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Constellation, space community group

02_CONSTELLATION

Watch space together, in the open.

Per aspera ad astra: through adversity we go beyond.

Launches, space weather and open-source intel, shared by people who build, study and watch space. Free, by invitation.

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01_LAUNCHES

Upcoming launches, worldwide.

Live · 18:00 UTC
  1. T−5 h 27 min
    Unconfirmed Vehicle · TBDGalactic Energy · Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China
  2. T−6 h 38 min
    Falcon 9 · USSF-432SpaceX · Vandenberg SFB, United States
  3. T−2 d 2 h
    Long March 12 · TBDCASC · Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, China
  4. T−3 d 8 h
    Falcon 9 · USSF-627 ("R-5")SpaceX · Vandenberg SFB, United States
  5. T−4 d 17 h
    Unconfirmed Vehicle · TBDCASC · Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China

Source: Data by RocketLaunch.Live · updated 6 Nov 18:00 UTC · every orbital launch attempt worldwide, times UTC.

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02_SPACE_WEATHER

Space weather now.

Live · 18:00 UTC

Quiet: no geomagnetic storm, solar radiation storm or radio blackout in progress.

Geomagnetic storms

G0

none

Solar radiation storms

S0

none

Radio blackouts

R0

none

Planetary Kp index

2.0

3-hour interval from 12:00 UTC. Kp 5 or more is a geomagnetic storm.

Solar wind at L1

358 km/s

Bz +4 nT, Bt 11 nT · at this speed it reaches Earth in about 70 min

Source: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center · scales as of 6 Nov 17:59 UTC · updated 6 Nov 18:00 UTC · G, S and R are NOAA's storm scales, from 0 (none) to 5 (extreme).

Gauss replays mission data against conditions like these. See how Gauss works.

03_ASTRA_VIGILIS

ASTRA VIGILIS

A community-powered space-intelligence hackathon series: detection, prediction and awareness, built on public data. Challenges open to members first.

04_INTEL_RULES

How we share.

  • Open sources only. Every brief links to where it came from.
  • Unclassified only. Nothing export-controlled, nothing operational.
  • Confidence is stated: confirmed, likely or unverified.
  • No targeting, and no personal data about individuals.

05_EVENTS

From Leeds to Kuala Lumpur.

Constellation nights, summits, launch parties and workshops, posted on the Constellation calendar on Luma.

No events are scheduled right now. Follow the calendar on Luma to hear about the next one first.

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Recently

  1. Chill at the Hill
  2. Chill at the Hill
  3. Launch Launch Party

Source: the Constellation calendar on Luma · updated 6 Nov 17:00 UTC · times UTC; venues and local times are on each event page.

06_WORKSHOPS

Ethics, resilience and tech leadership.

Hands-on workshops for people who build and run space and AI systems, led by facilitators from the Constellation community. Members join free; dates go on the Luma calendar.

  1. Ethics

    Dual use, data and the choices engineers make, worked through on real cases from space and AI.

  2. Resilience

    How systems and the people who run them recover: fault isolation from spacecraft, applied to teams and careers.

  3. Tech leadership

    Deciding under uncertainty, leading with evidence, and explaining risk to people who aren’t engineers.

Bring a workshop to your team See dates on Luma

07_OUTREACH

Learning and outreach.

Constellation is open to anyone curious about space. Students, teachers and clubs can learn with the same public data we use: real launches, real space weather and its sources.

  1. Students

    Gauss for Education is free for a year with a university email: four classroom labs on storm levels, radiation belts, data you can trust and fault isolation.

  2. Teachers and departments

    Run the labs with a class, or ask about a department licence. Pair them with a workshop on ethics, resilience or tech leadership.

  3. Everyone

    Add the launch calendar to your own, follow events on Luma, and plan calls across zones with the time planner.

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08_GROUP_CALLS

Group calls, in your time zone.

Members meet on regular calls.

Plan across time zones

09_FRIENDS

Friends of Constellation.

10_JOIN

Free, by invitation.

Constellation costs nothing to join and never will. Members are invited; if no one has invited you yet, tell us who you are and a person will read it.

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  • Intentionality
  • Radical integrity
  • Accountability
  • The Golden Rule: no one left behind