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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 10h

During the IAC SpaceX had a presentation on Starlink and public ephemeris (location) data to help traffic coordination, (one could of course launch less crap but I digress..) it showed interesting on-orbit shots detailing some of the close approaches Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6gE...

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Gunter Krebs @skyrocket.de · 08/10/2026

An old defunct Soviet weather satellite, Meteor-2 7, has suffered a break-up event in orbit on 5 october 2026. Some tens of fragments have been detected. space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/met... x.com/shell_jim/st...

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Meteor-2 (11F632)

The Meteor-2 series was the second generation of soviet meteorological satellites. They were based on the Meteor-1 series.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Update on Rassvet orbit raising: looks like Rassvet-3 No. 22 has belatedly begun orbit raising, but 23 and 17 continue to decay and 11 and 14 are stuck at 350 km

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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This image of the #Crew13 launch, taken by astronaut Anil Menon on the ISS, shows how dirty the #Falcon9 exhaust actually is. 📷: x.com/astro_anil/s...

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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Launch of SpaceX #Falcon9 Block 5 rocket with Jessica Watkins, Luke Delaney, Josh Kutryk & Sergey Teteryatnikov on #Crew13 Dragon mission to the ISS & 1st stage RTLS landing imminent. Watch live!

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 Launch

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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

YTD orbital launch stats: 🇺🇸 123 🇨🇳 70 🇳🇿 16 🇷🇺 13 🇪🇺 7 🇯🇵 3 🇮🇳 3 🌍 235

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On 23 September, the European-Chinese SMILE mission was declared ready for science operations, after launching on 19 May and reaching its target orbit on 20 June. The mission will study how Earth responds to the charged particles carried by the solar wind.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shane Ross at Virginia Tech created a simulation of what 500k orbital data centers, as proposed by SpaceX, would look like from your home latitude sdross0.github.io/orbital-data...

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What would orbital data centers look like from your sky?

500,000 satellites from SpaceX's FCC filing, two published brightness models and the real stars, for any latitude, date and time. Computed in your browser.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Europe's Jupiter probe skimmed past Earth yesterday, picking up a 7,800 mph speed boost Juice is now on course to reach Jupiter in 2031

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s2a systems @s2a-systems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A short clip of ESA's JUICE Earth flyby, recorded about 38 minutes before closest approach.

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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tomorrow night, ESA's JUICE spacecraft will make a close pass by Neptune as seen from the U.S.—and along a narrow path across North America, it will transit directly across Neptune. JUICE should be around mag 12–13. Here's what the encounter will look like from different cities. #astro 🔭

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The LINK spacecraft, which failed in its mission to rescue the SWIFT observatory, reentered at 1438 UTC Sep 24 over the S Pacific on a track from Tonga towards French Polynesia

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 26/09/2026

MECO and Stage Sep

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HEO's Space Based Imaging captured this shot of China's Tiangong Space Station as it passed over the coast of Hawaii. At 12 cm/px resolution, we can see the expected configuration of the CSS, with its solar array wings deployed and all science modules

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🚀 Liftoff! At 13:32UTC September 23, Long March 8A launched SatNet LEO Group 26 from Hainan

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 21/09/2026

Two Starfall contracts from Europe involving Starship flights in 2028 and 2029. written by Chris Bergin www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/09/exol...

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Andrew Parsonson @andrewparsonson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

ESA has confirmed delays to the Ariane 6 launch schedule following reports that a turbopump anomaly was discovered during ground testing. europeanspaceflight.com/esa-acknowle...

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ESA Acknowledges Ariane 6 Delays Following Reports of Turbopump Issue

ESA has confirmed delays to the Ariane 6 launch schedule following reports that a turbopump anomaly was discovered during ground testing.

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mystery solved. Dan Bush’s all-sky camera caught a bright meteor over Albany, Missouri early on the morning of Tuesday, September 15th around 7:42 UT. The slow moving nature of the fireball made a strong case for a reentry. youtu.be/k6PsgumVH-E?...

