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)

NASA, SPACEX COMPLETE DRAGON SPACE STATION REBOOST - On Wednesday, Sept. 3, SpaceX’s Dragon completed an initial burn to test the spacecraft’s new capability to help maintain the altitude of the International Space Station. Two Draco engines located in the trunk of Dragon, which contains an independent propellant system, were used to adjust the space station’s orbit through a maneuver lasting five minutes, three seconds. The initial test burn increased the station’s altitude by around one mile at perigee, or low point of station’s orbit, leaving the station in an orbit of 260.9 x 256.3 miles.    More
(Source: NASA - Sep 5)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATELLITES ON WEDNESDAY SUNRISE FALCON 9 FLIGHT - SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared from Florida’s Space Coast among a collection of cumulus clouds less than an hour after sunrise on Wednesday. The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-22, was the company’s 110th Falcon 9 launch of the year. SpaceX launched from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 UTC).   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 4)

ISRAEL LAUNCHES SATELLITE, SPARKS PANIC WITH CIVILIANS THINKING IT WAS AN ENEMY MISSILE - A satellite was recently launched from the Palmahim Airbase in central Israel, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday, after Israelis reported sightings in the night sky. The satellite's launch was conducted in a joint operation by the Defense Ministry, the IDF, and Israel Aerospace Industries, using a “Shavit” satellite launcher from a test site in central Israel.   More
(Source: The Jerusalim Post - Sep 3)

SPACEX’S TUESDAY NIGHT STARLINK FEATURES RARE DEBUT OF A FALCON BOOSTER - SpaceX completed its first Falcon 9 launch of the month, which carried another batch of 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. The Tuesday night launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base featured the flight of a new Falcon 9 rocket booster. The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-8, adde to the more than 1,900 of its satellites so far in 2025 with more than 1,600 supporting broadband internet and nearly 300 being direct-to-cell satellites.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 3)

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