Latest Space News: 10 most expensive Lego Star Wars sets available right now
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These are the 10 most expensive Lego Star Wars sets you can get
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Summary: In a galaxy not so far away, Lego sets can be VERY expensive: Here are the most expensive Lego Star Wars sets you can currently buy.
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-25T23:25:00Z
π **Rocket**: Long March 8A
π **Details**: Details TBD.
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π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T14:00:00Z
π **Rocket**: Soyuz 2.1a
π **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
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T03:24:00Z
π **Rocket**: LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)
π **Details**: AST SpaceMobileβs 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
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Long March 12A | Demo Flight
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T02:00:00Z
π **Rocket**: Long March 12A
π **Details**: First test launch of CASC/SASTβs Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocketβs 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: HANBIT-Nano | Spaceward
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T01:13:00Z
π **Rocket**: HANBIT-Nano
π **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 MaranhΓ£o 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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Latest Space News: Santa's sleigh or the International Space Station? How to spot a bright Christmas flyby Dec. 24 and 25
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Santa
Early risers across North America and Europe may spot a bright, silent light gliding across the Christmas sky — and it just happens to coinci...
Summary: Early risers across North America and Europe may spot a bright, silent light gliding across the Christmas sky β and it just happens to coincide with an ISS flyby.
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-25T23:25:00Z
π **Rocket**: Long March 8A
π **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T14:00:00Z
π **Rocket**: Soyuz 2.1a
π **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
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T03:24:00Z
π **Rocket**: LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)
π **Details**: AST SpaceMobileβs 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
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Long March 12A | Demo Flight
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T02:00:00Z
π **Rocket**: Long March 12A
π **Details**: First test launch of CASC/SASTβs Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocketβs 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: HANBIT-Nano | Spaceward
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T01:13:00Z
π **Rocket**: HANBIT-Nano
π **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 MaranhΓ£o 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
Latest Space News: Watch Indian rocket launch record-breaking BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite to orbit tonight
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Indian rocket launches record-breaking BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite to orbit (video)
BlueBird 6
Summary: An Indian LVM3 rocket is scheduled to launch the massive BlueBird 6 smartphone satellite for AST SpaceMobile tonight (Dec. 23), and you can watch the action live.
π§βπ **Astronaut Spotlight**
π **Name**: Chris Hadfield
π·οΈ **Status**: Retired
π **Bio**: Chris Austin Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot.
The first Canadian to walk in space, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Long March 8A | Unknown Payload
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-25T23:25:00Z
π **Rocket**: Long March 8A
π **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Soyuz 2.1a | Obzor-R No.1
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T14:00:00Z
π **Rocket**: Soyuz 2.1a
π **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
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: LVM-3 | BlueBird Block 2 #1
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-24T03:24:00Z
π **Rocket**: LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)
π **Details**: AST SpaceMobileβs 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
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: Long March 12A | Demo Flight
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T02:00:00Z
π **Rocket**: Long March 12A
π **Details**: First test launch of CASC/SASTβs Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocketβs 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km downrange of the launch site.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
π **Upcoming Space Launch** π
π **Mission Name**: HANBIT-Nano | Spaceward
ποΈ **Launch Date**: 2025-12-23T01:13:00Z
π **Rocket**: HANBIT-Nano
π **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 MaranhΓ£o 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
Latest Space Breaking News: The chaotic 'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed
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https://phys.org/news/2025-12-chaotic-dracula-chivito-hubble-reveals.html
Summary: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. For the first time in visible light, Hubble has revealed the disk is unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent, with wisps of material stretching much farther above and below the disk than astronomers have seen in any similar system. Strangely, more extended filaments are only visible on one side of the disk.