Tootfinder

All three astronomy satellites on the Twilight mission has now been deployed, BlackCAT and SPARCS out of sight of the Falcon 9 upper stage cameras, but the departure of #Pandora was beautifully seen - a screencap from the webcast https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nAKEEAevzbKL

A small #SpaceTelescope and two really small ones should launch 10 hours from now from Vandenberg, including the #exoplanet observer #Pandora: see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-5-januar-2026/#Jan09 for many links including papers describing the three satellites and https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/01/10/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-1st-twilight-rideshare-mission/ and https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/watch-spacex-launch-nasas-pandora-exoplanet-studying-satellite-on-jan-11 for more and some of the three dozen other payloads, too.