Geomagnetic Storm Destroyed at Least 40 SpaceX Star Hyperlink Satellites
On Thursday, February 3 at 1:13 p.m. EST, Falcon 9 launched 49 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Launch Advanced 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Area Heart in Florida. The following day, a geomagnetic storm collided with the satellites. In accordance with SpaceX, “Preliminary evaluation present the elevated drag on the low altitudes prevented the…
Elon Musk Considers Florida To Test SpaceX Starship Rocket
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company is considering plans to turn part of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida into a new location for its Starship rocket. The space technology company has conducted some tests from its Texas location but is considering the addition of the new location as Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations…
4K Sun – With Solar Flares & CMEs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEzK4ZfMvUQ&t=0sSpace Videos – Some delicious views of the Sun covering the 3rd – 5th November. The Sun is becoming more active as it enters a new solar cycle. We have seen a number of flares and CMEs over the last few days , some of which have resulted in fantastic Aurora being seen here on…
A Disconnection Event in the Tail of Comet Leonard
Something unusual is happening to the tail of Comet Leonard. It’s being disconnected. To see the break, scroll down this picture taken by Gerald Rhemann on Christmas Day: About halfway down the picture, right here, a rupture appears. This is a disconnection event: A piece of Comet Leonard’s tail has been pinched off and is being carried…
Solar Cycle 25 Update
Solar Cycle 25 is heating up. New sunspot counts from NOAA confirm that the young solar cycle is outrunning the official forecast. You are here: Actual sunspot counts have now exceeded predictions for 15 straight months. The monthly value at the end of December 2021 was more than twice the forecast, and the highest in…
An Outburst of Noctilucent Clouds
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGkV2ha7ock%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent On Jan 24th, skies above Argentina suddenly filled with noctilucent clouds (NLCs). A video camera in Rio Gallegos (Patagonia) captured the outburst: “What a surprise!” says Gerd Baumgarten of Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, who operates this remote camera to minotor southern skies for unusual events. “We haven’t seen NLCs all year. Now,…