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✨Earth's Bridge to Space✨ NASA’s provider of a commercial launch experience, matching spacecraft to launch vehicles since 1998! 🚀 Up Next: GOES-U

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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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Celebrating Swift for #BlackHoleWeek ! Launched on Nov. 20, 2004 aboard a Delta II rocket, Swift has helped us study gamma-ray bursts for nearly 20 years. Swift was designed to quickly follow-up on these blasts that can signal the birth of black holes.
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@NASA_LSP
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Fermi launched aboard a Delta II rocket on June 11, 2008 and soon it detected giant bubbles of gamma-ray light extending above and below the Milky Way. These might be leftovers from a big meal eaten by our galaxy’s central black hole! #BlackHoleWeek
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@NASA_LSP
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#ReadyToGOES ! Media can now apply to cover the launch of @NOAASatellites ' GOES-U! GOES-U is the fourth and final satellite in NOAA’s GOES-R Series. Liftoff from @NASAKennedy is targeted for 5:16 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 25, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy!
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@NASA_LSP
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Are you #ReadyToGOES ? NASA & NOAA are looking for social creators to be part of launch activities for GOES-U! Liftoff is targeted for June 25 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Book a trip that includes the VAB, LC-39A, & Hangar AE! Deadline to apply is May 14 👇
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@NASAUniverse
NASA Universe
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What’s our IXPE telescope looking at during #BlackHoleWeek ? Maybe two different black hole sources! IXPE has scheduled X-ray observations of the first confirmed black hole, Cygnus X-1, as well as the blazar Markarian 421. Download a poster of Cygnus X-1:
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@NASA_LSP
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Launched on Dec. 14, 2009 aboard a @ULALaunch Delta II, WISE revealed millions of hidden black holes across the universe! 🌌 In one study, astronomers used WISE to identify about 2.5 million actively feeding supermassive black holes across the full sky, stretching back to…
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@NASAUniverse
NASA Universe
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Science is a process of questions and answers, and astronomers always want to know more about black holes! With our telescopes pointed at them, black holes regularly make headlines. Follow this thread to catch up on some recent black hole news. #BlackHoleWeek 🧵1/5
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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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This #BlackHoleWeek – Let’s talk TESS! On April 18, 2018, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Less than a year later, the planet-hunting satellite watched a black hole tear apart a star in a cataclysmic phenomenon…
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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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It’s #BlackHoleWeek and we’re celebrating IXPE! Since launching on Dec. 9, 2021 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, IXPE’s X-ray polarization measurements have been helping us home in on objects like black holes by studying their innermost regions! 🛰️ 🌌 ➡️
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@NASA_LSP
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🚀🛰🛰 One year launchiversary for TROPICS part one! Two CubeSats of the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellations of Smallsats (TROPICS) launched from Mahia, New Zealand on @RocketLab ’s Electron dubbed #RocketLikeAHurricane .
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@NASAUniverse
NASA Universe
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Steady as you go! Take a trip around a black hole, just skirting the event horizon, in this new visualization. The surroundings appear to twist and contort due to the black hole's strong gravity. Learn more about what you’re seeing: #BlackHoleWeek
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@NASAUniverse
NASA Universe
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Want to get up to speed on black holes? We’ve got you covered! A black hole is an object so dense that not even light can escape it. #BlackHoleWeek 🧵1/6
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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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#TeacherAppreciationWeek with LSP📝🚀 On behalf of NASA's Launch Services Program, thank you to all the teachers across the universe. From past classroom visits to current virtual meet and greets, LSP and our outreach team are happy to support teachers!
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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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🚀 Happy launch anniversary to InSight! #OTD in 2018, InSight lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on an @ulalaunch Atlas V! InSight may be retired, but researchers will pore over the data from its seismometer for decades to come. 📲
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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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Obligatory VADR post cause it’s #StarWarsDay ! Not in a galaxy far far away, but right here with LSP! Our VADR contract provides low-cost launch services for high-risk tolerant payloads. #MayThe4thBeWithYou Want to learn more about VADR? This is the way:
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@NASA_LSP
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🚀🛰️Happy launch-iversary to GOES-L! #OTD 24 years ago, GOES-L lifted off from SLC-36A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. GOES-L has the distinction of being LSP’s first GOES launch! The legacy continues with the upcoming GOES-U launch scheduled for June 25th.
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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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Since 1998, we've managed the launch of over 100 missions, launching spacecraft to various Earth orbits, Mars, and to the outer edges of our solar system. Our team works to ensure safe and successful launches, paving the way for scientific discoveries! 🚀🛰️Happy #SpaceDay !🌌✨
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NASA's Launch Services Program
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❓Q: How many asteroids have passed closer to the Earth than the Moon… in the past 30 days? A: NASA is keeping track! 👇
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@NASA_LSP
NASA's Launch Services Program
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With @EuropaClipper launching soon to investigate the habitability of Jupiter’s icy moon, learn how you can join NASA’s search for life with @NASAAstrobio ’s latest graphic novel “Becoming an Astrobiologist.” Download your e-reader or PDF copy today:
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@NASAJPL
NASA JPL
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Earth >> << Psyche DSOC, a tech demo on #MissionToPsyche , works so well that it has graduated from sending pre-loaded test data (remember Taters the laser cat?) to transmitting actual spacecraft telemetry:
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