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HOW MANY SATELLITES CAN WE SAFELY FIT IN EARTH ORBIT? - Experts have been sounding alarm bells for years that Earth orbit is getting a bit too crowded. So how many satellites can we actually launch to space before it gets to be too much?
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GLOBAL PUSH FOR COOPERATION AS SPACE TRAFFIC CROWDS EARTH ORBIT GLOBAL PUSH FOR COOPERATION AS SPACE TRAFFIC CROWDS EARTH ORBIT - The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said. A United Nations panel on space traffic coordination in late Octo...   More
(Source: Reuters - Dec 2)


ROSKOSMOS LAUNCHES KONDOR-FKA2 RADAR IMAGER ROSKOSMOS LAUNCHES KONDOR-FKA2 RADAR IMAGER - A Soyuz-2 rocket lifted off from Vostochny Cosmodrome on Nov. 30, 2023, carrying the Kondor FKA No. 2 radar satellite. It was the fifth mission to orbit an all-weather, day-and-night imaging spacecraft from the Kondor family, counting one previous FKA variant, one classified military version, known ...   More
(Source: RussianSpaceWeb.com - Dec 1)


LANDMARK SPACE MISSION SET TO CREATE ARTIFICIAL SOLAR ECLIPSES USING SATELLITES LANDMARK SPACE MISSION SET TO CREATE ARTIFICIAL SOLAR ECLIPSES USING SATELLITES - Two satellites in Proba-3 mission expected to be launched on Wednesday in India and will work in tandem to study sun’s corona. Final preparations have begun for a landmark space mission that will use satellites flying in close formation to create artificial solar eclipses high above the Earth. ...   More
(Source: The Guardian - Dec 1)


CHINA LAUNCHES FIRST LONG MARCH 12 FROM NEW COMMERCIAL SPACEPORT IN BOOST FOR COUNTRY’S LUNAR PLANS CHINA LAUNCHES FIRST LONG MARCH 12 FROM NEW COMMERCIAL SPACEPORT IN BOOST FOR COUNTRY’S LUNAR PLANS - China launched its first Long March 12 rocket Saturday, marking an advance in its crewed moon plans and the debut of a new spaceport that will boost the country’s access to space. The two-stage, 62-meter-tall Long March 12 lifted off at 9:25 a.m. Eastern (1425 UTC) Nov. 30 from the Wenchang Com...   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Dec 1)


SPACEX LAUNCHES COMBINATION OF NRO STARSHIELD AND STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 FLIGHT SPACEX LAUNCHES COMBINATION OF NRO STARSHIELD AND STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 FLIGHT - SpaceX launched a mission early Saturday that blends national security satellites with those supporting its non-governmental Starlink satellite network. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, occurred at 12:10 a.m. PST (3:10 a.m. EST, 0810 UT...   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Dec 1)


SPACEX LAUNCHES 24 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM CAPE CANAVERAL SPACEX LAUNCHES 24 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - SpaceX completed the first of its two final Falcon 9 launches of November, using launch pads in both Florida and California. The Starlink 6-65 mission, which will add another 24 Starlink satellites to the company’s rapidly growing mega-constellation, lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Spa...   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Dec 1)


HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM SPACE! WHAT TURKEY DAY DINNER LOOKS LIKE FOR NASA ASTRONAUTS ON ISS HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM SPACE! WHAT TURKEY DAY DINNER LOOKS LIKE FOR NASA ASTRONAUTS ON ISS - The four NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station (ISS) just wished all of us all a happy Thanksgiving. Nick Hague, Don Pettit, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have beamed home a Turkey Day message from their orbital perch, which NASA released on Wednesday (Nov. 27)....   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 30)


YOU CAN TAKE A SELFIE WITH THE EARTH USING THIS YOUTUBER’S SATELLITE YOU CAN TAKE A SELFIE WITH THE EARTH USING THIS YOUTUBER’S SATELLITE - The stunt escalation on YouTube may have reached new heights with Mark Rober’s offer to snap anyone’s selfie with the planet Earth using a satellite he’s launching into orbit with the help of Google and T-Mobile. Rober is a former NASA engineer who made a name for himself on YouTube by glit...   More
(Source: The Verge - Nov 30)


SPACEX LAUNCHING 24 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM FLORIDA EARLY NOV. 30 SPACEX LAUNCHING 24 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM FLORIDA EARLY NOV. 30 - SpaceX plans to launch 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday during a four-hour window that opens at 12...   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 30)


CHINA TO LAUNCH NEXT-GENERATION BEIDOU SATELLITES IN 2027 CHINA TO LAUNCH NEXT-GENERATION BEIDOU SATELLITES IN 2027 - China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could have global implications. The country plans to complete key technology research for the next-generation Beidou system by 2025 and launch three test satellites around 2...   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 29)


