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.

Mars - Terra Sabeae and Noachis - ESA Mars Express

#astronomy #deimos #esa #hera #mars #marsexpress #space

2 new pictures from @andrealuck https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=2&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250315110056

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.

A pertinent question:

Would you rather have NASA or SpaceX?

https://www.ufofeed.com/114766/spacexs-starship-to-leave-for-mars-end-of-2026-musk-says/ SpaceX’s Starship to leave for Mars end of 2026, Musk says #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration

The Wiki image of Earth and Neptune size comparison is not accurate https://www.byteseu.com/831088/ #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration #SpaceTechnology

Saturn Solidifies Its Title As Moon King With Discovery of 128 New Moons - Astronomers using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have discovered 128 new moons... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/15/0457249/saturn-solidifies-its-title-as-moon-king-with-discovery-of-128-new-moons?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #space

Where Your Elements Came From
Credits: Cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0, GFDL, Wikimedia Commons
#nature #space #astrophotography

Last night's lunar eclipse as viewed from the Moon.

Photo by Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander.

https://www.ufofeed.com/114764/solar-system-trivia/ Solar System Trivia #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration

Erbarme - die Hesse komme! Jetzt auch in den Weltraum

Hessen im Weltall
https://homomagi.de/hm250202.htm
#homomagi #kolumne #hessen #space #HerbertWeicker #synchronsprecher #spock #TOS #StarTrek

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°

https://www.europesays.com/1914650/ Total lunar eclipse March 2025: Live updates #space

A bit of Pluto
#pluto #nasa #space #astronomy #science #plutopics

https://www.ufofeed.com/114762/spacex-has-achieved-400-falcon-9-landings/ SpaceX has achieved 400 Falcon 9 landings #Astrobiology #Astrophysics #Cosmology #PlanetaryScience #Space #SpaceExploration

The Protostars within Lynds 483
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA

Red Moon
Faheem Ijaz

HDR Mineral Moon
Marten Amschler

Behold! This is what a lunar eclipse looks like... from the surface of the Moon. That dark circle is Earth.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander took this image last night.