MAUVE Launched!
After a false start a couple of days ago, the satellite MAUVE was launched at (10.44 Pacific Time (18.44 GMT) today from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon-9 Transporter-15. So far, about 40 minutes after liftoff, it’s looking good.
You can see the live feed here:
As far as I know the launch went perfectly, but I’m waiting for confirmation of payload deployment, which begins about an hour after launch. The vehicle is carrying 140 different satellites, of which MAUVE (“Mission to Analyze the UltraViolet universE”) is just one.
The following is taken from my previous post. I repeat it here for completeness.
I’m not personally involved in MAUVE but the Department of Physics at Maynooth University is, through my colleague Dr Emma Whelan (who sent the above pictures) and her group. You can read more about the science – related to star and planet formation – it will do in a nice piece by Emma on RTÉ Brainstorm.
In the Dark 
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 am
kinda wish mauve piped its uv data into a public “cosmic weather” app, so you could open your phone and see live exoplanet atmospheres and stellar flares the way we check rain clouds now.
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