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Starbase Update, with Ryan Caton
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Premiering on YouTube at 7:11pm CST (01:11 UTC).
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Premiering on YouTube at 7:11pm CST (01:11 UTC).
November 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Starbase Update, with Ryan Caton
youtu.be/_-c6YYgVX_E
Premiering on YouTube at 7:11pm CST (01:11 UTC).
youtu.be/_-c6YYgVX_E
Premiering on YouTube at 7:11pm CST (01:11 UTC).
Another busy week of launches has arrived, with SpaceX planning to launch five Falcon 9 missions this week. Of these five missions, four are Starlink missions, with the fifth being the Transporter 15 rideshare mission.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Another busy week of launches has arrived, with SpaceX planning to launch five Falcon 9 missions this week. Of these five missions, four are Starlink missions, with the fifth being the Transporter 15 rideshare mission.
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And RTLS touchdown for the booster:
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
And RTLS touchdown for the booster:
LAUNCH! SpaceX B1097-3 launches Sentinel-6B from SLC-4E, Vandenberg.
Overview article:
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Overview article:
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November 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
LAUNCH! SpaceX B1097-3 launches Sentinel-6B from SLC-4E, Vandenberg.
Overview article:
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Overview article:
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Starbase Summary (Nov 13-15, 2025):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Gs...
Available now to our YouTube members; will go public at 6:00pm CST (00:00 UTC).
For ambient sounds, use the “Klingon” audio track. For narration, select English (John “Das” Galloway) or Dutch (Martijn Luinstra). Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Gs...
Available now to our YouTube members; will go public at 6:00pm CST (00:00 UTC).
For ambient sounds, use the “Klingon” audio track. For narration, select English (John “Das” Galloway) or Dutch (Martijn Luinstra). Enjoy!
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Starbase Summary (Nov 13-15, 2025):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Gs...
Available now to our YouTube members; will go public at 6:00pm CST (00:00 UTC).
For ambient sounds, use the “Klingon” audio track. For narration, select English (John “Das” Galloway) or Dutch (Martijn Luinstra). Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Gs...
Available now to our YouTube members; will go public at 6:00pm CST (00:00 UTC).
For ambient sounds, use the “Klingon” audio track. For narration, select English (John “Das” Galloway) or Dutch (Martijn Luinstra). Enjoy!
Sentinel-6B, a joint US-European ocean monitoring satellite, will launch Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 9:21 p.m. Pacific time (05:21 UTC on Monday).
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By William Graham.
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By William Graham.
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Sentinel-6B, a joint US-European ocean monitoring satellite, will launch Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 9:21 p.m. Pacific time (05:21 UTC on Monday).
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By William Graham.
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By William Graham.
Mark your calendars!
Episode 12 of our NSF Live series, Europe’s Future In Space, debuts Monday, November 17th, at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKT...
Join us LIVE for this exciting interview of Stan Maximin, founder and executive chairman of Latitude!
Episode 12 of our NSF Live series, Europe’s Future In Space, debuts Monday, November 17th, at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKT...
Join us LIVE for this exciting interview of Stan Maximin, founder and executive chairman of Latitude!
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Mark your calendars!
Episode 12 of our NSF Live series, Europe’s Future In Space, debuts Monday, November 17th, at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKT...
Join us LIVE for this exciting interview of Stan Maximin, founder and executive chairman of Latitude!
Episode 12 of our NSF Live series, Europe’s Future In Space, debuts Monday, November 17th, at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwKT...
Join us LIVE for this exciting interview of Stan Maximin, founder and executive chairman of Latitude!
An impressive feat of precision demolition, as a digger was used to carefully remove the back cover from one of the OLM Pad 1 legs lowering it gently to the ground and moving it out of the way for scrapping.
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nsf.live/starbase
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
An impressive feat of precision demolition, as a digger was used to carefully remove the back cover from one of the OLM Pad 1 legs lowering it gently to the ground and moving it out of the way for scrapping.
nsf.live/starbase
nsf.live/starbase
Just over eight minutes later, the booster returned landing on the “Just Read The Instructions” droneship, out in the Atlantic Ocean. This marks the first time in history there are 3 orbital class boosters out in the Atlantic on their way back to shore (1 New Glenn, 2 Falcon 9)
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Just over eight minutes later, the booster returned landing on the “Just Read The Instructions” droneship, out in the Atlantic Ocean. This marks the first time in history there are 3 orbital class boosters out in the Atlantic on their way back to shore (1 New Glenn, 2 Falcon 9)
Just hours after launching from nearby LC-39A, SpaceX has launched the Starlink 6-85 mission aboard the Falcon 9 B1078-24 from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, sending another batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites into low-Earth orbit.
