NASA AND ROSCOSMOS REACH SWAP DEAL FOR ISS TRANSPORTATION - NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos have reached an agreement to resume integrated crews on U.S. crew spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz to transport crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The news broke Friday, the same day that Russia removed Roscomos Director General Dmitry Rogozin from his post, installing Yury Borisov, former deputy prime minister.   More
(Source: Via Satellite - Jul 17)

VIASAT COMPLETES A MAJOR MILESTONE WITH THE 2ND VIASAT-3 SATELLITE PAYLOAD - Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has delivered their second ViaSat-3 payload module to Boeing‘s El Segundo, California, facility, where it will be integrated with Boeing’s 702 spacecraft bus platform and undergo rigorous spacecraft environmental testing in preparation for launch. Viasat’s satellite payload, designed and built in-house, provides state-of-the-art electronics for receiving, transmitting and processing broadband internet data to and from the satellite at expected rates greater than 1 terabit a second...   More
(Source: SatNews - Jul 17)

WATCH SPACEX'S DRAGON CARGO CAPSULE DOCK WITH THE SPACE STATION SATURDAY MORNING - A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will meet up with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (July 16), and you can watch the orbital action live. The robotic Dragon launched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday night (July 14) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 delivered Dragon to low Earth orbit, and the rocket's first stage came back down for a successful landing on the SpaceX droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 16)

RUSSIAN COSMONAUT WILL FLY TO SPACE STATION WITH SPACEX THIS FALL - It's official: SpaceX will soon start flying Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA announced today (July 15) that it has signed a deal with Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos to exchange seats on craft traveling to and from the orbiting lab. NASA astronauts will fly aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft, as they have done many times, and cosmonauts will climb aboard private American vehicles such as SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which has never happened before.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 16)

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)

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