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[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Welcome to orbit once again. Congrats to the @capellaspace team. We're proud to be your mission partner.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

There's a "tornado" on the surface of the sun right now. Will be spending the rest of the day watching it to see what happens. These always make for fascinating timelapses. My best guess is it's over 100k miles tall, I'll measure it more accurately in a coming post.

[Primal Space @thePrimalSpace]

This video gives a great perspective to the size of Starship’s Super Heavy booster!

📹: @elonmusk

[SPACE.com @SPACEdotcom]

Europe's 1st ever Jupiter mission in 'home straight' ahead of April launch https://t.co/lKtlHg3cMi

[Jim Free @JimFree]

This year's budget request will build on our successful #Artemis I flight to fully funds the systems needed to fly astronauts around the Moon on Artemis II and land them on the lunar surface for Artemis III. At 1PM ET today, join @NASA leaders for details: https://t.co/Lo4P8aH0PP

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A private space company in Spain called PLD Space are in development of a reusable rocket called Miura 1, unveiled at a military base on Saturday.

Miura 1 is capable of a 220 lb payload. The private company PLD Space will be given a budget of $745 million dollars.

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China is set to launch on March 12th at 11:05 (US Central Time) using the Long March 2C rocket. No known information about this payload is available at this time.

📸: (https://t.co/fgam3WeixM)

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Russia is scheduled for a secretive payload launch today, using a Proton-M rocket, on March 12th at 6:13 (US Central Time)

Known to be a geostationary satellite built for the Russian Ministry of defense and the Russian Intelligence Agency (FSB)

📸: (https://t.co/PHYHNdpX85)

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Russia considering the possibility of a manufacturing defect that lead to the coolant leaks of their Soyuz MS-22 Spacecraft.

The spacecraft failed to transport three astronauts from the International Space Station back to Earth three weeks ago.

📸: (https://t.co/wjdtVKSb2A)

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Sand dunes on the surface of Mars.

Taken by the High-Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRise), operated by The University of Arizona.

📸: https://t.co/aNhg4qWjtF

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Catch the moon in the claws of the Scorpius constellation at 5:50am, March 13th, looking south 👀 (US Central Time)

The Moon will be besides Graffias, Dschubba and Pi Scorpii of the Scorpius constellation ✨

📸: (https://t.co/tgg2HV7Psr)