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For several months, a new multi-vehicle launch pad has been under construction at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, with no direct word on the work underway Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/new-launch...

#PPOD: NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has turned its infrared eyes toward 37 nearby brown dwarfs, revealing a remarkable diversity of objects that bridge the gap between stars and giant planets. Brown dwarfs form much like stars but lack the mass needed to sustain hydrogen fusion in their cores. 🧪 🔭

As part of upcoming mission updates, Artemis III will send four astronauts to low Earth orbit next year to test critical systems required for future lunar landings! 🛰️👨‍🚀 #ArtemisIII #SpaceExploration

On October 14th, Rocket Lab's Peter Beck, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, led a short video to announce that the first flight of the company's partially reusable Neutron launch vehicle is now delayed into 2027. Read more at proximareport.com/neutrons-fli... #RocketLab #Space #Aerospace

A new document from the top levels of China's government has outlined that the commercial space sector will be promoted while ensuring safety to become a new economic pillar, with suggestions on how market competition should look Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/commercial...

#PPOD: The Milky Way stretches across the night sky above ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert, framed by two of the observatory's telescopes. The brilliant star clouds and dark lanes of interstellar dust reveal our galaxy's rich structure... 🧪 🔭

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Progress is in motion for the Artemis IV mission! Over at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, the SLS core stage liquid oxygen tank has been successfully relocated. The massive hardware is now lined up for detailed inspections before advancing to the next round of production. 🚀 #Artemis

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My young nephew has given me the title of Mr. Backyard Explorer. I like it, and in that spirit, here’s M 13, the Hercules Star Cluster, from my backyard. #astrophotography

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (CENA-NUC). RGB Filters: 1130, 770, 560 PI: Dicken, Daniel, program 04529. CRVAL: 201.361843, -43.023947 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Subject: IC 1396A (The Elephant's Trunk Nebula). Time and Date: 10:12 pm, 6/19/2026. Location: Westminster, MD. Telescope: William Optics Gran Turismo 81 IV (480mm focal length, f/5.9). Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro. #astrophotography #williamoptics #nikon #skywatcher

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Shenzhou-23's Zhu Yangzhu, Li Jiaying, and Zhang Zhiyuan have been onboard Tiangong for a whole month as of this week, staying busy with new and existing scientific experiments Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/shenzhou-2...

Each year, scientists, industry experts, and SETI Institute supporters gather to honor the work pushing the boundaries of what we know... and what we might soon discover. Join us on May 14 in Mountain View for an unforgettable evening of inspiration, connection, and cosmic wonder. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #bayarea

Astronstone has recently raised 200 million Yuan in new capital to complete their first reusable AS-1 launch vehicle and ship it to a launch site early next year Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/astronston...

On Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 7 pm (PST), Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: "The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World." 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 #bayarea

So after spending tens of billions of dollars setting up Gateway with international partners, NASA's now going to throw more tens of billions at a surface base instead For @proximareport.bsky.social -> proximareport.com/articles/nas...

🔭 Galaxies in the River: NGC 1300 and NGC 1297 Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Eric Benson ap260321

When To See A Crescent Moon And Venus On The Equinox And All Weekend

New article 👀🚀 - Read more at proximareport.com/articles/art... #NASA #space #artemis #moon

Following the filing for 200,000 new satellites, with most coming from one operator, Chinese news outlets have said that the applications were lawful, while adding that deployment plans were not final Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/chinese-ne...

Every once in a while, our solar system receives a fleeting visitor from the depths of our galaxy. On July 1, 2025, NASA’s ATLAS telescope discovered Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, following ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 Learn more:

Typhoon Matmo recently passed by Wenchang's two launch sites while efforts to build new launch pads are underway Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/wenchang-w...

STS-112 was an 11-day Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched on 7 October 2002 at 19:45 UTC from the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B to deliver the 28,000 pound Starboard 1 (S1) truss segment to...

If you had to live on one of these worlds, which would you choose? (note: you'd live in the exact same type of habitat, none of these worlds would be terraformed, just the location itself) [🔴Mars, 🌑Ceres, 🌝Moon, 🌕Titian)

Lunar Road Trip 🚗 Apollo 16 panoramic with the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and one of two astronauts on the surface of the Moon!

What goes up, must come down 🚀 Falcon 9 roars back to the Cape after successfully launching the Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS 📸 - @derekdotspace.bsky.social

Liftoff of CRS NG-23 🚀 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station! 📸 - @derekdotspace.bsky.social

March of a Titan 🚀 The Saturn V to be used for Apollo 12 exits the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) towards Pad 39A.

🚨 BREAKING United States Space Force to be headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, leaving the state of Colorado.

Starship 37 moments before it safely splashed down in the ocean 🚀

Saturn? ❌ Jupiter? ✅ NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft snapped this photo of Jupiter and his ring system while in the gas giants shadow. This photo was taken ~1.5 million kilometers away, one day after Voyagers flyby on July 10th, 1979.

Space Shuttle Endeavor’s tail splits orbital dusk.

Amazon's Kuiper constellation has surpassed 100 satellites in orbit with a launch earlier today, atop Falcon 9 For @proximareport.bsky.social -> proximareport.com/articles/ama...

Saturn, the second largest and arguably most iconic planet in our solar system, and Titan, the giants largest Moon. This image was captured by Cassini in August of 2013, from the planets night side.

ULA inch ever closer to launch for USSF-106, Vulcan’s first national security mission. This is also the first time Vulcan has four SRBs 👀 Launch is slated for tomorrow at 7:59pm EST. 📸 - @derekdotspace.bsky.social

Hauntingly Beautiful. Terrifyingly Desolate. Aboard the ailing Apollo 13 CM, the three man crew look back at an oasis amongst a black sea, slowly drifting away.

During Rocket Labs most recent flight dubbed, “The Harvest Goddess Thrives,” Electron tested the high quality cameras, its successor Neutron, will use. Some stunning quality!

The 96th Weekly Dose of Space is live! With @cosmictylxr.bsky.social for @proximareport.bsky.social -> proximareport.com/articles/wee...

STS-91 Undocking Space Shuttle Discovery undocks from the Russian Space Station, MIR. This marked an end to the joint US/Russian “Shuttle-MIR” program.

Our Monthly Dose of Space for July 2025 is live! Written by @china-in-space.com and @cosmictylxr.bsky.social 🔗 proximareport.com/articles/mon...