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Just hours after launching from nearby LC-39A, SpaceX has launched the Starlink 6-85 mission aboard the Falcon 9 B1078-24 from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, sending another batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites into low-Earth orbit.
Just over eight minutes later, the booster returned to planet Earth, landing on the “A Shortfall Of Gravitas” droneship, stationed downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.
This completes the 563rd mission of a Falcon 9 rocket and is SpaceX’s 150th mission of the year.
[Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]
This completes the 563rd mission of a Falcon 9 rocket and is SpaceX’s 150th mission of the year.
[Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Just over eight minutes later, the booster returned to planet Earth, landing on the “A Shortfall Of Gravitas” droneship, stationed downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.
This completes the 563rd mission of a Falcon 9 rocket and is SpaceX’s 150th mission of the year.
[Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]
This completes the 563rd mission of a Falcon 9 rocket and is SpaceX’s 150th mission of the year.
[Video Credit 🎥: SpaceX]
SpaceX has launched the Starlink 6-89 mission at 10:08pm EST (03:08 UTC) aboard Falcon 9 booster B1092-8 from historic LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending another batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites to low-Earth orbit.
[Video Credit 🎥: Max Evans, D Wise, and SpaceX]
[Video Credit 🎥: Max Evans, D Wise, and SpaceX]
November 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
SpaceX has launched the Starlink 6-89 mission at 10:08pm EST (03:08 UTC) aboard Falcon 9 booster B1092-8 from historic LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending another batch of 29 Starlink v2-mini satellites to low-Earth orbit.
[Video Credit 🎥: Max Evans, D Wise, and SpaceX]
[Video Credit 🎥: Max Evans, D Wise, and SpaceX]
New Glenn Nails Its First Landing! Rocket Lab Delays Neutron & More — This Week In Spaceflight with @elysiasegal.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMK...
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
New Glenn Nails Its First Landing! Rocket Lab Delays Neutron & More — This Week In Spaceflight with @elysiasegal.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lMK...
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NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, the primary payload on Blue Origin’s NG-2, is designed to study how solar storms stripped Mars of its atmosphere. However, the mission was delayed one day by the very phenomenon it was built to investigate!
Article by Sean Yoder
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Article by Sean Yoder
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November 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NASA’s ESCAPADE mission, the primary payload on Blue Origin’s NG-2, is designed to study how solar storms stripped Mars of its atmosphere. However, the mission was delayed one day by the very phenomenon it was built to investigate!
Article by Sean Yoder
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/spac...
Article by Sean Yoder
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/11/spac...
Starbase Pad 1 had a very busy night last night, as workers cut up the first segments of the lower part of the OLM that was left, letting them fall to the ground. As the decommissioning continues, ahead of upgrade to the new pad design.
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nsf.live/starbase
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Starbase Pad 1 had a very busy night last night, as workers cut up the first segments of the lower part of the OLM that was left, letting them fall to the ground. As the decommissioning continues, ahead of upgrade to the new pad design.
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nsf.live/starbase
Yesterday afternoon, New Glenn took its second flight, launching two spacecraft for the ESCAPADE mission. The clear skies and daylight launch this time around provided brilliant views of GS1 from ignition until reentry.
📷D Wise for NSF
📷D Wise for NSF
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Yesterday afternoon, New Glenn took its second flight, launching two spacecraft for the ESCAPADE mission. The clear skies and daylight launch this time around provided brilliant views of GS1 from ignition until reentry.
📷D Wise for NSF
📷D Wise for NSF
A photo shared by Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp of New Glenn GS1 as it sails aboard Jacklynn back home to Capr Canaveral following uesterday's sucessful landing.
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
A photo shared by Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp of New Glenn GS1 as it sails aboard Jacklynn back home to Capr Canaveral following uesterday's sucessful landing.
A day after arriving to Starbase Launch Pad 2, the first of two Booster QD hoods was lifted and installed in place, one more major step ahead of the new pad becoming operational in the coming weeks.
follow along on NASASpaceflight Starbase Live
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follow along on NASASpaceflight Starbase Live
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November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A day after arriving to Starbase Launch Pad 2, the first of two Booster QD hoods was lifted and installed in place, one more major step ahead of the new pad becoming operational in the coming weeks.
follow along on NASASpaceflight Starbase Live
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follow along on NASASpaceflight Starbase Live
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📝Mark your calendars, folks!📅
On Sunday, November 16th, at 3:00 p.m. EST / 20:00 UTC, NSF will be live for another Astro Live show in collaboration with the Intrepid Museum: "Space History Resurfaced: The Legacy of Liberty Bell 7". We are going to share the stream links once available.
