ROCKET LAB’S THE OWL’S NIGHT CONTINUES MAKES FIRST LAUNCH FROM LC-1B AT MAHIA - Rocket Lab has conducted its first launch from the second launch pad at its spaceport in Mahia, New Zealand on Tuesday, in the second of four planned missions for the Japanese earth observation company Synspective. Tuesday’s mission, The Owl’s Night Continues, is a follow-on to the December 2020 launch named The Owl’s Night Begins, which was also flown for Synspective. The flight lifted off as scheduled at 09:37 local time (20:37 UTC; 3:37pm EST on Monday) from the newly-finished Launch Complex 1B (LC-1B) launch pad, which started construction in late 2019.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Mar 1)

SPACEX HINTS AT REPLACING RUSSIAN SPACE STATION SERVICES - Could SpaceX replace Russia in space? Last week, Russia invaded Ukraine in a series of attacks that sparked some of the most intense conflict in Europe in decades. Most recently, on Sunday night (Feb. 27) Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a nuclear alert, a move that only furthered international concern. With tensions rising ever higher, companies and countries around the world are breaking ties with Russia in space.   More
(Source: Space.com - Mar 1)

TOP NASA OFFICIAL SAYS SPACE STATION PARTNERSHIP WITH RUSSIA ‘STILL WORKING’ DESPITE UKRAINE CONFLICT - NASA’s top official on human spaceflight addressed the agency’s International Space Station partnership on Monday amid growing global tensions, saying the orbiting research laboratory is yet unaffected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We are not getting any indications at a working level that our [Russian] counterparts are not committed to ongoing operations,” NASA Associate Administrator Kathy Lueders said during a news conference on Monday.   More
(Source: CNBC - Mar 1)

NORTH KOREA SAYS TEST ON SUNDAY WAS A PRELUDE TO SPY SATELLITE - North Korea says its Sunday test was part of developing a reconnaissance satellite, calling it of "great significance" but providing little detail on what kind of delivery rocket it involved. The South Korean military said a projectile, believed to be a ballistic missile, was fired Sunday with a flight range of 300 kilometers and a maximum altitude of 620 kilometers. It left the North's Sunan area and landed in waters off the east coast of the Korean peninsula.   More
(Source: voanews.com - Mar 1)

ADVANCED NEW GOES-T WEATHER SATELLITE IS 'GO' FOR LAUNCH ON MARCH 1, NASA SAYS - The next advanced weather satellite for the United States is officially ready to launch into orbit this week on an Atlas V rocket. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cleared the new GOES-T weather satellite for a planned March 1 launch, the two agencies announced Saturday (Feb. 26). Liftoff is set for 4:38 p.m. EST (2138 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with the United Launch Alliance conducting the flight.   More
(Source: - Feb 28)

THE RUSSIAN INVASION TOUCHES OUTER SPACE - This week, as Russia unleashed a violent assault on Ukraine, the director of Russia’s space agency went on a rant. After President Joe Biden announced on Thursday new sanctions against Russia that would, among other effects, “degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program,” Dmitry Rogozin responded with a series of tweets about the International Space Station: “Do you want to destroy our cooperation on the ISS? If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an uncontrolled deorbit and a fall on the United States or Europe? … The ISS doesn’t fly over Russia, so the risks are all yours.”   More
(Source: The Atlantic - Feb 28)

ULA: RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE WON’T IMPACT REMAINING ATLAS 5 MISSIONS - United Launch Alliance said Friday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have no impact on the company’s Atlas 5 rocket program, which has 25 missions left to fly with Russian-made main engines before retirement. The launch provider said it has all the Russian engines it needs before transitioning to a replacement rocket, the Vulcan Centaur, with U.S.-made engines produced by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space company.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Feb 28)

NASA SHRUGS OFF ROSCOSMOS LEADER'S RANT OVER U.S. SANCTIONS AND SPACE STATION - NASA on Friday shrugged off public comments from the head of its Russian counterpart suggesting U.S. sanctions imposed against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis could "destroy" U.S.-Russian teamwork on the International Space Station (ISS). Dmitry Rogozin, director-general of Russian space agency Roscosmos, took to Twitter on Thursday denouncing new constraints on high-tech exports to Russia that U.S. President Joe Biden said were designed to "degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program."   More
(Source: Reuters - Feb 28)

CHINA LAUNCHES CZ-8 ON 22 SATELLITE RIDESHARE MISSION - NASASpaceFlight.com Forums L2 Sign Up Artemis SpaceX Commercial ISS International Other Shop China launches CZ-8 on 22 satellite rideshare mission written by Adrian Beil February 27, 2022 China launched the second Chang Zheng 8 on Sunday from LC-201 at the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center. The liftoff occurred at 03:06 UTC and was confirmed a success an hour later. The mission flew to a Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO) and took a variety of payloads to space on a rideshare mission. The full weight of the payload, including the adaptor, was 2.6 tons, with the satellites massing 1.7 tons. On this mission, the rideshare included 22 payloads, hence the name “One Arrow, 22 Stars”.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Feb 27)

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