Feb. 9, 2026
SpaceX Falcon Launch Tonight - February 09, 2026
Tonight: NASA examining hydrogen leaks during Artemis 2 fueling test. Plus what to see in the night sky.
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Calaroga Shark Media. This is sleep from space. NASA officials
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defended their preparations for the Artemis two mission after a
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fueling test experienced the same type of hydrogen leaks that
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bedeviled Artemis Ie more than three years ago. SpaceX has
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a Falcon nine scheduled in the next couple of days
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from Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida. Right now, twelve humans are
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living in space aboard the iss Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb,
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and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead
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several times a day. If you know when to look,
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Solar activity is up. Multiple sunspot regions show high magnetic complexity,
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so C class flares are possible. Aurora watchers in Canada
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and the northern US might catch some green on the horizon. Tonight,
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a small space rock named twenty twenty six CS makes
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a close approach. Today it's roughly the length of a bus,
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passing roughly two times the Moon's distance. Scientists will be watching.
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Gemini dominates the overhead sky after dark. The Twins' heads
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are marked by Castor and Pollux, two of the brightest
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stars in the winter sky. Pollox is slightly brighter with
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an orange tint. Tonight's report was compiled by AI from
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NASA Launch Library and Spaceflight News. See you Tomorrow, night,
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