaxy, which we can map.
We can see a good portion of the Milky Way in the night sky as well, and from this, we can map the stars within it and build up an impression of what it looks like.
Doten compares it to trying to create an image of a Ferris wheel you are currently riding on.
We can see and image enough objects within our galaxy – including the supermassive black hole at the center of it – in order to get a pretty good idea of what it looks like.
Mapping the stars within it, and looking at its shape, we can tell we are within the spiral of a barred spiral arm galaxy.
Seeing other galaxies similar to our own helps too, just as seeing Jupiter's bulge helped Isaac Newton figure out that the Earth bulges too.
The more we look at it, the better we can work out what is going on, including looking for collisions with other galaxies.
But we will likely never see the Milky Way from far enough away to take a true photograph of its beauty, and certainly not within our lifetimes, or many, many generations to come.
https://www.iflscience.com/why-arent-full-photos-of-the-milky-way-real-a-nasa-analyst-explains-the-obvious-80683
https://www.tiktok.com/@astro_alexandra/video/7400885722682510638
==CERES-1 rocket launches new satellites for China's space program=
Updated 11:59, 06-Sep-2025
A CERES-1 Y15 commercial carrier rocket blasted off at 7:39 p.m. on Friday, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, sending three satellites and the Eros Star in-orbit test platform into planned sun-synchronous orbit.
This is the second Eros Star in-orbit test platform, following the first launch on June 6, 2024. The Eros Star is China's first domestic commercial rocket upper stage in-orbit test platform, independently developed by the Chinese private firm Galactic Energy.
Based on the final stage of the CERES-1 carrier rocket, some adaptive modifications have been made to enable long-term orbital operation through system upgrades.
This platform can provide low-cost, convenient and efficient in-orbit test verification services for various new technologies, components and products.
This has significantly enhanced the utilization value of the rocket's upper stages, exploring new paths for resource reuse in the commercial space sector.
Romantic spirit of China's space program: Story behind the mission code
The launch mission of CERES-1 Y15 is dubbed "Que Qiao Xian," meaning "Immortal at the Magpie Bridge."
It refers to a famous Chinese poem about the legendary Cowherd and Weaver Girl, lovers separated by the Milky Way.
They can meet only once a year on the Magpie Bridge during the Chinese Valentine's Day, or Qixi Festival, which is shown on the mission badge.
The two Eros Star in-orbit test platforms now meet each other in space.
Functions of the three satellites
The Kaiyun-1 satellite is mainly used for Earth observation and space sensing. It undertakes data acquisition and downlink missions, providing critical data support for various scientific research work.
The Yuxing-3 08 satellite mainly conducts on-orbit verification for novel temperature-adaptive materials and will later perform Earth observation missions using its 5-meter resolution remote sensing camera.
The Yunyao-1 27 satellite is equipped with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) occultation detection payload, which enables data acquisition of atmospheric temperature, humidity, pressure and ionospheric electron density.
To date, Galactic Energy has deployed a total of 85 satellite payloads for 27 clients, demonstrating consistent reliability in the Chinese commercial space sector.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-09-06/China-s-CERES-1-rocket-launches-new-satellites-1Grc4Rq77Wg/p.html
https://www.china-in-space.com/p/galactic-energy-lofts-three-satellites
Sorry, Starlink: JetBlue becomes 1st airline to pick Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites for in-flight Wi-Fi
September 5, 2025
Amazon's new broadband satellite constellation just scored a big win.
The company announced on Thursday (Sept. 4) that JetBlue will start using Wi-Fi provided by Project Kuiper satellites on its flights in 2027.
It's the first such commitment Amazon has received from an airline, a number of which have already signed up to use the services of a competitor — SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation.
"Our agreement with Project Kuiper marks an exciting leap forward for us as the hands-down leader in onboard connectivity," Marty St. George, president of JetBlue, said in an Amazon statement on Thursday.
"Whether it's binge-watching a favorite show, staying connected with loved ones, or wrapping up a work project, we're always looking for ways to make our customers' time in the air as connected and productive as they want it to be."
