🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T14:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Soyuz 2.1a
📖 **Details**: The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress.
In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated.
The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T03:24:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)
📖 **Details**: AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched.
This launch will feature a single satellite.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 12A | Demo Flight
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T02:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 12A
📖 **Details**: First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. The rocket’s 1st stage will attempt to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: HANBIT-Nano | Spaceward
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T01:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: HANBIT-Nano
📖 **Details**: Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean stratup Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small satellites from the Brazilian space agency AEB, Brazilian university Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Indian startup Grahaa Space, as well as three payloads from AEB and Brazilian company Castro Leite Consultoria that will remain attached to the rocket, and an empty aluminium can from the South Korean beverage company Brewguru.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: H3-22 | Michibiki 5 (QZS-5)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-22T01:51:30Z
🚀 **Rocket**: H3-22
📖 **Details**: QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve optimal high-elevation visibility in urban canyons and mountainous areas. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation.
The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation in inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: The dual impact of stellar bars on star formation in galaxy pairs
Link:
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-dual-impact-stellar-bars-star.html
Summary: Professor Woong-bae Zee of the College of Liberal Studies at Sejong University has revealed that a galaxy does not possess only a single evolutionary pathway; instead, depending on the nature of its neighboring galaxy, it can exhibit two entirely different "faces of evolution." The work is published in The Astrophysical Journal.
Latest Space News: Meet Qingzhou, China's next-gen cargo craft for its Tiangong space station (video)
Link:
Space
Meet Qingzhou, China
Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China
Summary: Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T14:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Soyuz 2.1a
📖 **Details**: The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress.
In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated.
The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T03:24:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)
📖 **Details**: AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched.
This launch will feature a single satellite.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 12A | Demo Flight
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T02:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 12A
📖 **Details**: First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. The rocket’s 1st stage will attempt to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
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🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: HANBIT-Nano | Spaceward
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T01:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: HANBIT-Nano
📖 **Details**: Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean stratup Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small satellites from the Brazilian space agency AEB, Brazilian university Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Indian startup Grahaa Space, as well as three payloads from AEB and Brazilian company Castro Leite Consultoria that will remain attached to the rocket, and an empty aluminium can from the South Korean beverage company Brewguru.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: H3-22 | Michibiki 5 (QZS-5)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-22T01:51:30Z
🚀 **Rocket**: H3-22
📖 **Details**: QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve optimal high-elevation visibility in urban canyons and mountainous areas. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation.
The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation in inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: ALMA observations reveal multiscale fragmentation in massive star formation
Link:
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-alma-reveal-multiscale-fragmentation-massive.html
Summary: Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have unveiled new insights into the fragmentation mechanisms of high-mass star-forming regions.
Latest Space News: Northern lights may be visible in 10 states tonight
Link:
Space
Northern lights may be visible in 10 states Dec. 23-24
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as incoming speedy solar wind continues to buffet Earth
Summary: Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as incoming speedy solar wind continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field.
🧑🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**
🌟 **Name**: Terry W. Virts
🏷️ **Status**: Retired
📖 **Bio**: Terry W. Virts Jr. is a former NASA astronaut, and Colonel in the United States Air Force.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T14:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Soyuz 2.1a
📖 **Details**: The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress.
In 2012, the development of the Arkon-2M radar satellite was stopped and instead the development of the Obzor-R was initiated.
The satellite features the BRLK X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar as the imaging instrument with a ground resolution of 500 m.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T03:24:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)
📖 **Details**: AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, required to achieve 24/7 continuous cellular broadband service coverage in the United States, with beams designed to support a capacity of up to 40 MHz, enabling peak data transmission speeds up to 120 Mbps, supporting voice, full data and video applications. The Block 2 BlueBirds, featuring as large as 2400 square foot communications arrays, will be the largest satellites ever commercially deployed in Low Earth orbit once launched.
This launch will feature a single satellite.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 12A | Demo Flight
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T02:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 12A
📖 **Details**: First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket. The rocket’s 1st stage will attempt to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: HANBIT-Nano | Spaceward
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T01:00:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: HANBIT-Nano
📖 **Details**: Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean stratup Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small satellites from the Brazilian space agency AEB, Brazilian university Universidade Federal do Maranhão and Indian startup Grahaa Space, as well as three payloads from AEB and Brazilian company Castro Leite Consultoria that will remain attached to the rocket, and an empty aluminium can from the South Korean beverage company Brewguru.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: H3-22 | Michibiki 5 (QZS-5)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-22T01:51:30Z
🚀 **Rocket**: H3-22
📖 **Details**: QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve optimal high-elevation visibility in urban canyons and mountainous areas. The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation.
The navigation system objective is to broadcast GPS-interoperable and augmentation signals as well as original Japanese (QZSS) signals from a three-spacecraft constellation in inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
