MAINE COMPANY PLANS TO LAUNCH SMALL SATELLITES STARTING IN 2025 - Representatives for a Maine company that plans to send small satellites into space from the Northeast's most rural state said they will start launches next year. Brunswick-based bluShift Aerospace hopes to turn Maine into a hub for the launching of commercial nanosatellites and has been making pr... More (Source: Phys.org - Jun 5)
DESPITE GYRO FAILURE, NASA SAYS HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE STILL UP TO WORLD-CLASS SCIENCE - Trouble with one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s three remaining gyroscopes, critical for aiming and locking onto targets, has prompted mission managers to switch to a backup control mode that will limit some observations but keep the iconic observatory running well into the 2030s, officials said ... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jun 5)
ULA’S UPDATE AFTER YESTERDAY’S SCRUB OF BOEING STARLINER AND NASA ASTRONAUTS MISSION TO ISS - NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) are forgoing a Crew Flight Test launch attempt Sunday, June 2, to give the team additional time to assess a ground support equipment issue at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 in Florida. Saturday’s launch was to carry ... More (Source: SatNews - Jun 4)
TüRKIYE SEEKS DOMESTIC SOLUTION AGAINST SPACE DEBRIS - Türkiye is seeking to find a national solution to the problem of space debris, the satellite programs director of Turkish communications satellite operator Türksat said Saturday. Fatih Ayhan told Anadolu Agency (AA) that space debris could harm the activities in orbit, and the national technolo... More (Source: Daily Sabah - Jun 3)
RUSSIAN PROGRESS 88 CARGO SHIP DOCKS AT ISS CARRYING TONS OF FRESH SUPPLIES - A robotic Russian cargo craft docked at the International Space Station on Saturday morning (June 1) to deliver tons of fresh supplies, just hours ahead of the planned launch of a Boeing Starliner spacecraft set to carry two astronauts to the station for the first time. The Roscosmos Progress 88... More (Source: Space.com - Jun 2)
NASA FOREGOES SUNDAY LAUNCH, DELAYING STARLINER TAKEOFF TO AT LEAST WEDNESDAY - The seemingly star-cross Boeing Starliner — within minutes of its long-delayed blastoff on the spacecraft’s first piloted test flight — was grounded again Saturday when one of three redundant computers managing the countdown from the base of the launch pad ran into a problem, triggering a last... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jun 2)
GREECE TO LAUNCH NEW SATELLITE CONSTELLATION - Greece is set to launch its first ever state-owned satellite constellation to help government agencies collect vital data for improved environmental monitoring, disaster response, and national security. The 13 satellites, costing 60 million euros, are being built by UK company Open Cosmos’s bra... More (Source: Greek Reporter - Jun 2)
POWERFUL NEW NOAA WEATHER SATELLITE SET FOR JUNE LAUNCH ATOP SPACEX FALCON HEAVY - It's the final countdown (I know you're singing along with me, don't deny it!). But why not, as the countdown clock now reads less than a month until NOAA's GOES-U satellite is slated to soar into space on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket. At the beginning of the year, the fourth satellite in NOAA'... More (Source: Space.com - Jun 1)
SENSOR ISSUE SCRUBS ROCKET LAB LAUNCH OF SHOEBOX-SIZED NASA CLIMATE SATELLITE - Rocket Lab's first attempt at launching the second of two cubesats for NASA's PREFIRE climate change mission ended in a scrub on Friday (May 31). An Electron rocket topped with the tiny satellite had been poised to lift off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site at 10:46 p.m. EDT (0246 GMT or 2:46 p.... More (Source: Space.com - Jun 1)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 14TH FALCON 9 ROCKET OF MAY USING BOOSTER FLYING FOR 14TH TIME - SpaceX continues to push the pace of its launch cadence as it completed another Falcon 9 rocket launch Friday nigh. The mission marked SpaceX’s 14th launch of the month, a new industry record for launch. The milestone adds to the record set earlier this week, when SpaceX launched its 13th Falco... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jun 1)
RUSSIAN SOYUZ ROCKET LAUNCHES TONS OF SUPPLIES TO ISS ON PROGRESS 88 CARGO SHIP - A Russian cargo ship launched toward the International Space Station early Thursday morning (May 30). The robotic Progress 88 freighter lifted off atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday at 5:43 a.m. EDT (0943 GMT; 2:43 p.m. local time at Baikonur). ... More (Source: Space.com - May 31)
LEOCLOUD TO SEND SPACE EDGE DATACENTER TO ISS - The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, which manages the International Space Station National Laboratory, is offering LEOcloud an opportunity to demonstrate its Space Edge Infrastructure as a Service. Under a cooperative agreement announced May 29, LEOcloud will install its first-gen... More (Source: SpaceNews - May 31)
FIRST EVER WOODEN SATELLITE TO HEAD TO SPACE - Scientists in Japan are hoping to launch the first ever wooden satellite into space after securing a spot on a SpaceX rocket launching later this year. A team from Kyoto University and the logging company Sumitomo Forestry announced this week that they had completed the construction of the 10-cub... More (Source: The Independent - May 31)
LAUNCH DATE SET FOR NASA’S SECOND PREFIRE SATELLITE - NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting Saturday, June 1, to launch the second CubeSat for the agency’s PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission. The launch window opens at 3 p.m. NZST, (11 p.m. EDT, Friday, May 31). The first satellite successfully launched on 7:41 p.m. NZS... More (Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA - May 30)
NOAA’S NEWEST GOES SATELLITE LAUNCHING DURING BUSY SEVERE WEATHER SEASON, SPACE WEATHER - NOAA's next forecasting tool is ready to liftoff amid an already active season for severe weather and a busy time for space weather producing Northern Lights as far south as the Florida launch site where the GOES-U satellite will blast off. The fourth and final spacecraft that is part of NOAA's G... More (Source: FOX Weather - May 30)
THE SATELLITES USING RADAR TO PEER AT EARTH IN MINUTE DETAIL - Clouds cover around two-thirds of the world at any one time, preventing conventional satellites from seeing much of the planet. But now a declassified technology known as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be installed on satellites to "see" the Earth's surface in the dark, through the clouds (o... More (Source: BBC - May 30)
CHINESE ASTRONAUTS PERFORM RECORD-BREAKING SPACEWALK OUTSIDE TIANGONG SPACE STATION - Two Chinese astronauts just set a new spacewalking record for the country. Ye Guangfu and Li Guangsu, two members of China's three-person Shenzhou 18 mission, spent about 8.5 hours working outside the Tiangong space station today (May 28). That's longer than any previous Chinese spacewalk, or... More (Source: Space.com - May 30)
NASA TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF PROGRESS 88 LAUNCH, SPACE STATION DOCKING - NASA will provide live launch and docking coverage of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 71 crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 88 spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 5:43 a.m. EDT (2:43 p.m. Baiko... More (Source: NASA - May 30)
SPACEX HAS LAUNCHED THE EARTHCARE CLIMATE RESEARCH SATELLITE FOR ESA AND JAXA - The joint European-Japanese EarthCARE satellite has begun its mission to improve our understanding of Earth’s climate Tuesday, with a launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California happened at 3:20 PM Pacific Time (2... More (Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - May 29)