Project Kuiper is still in the early stages of construction; just 102 of its planned 3,200 satellites have reached low Earth orbit (LEO) to date.
But all 102 of those spacecraft have gone up in the past four months, on four separate rocket launches. And the company plans to move even faster going forward.
"We're continuing to accelerate our production, processing and deployment rates," Amazon representatives said in the same statement.
"Our goal is to begin delivering service to our first customers later this year, and to roll out more widely as we add coverage and capacity to the network."
SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation, which also resides in LEO, is the biggest satellite network ever assembled, at more than 8,300 operational craft and counting.
The service is up and running, providing connection to customers around the world. SpaceX has inked Starlink deals with a number of airlines, including Alaskan, Hawaiian, United, Air France and Qatar Airways.
The JetBlue contract isn't Amazon's only plane-related Project Kuiper partnership. In April, Amazon signed a deal with France-based aerospace giant Airbus "to integrate Project Kuiper's connectivity solution into their aircraft catalog," as Thursday's statement noted.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/sorry-starlink-jetblue-becomes-1st-airline-to-pick-amazons-project-kuiper-satellites-for-in-flight-wi-fi
What to expect during the 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7-8
September 6, 2025
Look to the skies on Sept. 7-8 to witness Earth's shadow roll over the lunar disk, giving rise to a deep red "blood moon." Here's what to expect during each phase of this week's total lunar eclipse.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when Earth passes between the moon and sun, temporarily bathing the entire lunar disk in its shadow. This in turn causes our natural satellite to glow a deep red, as the scattered light from every sunrise and sunset on Earth is bent onto the lunar disk.
Several distinct phases will be on display during the Sept. 7-8 total lunar eclipse, which will be visible in its entirety across swathes of Asia, western Australia and eastern Europe, while other countries like Spain and Norway will witness only a partial eclipse.
You can safely view a lunar eclipse through the glass of a telescope, binoculars, or with the naked eye, so there's no need to worry about using the specialized eclipse glasses and filters needed to protect your eyesight from the light of a solar eclipse!
If you live outside of the viewing area or can't make it outside to view the eclipse live, luckily you can watch the blood moon total lunar eclipse on Sept. 7 with these free livestreams.
Read on to discover exactly what you should expect from each stage of this week's total lunar eclipse.
The stages of the total lunar eclipse
The moon enters Earth's penumbra
The soft, outer part of Earth's shadow, known as the penumbra, will begin to sweep across the lunar surface at 11:28 a.m. EDT (1528 GMT) on Sept. 7.
The shading of the lunar surface during this phase is incredibly subtle and will first become perceptible as a slight darkening on the upper left of the lunar disk a little under an hour after the start of this initial penumbral phase.
Sharp-eyed observers may see this gentle shadow creep eastward across the basaltic plains of the lunar maria that scar this part of the lunar disk, before Earth's silhouette makes a much grander entrance just a few minutes later.
Earth's inner shadow falls upon the lunar disk
The moon will begin its drift into the deepest part of Earth's shadow, the umbra, at 12:27 p.m. EDT (1627 GMT). The shadow seen during this partial phase of the lunar eclipse is far sharper than the subtly diffuse one of the earlier penumbral phase.
Earth's vast silhouette will appear to consume the upper left extreme of the lunar disk within minutes of the onset of the umbral phase, before advancing eastward at a dramatic pace.
By the time Earth's umbral silhouette has covered 75% of the lunar surface, the moon's shadowed regions may appear to adopt a deep red-brown color, as longer, redder wavelengths of sunlight are refracted onto the moon's surface by our planet's dense atmosphere.
Totality
The crescendo of the Sept. 7-8 lunar eclipse will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT) as the final sliver of the lunar disk falls into the shadowy embrace of Earth's umbra, signaling the start of totality.
During this phase, the lunar disk will transform into a spectacular blood moon, as it bathes in the red-orange refracted light of every sunset and sunrise happening on Earth at that moment.
