September 2026: Rogue Rockets, Untethered Astronauts & Extremely Large Telescopes

September 2026: Rogue Rockets, Untethered Astronauts & Extremely Large Telescopes This month on Please Look Up, Leon and Alyshia look to the September skies, where Venus meets the Moon, Mercury makes a brief appearance and the constellation Ophiuchus wrangles a celestial snake. Back on Earth (and the Moon), a rogue SpaceX rocket creates a brand-new lunar crater, China has a spectacular space fail and an enormous Starship hitches a ride home. Plus, we revisit the terrifyingly brilliant time NASA let astronauts fly around completely untethered to retrieve broken satellites, and step inside the aptly named Extremely Large Telescope – a 38-metre-wide monster currently taking shape in Chile. Alyshia's Space Pic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Satellites_For_Sale_-_GPN-2000-001036.jpg/960px-Satellites_For_Sale_-_GPN-2000-001036.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/51a-46-057.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/capturing-satellite-november-1984/ Leon's Space Pic: https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/potw2627a.jpg Chinese Rocket that snapped in half & exploded https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19:67aad3c7-8912-4bb1-ae4e-868dc4da5dfb_e7ef984c-f199-4c38-8af5-4104649eb015@unq.gbl.spaces/1788418794605?context=%7B%22contextType%22%3A%22chat%22%7D