LAUNCH FEED // LIVE
The next orbital launch is Ariane 62 | MTG-I2, flown by Arianespace from Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, lifting off at 20:10 UTC on 27 August 2026. Delta-V tracks every upcoming orbital launch with a live countdown, carries spaceflight news from every major outlet, reports space weather and near-Earth objects, and runs a free gravity-flight game in the browser.
TIME TO LIFT-OFF
NET (UTC)
2026-08-27 20:10:00Z
Third of EUMETSAT's third generation of weather satellite.
MANIFEST // NEXT SIX
SpaceXUnited States of America
Russian Space ForcesRussiaThe operator has not published how firm this date is. Treat it as provisional.
Rocket LabUnited States of America
Galactic EnergyChinaThe operator has not published how firm this date is. Treat it as provisional.
SpaceXUnited States of America
Indian Space Research OrganizationIndiaThe operator has not published how firm this date is. Treat it as provisional.
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WIRE // HOURLY
Turkey will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 31, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, becoming the 71st country signatory. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır for the ceremony, together with U.S. Department of State officials. This event is in person only. […]
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New civil servants and guests pose for a group photo with NASA and center leadership in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221 on Aug. 24, 2026. The civil servants were sworn-in the same day in the largest swearing-in ceremony ever hosted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley since […]
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission. To learn more about the Roman mission, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/roman Media contact: Claire AndreoliNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.claire.andreoli@nasa.gov301-286-1940
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The European Space Agency has signed the first contracts under its European Launcher Challenge, committing a combined €543.6 million to Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and PLD Space. MaiaSpace was notably not among the awardees, with the agency stating that the contract award process with the company is “expected to resume in the coming weeks.” […] The post ESA Awards €544 Million in European Launcher Challenge Contracts appeared first on European Spaceflight.
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TELEMETRY // NOW
PLANETARY K-INDEX
0.7
Below storm threshold. Aurora stays near the poles at this level.
2026-08-27
Credit: Victor Lima Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
What a sight to behold, when a night sky became filled with colors that appeared to rain over the Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland. This image was taken in a single 5 second exposure by the photographer in April 2025. Seeing an aurora is on many people's bucket lists. But it is not easy. It requires high solar activity, dark and clear skies, and usually a viewing location at high latitude. That makes the northern lights more easily seen than the corresponding southern lights, simply because there is less landmass in the Southern Hemisphere, especially around the Antarctic Circle. Auroras are caused by charged particles from the solar wind that are captured by the Earth's magnetosphere and guided by the magnetic field to a region close to one of the poles, where they collide with gas particles in the atmosphere. Different colors indicate interactions with different gases at different altitudes, like oxygen (red and green) and nitrogen (blue and pink). APOD's main NASA site is moving : From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod
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