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)

CHINA REACHED OUT TO NASA TO AVOID A POTENTIAL SATELLITE COLLISION IN 1ST-OF-ITS-KIND SPACE COOPERATION - China recently reached out to NASA over a maneuver to prevent a possible collision between satellites, a space sustainability official said, marking a first for space traffic management. "For years, if we had a conjunction, we would send a note to the Chinese saying, 'We think we're going to run into you. You hold still, we'll maneuver around you,'" Alvin Drew, director for NASA Space Sustainability, said during a plenary session at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Australia, on Oct. 2.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 7)

SPACE DEBRIS MAY HAVE HIT A CHINESE SPACECRAFT, DELAYING RETURN OF SHENZHOU 20 ASTRONAUTS - Three Chinese astronauts will live in space a little longer, after their return vehicle was hit by a suspected space debris impact. The astronauts are part of the Shenzhou 20 mission, which launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on April 24 and arrived at Tiangong after a six-hour orbital chase.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 6)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 29 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - SpaceX launched its first batch of Starlink satellites of the month Wednesday night. The company has at least seven such missions planned before the Thanksgiving Day holiday. The mission, dubbed Starlink 6-81, saw 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites sent to low Earth orbit. The spacecraft were deployed all at once a little more than an hour after launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 6)

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