CHINA PLANS TO CONDUCT OVER 1,000 EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE STATION - China has planned to carry out more than 1,000 scientific experiments in the China Space Station in the next 10 to 15 years, according to the country's leading research facility in space utilization. The China Space Station has been successfully assembled, with facilities for scientific experiments deployed and calibrated. For the next decade, the space station will enter the phase of application and development, serving as a research platform for scientists and engineers to explore the secrets of space.   More
(Source: CGTN - Jul 23)

WATCH SPACEX LAUNCH 22 STARLINK SATELLITES TO ORBIT SUNDAY NIGHT - SpaceX plans to launch 22 Starlink internet satellites to orbit Sunday night (July 23), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Sunday at 7:09 p.m. EDT (2309 GMT on July 23) after a one-day weather delay. You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company. Coverage is expected to begin about five minutes before liftoff.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 23)

AMAZON UNVEILS PLANS FOR $120 MILLION SATELLITE PROCESSING FACILITY FOR ITS INTERNET CONSTELLATION - On Friday, online retail giant amazon will join with members of Space Florida to reveal its plans for a 100,000-square-foot satellite processing facility located at Space Florida’s Launch and Landing Facility (LLF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Amazon hopes to rival satellite internet companies like SpaceX in the coming years with its forthcoming Project Kuiper constellation. The goal is to launch and operate more than 3,200 satellites in low Earth orbit as part of a system that includes customer terminals and a ground network, powered by Amazon Web Services.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 22)

CHINA LAUNCHES 4 COMMERCIAL WEATHER SATELLITES TO ORBIT - A Chinese solid rocket launched a new batch of commercial satellites from the Gobi Desert on Wednesday (July 19). A Kuaizhou 1A rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Wednesday at 11:20 p.m. EDT (0320 GMT, or 11:20 a.m. Beijing Time on July 20). Aboard were four Tianmu 1 satellites, designated numbers 07-10, for collecting weather data. The satellites and rocket upper stage were later detected by space domain awareness tracking in orbits with an altitude of roughly 326 miles (524 kilometers) and an inclination of 97.4 degrees.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 22)

SHENZHOU-16 CREW COMPLETES FIRST SPACEWALK - The Shenzhou-16 crew members on board China's orbiting space station completed their first spacewalk at 9:40 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, according to the China Manned Space Agency. Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao collaborated to pull off all set tasks with the assistance of the space station's robotic arm. Jing and Zhu have since returned to the Wentian lab module safely.   More
(Source: Xinhua - Jul 21)

SATELLITE WILL DIE BY FIRE AS 1ST-OF-ITS-KIND OPERATION SENDS IT PLUMMETING DOWN TO EARTH - Scientists are preparing for a "first-of-its-kind" operation to steer a dead satellite back to Earth in a safe assisted re-entry. The satellite that will be the subject of this guided return to Earth is the European Space Agency (ESA) wind-monitoring Aeolus spacecraft. At a press conference on Wednesday (July 19), ESA scientists explained how they will attempt to guide the return of Aeolus to Earth, which should happen on Friday, July 28.    More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 21)

SLOW-SCAN TV EXPERIMENT WITH ARRL PLANNED FOR AMATEUR RADIO ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS), in collaboration with ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio®, plans to carry out a special slow-scan TV (SSTV) experiment from the ISS on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. During the event, the Columbus Module Repeater, transmitting at 437.800 MHz, will carry a message to be received by teachers attending the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology professional development class.    More
(Source: ARRL - Jul 20)

HERE'S HOW ISS ASTRONAUTS JETTISON OLD SPACE STATION HARDWARE - Taking out the trash on the International Space Station often requires a robotic helper, as a new video shows. In the video, NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg shows off a cylindrical piece of space debris safely drifting toward Earth after being jettisoned by a Canadian robotic arm. The debris' path should have it fall into Earth's atmosphere in the summer of 2025, with no risk to the International Space Station.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 20)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 15 STARLINK SATELLITES TO ORBIT, LANDS ROCKET AT SEA - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 15 Starlink satellites toward orbit early Thursday (July 20) and came back down for a landing on a ship at sea. The Falcon 9 lifted off from California's foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday at 12:09 a.m. EDT (0409 GMT; 9:09 p.m. on July 19 local California time) after a one-day delay.    More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 20)

Previous Next