SpaceX Falcon Launch Tonight - February 09, 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 Calaroga Shark Media. This is sleep from space. NASA officials defended their preparations for the Artemis two mission after a fueling test experienced the same type of hydrogen leaks that bedeviled Artemis Ie more than three years ago. SpaceX has a Falcon nine scheduled in the next couple of days from Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida. Right now, twelve humans are living in space aboard the iss Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead several times a day. If you know when to look, 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, a small space rock named twenty twenty six CS makes a close approach. Today it's roughly the length of a bus, passing roughly two times the Moon's distance. Scientists will be watching.
1:15 Gemini dominates the overhead sky after dark. The Twins' heads are marked by Castor and Pollux, two of the brightest stars in the winter sky. Pollox is slightly brighter with an orange tint. Tonight's report was compiled by AI from NASA Launch Library and Spaceflight News. See you Tomorrow, night,