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Space news🚀🛰 from orbit🌍 and beyond🌠!

[Ian Atkinson @IanPineapple]

I usually never post awareness campaigns, but this is important.

The Chandra X-ray Observatory, an operational one-of-a-kind telescope orbiting Earth, is planned to be shut down solely for budgetary reasons.

This is unacceptable.
Help here: https://t.co/2Lda2YJj8d

#SaveChandra

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@unkotareoyaji @tagesschau Es ist normalerweise eigentlich immer bekannt, dass der gestartete Militärsatellit wirklich einer ist.

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The launch of Hispasat's #AmazonasNexus satellite atop a Falcon 9 rocket has been successful.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff!

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The launch of Falcon 9 with Hispasat's #AmazonasNexus satellite has been delayed to 08:32 p.m. EST/01:32 UTC.

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#OTD 5 years ago, SpaceX' #FalconHeavy conducted its maiden flight and launched Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into space.

Image Credits: SpaceX

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Launch time of #AmazonasNexus:

Feb. 07, 06:32 WITA🇮🇩
Feb. 07, 06:32 CST🇨🇳
Feb. 07, 06:32 SGT🇸🇬
Feb. 07, 07:32 YAKT🇷🇺
Feb. 07, 07:32 KST🇰🇷
Feb. 07, 07:32 JST🇯🇵
Feb. 07, 09:32 AEDT🇦🇺
Feb. 07, 11:32 NZDT🇳🇿

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Mission Overview

Rocket🚀: Falcon 9 Block 5

Payload🛰: #AmazonasNexus

Launch Date📅: Feb. 06, 2023

Launch Time⏰️: 22:32 UTC

Launch Site: Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida🇺🇸

Target Orbit🌎: Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Image Credit: SpaceX

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Launch time of #AmazonasNexus:

Feb. 06, 23:32 WAT🇲🇦
Feb. 06, 23:32 CET🇪🇺
Feb. 07, 00:32 SAST🇿🇦
Feb. 07, 01:32 MSK🇷🇺
Feb. 07, 01:32 TRT🇹🇷
Feb. 07, 02:32 GST🇦🇪
Feb. 07, 04:02 IST🇮🇳
Feb. 07, 04:32 ALMT🇰🇿

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Lucy begins 12-year mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids

#LucyMission #AtlasV
https://t.co/U8IkDyNVJJ

[NASA HQ PHOTO @nasahqphoto]

Launch! A @ulalaunch Atlas V rocket launches the Lucy spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids! More 📷: https://t.co/tnWlKhXeJx #LucyMission

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For the next few months, Lucy will travel through deep space, before conducting its first gravity assist at planet Earth in 2022.

The spacecraft will fly by its first asteroid, the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, in April 2025.

#LucyMission

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Successful acquisition of Lucy's🛰 signal by tracking stations on Earth.

#LucyMission

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Successful deployment of Lucy's🛰 two solar arrays.

#LucyMission

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Successful separation of NASA's Lucy🛰 space probe from Atlas V's🚀 Centaur second stage.

#LucyMission

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Atlas V🚀 and Lucy🛰 blast off from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral SFS at 05:34 EDT / 09:34 UTC.

#LucyMission

[ULA @ulalaunch]

LIFTOFF! #AtlasV launches #LucyMission on a journey to Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids!

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Successful cut off of the Centaur upper stage.

Atlas V🚀 has now entered a second coast phase.

#LucyMission

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Successful restart of the RL10C-1 rocket engine on Atlas V's🚀 Centaur upper stage.

#LucyMission

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Successful cut off of Atlas V's🚀 second stage.

The rocket has now entered a ~27 1/2 minutes long coast phase.

#LucyMission

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Successful jettison of the two payload fairing halves.

The Lucy probe is now exposed to the vacuum of space.

#LucyMission