March 7, 2026
NASA contract confirms selection of ULA’s Centaur 5... - March 07, 2026
Tonight: NASA contract confirms selection of ULA’s Centaur 5 as new upper stage for the SLS rocket. Plus what to see in the night sky.
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Calarogu Shark Media. Good evening, This is sleep from Space.
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SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg
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Space Force Base, California, set to fly later today. The
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booster will attempt to land back at Vandenberg. Heads up
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for asteroid fans. Twenty twenty six, DH eleven passes Earth
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in the next couple of days, roughly three times the
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Moon's distance. It's roughly the length of a bus. Harmless
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but fun to track. Leo. The Lion rises in the
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east tonight. Look for the distinctive backward question mark pattern.
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That's the lion's head. In Maine Regulus, a blue white
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star marks his heart. Sun spots are busy right now.
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High magnetic complexity across the solar disc that translates to
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a heightened chance of auroras. For northern viewers, look north
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after dark if sky are clear. The upper stage of
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United Launch Alliances Vulcan rockets performed successfully across the first
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four flights of the rocket since twenty twenty four. The
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first launch of a Centaur five as part of a
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Space Launch System rocket would be on the Artemis four mission.
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This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and
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spaceflight news sources. Thanks for listening. Sleep well,
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