ULA TO LAUNCH VIASAT-3 BROADBAND SATELLITE - This week’s highlight is the launch of the ViaSat-3 F2 satellite on a powerful United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket. The launch is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 13, from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, at 10:00 p.m. EST. The mission was scrubbed last week due to a recurring “issue with the Atlas V booster liquid oxygen tank vent valve,” according to ViaSat. More (Source: Astronomy Magazine - Nov 11)
PRIVATE CHINESE ROCKET FAILS DURING LAUNCH, 3 SATELLITES LOST - A private Chinese rocket just suffered its second-ever failure. Galactic Energy's solid-fuel Ceres-1 rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:02 p.m. EST on Sunday (Nov. 9; 0402 GMT and 12:02 p.m. local time on Nov. 10), carrying three satellites toward low Earth orbit (LEO). More (Source: Space.com - Nov 11)
FLORIDA ANNUAL LAUNCH RECORD BROKEN WITH LATE-NIGHT STARLINK FLIGHT - The busiest spaceport in the world broke another record on Monday night. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was the 94th launch for an orbital class rocket from Florida, surpassing the total achieved in 2024. The total was a combination of Falcon 9 rockets as well as Atlas 5 and Vulcan rockets from United Launch Alliance and one New Glenn flight from Blue Origin. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 11)
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF HUMAN LIFE IN SPACE. HERE’S A LOOK BACK AT IT - Three American and Russian astronauts landed at the International Space Station for the first time in November 2000. We take a look back at some of the station’s biggest moments. On October 31, 2000, three astronauts from the United States and Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan on a two-day flight into space. Their destination: a 109 metre-long floating station perched above the Earth. More (Source: Euronews - Nov 10)
SPACEX LAUNCHES SUNDAY STARLINK MISSION FOLLOWING SATURDAY SCRUB - Following a last minute scrub Saturday morning, SpaceX launched a batch of Starlink satellites in the predawn hours of Sunday morning. The launch came as the Federal Aviation Administration readies a rollout of commercial launch restrictions for U.S. airspace. The company said poor weather in the booster recovery zone caused them stand down from Saturday’s launch opportunity, but conditions were enough improved to support Sunday’s launch. The Starlink 10-51 mission lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 UTC). The rocket flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving Florida’s Space Coast. More (Source: - Nov 10)
FIREBALL IN FLORIDA SKY POSSIBLE SATELLITE REENTRY, NOT METEORITE OR SPACEX ROCKET - At 6:15 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, from Merritt Island Wildlife Preserve in Titusville, Florida, objects were seen re-entering the atmosphere. Several people from Cape Canaveral to Daytona Beach to Palm Coast reported seeing the fireball in the sky. Photographer Richard P. Gallagher, who posts a lot of rocket launch images on his rpg-photography.com site, told FLORIDA TODAY it looked like "shooting star objects" in the Space Coast sky. Coincidentally, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was scheduled for 7:10 a.m. that day, but it was scrubbed. More (Source: Florida Today - Nov 9)
SPACE JUNK DELAYS ASTRONAUTS RETURNING HOME - Three astronauts who have been on a space station for the past 6 months will have to wait a little bit longer to get home. It wasn't bad space traffic that delayed them, but tiny bits of space debris causing trouble for astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie. It's suspected bits of space junk hit their return spacecraft - Shenzhou-20. More (Source: BBC News - Nov 9)
ISSUE WITH ATLAS 5 BOOSTER LIQUID OXYGEN VENT VALVE CAUSES SECOND SCRUB OF VIASAT-3 F2 LAUNCH - United Launch Alliance halted its Atlas 5 countdown for a second night in a row, scrubbing the launch of the ViaSat-3 F2 satellite. Liftoff from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station was scheduled for 10:16 p.m. EST (0316 UTC), but the valve issue that prevented a launch Wednesday night remained persistent on Thursday. Launch Director James Whelan scrubbed a launch attempt Wednesday night when a vent valve on the Atlas 5’s first stage liquid oxygen tank failed to work properly during final pre-launch checkouts. A little more than an hour before the Thursday night window opened, ULA said it was foregoing the launch attempt. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 8)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB - SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink broadband satellites Thursday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, bringing the total launched in 2025 to 2,600. The Starlink 11-14 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 1:13 p.m. PST (4:13 p.m. EST / 2113 UTC). The rocket took a south-easterly trajectory hugging the California coastline. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 7)
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