SPACEX SCRUBS RESUPPLY LAUNCH TO THE SPACE STATION - SpaceX called off a launch attempt Tuesday due to bad weather at Kennedy Space Center, delaying until Saturday the start of a resupply mission to the International Space Station. The 26th SpaceX cargo mission to the space station, called CRS-26, will deliver about 7,700 pounds (3.5 metric tons) of supplies, experiments, and hardware to the complex.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 23)

SPACEX LAUNCHES EUTELSAT 10B COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - SpaceX launched a communications satellite to space Tuesday (Nov. 22) to serve air and sea traffic. SpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket to launch the Eutelsat 10B satellite on behalf of Eutelsat Tuesday (Nov. 22) at 9:57 p.m. EST (0257 on Nov. 23 GMT). The Falcon 9's upper stage deployed Eutelsat 10B as planned (opens in new tab) about 35.5 minutes after liftoff. This was the 11th launch for this Falcon 9 first stage, according to SpaceX.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 23)

SPACEX DELAYS EUTELSAT-10B LAUNCH ON FINAL FLIGHT OF B1049 - SpaceX is set to launch the Eutelsat-10B communication satellite into a supersynchronous geostationary transfer orbit. A Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket carrying the satellite will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with liftoff now scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 9:57 PM EST (02:57 UTC on Nov. 23). For an initial attempt on Monday, citing the thick cloud layer, cumulus cloud, and disturbed weather rules, the Space Launch Delta 45 released a launch mission execution forecast putting the probability of violation of weather constraints at 70%.    More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Nov 22)

THE FIRST SATELLITES LAUNCHED BY UGANDA AND ZIMBABWE AIM TO IMPROVE LIFE ON THE GROUND - When Uganda's very first satellite was launched into space last week on Nov. 7, Bonny Omara, the lead engineer on the satellite development team, was filled with emotion. "I was watching it on TV, together with my Honourable Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation," he says. "It was really amazing and we hugged each other! To see my baby takeoff from the ground headed for the International Space Station — it's really a great feeling of my life."   More
(Source: NPR - Nov 21)

JAPAN AGREES TO SPACE STATION EXTENSION AND GATEWAY CONTRIBUTIONS - The Japanese government has formally agreed to extend its participation on the International Space Station through 2030 and provide components for the lunar Gateway. In a virtual ceremony Nov. 17, NASA and Japanese government officials signed an agreement outlining the roles that Japan will provide in the Gateway, including components for several modules and a cargo resupply mission. NASA, in turn, will fly a Japanese astronaut to the Gateway on a future Artemis mission.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 20)

SPACEX'S NEXT NASA CARGO LAUNCH TO SPACE STATION DELAYED TO NOV. 22 - SpaceX's next cargo launch to the International Space Station (ISS) has been pushed back a day, to Tuesday (Nov. 22). The delay, which SpaceX announced on Friday (Nov. 18), was caused by a coolant leak in the company's Dragon cargo capsule. The leak has been fixed and Dragon is now set to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday at 3:54 p.m. EST (2054 GMT).   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 20)

COSMONAUTS FINISH SPACEWALK FOR WORK ON SCIENCE MODULE - Expedition 68 Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin, both of Roscosmos, concluded their spacewalk at 4:07 p.m. EST after 6 hours and 25 minutes. Prokopyev and Petelin completed their major objective, preparing a radiator on the Rassvet module for installation on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.   More
(Source: NASA - Nov 18)

‘PUTIN NEEDS THE ISS’: US ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY ON FUTURE OF SPACE COOPERATION - AND CHASING UFOS - Scott Kelly, a former commander of the International Space Station (ISS), says he doesn’t see any potential for space cooperation between the United States and Russia in the near future, aside from “practical” considerations to keep the ISS in orbit. The retired NASA astronaut, who famously spent almost an entire year in space alongside a Russian cosmonaut, told Euronews Next that pragmatism meant Russia was unlikely to pull out of the ISS any time soon, despite repeated threats to do so. Those threats have come amid the ongoing deterioration of relations between Moscow and the West over Russia’s war in Ukraine.   More
(Source: Euronews - Nov 18)

A SATELLITE THAT LAUNCHED ABOARD SLS IS ALREADY IN TROUBLE - The Artemis 1 mission taking off from the Kennedy Space Center early Wednesday morning. The launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission sent the Orion capsule on a journey to the Moon, in addition to 10 cubesats included as secondary payloads. The Space Launch System’s upper stage successfully deployed the tiny satellites yesterday, but one of them appears to be malfunctioning. The jumbo Moon rocket took off on Wednesday at at 1:47 a.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officially kickstarting NASA’s Artemis Moon program. The rocket skillfully placed the Orion capsule in space for its 25.5 day journey to the Moon and back, in a mission that will prepare NASA for future crewed missions to the lunar surface.   More
(Source: Yahoo News - Nov 18)

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