The brightness and color of the moon during totality will depend on a number of factors ranging from the weather conditions on Earth to the amount of dust present in our atmosphere.
Totality will last for approximately 82 minutes according to Time and Date, with the point of maximum eclipse occurring at 2:11 a.m. EDT (1811 GMT).
During this time, viewers may notice the lower portion of the lunar disk around Mare Nubium (the Sea of Clouds) appear slightly lighter than the upper region of the lunar disk, which passes closer to the center of Earth's vast umbral shadow.
Earth's shadow slips from the lunar disk
Earth's umbra will begin to slip from the lunar disk at 2:52 p.m. EDT (1852 GMT), revealing a bright crescent on the left edge of its disk that will grow to engulf the entirety of the moon's surface, banishing the ruddy glow of totality.
This partial eclipse phase will last a little over an hour, after which our planet's penumbral shadow will recede left to right across the lunar disk, with the eclipse drawing to a close at 4:55 p.m. EDT (2055 GMT).
The Sept. 7-8 total lunar eclipse will be followed by a partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21, which will be visible from parts of southern Australia, a slew of Pacific islands and Antarctica.
https://www.space.com/stargazing/lunar-eclipses/what-to-expect-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-sept-7-2025
https://www.space.com/stargazing/lunar-eclipses/how-to-watch-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-online-livestream-sept-7-2025
https://www.space.com/news/live/lunar-eclipse-live-updates
Astrophotographer captures the gaping maw of a cosmic shark in stunning deep space image
September 6, 2025
Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the depths of space.
The body of Brecher's shark is comprised of a vast interstellar cloud of dust and gas that stretches for 15 light-years from snout to tail in the constellation Cepheus, some 650 light-years from Earth.
The radiation of energetic stars has sculpted the cloud into the form of a gaping maw, while the suggestions of dorsal and pectoral fins are visible as your eyes sweep right across the "shark's" nebulous body.
"I love imaging dark nebulae," said Brecher in an email to Space.com. "You need a fairly long total exposure time without moonlight because the wisps of nebulosity are so faint. Getting a bonus galaxy and a few blue reflection nebulae is icing on the shark. Er, cake."
The single great "eye" of the shark is formed from the magnitude 6 star HD 211300, while the barred spiral galaxy PGC 67671 is visible as a smudge of light slightly behind the shark's dorsal fin.
The patches of blue seen towards the top and bottom of the cosmic predator are formed by reflection nebulas — huge clouds of dust and gas made from particles that efficiently scatter the blue wavelengths of light from nearby stellar bodies.
Brecher captured his deep space vista under the light of a first quarter moon over several nights between July 23-30 earlier this year from his home in Guelph, Canada, using a Sky-Watcher Esprit 70 EDX refractor fitted with a QHY367C Pro astronomy camera.
The data was then postprocessed using PixInsight software.
https://www.space.com/stargazing/astrophotography/astrophotographer-captures-gaping-maw-of-cosmic-shark-stunning-deep-space-photo-2025
https://www.space.com/astronomy/a-new-particle-detector-is-ready-to-probe-ashes-of-the-big-bang-after-passing-its-standard-candle-test
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2025)075
https://www.bnl.gov/rhic/sphenix.php
https://www.sphenix.bnl.gov/
A new particle detector is ready to probe 'ashes' of the Big Bang after passing its 'standard candle' test
September 6, 2025
A new particle detector has passed a crucial test that shows it is ready to detect the "ashes" left over from a unique primordial soup that filled the universe immediately after the Big Bang.
The sPHENIX detector is the latest experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) ring accelerator located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York.
The second most powerful particle accelerator in the world, after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the RHIC smashes together protons and ions of heavy elements like gold at speeds approaching the speed of light to create "quark-gluon plasma," the state of matter that existed fleetingly after the Big Bang.
This state of matter exists only at extremely high temperatures and densities and is a "soup" of free quarks and gluons, the fundamental particles that make up protons.
