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ASTRONAUTS GEARING UP FOR FRIDAY SPACEWALK ASTRONAUTS GEARING UP FOR FRIDAY SPACEWALK - Two astronauts on the Expedition 69 crew are gearing up for a spacewalk at the end of the week. Meanwhile, two cosmonauts are standing down after their spacewalk planned for Tuesday was postponed. Flight Engineers Stephen Bowen of NASA and Sultan Alneyadi of UAE (United Arab Emirates) are preparing for a spacewalk scheduled for 9:15 a.m. EDT on Friday. The duo in their Extravehicular Mobility Units, or spacesuits, will spend about six-and-a-half hours in the vacuum of space continuing to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system. International Space Station managers will appear on NASA TV, on the agency’s app and website, at 2 p.m. today to discuss Friday’s spacewalk.   More
(Source: NASA - Apr 25)


FALCON HEAVY DELAY AFFECTS SPACE STATION MANIFEST FALCON HEAVY DELAY AFFECTS SPACE STATION MANIFEST - A delayed launch of commercial satellites on a Falcon Heavy could upend the schedule of flights to the International Space Station, including a private astronaut mission that was scheduled for early May. During an April 24 briefing about an upcoming ISS spacewalk, a NASA official said the Ax-2 mission to the station by Axiom Space, which had been scheduled for as soon as May 8, would likely be pushed back.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Apr 25)


RUSSIAN SPACEWALK TO MOVE AIRLOCK OUTSIDE SPACE STATION POSTPONED RUSSIAN SPACEWALK TO MOVE AIRLOCK OUTSIDE SPACE STATION POSTPONED - A Russian spacewalk to move an experiment airlock from one International Space Station module to another has been postponed, officials with the country's federal space corporation Roscosmos announced on Monday (April 24). Expedition 69 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin are still preparing for the extravehicular activity (EVA), but no longer planning to exit the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday night (April 25) as originally scheduled.   More
(Source: Space.com - Apr 25)


CHINA PREPPING NEXT SPACE STATION CARGO MISSION FOR MAY LAUNCH CHINA PREPPING NEXT SPACE STATION CARGO MISSION FOR MAY LAUNCH - China is gearing up to send fresh supplies to its space station. Components of a Long March 7 rocket arrived at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan island, south China, on April 13 after shipping from the northern port city of Tianjin. The rocket is now being assembled. It will launch the Tianzhou 6 cargo spacecraft to the Tiangong space station in the first half of May.    More
(Source: Space.com - Apr 24)


JAPAN PREPARES TO SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREA SATELLITE IF IT FALLS ON JAPAN JAPAN PREPARES TO SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREA SATELLITE IF IT FALLS ON JAPAN - Japan's Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada on Saturday ordered the country's military to prepare to shoot down a North Korean spy satellite should it fall within Japan's territory. Hamada ordered the Self-Defense Forces to make necessary preparations as he could potentially "order the destruction of ballistic missiles", the Defense Ministry said in a statement. Preparations included making arrangements to deploy troops to the southern prefecture of Okinawa to "minimise damage should a ballistic missile fall."   More
(Source: Reuters - Apr 23)


INDIAN ROCKET SENDS 2 SINGAPOREAN SATELLITES TO ORBIT IN 'TEXTBOOK LAUNCH' INDIAN ROCKET SENDS 2 SINGAPOREAN SATELLITES TO ORBIT IN 'TEXTBOOK LAUNCH' - An Indian rocket launched two Singaporean satellites to low Earth orbit early Saturday morning (April 22). A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Saturday at 4:49 a.m. EDT (0849 GMT; 2:19 p.m. India Standard Time), carrying an Earth-observation satellite and a communications tech-demonstrating craft aloft.   More
(Source: Space.com - Apr 23)


ASTRA WINS $11.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO LAUNCH MILITARY EXPERIMENTAL PAYLOADS ASTRA WINS $11.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO LAUNCH MILITARY EXPERIMENTAL PAYLOADS - Astra Space won a task order worth $11.5 million to launch experimental payloads for the Defense Department’s Space Test Program. Astra, a small satellite launch company based in Alameda, California, was awarded the contract under the U.S. Space Force’s Orbital Services Program OSP-4, the Space Systems Command announced April 21.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Apr 23)


ISRO TO LAUNCH PSLV WITH SINGAPOREAN SATELLITES ISRO TO LAUNCH PSLV WITH SINGAPOREAN SATELLITES - The Indian Space Research Organisation will use its PSLV rocket to deploy a pair of Singaporean satellites Saturday, in a commercial launch contracted by its subsidiary NewSpace India Limited. The PSLV-CA rocket is due to lift off at 08:49 UTC (2:19 p.m. local time) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Saturday’s launch will carry the TeLEOS-2 radar-imaging satellite, to be operated in partnership between the government of Singapore and ST Electronics.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Apr 22)


NORTHROP GRUMMAN'S SS SALLY RIDE DEPARTS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NORTHROP GRUMMAN'S SS SALLY RIDE DEPARTS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Northrop Grumman's autonomous Cygnus spaceship left the International Space Station on Friday, carrying away more than 8,000 pounds of trash from the orbiting laboratory. The SS Sally Ride, named after the first American woman astronaut, departed from the Unity module of the ISS about 7:20 a.m. EDT. The vessel burned up in a planned re-entry into the atmosphere shortly afterward.   More
(Source: UPI.com - Apr 22)


DEAD NASA SATELLITE CRASHES TO EARTH OVER THE SAHARA DESERT DEAD NASA SATELLITE CRASHES TO EARTH OVER THE SAHARA DESERT - dead NASA spacecraft crashed to Earth Wednesday night (April 19) over northern Africa, according to the U.S. military. NASA's RHESSI satellite reentered Earth's atmosphere at 8:21 p.m. EDT on Wednesday (0021 GMT on April 20), according to the space agency. "The Department of Defense confirmed that the 660-pound spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere over the Sahara Desert region, at approximately 26 degrees longitude and 21.3 degrees latitude," NASA officials wrote in an update today (opens in new tab) (April 20).    More
(Source: Space.com - Apr 21)

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