CHINA TO LAUNCH WEATHER SATELLITE FENG YUN 3 ON MAY 27 - China plans to launch the Feng Yun 3 weather satellite on May 27 morning, said China National Space Administration (CNSA) here on Sunday. The satellite would be carried by a Long March 4C rocket and lunched at the Taiyuan satellite launch center in Shanxi Province.    More
(Source: Xinhua - May 26)

NEW AMATEUR RADIO SATELLITE RECEIVES OSCAR DESIGNATION - Earlier this week, Bill Tynan, W3XO, announced that Amateur Radio satellite Delfi C-3 has been issued an OSCAR number: Delfi-C3 OSCAR-64 or Dutch OSCAR-64. The shortened version of either of these two designations is DO-64.   More
(Source: ARRL - May 22)

NASA: SPACE STATION VIEW IS GOOD THIS WEEK - The U.S. space agency says this is a good week to get "an incredible view" of the International Space Station flying 220 miles above the Earth. National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials say the station will be in nearly constant sunlight Wednesday through Friday, "offering an incredible view to sky gazers across the country."    More
(Source: United Press International - May 21)

NEW OCEAN-MAPPING SATELLITE SET FOR ORBIT - NASA and France are preparing to launch a new satellite next month to map Earth's rising sea levels and study their link to global climate change. The Jason 2 spacecraft is set to lift off atop a Delta 2 rocket on June 15 from Vandenberg Air Force in California on a joint mission to study the Earth's oceans and their currents.   More
(Source: MSNBC - May 21)

NASA GIVES GO-AHEAD FOR DISCOVERY SHUTTLE LAUNCH ON MAY 31 - NASA on Monday gave the green light to launch the space shuttle Discovery on May 31 for a mission to the International Space Station, officials said. The Discovery's 14-day mission will include three spacewalks and is to be the second of three missions on which astronauts will install components of the Japanese Kibo laboratory. The launch is scheduled for 5:02 pm (2102 GMT) at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.    More
(Source: AFP - May 20)

INDIA LAUNCHES DIGITAL TRANSMISSION SATELLITE - India sent into orbit a rocket carrying the replacement for a communications satellite destroyed last year, raising its hopes of competing for global satellite launch business. The 49-metre (1,481-feet) rocket carrying the Insat-4CR satellite blasted off from the Sriharikota space station in southern India at 6:21 pm (1251 GMT) on Sunday after a two-hour delay due to a technical glitch.   More
(Source: Half Life Source - May 20)

CARGO SHIP BEGINS FLIGHT TO THE SPACE STATION - A Russian freighter packed with fresh supplies for the international space station successfully rocketed away from Earth today and immediately began plotting a two-day trek to the orbiting outpost. The Progress M-64 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:22 p.m. EDT (2022 GMT) atop a three-stage Soyuz booster.    More
(Source: SpaceFlightNow.com - May 15)

CANADIAN SATELLITE TO DETECT EARTH HITS - Canadian researchers are working on a tiny satellite that will alert the world to the potential of asteroid strikes. "This is the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope," said Alan Hildebrand of the University of Calgary (Alberta), one of two principal scientists for the satellite. He told the Canwest News Service the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite, set to be launched within two years is "the first space-based asteroid-searching telescope."   More
(Source: United Press International - May 3)

SECOND GALILEO TEST SATELLITE LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY - Giove-B, the second test satellite for the European satellite navigation system Galileo, was launched at 4am on Monday aboard a Russian rocket departing from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that the two solar panels powering the satellite had deployed without incident and were fully operational by 04:28 BST.   More
(Source: Heise Online - Apr 29)

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