Understanding quark-gluon plasma could reveal what conditions in the universe were like in its first microseconds and how this gave way to protons and neutrons — and eventually, the matter that populates the cosmos today.
The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard candle" in particle physics.
This isn't to be confused with Type 1a supernovas, the "standard candles" that astronomers use to measure cosmic distances.
In this case, "standard candle" refers to a measurement of a well-established constant that can be used to assess the precision of a detector.
The sPHENIX project passed this benchmark by precisely measuring the number of particles created when two gold ions smash together at close to the speed of light, and by gauging the collective energy of these particles.
The detector was also able to determine the number of charged particles launched during a head-on collision between gold ions and those launched in a glancing collision between gold ions.
sPHENIX found that 10 times more particles were created in head-on collisions and that these particles had 10 times the energy of those generated during a glancing collision.
"This indicates the detector works as it should," Gunther Roland, a sPHENIX Collaboration team member and a professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a statement.
"It's as if you sent a new telescope up in space after you’ve spent 10 years building it, and it snaps the first picture. It's not necessarily a picture of something completely new, but it proves that it's now ready to start doing new science."
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Quark-gluon plasma doesn't hang around
Particle accelerators like the RHIC fling particles around at almost light speed in opposite circular beams, which, when they meet, release a huge amount of energy. This energy can appear in the form of a quark-gluon plasma.
This quark-gluon plasma didn't stick around for long at the beginning of the universe, however, and its existence in particle accelerators is equally short-lived.
When the quark-gluon plasma is generated, it lasts for just a sextillionth of a second. During its existence, it has a temperature of many trillions of degrees; its particles act in concert as a "perfect fluid" rather than a collection of random particles.
As the plasma cools, this exotic state vanishes, and the quark-gluon plasma forms protons and neutrons, which race away from the site of the initial particle collisions.
"You never see the quark-gluon plasma itself — you just see its ashes, so to speak, in the form of the particles that come from its decay," Roland explained.
"With sPHENIX, we want to measure these particles to reconstruct the properties of the quark-gluon plasma, which is essentially gone in an instant."
The sPHENIX detector, which is the size of a two-story house and weighs about 1,000 tons, sits between the two main beams of the RHIC waiting to be bombarded with particles from collisions.
sPHENIX is the next generation replacement for the Pioneering High Energy Nuclear Interaction Experiment (PHENIX) and is capable of catching and measuring 15,000 particle collisions per second.
It's systems allow it to act like a huge 3D camera tracking the number of particles produced in these collisions, their energies and even their trajectories.
"SPHENIX takes advantage of developments in detector technology since RHIC switched on 25 years ago, to collect data at the fastest possible rate," team member and MIT researcher Cameron Dean said.
"This allows us to probe incredibly rare processes for the first time."
The team put sPHENIX through its paces with this standard candle test over 3 weeks during the Fall of 2024.
"The fun for sPHENIX is just beginning," Dean added. "We are currently back colliding particles and expect to do so for several more months.
With all our data, we can look for the one-in-a-billion rare process that could give us insights on things like the density of QGP, the diffusion of particles through ultra-dense matter, and how much energy it takes to bind different particles together."
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Space Operations Command Getting New Name, New Boss
Sept. 5, 2025
SpOC is getting booted from the Space Force. The service is renaming its Space Operations Command, with its Star Trek-themed acronym, to Combat Forces Command to emphasize its warfighting mission.
Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed the pending name change after it was revealed among a list of new general officer assignments announced by the Pentagon on Sept. 5. Among the nominations:
Lt. Gen. David N. Miller Jr., now head of Space Operations Command, is nominated to become deputy chief of space operations for strategy, plans, programs, and requirements in Washington. He would replace Gen. Shawn W. Bratton, already confirmed as Vice Chief of Space Operations.
Maj. Gen. Gregory J. Gagnon, currently Special Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations, is nominated for a third star to replace Miller, but the announcement said he would take command of “U.S. Space Force Combat Forces Command.”
Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess, now commander of Space Forces-Space, is nominated to become deputy chief of space operations for operations, succeeding Lt. Gen. DeAnna M. Burt, who is retiring.
A Space Force spokesperson confirmed that Combat Forces Command is the planned new name for Space Operations Command.
The formal name change is not expected until Gagnon is confirmed, however, and would be implemented when he takes command of the organization.
“The U.S. Space Force is considering redesignating Space Operations Command to Combat Forces Command upon the establishment of a new commander, which is currently pending formal approval and confirmation,” the spokesperson said.
“The name change better reflects the Field Command’s critical responsibility as the Space Force’s proponent for combat space power, including generating and improving combat-ready forces to execute Service and Combatant Command assigned missions.”
The change also draws a clearer distinction between the U.S. Space Force, a military service, and U.S. Space Command, the combatant command responsible for combat operations.
Space Operations Command initially served as both a field command for the Space Force and the service component to Space Command, providing it with most of its forces, but USSF instituted Space Forces-Space in 2023 as the component command presenting forces to SPACECOM.
Changing SpOC to Combat Forces Command dovetails with Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman’s strategy, and the three lines of effort he laid out for the service, among them fielding combat-ready forces.
If confirmed, Miller and Schiess will represent a new wave of leadership, taking two of the top roles on the Space Staff.
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Steven P. Whitney, currently director of the Space Staff, has been tapped for a third star and assignment to the Joint Staff as director of force structure, resources, and assessment, the J8. That represents a key prominent joint assignment for the Space Force.
Also in the joint world, Navy Vice Adm. Richard A. Correll was nominated to head U.S. Strategic Command, replacing Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, who will retire.
Leadership of STRATCOM, the combatant command that oversees U.S. nuclear forces, traditionally alternates between Air Force and Navy officers.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/ussf-new-name-space-operations-command-combat-forces/
https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/
Double Solar Impact Coming, Solar Storm Watch| S0 News Sep.6.2025
Sep 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZPX9SjWA3I
https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/what-is-the-nucleus-size-of-3i-atlas-ba523b085fe1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4RtDNkvJH0 (Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Dr. Avi Loeb: Breaking UAP Hearing News and 3I/ATLAS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZQ8v9URPxY (Is 3I/ATLAS Alien Technolgy? Avi Loeb & MIchael Shermer DEBATE)
What is the Nucleus Size of 3I/ATLAS?
September 6, 2025
The biggest unresolved question about the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS involves the size of its nucleus.
Yesterday, I emphasized this point in a recorded discussion with congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna and Peter Skafish (available here) and a podcast with Brian Keating and Michael Shermer (here).
One would have hoped to get clues about the nature of 3I/ATLAS from the plume of gas around it.
Data from the Webb space telescope (reported here), the SPHEREx space observatory (here) and the Very Large Telescope (here), show that this plume stretches out to a vast scale of at least 350,000 kilometers and is composed primarily of carbon dioxide — CO2 (87% by mass), carbon monoxide — CO (9%), water — H2O (most of the remaining 4%), and traces of cyanide — CN, as well as nickel without iron (as found in the industrial production of nickel alloys through the carbonyl chemical pathway).
However, such a plume could emanate from a natural icy rock or a technological source.
That this plume of gas is shaped by the solar radiation and solar wind to a teardrop shape, as observed last week by the Gemini South telescope (here), is a straightforward consequence of gas dynamics and not a clue about the nature of the nucleus.
The situation is akin to observing a plume of smoke carried by the wind. Without a resolved image of the source of the smoke, we cannot tell whether it originates from a burning log of wood or the exhaust of a car.
The sharpest image of 3I/ATLAS so far was obtained on July 21, 2025 by the Hubble Space Telescope (reported here). It showed a glow of scattered sunlight ahead of the nucleus towards the Sun but no tail in the opposite direction.
