ASTRONOMY NEWS - January 21, 2024

📰 ASTRONOMY NEWS

🗓 Edition of January 21, 2024 🚀

📌 Focus on Aerospace Technology

🕕 Recent Updates 🌌

🗺 Global Space Exploration News

🗓 Sunday, January 21, 2024

⏳ 21st day of the year

🌖 Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent on January 21, First Quarter on January 28, Full Moon on February 6, Waning Crescent on February 14

☀ Last X-class solar eruption: 12/31/2023 (X5.0)

☀ Last M-class solar eruption: 01/12/2024 (M1.0)

🌪️ GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY: Minor to moderate geomagnetic storms (G1-G2) expected on January 22 and 23 due to the influence of CMEs that departed from the Sun on January 20.

🛰️ SPACE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Landspace: Successful test flight of the ZhuQue-3 Hopper prototype, part of the development of reusable rocket technology.
• JAXA: Successful landing of the Japanese SLIM probe on the Moon, with reported power issues.
• ESA/China: Successful launch of the Einstein Probe cooperation project on a Chang Zheng 2C rocket.

🚀 ROCKET LAUNCH CALENDAR:

Jan 22: Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 7-11 (Vandenberg SFB, California, USA)

Jan 23: Kinetica 1 - Third Flight (Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China)

Jan 26: SpaceShipTwo - Galactic-06 (Spaceport America, New Mexico, USA)

Jan 28: Falcon 9 - Starlink 6-38 (Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA)

Jan 29: Falcon 9 - NG-20 (Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA)

Jan 30: Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 6-39 (Location unspecified)

🌟 CELESTIAL OBSERVATION:

Jan 26: Full Moon

Jan 28: Mars in conjunction with Mercury

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