AS NASA'S ISS CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF HUMANS LIVING IN SPACE, WHAT'S AHEAD FOR SPACE STATIONS - It's official. Not a single person under the age of 25 has lived a day where there has not been a human orbiting Earth − and that is likely to never change. On Nov. 2, 2000, Expedition 1 arrived at the still-under-construction International Space Station. And since that day, this outpost that orbits 250 miles above the Earth has never been uninhabited even as its construction continued. That's almost 25 years of human life traveling around the Earth 16 times a day.   More
(Source: Yahoo News - Oct 6)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 3RD CONSECUTIVE FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB, UNINTERRUPTED BY A CAPE MISSION - SpaceX launched its 125th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025, which carried a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. The company’s first mission of the month took flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base shortly after sunrise on Friday morning. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) happened 7:06 a.m. PDT (10:06 a.m. EDT / 1406 UTC). This was SpaceX’s 47th launch from Vandenberg so far this year.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 4)

BLUE ORIGIN REVEALS SPACE TOURISTS TO LAUNCH ON NEXT NEW SHEPARD ROCKET - We now know which people will fly on Blue Origin's next space tourism mission — most of them, anyway. On Wednesday (Oct. 1), Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, announced the passenger list for NS-36, the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. (We don't yet know when NS-36 will launch; that info is coming soon, according to Blue Origin.)   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 4)

ASTRONAUTS WORK THROUGH THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN - Whether they're NASA employees or international astronauts, the Expedition 73 crew members are exempt from the U.S. government shutdown. The Expedition 73 crew continued their science research and maintenance work aboard the International Space Station this week, despite the start of a U.S. government shutdown back on Earth.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 4)

8 SPACE MISSIONS TO WATCH IN OCTOBER: STARSHIP, AMAZON KUIPER, BLUE ORIGIN’S MOON LANDER - With the first weeks of the fall season underway, October is already shaping up to be an eventful month in space. Alongside satellite launches from Amazon, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance (ULA), this month will also see milestones in NASA’s Artemis program—a series of lunar missions designed to prepare for eventual human journeys to Mars—with contributions from SpaceX and Blue Origin.   More
(Source: Observer - Oct 3)

NASA CLOSES DOORS TO 15,000 EMPLOYEES AS US GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BEGINS - More than 15,000 NASA civil servants have been furloughed as the U.S. federal government enters a shutdown. The grinding halt forces NASA and other agencies to scale back nearly all of their day-to-day operations after lawmakers in Washington D.C. failed to pass a government funding bill by the deadline. Only a fraction of NASA's workforce remains on duty, assigned to missions that cannot be paused without risking astronaut safety, critical hardware, or the Trump administration’s highest priorities.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 2)

DO ROCKETS STILL LAUNCH DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN? HOW NASA COULD FEEL THE EFFECTS - Is it time for NASA to hang up those spacesuits and power down those rockets? NASA is far from immune to the effects of a looming government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement before midnight Oct. 1 to prevent one. At stake for the U.S. space agency if the federal government grinds to a halt? The progress of many of its science missions and access to its public outreach arm.   More
(Source: USA Today - Oct 2)

VIASAT-3 F2 SATELLITE ARRIVES IN FLORIDA AHEAD OF LATE OCTOBER LAUNCH - The ViaSat-3 Flight 2 spacecraft, the next geostationary satellite for communications company Viasat, arrived in Florida in the early morning hours of Tuesday. This six-ton (more than 13,000 lbs) satellite is the second in a three-vehicle series for the ViaSat-3 network. Its planned launch in late October onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 551 rocket comes roughly a year-and-a-half after the ViaSat-3 F1 launch.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 2)

SPACEX TARGETING OCT. 13 FOR NEXT STARSHIP MEGAROCKET LAUNCH - SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again less than two weeks from now, if all goes according to plan. SpaceX announced on Monday (Sept. 29) that it's targeting Oct. 13 for Starship Flight 11, which will be the final launch of the vehicle's current "Version 2" iteration. Liftoff will occur from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas. The window on Oct. 13 will open at 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT; 6:15 p.m. local Texas time), SpaceX wrote in an update on Monday. The company will webcast the action, beginning 30 minutes before liftoff.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 1)

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