The sun-facing glow on that date could not have been dominated by refractory dust with a particle size comparable to the wavelength of sunlight because solar radiation pressure would have pushed the dust within a day to trail 3I/ATLAS in the shape of a typical cometary tail.
That such a tail was not observed on July 21, 2025 beyond the transverse width of the glow implies that the scattering of sunlight was dominated by icy fragments that evaporated before they had an opportunity to trail 3I/ATLAS.
The main open question is which fraction of the reflected sunlight originates from these icy fragments compared to the solid surface of the nucleus of 3I/ATLAS.
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The brightness of 3I/ATLAS at a wavelength of 1 micrometer implies a nucleus diameter of 46 kilometer (as calculated here) for a typical albedo of 4%.
However, if 99% of the brightness stems from icy fragments around 3I/ATLAS, then the nucleus diameter is ten times smaller, of order 5 kilometers.
But even in this reduced size case, the mass carried by 3I/ATLAS is still a thousand times bigger than that carried by the previous interstellar object 2I/Borisov, whose diameter was estimated to be ~0.5 kilometers.
The mass loss rate from 3I/ATLAS is a few times bigger than that from 2I/Borisov, whereas its surface area is larger by a factor ranging between ~100 for a 5-kilometer diameter to ~10,000 for a 46-kilometer diameter.
The activity of 3I/ATLAS is very weak when calibrated by its large surface area.
In order to assess how anomalous 3I/ATLAS is, it is essential to measure the size of its nucleus. How can we accomplish this task?
On October 3, 2025, 3I/ATLAS will pass at a distance of 29 million kilometers from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The camera’s 0.5-meter aperture will be able to image 3I/ATLAS with a resolution of 30 kilometers per pixel.
The glowing cloud around 3I/ATLAS is optically thin (transparent). Hence, the total luminosity emanating from the central pixel in the HiRISE image will provide a strict upper limit on the nucleus brightness and hence its size, better by two orders of magnitude than the Hubble Space Telescope image.
Fortunately, the trajectory of 3I/ATLAS is aligned to within 5 degrees from the ecliptic plane, allowing it to arrive not only close to Mars but also within 54 million kilometers from Jupiter on March 16, 2026.
These remarkable circumstances bring 3I/ATLAS also close to the Juno spacecraft around Jupiter, as discussed in my paper here and recognized by the visionary letter from congresswoman Luna here.
We cannot expect “the mountain to come to Muhammad” routinely in the context of future interstellar objects coming close to human-made probes, unless we are visited by alien probes which target solar system planets.
For random trajectories with a high inclination angle relative to the ecliptic plane, such as in the cases of the first two interstellar objects, 1I/`Oumuamua (122.8 degrees) or 2I/Borisov (44 degrees), the task of resolving an interstellar object in a close-up image would be far more challenging than for 3I/ATLAS.
It would be necessary to design an interceptor with a camera similar to HiRISE that maneuvers to arrive at the right time within a distance of a million kilometers from the expected path an interstellar object like 3I/ATLAS, in order to get a pixel resolution of 1-kilometer for the nucleus.
A future NASA mission could aim to deploy such an interceptor in a waiting position for the future harvest of interstellar objects expected from the Rubin Observatory.
After all, a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Progress has been made, but no timeframe has been set to reach a peace deal, Dmitry Peskov has said
5 Sep, 2025 21:02
There has been progress in efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict, but it is too early to talk about when it might end, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Peskov made the remarks in an interview with TASS on Friday on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, stressing that Moscow is “not ready to predict” specific timelines.
”[President Vladimir Putin] said there is light at the end of the tunnel” in efforts to end the conflict, Peskov stated, referring to a comments the Russian leader made earlier this week in Beijing.
Putin told reporters that a settlement could be drawing closer, citing the position of US President Donald Trump and his administration, who in his view have shown a “genuine desire to find the solution.”
“We’ll see how the situation develops,” Putin said.
The Russian president also reiterated his readiness to meet with Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, but cautioned that holding a summit “just for the sake of it” would be a “path to nowhere,” and added that if Zelensky genuinely wanted to talk, he could simply come to Moscow to negotiate peace terms.
