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DO ROCKETS STILL LAUNCH DURING A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN? HOW NASA COULD FEEL THE EFFECTS 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 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 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)


CHINA SENDS EXPERIMENTAL SHIYAN-30 SATELLITES INTO ORBIT AS LAUNCH CADENCE INTENSIFIES CHINA SENDS EXPERIMENTAL SHIYAN-30 SATELLITES INTO ORBIT AS LAUNCH CADENCE INTENSIFIES - A Long March 2D rocket sent a new set of experimental satellites into orbit late Sunday, capping an intense month of Chinese launch activities. The Long March 2D lifted off at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Sept. 28 (0300 UTC, Sept. 29) from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China, with the launch vehicle climbing into dense clouds above the forested hill surrounding the spaceport.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Oct 1)


GROUND TESTING ANOMALY DESTROYS FIREFLY AEROSPACE’S ALPHA BOOSTER INTENDED FOR NEXT FLIGHT GROUND TESTING ANOMALY DESTROYS FIREFLY AEROSPACE’S ALPHA BOOSTER INTENDED FOR NEXT FLIGHT - Firefly Aerospace suffered a setback on its road to resuming launches with its Alpha rocket. During acceptance testing at its facility in Briggs, Texas, on Monday, the booster designated for Alpha Flight 7 “experienced an event that resulted in a loss of the stage,” the company said in a statement. A spokesperson for Firefly said this acceptance test was taking place prior to the company shipping the booster to Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of conducting a final static fire test and preparing for launch.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 30)


CHINESE ASTRONAUTS ADD DEBRIS SHIELDING TO TIANGONG SPACE STATION DURING 6-HOUR SPACEWALK CHINESE ASTRONAUTS ADD DEBRIS SHIELDING TO TIANGONG SPACE STATION DURING 6-HOUR SPACEWALK - China's Tiangong space station just got some more protection against debris strikes. Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission installed additional shielding on Tiangong during a six-hour spacewalk on Friday (Sept. 26), according to the state-run broadcaster CCTV. It was the fourth spacewalk of the Shenzhou 20 mission, which arrived at Tiangong on April 24.   More
(Source: Space.com - Sep 30)


CHINA LAUNCHES LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE GROUP CHINA LAUNCHES LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE GROUP - China successfully launched a new batch of low Earth orbit satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Saturday, marking the 597th mission of the Long March carrier rockets.   More
(Source: CGTN - Sep 29)


SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB - SpaceX completed its final, scheduled launch of September Sunday evening. The Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base was the 16th launch for SpaceX this month. The Starlink 11-20 mission saw 28 of SpaceX’s broadband internet satellites deployed into low Earth orbit with deployment scheduled for a little more than an hour after liftoff. SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 7:04 p.m. PDT (10:04 p.m. EDT / 0204 UTC). The Falcon 9 rocket flew away from the pad on a south-easterly trajectory upon liftoff.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 29)


CHINA LAUNCHES NEW FENGYUN METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE CHINA LAUNCHES NEW FENGYUN METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE - China launched a new Fengyun meteorological satellite, which will also contribute to a global green mission, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. A Long March-4C rocket, carrying the Fengyun-3 08 satellite, blasted off at 3:28 a.m., and sent the satellite into the preset orbit.   More
(Source: Ecns.cn - Sep 28)


SPACE DEBRIS LIGHTS UP NIGHT SKY OVER CALIFORNIA SPACE DEBRIS LIGHTS UP NIGHT SKY OVER CALIFORNIA - Fiery space debris lit up the night sky over the Golden State on Thursday, sparking hundreds of reports from residents and leaving many to wonder what they had witnessed. The American Meteor Society said that within the first 24 hours after the event, it received more than 200 accounts from witnesses ranging from near the California-Oregon border southward to areas outside Los Angeles.   More
(Source: Fox Weather - Sep 28)

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