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⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Launch in Flight

🛰️ Mission: Starlink Group 12-16 [Communications]
🕒 Launched on: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:35:00 UTC 
☄️ Status: The launch vehicle has lifted off from the launchpad.
🚀 Launcher: Falcon 9 Block 5
🏗️ Launch Provider: SpaceX → [33 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA 🇺🇸

📺 Watch Live: 1

📡 Mission Description:
A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

⏮️ JUST LAUNCHED: Go for Launch

🛰️ Mission: Kosmos (Unknown Payload) [Government/Top Secret]
🕒 Launched on: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:50:00 UTC 
☄️ Status: Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.
🚀 Launcher: Angara 1.2
🏗️ Launch Provider: Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center → [1 launches this year]
🌍 Launch Site: 35/1 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation 🇷🇺

📡 Mission Description:
Russian military payloads of unknown purposes.

Astronomers discover a possible "super-Earth" orbiting a nearby Sun-like star with the potential for conditions to make it habitable. But there's a catch: it swings from scorching heat to deep freeze in every orbit.

📸 NASA 360°