On Sunday, November 16th, at 3:00 p.m. EST / 20:00 UTC, NSF will be live for another Astro Live show in collaboration with the Intrepid Museum: "Space History Resurfaced: The Legacy of Liberty Bell 7". We are going to share the stream links once available.
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📝Mark your calendars, folks!📅
On Sunday, November 16th, at 3:00 p.m. EST / 20:00 UTC, NSF will be live for another Astro Live show in collaboration with the Intrepid Museum: "Space History Resurfaced: The Legacy of Liberty Bell 7". We are going to share the stream links once available.
On Sunday, November 16th, at 3:00 p.m. EST / 20:00 UTC, NSF will be live for another Astro Live show in collaboration with the Intrepid Museum: "Space History Resurfaced: The Legacy of Liberty Bell 7". We are going to share the stream links once available.
Welcome home Shenzhou-20!
After 204 days in earth orbit, and a few days after the Shenzhou-21 crew arrived to the Tiangong space station, Taikonauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Ji landed safely back on earth, after a change of return capsule, due to space debris.
🎥 CCPTV+
After 204 days in earth orbit, and a few days after the Shenzhou-21 crew arrived to the Tiangong space station, Taikonauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Ji landed safely back on earth, after a change of return capsule, due to space debris.
🎥 CCPTV+
November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Welcome home Shenzhou-20!
After 204 days in earth orbit, and a few days after the Shenzhou-21 crew arrived to the Tiangong space station, Taikonauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Ji landed safely back on earth, after a change of return capsule, due to space debris.
🎥 CCPTV+
After 204 days in earth orbit, and a few days after the Shenzhou-21 crew arrived to the Tiangong space station, Taikonauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Ji landed safely back on earth, after a change of return capsule, due to space debris.
🎥 CCPTV+
After a few scrubs, ULA has launched their Atlas V 551 rocket on the Viasat -3 F2 mission from SLC 41 at the Cape Canaveral
Space Force Station. Closing out a busy day for the space coast.
On board today's mission was the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity communications satellite.
🎥Max Evans
Space Force Station. Closing out a busy day for the space coast.
On board today's mission was the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity communications satellite.
🎥Max Evans
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
After a few scrubs, ULA has launched their Atlas V 551 rocket on the Viasat -3 F2 mission from SLC 41 at the Cape Canaveral
Space Force Station. Closing out a busy day for the space coast.
On board today's mission was the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity communications satellite.
🎥Max Evans
Space Force Station. Closing out a busy day for the space coast.
On board today's mission was the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity communications satellite.
🎥Max Evans
BREAKING: The crew of Shenzhou-20 will not return on Shenzhou-20 (Launched in April). They will return on Shenzhou-21 (Launched Oct 31)
The 3-man crew remain in good condition according to the China Manned Space Agency
We assume Shenzhou-22 will be launched to be the crew of Shenzhou-21's ride home
The 3-man crew remain in good condition according to the China Manned Space Agency
We assume Shenzhou-22 will be launched to be the crew of Shenzhou-21's ride home
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
BREAKING: The crew of Shenzhou-20 will not return on Shenzhou-20 (Launched in April). They will return on Shenzhou-21 (Launched Oct 31)
The 3-man crew remain in good condition according to the China Manned Space Agency
We assume Shenzhou-22 will be launched to be the crew of Shenzhou-21's ride home
The 3-man crew remain in good condition according to the China Manned Space Agency
We assume Shenzhou-22 will be launched to be the crew of Shenzhou-21's ride home
Blue Origin have successfully landed their New Glenn booster, making them just the second company to ever land an orbital class rocket booster! The ESCAPADE payloads are destined for Mars, but they aren't going straight there...
Full explanation, by Ryan Caton, here: youtu.be/9hizNQXoe3Q
Full explanation, by Ryan Caton, here: youtu.be/9hizNQXoe3Q
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Blue Origin have successfully landed their New Glenn booster, making them just the second company to ever land an orbital class rocket booster! The ESCAPADE payloads are destined for Mars, but they aren't going straight there...
Full explanation, by Ryan Caton, here: youtu.be/9hizNQXoe3Q
Full explanation, by Ryan Caton, here: youtu.be/9hizNQXoe3Q
While the spaceflight world was focused on New Glenn's second launch and first landing, Starbase was busy preparing for its next phase, with a focus on the pad that will catch both boosters AND ships!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZL...
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
While the spaceflight world was focused on New Glenn's second launch and first landing, Starbase was busy preparing for its next phase, with a focus on the pad that will catch both boosters AND ships!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZL...