ASTRONOMY NEWS - January 28, 2024

📰 ASTRONOMY NEWS

🗓 Edition of January 28, 2024 🚀

📌 Focus on Aerospace Technology

🕕 Recent Updates 🌌

🗺 Global Space Exploration News

🗓 Sunday, January 28, 2024

⏳ 28th 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: 01/28/2024 (C3.0)

🌪️ GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY: Solar magnetic stability, with minor activities and no significant geomagnetic storms forecasted for the weekend.

🛰️ SPACE HIGHLIGHTS:

• NASA - End of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission: NASA announced the end of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter mission on the Red Planet. The mission surpassed expectations, performing many more flights than planned. However, the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers. source
• Copernic Space - Commercialization of Lunar Assets: Copernic Space is selling digital capacity and lunar assets for a 2024 moon mission. The company is taking a new step in its campaign to create a digital marketplace for selling and financing space assets. source
• US Space Force - A Critical Year Ahead: 2024 is a critical year for the US Space Force, with a focus on innovation and fresh thinking in the face of increasing space competition with China and Russia. source

🚀 ROCKET LAUNCH CALENDAR:

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

Jan 29: Falcon 9 - Starlink Group 7-12 (Vandenberg SFB, California, USA)

Jan 30: Falcon 9 - Cygnus CRS-2 NG-20 (S.S. Patricia “Patty” Hilliard Robertson) (Cape Canaveral, FL, USA)

Jan 31: Electron - Four Of A Kind (NorthStar 1) (Onenui Station, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand)

Feb 02: Smart Dragon 3 - Unknown Payload (Sea Launch)

Feb 06: Falcon 9 - PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) (Cape Canaveral, FL, USA)

🌟 CELESTIAL OBSERVATION:

NASA's Webb Telescope Reveals Dusty 'Cat's Tail': The discovery in the Beta Pictoris system offers a new perspective on planet and star system formation. source

Advanced Studies on Supermassive Black Holes and Exoplanets: Recent research expands our understanding of the universe and the possibilities of life on other planets. source

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