ASTRONAUT CATCHES DEXTRE SPACE ROBOT 'BUSTING A MOVE' OUTSIDE ISS — FOR SCIENCE ASTRONAUT CATCHES DEXTRE SPACE ROBOT 'BUSTING A MOVE' OUTSIDE ISS — FOR SCIENCE - A space robot was just caught in action during a science experiment, high above Earth. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a short video of a Canadian handy-robot on the International Space Station (ISS). The long-running Dextre robot from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) was moving a science payload o...   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 28)


ROCKET LAB SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES TWO MISSIONS IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS ROCKET LAB SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES TWO MISSIONS IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS - Rocket Lab USA has successfully launched its 56 th Electron mission, deploying five satellites to Low Earth Orbit for French Internet-of-Things (IoT) constellation operator Kinéis. The “Ice AIS Baby” mission lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 4:55 pm on 25 N...   More
(Source: Satellite Evolution - Nov 27)


SPACEX LAUNCHES STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACEX LAUNCHES STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, SpaceX launched its lates batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites on the Starlink 6-76 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 UTC on Nov. 27). The rock...   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 27)


'UNEXPECTED ODOR' ON RUSSIAN SPACECRAFT DELAYS CARGO DELIVERY FOR ISS ASTRONAUTS 'UNEXPECTED ODOR' ON RUSSIAN SPACECRAFT DELAYS CARGO DELIVERY FOR ISS ASTRONAUTS - Astronauts found an "unexpected odor" after trying to open the door to a new cargo spacecraft at the space station, according to NASA. A Russian Progress spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Saturday (Nov. 23) at the Russian Poisk module after its launch on Nov. 21. But astrona...   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 27)


HOW AMATEUR RADIO IS CONNECTING ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE WITH KIDS ON EARTH HOW AMATEUR RADIO IS CONNECTING ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE WITH KIDS ON EARTH - Consider this: It is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a crewmember on the space shuttle program's STS-9 mission. During that space shuttle flight in 1983, Garriott became the first-ever person in space to c...   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 26)


SPACE DELIVERY ARRIVES AT STATION ABOARD PROGRESS CARGO CRAFT SPACE DELIVERY ARRIVES AT STATION ABOARD PROGRESS CARGO CRAFT - The unpiloted Progress 90 spacecraft arrived at the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 9:31 a.m. EST, Saturday, Nov. 23. The spacecraft launched at 7:22 a.m. (5:22 p.m. Baikonur time) Nov. 21, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The ...   More
(Source: NASA - Nov 26)


SPACEX LAUNCHES 20 STARLINK SATELLITES ON THE 400TH FALCON 9 ROCKET SPACEX LAUNCHES 20 STARLINK SATELLITES ON THE 400TH FALCON 9 ROCKET - Against the backdrop of a characteristically foggy night at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, SpaceX launched its 400th Falcon 9 rocket on an orbital flight. The Starlink 9-13 mission also marked SpaceX’s 100th launch to date from the West Coast. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E)...   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 26)


CHINA LAUNCHES PAIR OF SUPERVIEW NEO-2 RADAR SATELLITES CHINA LAUNCHES PAIR OF SUPERVIEW NEO-2 RADAR SATELLITES - China launched a pair of radar satellites late Sunday for a state-owned firm building a 28-satellite remote sensing constellation. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off at 6:39 p.m. Eastern, Nov. 24 (2339 UTC) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Insulation tiles fell from the rocket’s upper stage...   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 26)


RUSSIAN SOYUZ ROCKET LAUNCHES SUPPLIES TO ISS ON 90TH PROGRESS CARGO SPACECRAFT RUSSIAN SOYUZ ROCKET LAUNCHES SUPPLIES TO ISS ON 90TH PROGRESS CARGO SPACECRAFT - A Russian cargo spacecraft launched toward the space station on Thursday morning (Nov. 21). A Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Progress 90 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:22 a.m. EST (1222 GMT; 5:22 p.m. local time in Kazakhs...   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 22)


INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FIRES THRUSTERS TO DODGE HUNK OF SPACE DEBRIS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FIRES THRUSTERS TO DODGE HUNK OF SPACE DEBRIS - The International Space Station took some evasive action on Tuesday (Nov. 19). A Russian Progress cargo ship that's docked to the ISS fired its thrusters for 5.5 minutes on Tuesday afternoon beginning at 3:09 p.m. EST (2009 GMT). The goal was to make sure the orbiting complex dodged a potentially...   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 22)

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