POOR WEATHER FORCES SPACEX TO SCRUB LAUNCH OF INDONESIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - An Indonesian company is looking to improve its space-based communications service with a state-of-the-art Boeing-built satellite bound for geostationary orbit. The spacecraft comes from Satelit Nusantara Lima (SNL), a subsidiary of Indonesia’s first private satellite company, Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN). The satellite itself is called Nusantara Lima or N5 for short.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 9)

CHINA LAUNCHES NEW REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE GROUP - China launched a new group of remote sensing satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday. The satellites of the Yaogan-40 03 group were launched at 12:34 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket, and they entered the preset orbits successfully.    More
(Source: www.gov.cn - Sep 8)

GOP MAY FINALLY SUCCEED IN UNRELENTING QUEST TO KILL TWO NASA CLIMATE SATELLITES - It was in 2002, during the George W. Bush administration, when NASA decided to put a satellite into orbit to track emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pumped into the atmosphere through human activity. After many twists and turns, NASA's 23-year remit of charting greenhouse gas emissions could come to a close as soon as the end of this month. President Donald Trump's budget request to Congress calls for terminating 41 of NASA's 124 science missions in development or operations, and another 17 would see their funding zeroed out in the near future.    More
(Source: Ars Technica - Sep 7)

SPACEX PASSES 2,000 STARLINK SATELLITES DEPLOYED IN 2025 WITH SATURDAY LAUNCH - SpaceX deployed its 2,000th Starlink satellite of the year when its Falcon 9 rocket following a flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning. The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-9, carried 24 broadband satellites into a polar, low Earth orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 11:06 a.m. PDT (2:06 p.m. EDT / 1806 UTC).   More
(Source: ue-6PbisLQs - Sep 7)

NASA TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF PROGRESS 93 LAUNCH, SPACE STATION DOCKING - NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 93 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 11:54 a.m. EDT (8:54 p.m. Baikonur time), Thursday, Sept. 11, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.   More
(Source: NASA - Sep 7)

CHINA LAUNCHES EXPERIMENTAL SHIYAN-29 TO GEO, COMMERCIAL CERES-1 CARRIES 3 SATELLITES - China conducted a pair of launches sending an experimental spacecraft to geosynchronous orbit and three further satellites into polar orbits. The first launch of the day saw a Long March 3C rocket, exceptionally using a YZ-1 upper stage, lift off at 10:34 p.m. Eastern Sept. 4 (0234 UTC Sept. 5) from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, southwest China.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Sep 6)

NEW WEATHER SATELLITE DELIVERS EARLY DATA JUST WEEKS AFTER LAUNCH - Less than a month since launch, a powerful new weather satellite is already at work. As it silently orbits around Earth, it is sending back data that may actually make a difference in the way we know weather and can predict it. Launched on August 13, the satellite is named MetOp-SG-A1. It’s the first of a new generation of weather satellites developed in Europe.    More
(Source: Earth.com - Sep 6)

SPACEX ACES 500TH FALCON BOOSTER LANDING AMID SUNRISE STARLINK MISSION - SpaceX completed its 500th recovery of a Falcon booster during a Friday morning flight supporting its Starlink satellite constellation. The Falcon 9 rocket roared away from Launch Complex 39A at 8:32 a.m. EDT (1232 UTC). The Starlink 10-57 mission flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, with the rocket soaring past and through the clouds over Florida’s Space Coast.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 6)

SPACEX DRAGON CARGO CAPSULE BOOSTS ISS HIGHER ABOVE EARTH IN KEY TEST - A Dragon just pushed the International Space Station a little farther away from Earth. SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully finished a test reboost of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday (Sept. 3), according to NASA. The freighter fired two of its Draco engines for 5 minutes and 3 seconds during the maneuver, agency officials wrote in a Wednesday statement.   More
(Source: Space.com - Sep 6)

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