ISS ASTRONAUT CAPTURES AMAZING VIDEO OF SPACEX STARLINK SATELLITE TRAIN CRUISING ABOVE AURORAS - An amazing new video shows flashes of sunlight sparkling off a batch of SpaceX satellites, with a green aurora glowing just below. NASA astronaut Don Pettit, an accomplished amateur photographer, captured the stunning "train" of SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites during his recent mission to th... More (Source: Space.com - Oct 11)
JAPAN PREPARES NEW ISS CARGO VEHICLE AS TRIO OF CARGO SPACECRAFT DELIVER NEW EXPERIMENTS AND HARDWARE - The International Space Station (ISS) recently welcomed three spacecraft that delivered much-needed cargo to support Expedition 73’s seven-member astronaut crew, ensuring the crew and Station are supplied with food, water, clothing, and equipment. Meanwhile, the crew continued with its usual colle... More (Source: NASASpaceflight.com - Oct 10)
SPACEX DELAYS LAUNCHING AMAZON’S PROJECT KUIPER SATELLITES AMID BACKDROP OF POOR WEATHER - SpaceX was preparing to launch 24 of Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband internet satellites Thursday night, but punted the mission to Saturday as it faces challenging weather conditions during its initial window of opportunity. The mission, dubbed Kuiper Falcon 03 (KF-03), is the third and final... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 10)
CHINA IS DEVELOPING WAYS TO DE-ORBIT SPACE JUNK. SHOULD WE BE WORRIED? - China is developing the capability to remove space debris from orbit, according to a top official. In recent years, China's space activities have grown tremendously, with an operational space station in low Earth orbit (LEO), a greatly increased rate of launches and plans for multiple constellati... More (Source: Space.com - Oct 10)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATELLITES WITH A FALCON 9 BOOSTER FLYING FOR A 29TH TIME - SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday night, which added another 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. The Starlink 11-17 mission flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 10)
SPACEX LAUNCHES FALCON 9 ROCKET ON 90TH STARLINK MISSION OF 2025 - SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida in more than a week in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning. The launch gap was highlighted by a run of persistent, daily storms in Central Florida and over the Atlantic Ocean. The Starlink 10-59 mission added 28 more broadband interne... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 8)
NEW PRIVATE 'ARC' SPACECRAFT AIMS TO DELIVER CARGO FROM ORBIT TO ANYWHERE ON EARTH IN LESS THAN AN HOUR - A new private spacecraft aims to help the U.S. military get key supplies where they're needed, and fast. On Wednesday (Oct. 1), the California-based company Inversion unveiled Arc, a vehicle designed to serve as an orbital storehouse and superfast delivery system for mission-critical gear, gettin... More (Source: Space.com - Oct 8)
ARIANESPACE TARGETS SENTINEL-1D LAUNCH ON NOV. 4 - Arianespace will launch the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1D satellite in early November. The satellite will be the third commercial flight for Ariane 6, Europe’s new heavy-lift launcher. With this launch, Arianespace supports a major environmental mission while supporting Europe’s au... More (Source: Via Satellite - Oct 7)
DATA CENTRES IN SPACE? JEFF BEZOS SAYS IT'S POSSIBLE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared t... More (Source: Reuters - Oct 6)
SPACEX TO LAUNCH 4 FALCON HEAVY ROCKETS AS PART OF NEWEST U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY MISSIONS AWARD - The latest missions carrying payloads for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) were announced on Friday with a combined value of $1.142 billion. SpaceX was tasked with five missions and United Launch Alliance (ULA) received two. This is the second order year (O... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 6)
AS NASA'S ISS CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF HUMANS LIVING IN SPACE, WHAT'S AHEAD FOR SPACE STATIONS - It's official. Not a single person under the age of 25 has lived a day where there has not been a human orbiting Earth − and that is likely to never change. On Nov. 2, 2000, Expedition 1 arrived at the still-under-construction International Space Station. And since that day, this outpost that o... More (Source: Yahoo News - Oct 6)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 3RD CONSECUTIVE FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB, UNINTERRUPTED BY A CAPE MISSION - SpaceX launched its 125th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025, which carried a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. The company’s first mission of the month took flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base shortly after sunrise on Friday morning. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 4)
BLUE ORIGIN REVEALS SPACE TOURISTS TO LAUNCH ON NEXT NEW SHEPARD ROCKET - We now know which people will fly on Blue Origin's next space tourism mission — most of them, anyway. On Wednesday (Oct. 1), Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, announced the passenger list for NS-36, the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. (We don't yet know w... More (Source: Space.com - Oct 4)
ASTRONAUTS WORK THROUGH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN - Whether they're NASA employees or international astronauts, the Expedition 73 crew members are exempt from the U.S. government shutdown. The Expedition 73 crew continued their science research and maintenance work aboard the International Space Station this week, despite the start of a U.S. governme... More (Source: Space.com - Oct 4)
8 SPACE MISSIONS TO WATCH IN OCTOBER: STARSHIP, AMAZON KUIPER, BLUE ORIGIN’S MOON LANDER - With the first weeks of the fall season underway, October is already shaping up to be an eventful month in space. Alongside satellite launches from Amazon, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA), this month will also see milestones in NASA’s Artemis program—a series of lunar missions designed t... More (Source: Observer - Oct 3)
NASA CLOSES DOORS TO 15,000 EMPLOYEES AS US GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BEGINS - More than 15,000 NASA civil servants have been furloughed as the U.S. federal government enters a shutdown. The grinding halt forces NASA and other agencies to scale back nearly all of their day-to-day operations after lawmakers in Washington D.C. failed to pass a government funding bill by the d... More (Source: Space.com - Oct 2)
DO ROCKETS STILL LAUNCH DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN? HOW NASA COULD FEEL THE EFFECTS - Is it time for NASA to hang up those spacesuits and power down those rockets? NASA is far from immune to the effects of a looming government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement before midnight Oct. 1 to prevent one. At stake for the U.S. space agency if the federal g... More (Source: USA Today - Oct 2)
VIASAT-3 F2 SATELLITE ARRIVES IN FLORIDA AHEAD OF LATE OCTOBER LAUNCH - The ViaSat-3 Flight 2 spacecraft, the next geostationary satellite for communications company Viasat, arrived in Florida in the early morning hours of Tuesday. This six-ton (more than 13,000 lbs) satellite is the second in a three-vehicle series for the ViaSat-3 network. Its planned launch in lat... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 2)
SPACEX TARGETING OCT. 13 FOR NEXT STARSHIP MEGAROCKET LAUNCH - SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced on Monday (Sept. 29) that it's targeting Oct. 13 for Starship Flight 11, which will be the final launch of the vehicle's current "Version 2" iteration. Liftoff will occur f... More (Source: Space.com - Oct 1)
