SOUTH KOREAN SATELLITE CAPTURES BEFORE AND AFTER VIEWS OF SPACEX ROCKET’S MOON CRASH - A South Korean satellite has captured the first pictures of the moon’s fresh crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX rocket. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute’s Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadvertently plowed into the moon on Wednesday. Danuri made multiple passes, snapping photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency Thursday. More (Source: AP News - Aug 7)
SPACEWALK BEGINS FOR SOLAR ARRAY MODIFICATIONS - NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon began a spacewalk at 8:33 a.m. EDT outside the International Space Station to prepare the 3B power channel for the future installation of new roll-out solar arrays. Once installed, the arrays will provide additional power to support critical station operations, including its safe and controlled deorbit. More (Source: NASA - Aug 7)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 3 AST SPACEMOBILE BLUEBIRD SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - SpaceX launched the latest trio of AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 rocket carried satellites numbered 11, 12, and 13 in to orbit. The mission came about a month-and-a-half after SpaceX launched the BlueBird 8-10 mission. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 happened at 3:49 a.m. EDT (0749 UTC). The rocket flew on a northeasterly trajectory upon leaving the pad. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 6)
A SPACEX ROCKET IS ABOUT TO CRASH INTO THE MOON - Part of a SpaceX rocket used to launch a pair of robotic commercial lunar landers is expected to crash into the moon early Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on January 15, 2025, carrying the Blue Ghost lander developed by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, as well as Tokyo-based Ispace’s Resilience lander. Blue Ghost successfully soft-landed on the moon in March 2025, while Resilience failed to land safely a few months later. More (Source: CNN - Aug 5)
SPACEX WANTS TO LAUNCH NEXT STARSHIP THIS MONTH (AND CATCH IT, TOO), ELON MUSK SAYS IN 1ST EARNINGS CALL SINCE HISTORIC IPO - SpaceX will make some history this month, if all goes according to plan. The company aims to launch the 14th test flight of its Starship megarocket before August is out, Elon Musk said today (Aug. 4) during SpaceX's first-ever quarterly earnings call. Starship will deploy viable payloads into orbit on Flight 14, something it has never done before — and there will be other unprecedented action as well. More (Source: Space.com - Aug 5)
SPACEWALK PREPS, HEALTH RESEARCH ON STATION AS NASA INTRODUCES SPACEX CREW-13 - Spacewalk preparations and health research awaited the Expedition 75 crew aboard the International Space Station at the beginning of August. The next crew to visit the orbital outpost, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13, introduced themselves today during a news conference from Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. More (Source: NASA - Aug 5)
THE 10 WORST SPACE DEBRIS EVENTS IN HISTORY - On the night of January 11, 2007, a missile launched from central China climbed 865 kilometers and struck a retired weather satellite nearly head-on. In a few milliseconds, Fengyun-1C went from one tracked object to thousands. Nineteen years later, two thirds of that shrapnel is still circling the planet, and nearly one in five pieces of debris in the public catalog traces back to that single intercept. More (Source: KeepTrack.space - Aug 4)
ISRO AIMS FOR SPACE STATION BY 2035, MOON MISSION BY 2040 - “ISRO is working towards establishing India’s own space station by 2035 and sending an Indian to the Moon aboard an Indian rocket by 2040,” ISRO Chairman V Narayanan said on Friday. He was addressing the inaugural session of the ‘ISRO Academia Connect @ AU’ programme, organised by Andhra University, through virtual mode. More (Source: The New Indian Express - Aug 3)
SPACEX LAUNCHES 24 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB - SpaceX launched its next batch of Starlink satellites from California on Friday night, four days later than original planned. Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base occurred at 8:08 p.m. PDT (11:08 p.m. EDT / 0308 UTC). More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 2)
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