NASA contract confirms selection of ULA’s Centaur 5... - March 08, 2026
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Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.
0:03 Calorogus Shark Media. You're listening to sleep from space. Solar activity is up. Multiple sunspot regions show high magnetic complexity, so C class flares are possible. Aurora watchers in Canada and the Northern US might catch some green on the horizon tonight. LEO, the lion rises in the east tonight. Look for the distinctive backward question mark pattern. That's the lion's head and main regulus. A blue white star marks his heart. Asteroid twenty six eleven, roughly the length of a bus, will fly past Earth tomorrow, roughly three times the Moon's distance. Completely safe, but a nice reminder of our busy Solar System rocket watchers. SpaceX launches a Falcon nine later today from Brandenberg Spacefource Base, California, carrying Starlink Internet satellites. The upper stage of United Launch Alliances Vulcan rockets performed successfully across the first four flights of the rockets since twenty twenty four. The first launch of a Centaur five as part of a Space Launch System rocket would be on the Artemis four mission. Tonight's report was compiled by AI from NASA Launch Library and Spaceflight News.
1:28 See you tomorrow. Night