Space Weather Watch — June 01, 2026

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media, Hello, and welcome to Space News and Weather Today. Up on the International Space Station, twelve people are orbiting Earth right now, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they circle the planet two hundred and fifty miles overhead. A Falcon nine rocket is heading to space. In the next couple of days, SpaceX launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sending up the Starlink Internet Satellites mission. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic. Venus and Jupiter will meet in a dazzling conjunction on June ninth, the two brightest planets side by side. Saturn rises before midnight, now its famous rings visible through even small telescopes. Jupiter follows in the early morning hours, preparing for its summer appearance.

1:09 The waning Moon takes its time rising tonight. Enjoy dark skies early, then watch the bright moon appear later. Indrecent new observations of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, reveal that its auroras share detailed structural similarities with auroras on Earth, suggesting that the physical processes that generate these lights may be universal across different types of celestial bodies. Scorpius makes its summer appearance low in the south. The constellation's fish hook shape is easy to spot, with red Anteres gleaming at its center. That's your space update for today, compiled by AI from NASA and Spaceflight News.