SPACE LAUNCHES 29 STARLINK SATELLITES ON A FALCON 9 ROCKET ON ST. PATRICK’S DAY MORNING - SpaceX kicked off the St. Patrick’s Day holiday on Tuesday with a Falcon 9 rocket launch, flying from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Starlink 10-46 mission added another 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to the low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Comp... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 18)
SPACEX REACHES 10,000 SIMULTANEOUS STARLINK SATELLITES IN ORBIT FOLLOWING FALCON 9 LAUNCH FROM CALIFORNIA - SpaceX crossed the threshold of having more than 10,000 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit simultaneously for the first time. The milestone comes less than seven years after launching its first batch of satellites in May 2019. Coincidently, the Monday night launch also coincided with the 100t... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 18)
RUSSIA'S PROGRESS 92 RESUPPLY CAPSULE DEPARTS SPACE STATION - Russia's Progress MS-31 resupply capsule departed the International Space Station March 16 filled with trash for a destructive reentry into Earth's atmosphere. Also designated Progress 92 by NASA, MS-31 undocked from the space-facing port of the Russian segment Poisk module at 9:24 a.m. EDT...... More (Source: Aviation Week - Mar 17)
CHINA LAUNCHES NEW REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE - China successfully launched a remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday. The Yaogan-50 02 satellite was launched at 9:22 p.m. aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket and has entered its planned orbit. The launch mission was ... More (Source: People's Daily - Mar 16)
SPACEX LAUNCHES STARLINK MISSION FROM CAPE CANAVERAL ON CLOUDY SATURDAY MORNING - SpaceX’s Falcon 9 soared in-between a patchwork of clouds, like a needle through fabric, as climbed away from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday morning to deliver 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff happened at 8:37:10 a.m. EDT (1237:10 UTC), with th... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 15)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 25 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE - SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rockets from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Friday morning, carrying 25 broadband internet satellites for SpaceX’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 6:57:59 a.m. PDT (10:57:59 a.m. EDT / 1457:59 UTC). Th... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 14)
SPACEX PLAN FOR 1 MILLION ORBITING AI DATA CENTERS COULD RUIN ASTRONOMY, SCIENTISTS SAY - SpaceX's plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers,who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed constellation would severely impair observations. Just as astronomers began to learn how to coexist with broadband megaconstellations in low Earth orbit (LEO... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 14)
NORTHROP GRUMMAN'S 1ST 'CYGNUS XL' CARGO SPACECRAFT DEPARTS THE SPACE STATION - The first mission of Northrop Grumman's big new cargo spacecraft is nearly over. That freighter, known as Cygnus XL, left the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 12), ending a nearly six-month orbital stay for the 23rd Northrop Grumman (NG-23) resupply mission to the orbi... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 13)
FIREFLY AEROSPACE'S ALPHA ROCKET REACHES ORBIT ON 1ST LAUNCH SINCE EXPLOSIVE ACCIDENTS LAST YEAR - Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is celebrating today (March 11) after successfully launching its Alpha rocket for the first time in nearly a year. Today's mission, called "Stairway to Seven," was the seventh flight for Alpha, which suffered two major mishaps during 2025. The first occurred during t... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 12)
A NASA SPACECRAFT IS SET TO MAKE AN UNCONTROLLED PLUNGE BACK TO EARTH. HERE ARE THE RISKS - A massive space probe could plummet into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday evening — years earlier than expected. And while most of the spacecraft will likely disintegrate in a flaming blaze during reentry, a few components could survive,... More (Source: CNN - Mar 11)
SPACEX LAUNCHES DIRECT TELEVISION SATELLITE FOR ECHOSTAR - A direct television satellite for Dish Network, a subsidiary of EchoStar, headed into geostationary Earth orbit on Monday night aboard a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. The satellite, EchoStar 25, flew to a geosynchronous transfer orbit before maneuvering to its operation position a... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 10)
INCOMING! 1,300-POUND NASA SATELLITE WILL CRASH TO EARTH ON MARCH 10 - A big NASA satellite will crash back to Earth on Tuesday (March 10) after nearly 14 years in orbit, experts say. The spacecraft in question is the 1,323-pound (600-kilogram) Van Allen Probe A (RBSP A), which launched in August 2012 along with ... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 10)
SPACEX LAUNCHES FALCON 9 ROCKET LAUNCH FROM VANDENBERG SFB SUNDAY - SpaceX launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Sunday morning following a mission scrub on Saturday. The Starlink 17-18 mission added 25 more broadband internet satellites to the company’s megaconstellation of more than 9,900 spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Lifto... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 9)
EUROPE'S SOLAR MISSION HIT BY SATELLITE BLACKOUT - ESA’s Proba-3 solar mission has lost contact with its Coronagraph spacecraft after a mid-February anomaly caused it to lose orientation and power. The satellite, part of a dual-spacecraft system to study the Sun’s corona, is now in survival mode with communications cut. Engineers are exploring u... More (Source: MSN - Mar 9)
SPACEX SCRUBS SATURDAY FALCON 9 ROCKET LAUNCH FROM VANDENBERG SFB, TARGETING SUNDAY - SpaceX scrubbed its planned morning Falcon 9 rocket launch on Saturday, March 7, from Vandenberg Space Force Base. It’s now aiming to fly on Sunday morning. The Starlink 17-18 mission will add 25 more broadband internet satellites to the company’s megaconstellation of more than 9,900 spacecra... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 8)
CONGRESS EXTENDS ISS AND TELLS NASA TO GET MOVING ON PRIVATE SPACE STATIONS - Two months ago, a key staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz said in a public meeting that she was “begging” NASA to release a document that would kick off the second round of a competition among private companies to develop replacements for the International Space Station. There has been no movement sinc... More (Source: Ars Technica - Mar 7)
JAPAN'S 1ST HTV-X CARGO CRAFT LEAVES THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay. The vehicle — known as HTV-X1, because it's the first of its kind — was released by the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm today at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT), right on schedule. T... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 7)
IT’S TIME TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE UNCHECKED GROWTH OF SATELLITE MEGA CONSTELLATIONS - I remember the first time I saw a satellite. I was a teenager, standing in my mildly light-polluted suburban yard and doing my usual stargazing. The satellite was a faint “star” moving slowly and smoothly across the sky, and as I watched it, I felt a mix of awe and wonder that such a thing could... More (Source: Scientific American - Mar 7)
ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES MYSTERY SATELLITE FOR 'CONFIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL CUSTOMER' - An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today at 6:53 p.m. EST (2353 GMT; 12:53 p.m. on March 6 local time), kicking off a mission the company calls "Insight at Speed is a Friend Indeed." Rocket Lab announced the planned launch just a few hours before liftoff and provided... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 7)
