🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL 📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD. This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T18:08:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:19:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy. Also launching on this launch are 39 other ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-09T18:03:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

Latest Space Breaking News: Earliest known barred spiral galaxy spotted just 2 billion years after Big Bang Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-earliest-barred-spiral-galaxy-billion.html Summary: Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral galaxies containing a stellar bar, a sometimes-striking visual feature that can play an important role in the evolution of a galaxy. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, also has a stellar bar.

Latest Space News: Vera Rubin Observatory discovers fastest spinning asteroid ever and its huge! Link:

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Vera Rubin Observatory spots the fastest-spinning large asteroid ever found

2025 MN45 is 0.4 miles wide and completes one rotation every 1.88 minutes.

Summary: The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found.

🧑‍🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight** 🌟 **Name**: Buzz Aldrin 🏷️ **Status**: Retired 📖 **Bio**: Buzz Aldrin; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; is an American engineer, former astronaut, and fighter pilot. As Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon. #Astronauts #SpaceHeroes

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-13T15:45:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A 📖 **Details**: Details TBD. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL 📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD. This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T18:08:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:19:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy. Also launching on this launch are 39 other ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-09T18:03:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

Latest Space Breaking News: NASA cancels spacewalk due to medical issue and may bring the crew back early Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-nasa-cancels-spacewalk-due-medical.html Summary: NASA canceled its first spacewalk of the year and may bring its crew back early from the International Space Station due to an onboard medical issue.

Latest Space News: The final 'Greenland 2: Migration' trailer is here, and it's got the 90s disaster movie vibes we've been craving (video) Link:

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The final

Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin return in an epic sci-fi survival sequel to 2020

Summary: Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin return in an epic sci-fi survival sequel to 2020's surprise hit, "Greenland".

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-13T15:45:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 8A 📖 **Details**: Details TBD. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: PSLV-DL | EOS-N1 and others 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-12T04:47:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: PSLV-DL 📖 **Details**: Small Earth observation satellite from NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) for an "Indian strategic user", details TBD. This launch will also carry 18 other ride-share payloads. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-97 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T18:08:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Pandora / Twilight rideshare mission 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-11T13:19:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: The Pandora small satellite was selected in 2021 as an inaugural mission in NASA’s Astrophysics Pioneers Program. It includes a 0.45-meter telescope that will improve our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres by disentangling exoplanet signals from their host stars, as well as studying host star variability with long-duration observations of 20 unique planets through visible-light photometry and near-infrared spectroscopy. Also launching on this launch are 39 other ride-share payloads under the "Falcon 9 Twilight mission" manifested by Exolaunch, including satellites from Spire Global and Kepler Communications. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀 🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-96 🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2026-01-09T18:03:00Z 🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9 📖 **Details**: A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system. #SpaceLaunch #RocketScience

Latest Space Breaking News: Astrophysicists map how many ghost particles all the Milky Way's stars send towards Earth Link: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-astrophysicists-ghost-particles-milky-stars.html Summary: They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our bodies, our planet, even the entire cosmos. These so-called neutrinos are elementary particles that are invisible, incredibly light, and interact only rarely with other matter.