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Recent Astronomical Discoveries
Scientists Uncover a Hidden Power Source Inside a Monster Black Hole
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251007081827.htm#
Plasmoids Near a Black Hole
https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/plasmoids-near-black-hole.webp
Discussion Topic of the Evening.
From space.com
How one Scientist’s Wide-eyed Dream of Giant Space Cities was Crushed by Reality
O’Neill’s “Cities in Space”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Spacecolony1.jpg
“The High Frontier”
“Torus Interior”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Stanford_Torus_interior.jpg
“Physics Problems”
https://nss.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/physics-today-fig1a.gif
“Mining the Moon”
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/vNShmJHXMyHUQqapyexJtU-1920-80.jpg.webp
Mirror Schematic
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESJdZo5XUAA-cFD?format=jpg&name=medium
“Space Colony”
https://www.historyonthenet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Age-of-Discovery-2.0-space-colonies.jpg
“Residents on Vacation”
https://kromekat.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MaxonRing_PoolView-1170×563.jpg
Meteor Destruction
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/T5rSPL7y5wyJCvuYPoHmF3-1200-80.jpeg.webp
Waz Up
Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
Oct 5 – 11
JWST spots a hidden red supergiant just before it exploded
https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/sn-2025pht-in-ngc-1637.webp
A STREAM OF SOLAR WIND IS APPROACHING EARTH
https://spaceweather.com/images2025/09oct25/ch_strip.jpg
Space-Related Birthdays
Oct 5 – 11
Karen Nyberg Oct 7, 1969: STS-124, Soyuz TMA-09M (Expedition 36/37)
Robert R. Gilruth Oct 08, 1913: No flights. Director of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, now Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Janice E. Voss Oct 08, 1956: STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-99
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Janice_Voss.jpg/220px-Janice_Voss.jpg
Robert A. Rushworth Oct 09, 1924: X-15 Flight 87
John M. Grunsfeld Oct 10, 1958: STS-67, STS-81, STS-103, STS-109, STS-125
Rex J. Walheim C. Oct 10, 1962: STS-110, STS-122, STS-135
Gordon Fullerton Oct 11, 1936: ALT, STS-3, STS-51-F
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Fullerton.jpg/220px-Fullerton.jpg
This Week in Space History
Oct 5 – 11
Oct. 11, 1968
Apollo 7, First Apollo Manned Mission Launched
Oct. 11, 1984
First U.S. EVA by a woman
https://www.collectspace.com/images/news-101819b-lg.jpg
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Constellation “Lacerta the Lizard”
Space Launches For This Week
Space Flight Now Launch Schedule
October 12 Falcon 9 • Starlink 10-52
Launch time: Window opens at 4:11 a.m. EDT (0811 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1095, launching for a third time, will land on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: October 06
NET October 13 Starship • Flight 11
Launch time: Window opens at 6:15 p.m. CDT (7:15 p.m. EDT / 2315 UTC)
Launch site: OLP-A, Starbase, Texas
A SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy rocket (collectively referred to as Starship) will launch from Starbase, Texas, on a suborbital flight. This will be the 11th flight of the integrated launch vehicle. Similarly to Flight 10, SpaceX will not attempt to perform a catch of the Super Heavy booster (B15), which will be flying for a second time and reusing 24 of its 33 Raptor engines. Following hot staging, B15 will perform a controlled splashdown in the Gulf using “a unique landing burn engine configuration planned to be used on the next generation Super Heavy.” The Ship upper stage (S38) will target an aquatic ending in the Indian Ocean following “a dynamic banking maneuver” designed to “mimic the path a ship will take on future flights returning to Starbase.” The Ship will also perform multiple demonstrations, like deploying eight Starlink simulators and relighting a single Raptor engine during the coast phase of the mission.
Updated: September 30
NET October 14/15 Electron • ‘Owl New World’
Launch time: 5:30 a.m. NZDT on Oct. 15 (12:30 p.m. EDT / 1630 UTC)
Launch site: Launch Complex 1, Pad A, Mahia, New Zealand
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Japan-based satellite data and analytics company, Symspective. This will be the seventh StriX satellite launched onboard an Electron rocket out of a total of 27 booked launches. The satellite will be deployed into an orbit at 583 km (362 mi) in altitude at an inclination of 42 degrees about 50 minutes after liftoff from New Zealand.
Updated: October 07
October 14/15 Falcon 9 • SDA’s Tranche 1 Transporter Layer-C
Launch time: 7:11 p.m. PDT (10:11 p.m. EDT / 0211 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second batch of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to low Earth orbit. The shorthand for this mission is T1TL-C. A $1.8 billion contract was awarded across York Space Systems, Lockheed Martin Space and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems to establish a constellation of 126 “optically-interconnected space vehicles.” These 21 satellites were from Lockheed Martin. The Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number B1093, launching for a seventh time, will land on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: October 01
October 15 Falcon 9 • Starlink 10-17
Launch time: Window opens at 12:21 p.m. EDT (1621 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1067, launching for a 31st time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: October 06
October 17/18 Falcon 9 • Starlink 11-19
Launch time: Window opens at 5:09 p.m. PDT (8:09 p.m. EDT / 0009 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1088, launching for an 11th time, will land on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ positioned in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: October 08
October 18 Falcon 9 • Starlink 10-21
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster, tail number B1077, launching for a 24th time, will land on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: October 08
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
You can use the http://www.heavens-above.com website to find out what’s in orbit and
where to look during fly-overs
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.
ISS
Oct 13
Oct 14
Oct 15
Oct 16