Kiev has ruled out the possibility of such a meeting. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga has accused Putin of making “knowingly unacceptable” proposals, claiming that Zelensky is ready to meet at any time but not under Moscow’s conditions.
Zelensky’s presidential term expired last May, but he has refused to hold elections, citing martial law.
Moscow has repeatedly questioned his legitimacy, arguing that any agreement signed by him could later be contested by a future Ukrainian government.
Putin has said settling the conflict also depends on Western countries, as Washington remains bound by commitments to its allies, including NATO.
Moscow maintains that lasting peace would require Kiev to recognize its new borders and abandon plans to join NATO.
https://www.rt.com/russia/624193-kremlin-russia-ukraine-conflict/
Russian drones strike Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia, sparking fires and power outages
Sat, September 06, 2025 - 20:21
Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia on the evening of September 6, targeting the city with drones, reports Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration.
Earlier this evening, an air raid alert was announced in the Zaporizhzhia region due to the threat of drone attacks. Residents were urged to move to shelters or safe locations immediately.
Several groups of Russian drones approached different districts, including Dniprovskyi, Zavodskyi, Oleksandrivskyi, and Voznesenivskyi. Air defense forces were active during the attack.
The first explosions were reported around 7:19 PM Kyiv time, followed by additional blasts. Observers noted between one and four drones flying over the city simultaneously.
The strikes caused fires. Residents were advised to remain in protected areas until the all-clear signal was given.
"There were direct hits. A fire has started. Currently, there is no information on casualties," Fedorov said.
Locals also reported outages in water and electricity in some districts after the attack.
At 7:50 PM Kyiv time, Fedorov reported Russian forces sent at least seven drones toward Zaporizhzhia.
"Several fires broke out in the city. There is no information on casualties so far," he added.
Russian attacks across Ukraine
In the evening, air raid alerts were announced in Kyiv and several regions due to the threat of drones.
Over 90 Russian drones were launched across Ukraine overnight on September 6. Eight locations were hit, and debris fell in several other areas.
Ukrainian air defense forces intercepted 68 drones in the north and east of the country. Meanwhile, Russia targeted railway infrastructure in the Donetsk region overnight.
Ukrzaliznytsia reported that the section before Sloviansk lost power, causing delays for multiple trains.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russian-drones-strike-ukraine-s-zaporizhzhia-1757179224.html
https://t.me/ivan_fedorov_zp/24943
SpaceX Starlink Mission
September 6, 2025
T - minus 17 minutes
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX. You can also watch the webcast on the new X TV app.
This is the 20th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SDA-0A, SARah-2, Transporter-11, and 16 Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
There is the possibility that residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties may hear one or more sonic booms during the launch, but what residents experience will depend on weather and other conditions.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/sl-17-9
In Chernihiv, Russians drop leaflets from drone with calls to open fire on AFU positions
06.09.2025 13:25
In Chernihiv, Russians dropped leaflets in the form of 100-hryvnia bills from a drone, urging citizens to share coordinates and help fire on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the police of the Chernihiv region, according to Ukrinform.
"On the morning of September 6, the police received a report that leaflets in the form of 100-hryvnia bills had been found in one of the microdistricts of Chernihiv, calling on citizens to share coordinates and help direct fire at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for which they would receive real money.
The Russians dropped the leaflets from a drone," the report said.
It is noted that an investigative team from the Chernihiv Regional Police Department was dispatched to the scene.
Information about the incident has been recorded, and the issue of legal classification is being decided.
The police warned citizens about criminal liability for disseminating information about the location and movement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and called for the destruction of Russian leaflets.
As reported, the Security Service of Ukraine foiled an FSB agent ring that was directing enemy fire at defenders on the right bank of the Kherson region.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4033597-in-chernihiv-russians-drop-leaflets-from-drone-with-calls-to-open-fire-on-afu-positions.html
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