SUCCESSFUL SATELLITE LAUNCH AIMS TO BOOST DISH NETWORK - A Canadian commercial communications satellite was shot into space from the famed Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday to serve customers across the United States who subscribe to the DISH Network. The Nimiq 5 spacecraft launched at 1919 GMT (3:19 p.m. EDT) atop Russia's heavy-lift Proton rocket, beginning a steep climb aboard the four-stage booster. More (Source: Space Flight Now - Sep 18)
JAPAN’S CARGO SPACECRAFT DOCKS WITH SPACE STATION - Japan’s first unmanned cargo spaceship docked with the International Space Station and will begin transferring tons of equipment and supplies 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer Vehicle was bolted onto the station at 9:55 a.m. Japan time today, the space agency said on its Web site. The hatch on the station side will be opened to connect power and data cables between the two craft. More (Source: Bloomberg - Sep 18)
SPACE STATION SET TO WELCOME JAPANESE VISITOR THURSDAY - Having received an exemplary grade for its performance since launch last week, Japan's new cargo freighter is closing in on the International Space Station for its most challenging test on Thursday. Loaded with some 7,366 pounds of supplies, the H-2 Transfer Vehicle has already demonstrated most of the systems it will use during its rendezvous with the complex. More (Source: Space Flight Now - Sep 17)
DISCOVERY LANDS IN CALIFORNIA - Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew landed at 8:53 p.m. EDT Friday at Edwards Air Force Base in California, capping off a 14-day mission to deliver supplies and research facilities to the International Space Station and its six-person crew. Mission managers called off this afternoon’s landing opportunities at Kennedy Space Center in Florida because of thunderstorms and otherwise unstable weather conditions. More (Source: NASA - Sep 12)
BAD WEATHER DELAYS SPACE SHUTTLE LANDING AGAIN - The space shuttle Discovery was waved off from its first chance to land Friday afternoon because of unstable weather near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA said. The shuttle will make another orbit of Earth, while NASA mission managers watch to see if extreme moisture and lightning threaten a safe landing. More (Source: CNN - Sep 11)
JAPAN LAUNCHES NEW CARGO CRAFT TO SPACE STATION - The Japanese space agency launched a powerful new rocket Thursday carrying an unmanned space station cargo ship on a complex maiden voyage to deliver some 7,400 pounds of equipment and supplies to the orbital outpost. With four strap-on boosters gushing white-hot exhaust and a pair of hydrogen-fueled main engines roaring at full throttle, the H-2B rocket thundered away from launch pad 2 at the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan at 1:01:46 p.m. EDT. More (Source: CNET News - Sep 11)
SHUTTLE DISCOVERY LANDING SCRUBBED FOR THURSDAY - The space shuttle Discovery will stay aloft another day after NASA mission managers scrubbed its second and final opportunity to land Thursday, citing bad weather near Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The next landing opportunity for Discovery will come shortly before 6 p.m. ET on Friday, officials said. That landing would also take place in Florida. More (Source: CNN - Sep 11)
SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY PREPARES FOR RETURN TO EARTH - Space Shuttle Discovery astronauts began preparing their spacecraft for its planned Thursday landing as they wrap up a 13-day flight to the International Space Station. Mission Control roused the astronauts at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday with the song "Sailing" by Rod Stewart, a tune selected for Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang. More (Source: FOXNews - Sep 10)
JAPANESE SPACE STATION MISSION HOLDS MANY FIRSTS - Japan is planning to launch its most ambitious space mission Thursday, a flight that will not only usher in a new era for the country's domestic space program but also inaugurate an important new capability for the International Space Station. The long-awaited launch from the seashores of southern Japan will be a monumental moment for the Asian power's growing space industry. More (Source: Space Flight Now - Sep 10)
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