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[Wu Lei @wulei2020]

What a beautiful launch at night! 🎉

A #LongMarch-2D carrier rocket lifted off from the #Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 19:41 (Beijing Time) on November 11, successfully placing a cutting-edge scientific satellite into orbit.

[Phazzee 🐼🚀 | 中国航天 🇨🇳 | 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @PhazzeeYeehaw]

Tanluozhe-1, a space science intrustment verifying mission made up of a spacecraft and three sub-satellites, was delivered to orbit a few hours ago atop of an improved Long March 2D flying from Jiuquan

Details -> https://t.co/7mjJeTp9eI

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship is preparing for catch

Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval → https://t.co/K5XRci6bnw

[NASA @NASA]

Do you want to be an astronaut?

Applications are now open to join NASA's astronaut corps. Join us as we expand the frontiers of discovery in low Earth orbit, on the Moon, and beyond — apply by Dec. 3: https://t.co/laY2ExWiGO

[Anil Menon @astro_anil]

A comparison of our time lapse shots of a small aurora and a night orbit to real time footage that isn’t sped up. Though it looks a lot slower, we are really going fast. 17500 mph fast.

[Joshua Kutryk @Astro_Kutryk]

Feet dangling over Earth at 28000 km/hr. Don’t look down! (Kidding - definitely look down, because Earth is stunningly beautiful).

[Phazzee 🐼🚀 | 中国航天 🇨🇳 | 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @PhazzeeYeehaw]

For the first time since July, a launch occurred out of Xichang as a Long March 2C completed the debut deployment of the Yaogan-51 series for its electromagnetic environment detection tasks

Details -> https://t.co/iZ9HDgKNlF

[indianspaceflight.in🇮🇳 @ispaceflight_in]

One interesting detail in the spec: it lists the LVM3 core variants as L110 / SC120 / SC200.

SC120 is the semicryo stage ISRO is building right now. It carries ~120 t of LOX-kerosene and will replace the L110.

SC200 is a bigger version of the same idea, with ~200 t of propellant on the same SE2000 engine. It showed up in an ISRO tender back in 2019 as a future upgrade, but ISRO hasn't talked about it recently.

The drawings only have covers for the L110 and SC120 openings, so SC120 is what's actually designed for. But the spec still keeps SC200 on the table.

(Not to be confused with SCE-200, which was just the old name of the SE2000 engine.)

#ISRO #LVM3 #SC120 #SC200 #Semicryo #SE2000 #Sriharikota

[CNSPACE @CNSpaceflight]

BREAKING: Chinese government has approved Long March 9. The super-heavy is now an official program.

[CNSPACE @CNSpaceflight]

🚀 Long March 2C Y84
🕓 15:58UTC Nov 5
📍 Xichang
🛰️ Yaogan-51-07/08/09

[Canadian Space Agency @csa_asc]

The Government of Canada announced that Alexander MacDonald has been appointed President of the Canadian Space Agency and will join us on November 16, 2026. We look forward to welcoming him!🚀 https://t.co/oyi28LqkUN

[NASA Aeronautics @NASAaero]

🚨 BREAKING: Introducing X-70 Fractal, @NASA's newest experimental aircraft!

This crewed, modular aircraft will allow the agency to rapidly swap out internal & external payloads to help keep pushing the frontiers of aviation technology! @nasaadmin

Details: https://t.co/uSF1VRgdQE

[Subaru Telescope Eng @SubaruTel_Eng]

[Subaru Gallery] Arp 323, an interacting galaxy pair in Pisces, imaged with the #SubaruTelescope’s HSC. A long tidal stream, an interacting feature resembling a tadpole’s tail, stretches toward the lower left.
https://t.co/X5dU6kMtMm

[CIRA @CIRA_CSU]

Tropical Cyclone Murasu formed on Sunday and strengthened into a Category 2 equivalent storm before making landfall along India's eastern coast yesterday.

[National Air and Space Museum @airandspace]

If you were born after November 2, 2000, people have been living in space the entire time you've been alive. 🤯

Expedition 1 docked at the International Space Station on this day in 2000.

📷: ISS in September 2000.

[HiRISE: Beautiful Mars (NASA) @HiRISE]

HiPOD: Irregular Circular Depressions around Naar Crater

Our objective is to analyze a new unknown feature dubbed “irregular circular depressions.” The features are located directly on the outer rim of the crater.

https://t.co/58Rrck2CSn
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

What’s Up for November? ☄️

Watch for meteor showers, a close pairing of Mars and Jupiter, and a Voyager 1 milestone.

[Anil Menon @astro_anil]

26 years ago, today, Expedition 1 began our continuous habitation of space with NASA astronaut Bill Shepard and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev. Earth is just as stunning and station is still a platform that opens the doors to our future on the moon and, eventually, Mars. In this orbit, on this day, we passed by the blue fishing boats and, in the end, even a little aurora. See if you can spot the landmarks from the map. You’re looking out of the port window of the cupola, so to the left of the line.

[Wu Lei @wulei2020]

A #Lijian2 Y2 rocket lifted off at 8:15am BJT on Nov. 3 from #Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone in northwest China, delivering the Qianfan polar group 21 into the planned orbit. It's the model's 1st large-scale satellite internet constellation deployment mission.

[Phazzee 🐼🚀 | 中国航天 🇨🇳 | 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @PhazzeeYeehaw]

For the second time this year and ever, CAS Space's Kinetica-2 has successfully flown into orbit to deliver a group of eighteen Qianfan connectivity satellites for only its third commercial sector outing

Details -> https://t.co/Be0ukOQdGc