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Slow-Moving Satellite Re-Entry - Possible Meteor - September 15, 2026 2:42 a.m. CDT or 7:42UT

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 20/09/2026

Another Kinetica-1 flight has brought the start of another orbital computing constellation into space, and a communication-computing spacecraft demonstrator, alongside seven satellites designed to look back at Earth Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/new-orbita...

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NASA has just discovered a massive new crater on the Moon from an undetected impact two years ago The crater is bigger than the Roman Colosseum

A black and white overhead view of a fresh impact crater on the lunar surface. The crater is a deep, dark hole surrounded by a bright, radiating pattern of ejected material that spreads outward across the dark grey lunar soil.

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

LRO spots new Moon crater Has been named McGetchin after lunar scientist Tom McGetchin(1936-1979) rock.geosociety.org/net/document... The 222-m-diameter crater formed between April & May 2024 at 1.3536°N, 67.1765°E lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1501 science.nasa.gov/solar-system... x.com/conspiracysl...

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fragmentation events for old satellites aren’t uncommon, thought it’s certainly not great to add more debris to an already overburdened low Earth orbit. Meteoroid strikes or battery/tank ruptures due to years of heating and cooling are all suspects.

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Interesting. U.S. CSpOC Space-Track reports a fragmentation event for the USA 32 satellite in low Earth orbit. The event occurred earlier this week on September 13th at around 21:13 UT. No word yet as to how many fragments it produced.

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚀 Liftoff at 02:40UTC on September 17, CASIC's Kuaizhou-11 Y3 launched Tianyi-51/52 from Jiuquan. More epic drone shots here! #ChinaRocket #ChinaSpace #DroneCam

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wow: Giant new impact crater spotted on the Moon! An asteroid the size of an apartment building hit the lunar surface in early 2024 & created 220-meter (730-foot) wide McGetchin crater. It's "the largest contemporary impact crater found in the Solar System." 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon’s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface.

The crash left a crater, 728 feet wide, that spans the length of two football fields. And at 141 feet deep, the crater could fit three vertically stacked yellow school buses. Scientists estimate that an impact of this magnitude happens on the Moon about once in a century or even longer.

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 14/09/2026

Earth's orbital environment is a finite resource. Our latest Space Environment Report shows the long-term impact of our activities in space worsened by an order of magnitude in just one year. The time to tackle space debris is now. Read more: www.esa.int/Space_Safety... @operations.esa.int

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Jack | China in Space 🐼🚀 🇨🇳 @china-in-space.com · 16/09/2026

Gravity-1 has flown from the sea for the fourth time, carrying eight operational Qianfan satellites and a testing high-throughput spacecraft to polar orbit on its latest outing! Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/sea-launch...

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 16/09/2026

S/C Sep. Thanks for the ride, third stage. Yeet! Progress MS-35 heading to the ISS.

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 16/09/2026

Nominal staging with the boosters. The Korolev Cross.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The NRO/Lockheed/Motorola P-11 No. 5103 signals intelligence sat, FARRAH III (codename USA 32, NRO Mission 7348) launched in 1988 and retired sometime in the late 1990s, underwent a debris event on 2026 Sep 13 at 2113 UTC according to USSF Space-Track. It's in a 775 x 778 km x 85 deg orbit

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A #Zhuque2E Y7 rocket lifted off on Sept. 15 from Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in NW China, delivering a new satellite group consisting of 10 Spacesail Internet Mega Constellation satellites. A vital 'Billionaire Monopoly Busting' commercial low-orbit satellite network.

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China Space Watch @chinaspace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ZhuQue-2E Y7 Launch Mission Recap. I’m a huge fan of these brilliantly produced videos from LandSpace. Not only do they capture some awesome views of their rocket launches, but they’re also presented with such stylish editing, flair, and attention to detail! (A Drone Pilot's dream job!)

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Russia's Nivelir-class military satellite Kosmos-2558 stopped orbit maintenance in Apr 2025; it reentered today, Sep 12. In Jun 2025 an object apparently released from it ("Object C") was cataloged and begin making orbit reboost burns, which continue today