SPACEX LAUNCHING 22 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM CALIFORNIA ON MARCH 30 - SpaceX has reset the launch of another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to no sooner than Saturday night (March 30). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft was set to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday (March 28), but the company called off the... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 30)
365 DAYS OF SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW EARTH'S SEASONS CHANGING FROM SPACE - For those of us in the northern hemisphere, the recent chirping of birds and blooming of flowers are welcome signs that spring has arrived — and a new video released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows a stunning glimpse of what this change of seasons looks like fro... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 29)
SPACEX PUSHES LAUNCH OF 22 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE TO FRIDAY - Update 11:04 p.m. EDT: SpaceX is standing down from a Thursday night launch attempt and targeting no earlier than Friday, March 29. As the month of March winds down, SpaceX hopes to squeeze in one more launch from California with a batch of 22 of its Starlink satellites on board. Without stating ... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 29)
WATCH A REAL-TIME MAP OF STARLINK SATELLITES ORBITING EARTH - In an effort to enhance the educational outreach of their Starlink constellation, SpaceX has an interactive global map of their Starlink internet satellites, which provides live coverage of every satellite in orbit around the Earth. This interactive map comes as SpaceX continues to launch Starlink s... More (Source: Phys.org - Mar 29)
LONG MARCH 6A LAUNCHES SECOND YUNHAI-3 SATELLITE - China added to its fleet of secretive meteorological satellites with the launch of Yunhai-3 (02) late Tuesday. A Long March 6A rocket lifted off from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, north China, at 6:51 p.m. Eastern (2251 UTC), March 26 . The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) l... More (Source: SpaceNews - Mar 28)
GOES-U WEATHER SATELLITE TO LAUNCH JUNE 25 AFTER LEAK CAUSES DELAY - NOAA and SpaceX have finally set a date to launch the last satellite of the GOES-R Series into geostationary orbit on June 25 after a lengthy delay due to a rocket booster leak. NOAA called this launch "monumental" and claimed its network of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites is "... More (Source: FOX Weather - Mar 28)
BOEING, NASA TARGET MAY 1 FOR FIRST CREWED FLIGHT OF STARLINER TO THE SPACE STATION - NASA is five weeks away from putting astronauts aboard a new commercial crew capsule. May 1 is the target launch date for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on the Crew Flight Test-1 (CFT-1) mission the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Sun... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 28)
STATION CREW EXPANDS TO TEN, BEGINS WORKING TOGETHER - Astronaut Matthew Dominick receives a haircut from astronaut Loral O'Hara. Astronaut Matthew Dominick receives a haircut from astronaut Loral O’Hara. Ten crewmates now reside aboard the International Space Station after the arrival of the Soyuz MS-25 crew ship on Monday. They will live and ... More (Source: NASA - Mar 28)
SOYUZ HATCHES OPEN, EXPEDITION 70 WELCOMES CREW ABOARD STATION - The hatches between the International Space Station and the newly arrived Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft officially opened at 1:26 p.m. EDT. The arrival of three new crew members to the existing seven people already aboard for Expedition 70 temporarily increases the station’s population to 10. NASA ast... More (Source: NASA - Mar 27)
NASA, SPACEX TARGET NEW LAUNCH DATE FOR NOAA WEATHER SATELLITE - NASA and SpaceX now are targeting Tuesday, June 25, for the launch of GOES-U, the fourth and final satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) – R Series. The new launch date allows time for teams to fully re... More (Source: NOAA - Mar 27)
OPEN COSMOS ‘HAMMER’ SATELLITE SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED VIA THE SPACEX TRANSPORTER-10 MISSION - Open Cosmos recently launched HAMMER, the company’s latest Earth Observation (EO) satellite — after a successful lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 as part of the Transporter 10 mission. The company received confirmation of the deployment of HAMME... More (Source: SatNews - Mar 27)
SOUTH KOREA PLANS SECOND SPY SATELLITE LAUNCH FROM US NEXT MONTH - Seoul is close to launching its second military reconnaissance satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, according to South Korea’s military Tuesday. The upcoming launch may come as soon as early April, pending favorable weather conditions, Ministry of National Defense spok... More (Source: Stars and Stripes - Mar 27)
SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY MAY HIRE COMPANIES TO TOW DEFUNCT SATELLITES - The Space Development Agency is interested in hiring commercial space firms to move inactive satellites out of low Earth orbit at the end of their service life. The agency issued a notice to industry March 25 asking for analysis and studies on the feasibility and availability of in-space disposal... More (Source: C4ISRNet - Mar 27)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 23 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM FLORIDA - SpaceX launched another batch of its broadband satellites to orbit this evening (March 25). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 7:42 p.m. EDT (2342 GMT). The Falcon 9's first stage came ... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 26)
SPACEX'S DRAGON CAPSULE DOCKS AT ISS ON 30TH CARGO MISSION FOR NASA - After an orbital chase lasting a day and a half, SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft rendezvoused and docked with the International Space Station (ISS) early Saturday morning (March 23). The uncrewed spacecraft launched on Thursday afternoon (March 21) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Flor... More (Source: Space.com - Mar 25)
NASA ASTRONAUT TRACY DYSON, CREWMATES SAFELY EN ROUTE TO SPACE STATION - Three crew members including NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson successfully launched at 8:36 a.m. EDT Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. Dyson, along with her crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevsk... More (Source: NASA - Mar 25)
RUSSIA LAUNCHES CREW OF THREE, INCLUDING U.S. ASTRONAUT, TO SPACE STATION - Two days after a rare last-second launch abort, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off Saturday on a flight to the International Space Station, carrying two short-duration crew members and a NASA astronaut bound for a six-month tour of duty. Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy, Belarus guest... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 24)
SPACEX REACHES 19 FLIGHTS WITH A FALCON 9 BOOSTER FOR A THIRD TIME WITH STARLINK MISSION - SpaceX managed to thread the needle with the weather and launch the first of two planned Starlink missions from Cape Canaveral in 48 hours. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday at 11:09 p.m. EDT (0309 UTC on Sunday). It will be followed by another Falcon 9 ... More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 24)
WORK CONTINUES ON NISAR SATELLITE AS MISSION LOOKS TOWARD LAUNCH - The NISAR (NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite – a joint NASA-Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Earth-observing mission – is nearly complete, and a launch readiness date will be determined at the end of April. The spacecraft will launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on In... More (Source: NASA - Mar 23)