ASTRONOMY NEWS - February 4, 2024

📰 ASTRONOMY NEWS

🗓 Edition of February 4, 2024 🚀

📌 Focus on Aerospace Technology

🕕 Recent Updates 🌌

🗺 Global Space Exploration News

🗓 Sunday, February 4, 2024

⏳ 35th day of the year

🌖 Moon Phase: Full Moon on February 6, Waning Crescent on February 14

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

☀ Last M-class solar flare: 01/31/2024 (C4.0)

🌪️ GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY: Mild solar activity, with a C4-class solar flare on January 31. No significant geomagnetic storms forecasted.

🛰️ SPACE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Boeing faces challenges: Boeing has had a challenging week with disruptions in production and development timelines, impacting confidence in the company's leadership. source
• China's Space Achievements: China has made significant strides in the space sector, launching the Jielong-3 rocket and putting 11 low-orbit satellites for autonomous cars into orbit, in addition to raising substantial funds for building a low-orbit satellite constellation. source
• Firefly Aerospace: The company is planning to make responsive launch operations a norm for future Alpha rocket launches. source
• Blue Origin highlights Blue Ring capabilities: Blue Origin is promoting the capabilities of its Blue Ring transfer vehicle. source

🚀 ROCKET LAUNCH CALENDAR:

Feb 6: Falcon 9 - PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) (Cape Canaveral, FL, USA)

Feb 8: Soyuz - Progress 80P (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan)

Feb 10: Atlas V - CST-100 Starliner OFT-2 (Cape Canaveral, FL, USA)

🌟 CELESTIAL OBSERVATION:

Russian Cosmonaut Sets Record: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set a new world record for the total time spent in space, surpassing 878 days in orbit. source

Webb Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of 19 spiral galaxies, once again demonstrating its extraordinary capabilities. source

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