STATION GETS READY FOR TWO CARGO MISSIONS LAUNCHING DAYS APART - The Progress 93 cargo craft from Roscosmos rolled out to its launch pad today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where will launch at 11:54 a.m. EDT on Thursday to the International Space Station. Progress 93, carrying 2.8 tons of food, fuel, and supplies to resupply the Expedition 73 crew, wi... More (Source: NASA - Sep 11)
ROSCOSMOS PROGRESS 91 UNDOCKED FROM SPACE STATION - The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 11:45 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, backing away from the station for a deorbit maneuver and destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew. ... More (Source: NASA - Sep 11)
SPACEX ATTEMPTS TO LAUNCH INDONESIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE FOLLOWING THREE DAYS OF SCRUBS - SpaceX scrubbed launching a communications satellite from an Indonesian company for a third consecutive day. Possible technical issues got in the way of a launch attempt Wednesday evening after back-to-back days of weather delays. When it’s able to launch, the Nusantara Lima (N5) satellite will... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 11)
SDA READIES FOR PRIME TIME WITH FIRST OPERATIONAL SATELLITE LAUNCH - The Space Development Agency is ready to start launching operational satellites—and launch and launch again over the next 10 months. Twenty-one of SDA’s low-Earth orbit satellites are scheduled to launch shortly after 7 a.m. Pacific time on Sept. 10. The spacecraft, built by York Space Syste... More (Source: Air & Space Forces Magazine - Sep 11)
CHINA LAUNCHES NEW REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE - China launched a new remote sensing satellite from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan on Tuesday. The Yaogan-45 satellite was launched at 10 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-7 carrier rocket. It has entered the preset orbit successfully. ... More (Source: www.gov.cn - Sep 10)
POOR WEATHER FORCES SPACEX TO SCRUB LAUNCH OF INDONESIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - An Indonesian company is looking to improve its space-based communications service with a state-of-the-art Boeing-built satellite bound for geostationary orbit. The spacecraft comes from Satelit Nusantara Lima (SNL), a subsidiary of Indonesia’s first private satellite company, Pasifik Satelit N... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 9)
CHINA LAUNCHES NEW REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE GROUP - China launched a new group of remote sensing satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday. The satellites of the Yaogan-40 03 group were launched at 12:34 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket, and they entered the preset or... More (Source: www.gov.cn - Sep 8)
GOP MAY FINALLY SUCCEED IN UNRELENTING QUEST TO KILL TWO NASA CLIMATE SATELLITES - It was in 2002, during the George W. Bush administration, when NASA decided to put a satellite into orbit to track emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pumped into the atmosphere through human activity. After many twists and turns, NASA's 23-year remit of charting greenhouse ga... More (Source: Ars Technica - Sep 7)
SPACEX PASSES 2,000 STARLINK SATELLITES DEPLOYED IN 2025 WITH SATURDAY LAUNCH - SpaceX deployed its 2,000th Starlink satellite of the year when its Falcon 9 rocket following a flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning. The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-9, carried 24 broadband satellites into a polar, low Earth orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East h... More (Source: ue-6PbisLQs - Sep 7)
NASA TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF PROGRESS 93 LAUNCH, SPACE STATION DOCKING - NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 93 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 11:54 a.m. EDT (8:... More (Source: NASA - Sep 7)
CHINA LAUNCHES EXPERIMENTAL SHIYAN-29 TO GEO, COMMERCIAL CERES-1 CARRIES 3 SATELLITES - China conducted a pair of launches sending an experimental spacecraft to geosynchronous orbit and three further satellites into polar orbits. The first launch of the day saw a Long March 3C rocket, exceptionally using a YZ-1 upper stage, lift off at 10:34 p.m. Eastern Sept. 4 (0234 UTC Sept. 5) f... More (Source: SpaceNews - Sep 6)
NEW WEATHER SATELLITE DELIVERS EARLY DATA JUST WEEKS AFTER LAUNCH - Less than a month since launch, a powerful new weather satellite is already at work. As it silently orbits around Earth, it is sending back data that may actually make a difference in the way we know weather and can predict it. Launched on August 13, the satellite is named MetOp-SG-A1. It’s the fi... More (Source: Earth.com - Sep 6)
SPACEX ACES 500TH FALCON BOOSTER LANDING AMID SUNRISE STARLINK MISSION - SpaceX completed its 500th recovery of a Falcon booster during a Friday morning flight supporting its Starlink satellite constellation. The Falcon 9 rocket roared away from Launch Complex 39A at 8:32 a.m. EDT (1232 UTC). The Starlink 10-57 mission flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving ... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 6)
SPACEX DRAGON CARGO CAPSULE BOOSTS ISS HIGHER ABOVE EARTH IN KEY TEST - A Dragon just pushed the International Space Station a little farther away from Earth. SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully finished a test reboost of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday (Sept. 3), according to NASA. The freighter fired two of its Draco engines for 5 min... More (Source: Space.com - Sep 6)
NASA, SPACEX COMPLETE DRAGON SPACE STATION REBOOST - On Wednesday, Sept. 3, SpaceX’s Dragon completed an initial burn to test the spacecraft’s new capability to help maintain the altitude of the International Space Station. Two Draco engines located in the trunk of Dragon, which contains an independent propellant system, were used to adjust the sp... More (Source: NASA - Sep 5)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATELLITES ON WEDNESDAY SUNRISE FALCON 9 FLIGHT - SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared from Florida’s Space Coast among a collection of cumulus clouds less than an hour after sunrise on Wednesday. The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-22, was the company’s 110th Falcon 9 launch of the year. SpaceX launched from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force St... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 4)
ISRAEL LAUNCHES SATELLITE, SPARKS PANIC WITH CIVILIANS THINKING IT WAS AN ENEMY MISSILE - A satellite was recently launched from the Palmahim Airbase in central Israel, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday, after Israelis reported sightings in the night sky. The satellite's launch was conducted in a joint operation by the Defense Ministry, the IDF, and Israel Aerospace Industries, using ... More (Source: The Jerusalim Post - Sep 3)
SPACEX’S TUESDAY NIGHT STARLINK FEATURES RARE DEBUT OF A FALCON BOOSTER - SpaceX completed its first Falcon 9 launch of the month, which carried another batch of 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The Tuesday night launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base featured the flight of a new Falcon 9 rocket booster. The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-8, adde to the more ... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 3)
NEW METOP SECOND GENERATION WEATHER SATELLITE RETURNS FIRST DATA - Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its cutting-edge instruments, offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s to come.... More (Source: European Space Agency - Sep 3)
