Jan. 24, 2026

SpaceX Falcon Launch Tonight - January 24, 2026

SpaceX Falcon Launch Tonight - January 24, 2026

Tonight: NASA’s Artemis II Rocket and Spacecraft Make Their Way to Launch Pad. Plus what to see in the night sky.

Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.

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Calaroga Shark Media. You're listening to Sleep from space. There

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are currently twelve astronauts aboard the ISS, including Oleg Kononenko,

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Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They're traveling at seventeen

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thy five hundred miles per hour, watching sixteen sunrises every day.

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Step outside and look south. Orion commands the sky. The

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constellation seven main stars form one of the most recognizable

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patterns in the heavens. Binoculars reveal the sword hanging from

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his belt. A Falcon nine is heading to space. Tomorrow.

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SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Space four Space, California, sending up

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Starlink Internet satellites. The booster will attempt to land back

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at Vandenburg. The Sun's been putting on a show with

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high magnetic complexity right now. There's a moderate chance you

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might see auroras if you're far in north face north

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after nine pm for the best view. Asteroid fly by

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Alert twenty twenty two OC three, about the size of

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a house, passes about one point three lunar distances away

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in about seven days. These close approaches happen weekly. Astronomers

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track thousands of them. NASA's Artemis two moon rocket has

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arrived at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Four astronauts

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will fly around the Moon as early as February sixth,

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the first crude lunar mission in over fifty years. That's

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your space update, compiled by AI from NASA, no AA,

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Space Weather, and Spaceflight News. The sky will be here

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when you wake. Sleep well,