@PolarisProgram - Really hoping @BoeingSpace is paying attention to how @SpaceX is handling proper safety checks ✅️ ✅️ & Triple ✔️ . May there be less failures in the future with human exploration being done when people's lives are on the line.
LOX loading is underway for today's mission. Now just over an hour until our 62nd launch and fifth mission for @KineisIoT, which will complete the deployment of their entire constellation in <12 months.
Today's launch timings:
🚀2:31 p.m. | New Zealand Daylight Time
🚀01:31 | UTC
🚀9:31 p.m. | Eastern Daylight Time
🚀8:31 p.m. | Central Daylight Time
🚀7:31 p.m. | Mountain Daylight Time
🚀6:31 p.m. | Pacific Daylight Time
Lighting up the early hours of March 14, this #lunareclipse is a must-see! As the Moon reaches totality, it darkens before glowing red—thanks to Earth's atmosphere bending sunlight, creating #BloodMoon.
🔴 Begins: March 13, 9:57 PM
🔴 Max Eclipse: March 14, 12:58 AM
🎥 @NASA
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Our #GhostRiders completed another lunar orbit maneuver with a 3 minute, 18 second burn early this morning. This maneuver moved the lander from a high elliptical orbit to a much lower elliptical orbit around the Moon. Shortly after the burn, Blue Ghost captured incredible footage of the Moon's far side, about 120 km above the surface.
In this orbit, the team will experience planned rolling comms blackouts as Blue Ghost goes around the far side of the Moon. When on the near side, the team will continue to downlink data and finalize the plan for our next maneuver that will get Blue Ghost even closer to the lunar surface and keep us right on track for landing on March 2. #BGM1
November 26th is the anniversary of the 3rd country to launch a satellite into orbit with their own rocket - after the Soviet Union and the US the next nation to perform this engineering feat was...
France, with the Diamant 1A - which succeeded on its first attempt, launching the Astérix satellite.