A CONSTELLATION OF ‘SWARM’ SATELLITES JUST DODGED A COLLISION OVER OUR HEADS - The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission is made up of three spacecraft circling Earth to study our planet’s magnetic field. And recently the small constellation had to make an emergency maneuver on short notice to avoid a potential collision with space debris. This kind of move is far from unprecedented. ESA says each of its satellites has to make a collision avoidance maneuver two times a year, on average. What is unusual is that this dodge came with very little notice, and as Swarm was already climbing to safety from another threat.   More
(Source: Forbes - Jul 16)

SATELLITE DEVELOPED AT SOUTH ALABAMA HEADS TO SPACE ON SPACEX ROCKET - A mission years in the making is truly out of this world. And it is from the University of South Alabama. Dr. Sam Russ, a professor at the University of South Alabama and scientist for the JagSat-1 Mission, spoke with WKRG News 5 about the road to get to launch and what the team hopes to gain from this endeavor. “We have been working on the satellite since 2015. Back in 2015 we were able to launch a probe into space on a sub-orbital flight. Based on that, we started the design of our satellite, “said Russ.   More
(Source: WKRG - Jul 16)

SPACEX AND NASA LAUNCH CRS-25 MISSION TO THE ISS - SpaceX launched its 25th commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for the International Space Station (ISS) on a flight-proven Falcon 9 while also utilizing a flight-proven Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft. Falcon 9 B1067-5 lifted Dragon 2 Capsule 208-3 (C208-3) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) on July 14 at 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC on July 15). CRS-25 was the third Dragon mission, SpaceX’s second CRS mission, and the overall 30th launch of the year.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jul 15)

CARGO DRAGON IS GO FOR LAUNCH ON THURSDAY - The Expedition 67 crew members are training for this weekend’s arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft to the International Space Station as it prepares for its launch on Thursday. Mission managers have given the go for the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship as it counts down to a liftoff toward the space station at 8:44 p.m. EDT on Thursday. Dragon, attached to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and carrying 5,800 pounds of science experiments and crew supplies, rolled out to the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday.   More
(Source: NASA - Jul 14)

CHINA LAUNCHES NEW DATA RELAY SATELLITE - China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Wednesday, Trend reports citing Xinhua. The Tianlian II-03 satellite was launched at half hour to one o'clock Wednesday Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. Tianlian II-03 is China's second-generation geosynchronous orbit data relay satellite.   More
(Source: AzerNews - Jul 14)

NASA UNVEILS NEW ‘FIRST LIGHT’ IMAGES FROM WEBB - NASA unveiled more spectacular “first light” pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope Tuesday, showcasing interacting galaxies, the death throes of a doomed star and a stellar nursery where massive young suns are being born, blazing with gale-force solar winds that sculpt vast clouds of gas and dust. Even to the untrained eye, the images carry the observer well beyond the realm of the iconic Hubble Space Telescope...   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 13)

SPACE INDUSTRY WARNED TO PREPARE FOR IMPACT FROM LURKING RECESSION - Some companies in the space industry may not survive the coming headwinds in the U.S. and global economies, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said July 11. “I think we’re really looking at a sea state change,” Bruno said at the Space Innovation Summit, an online event Economists and financial analysts are predicting an economic slowdown. Quilty Analytics, a market research firm focused on the space industry, noted that there were no public equity financings completed during the month of June.    More
(Source: SpaceNews - Jul 13)

ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES FIRST OF TWO BACK-TO-BACK MISSIONS FOR NRO - Rocket Lab launched its 28th Electron rocket on the “Wise One Looks Ahead” mission, also designated National Reconnaissance Office Launch (NROL)-162. NROL-162 is the first of two back-to-back Electron missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). “Wise One Looks Ahead” launched at 02:30 AM Eastern on July 13 from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1A. This mission is Rocket Lab’s sixth mission of 2022, the third Electron NRO mission, and the third mission under the NRO’s Rapid Acquisition of Small Rocket (RASR) contracts.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jul 13)

CERN WILL LAUNCH ITS FIRST SATELLITE THIS WEEK ON NEW EUROPEAN RIDESHARE ROCKET - A tiny satellite aims to extend radiation studies conducted by CERN into space. The cubesat-sized CELESTA (CERN Latchup Experiment STudent sAtellite) is scheduled to launch on Wednesday (July 13) aboard a new European rideshare rocket, called Vega-C. Blastoff is expected (opens in new tab) at 7:13 a.m. EDT (1213 GMT or 8:13 a.m. local time at the launch site in French Guiana), according to the European Space Agency.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 12)

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