ISRO TO LAUNCH NAVIGATION SATELLITE NVS-01 ON MAY 29 - The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is planning to launch NVS-01, a navigation satellite on-board the Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle or GSLV Mk-II, on May 29, a senior official said on Saturday. “The launch of NVS-01 is scheduled for around May 29. This will be a return flight mission for the GSLV launch vehicle, which will carry the next generation NavIC satellite. This satellite will replace the IRNSS-1G satellite launched in 2016,” a senior Isro official said, seeking anonymity.   More
(Source: Hindustan Times - May 15)

OVERNIGHT LAUNCH ADDS 56 MORE SATELLITES TO SPACEX’S STARLINK FLEET - Fifty-six more Starlink internet satellites lifted off early Sunday atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on SpaceX’s 32nd launch of the year. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket took off at 1:03:30 a.m. EDT (0503:30 UTC) from Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A little more than an hour later, the Falcon 9’s upper stage released the 56 Starlink internet satellites into orbit a few hundred miles above Earth.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - May 15)

NASA, SPACEX PREPARES FOR AXIOM SPACE MISSION 2 TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION MAY 21 - Liftoff of the Axiom Mission 2, the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, is scheduled for 5:37 p.m. EDT Sunday, May 21, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel to the orbiting outpost aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Freedom, after launching on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket.   More
(Source: Space Coast Daily - May 14)

WATCH SPACEX LAUNCH 56 STARLINK SATELLITES EARLY SUNDAY - SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early Sunday morning (May 14), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 56 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Sunday at 1:03 a.m. EDT (0503 GMT). Watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company (opens in new tab). Coverage is expected to begin five minutes before launch.   More
(Source: Space.com - May 14)

RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS MOVE VITAL RADIATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IN 5-HOUR SPACEWALK - Two Russian cosmonauts have completed a spacewalk to activate a radiator that they earlier helped relocate outside of the International Space Station. Expedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin, both with the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos, successfully deployed the heat exchanger as their primary task during the 5 hour and 14 minute extravehicular activity (EVA) outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday (May 12).    More
(Source: Space.com - May 13)

CHINA’S SPACEPLANE CONDUCTED PROXIMITY AND CAPTURE MANEUVERS WITH SUBSATELLITE, DATA SUGGESTS - China’s secretive spaceplane may have performed multiple recaptures of an object it released into orbit during its recently completed second flight as part of on-orbit testing. Private firm Leolabs, which provides space situational awareness data through its global network of radars for tracking objects in low Earth orbit, said its analysis found evidence of what appeared to be at least two and possibly three capture/docking operations with a co-orbiting object.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - May 12)

SPACE STARTUP PARTNERS WITH SPACEX TO LAUNCH COMMERCIAL SPACE STATION - Vast, a startup backed by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, is aiming to launch a school bus-sized space station to orbit by late 2025 with some help from partner SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket firm. The cylindrical spacecraft dubbed Haven-1 is the latest platform planned as a replacement to the International Space Station, a two-decade-old orbital research laboratory run primarily by the U.S., Russia and the European Space Agency.   More
(Source: Reuters - May 12)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 51 STARLINK SATELLITES, LANDS ROCKET ON SHIP AT SEA - SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites toward orbit and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (May 10). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 51 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on schedule today at 4:09 p.m. ET (2009 GMT; 1:09 p.m. local California time). The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff as planned. It touched down on SpaceX's Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which was stationed in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast.   More
(Source: Space.com - May 11)

TIANZHOU-6 CARGO SPACECRAFT REACHES CHINA’S TIANGONG SPACE STATION - An upgraded Tianzhou cargo spacecraft docked at China’s Tiangong space station Wednesday ahead of a new crewed mission to the orbital outpost. A Long March 7 rocket lifted off from the coastal Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 9:22 a.m. Eastern, May 10. The rocket inserted the Tianzhou-6 spacecraft into its planned low Earth orbit around 20 minutes later. Docking at the Tiangong space station’s aft docking port occurred at 5:16 p.m., completing the rendezvous and docking process nearly eight hours after launch, according to China’s human spaceflight agency.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - May 11)

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