ARIANESPACE TARGETS SENTINEL-1D LAUNCH ON NOV. 4 - Arianespace will launch the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1D satellite in early November. The satellite will be the third commercial flight for Ariane 6, Europe’s new heavy-lift launcher. With this launch, Arianespace supports a major environmental mission while supporting Europe’s autonomous access to space. Arianespace announced the launch details, Oct. 6.   More
(Source: Via Satellite - Oct 7)

DATA CENTRES IN SPACE? JEFF BEZOS SAYS IT'S POSSIBLE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence to the internet boom of the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles.   More
(Source: Reuters - Oct 6)

SPACEX TO LAUNCH 4 FALCON HEAVY ROCKETS AS PART OF NEWEST U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY MISSIONS AWARD - The latest missions carrying payloads for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) were announced on Friday with a combined value of $1.142 billion. SpaceX was tasked with five missions and United Launch Alliance (ULA) received two. This is the second order year (OY2) for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 contract, which was awarded to Blue Origin, SpaceX and ULA. Back in April, USSF’s Space Systems Command announced the trio as the recipients of this half of the Phase 3 Acquisition Strategy.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 6)

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)

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