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ARIANE 5 LAUNCH DELAYED FOR MORE GROUND SYSTEMS CHECKS ARIANE 5 LAUNCH DELAYED FOR MORE GROUND SYSTEMS CHECKS - Arianespace delayed the launch from French Guiana of a European Ariane 5 rocket with two geostationary communications satellites Friday to conduct more checks of ground support equipment at the spaceport. The mission, set to loft payloads for SES and the French military, is the final Ariane 5 flight before a mission in December with the James Webb Space Telescope.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 23)


PROGRESS MS-17 COMPLETES 24 HOUR LONG RELOCATION AT SPACE STATION PROGRESS MS-17 COMPLETES 24 HOUR LONG RELOCATION AT SPACE STATION - Progress MS-17 has successfully relocated its docking position to the station’s newest module, MLM Nauka. Relocation began at 23:42 UTC (7:42 PM EDT) on Wednesday when the Russian resupply spacecraft autonomously undocked from the Russian Poisk module and backed away from the station to a distance of approximately 180-190 kilometers. Progress perform station-keeping maneuvers in order to remain in the correct proximity to the space station and hold position for over 24 hours.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Oct 23)


SOUTH KOREAN ROCKET FAILS TO REACH ORBIT ON INAUGURAL TEST FLIGHT SOUTH KOREAN ROCKET FAILS TO REACH ORBIT ON INAUGURAL TEST FLIGHT - South Korea’s first domestically produced satellite launcher failed to reach orbit on its inaugural test flight Thursday. A preliminary review of data indicated the rocket’s third stage shut down early, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute said. The Nuri rocket lifted off from the Naro Space Center, built on an island nearly 300 miles (500 kilometers) south of Seoul at 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT). Managers delayed the launch an hour to evaluate valves in the rocket, Korean officials said.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 23)


SOYUZ MS-18 TOUCHDOWN IN KAZAKHSTAN SOYUZ MS-18 TOUCHDOWN IN KAZAKHSTAN - Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and spaceflight participants Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko have returned to Earth with a landing in Kazakhstan on Sunday, completing the Soyuz MS-18 mission. The three-person landing crew undocked from the nadir port on the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) at 01:13 UTC. Landing occurred at around 04:36 UTC.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Oct 18)


CHINA LAUNCHES ORBITING SOLAR OBSERVATORY CHINA LAUNCHES ORBITING SOLAR OBSERVATORY - China successfully launched a half-ton scientific research satellite Oct. 14 to study the violent and sudden physical processes behind solar flares, joining 10 other small payloads on a Long March 2D rocket that also tested grid fins to help guide the expendable booster away from populated areas during its fall back to Earth. The Long March 2D rocket blasted off from the Taiyuan launch base in Shanxi province, located in northern China, at 6:51 a.m. EDT (1251 GMT) on Oct. 14, according to China’s space agency.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 18)


SOYUZ MS-18 SET FOR UNDOCKING AND LANDING SOYUZ MS-18 SET FOR UNDOCKING AND LANDING - Cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and spaceflight participants Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko will return to Earth with a landing in Kazakhstan on Sunday, completing the Soyuz MS-18 mission. The three-person landing crew is scheduled to undock from the nadir port on the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) at 01:13 UTC. Landing is scheduled for 04:36 UTC.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Oct 16)


SUCCESSFUL SOYUZ LAUNCH THRUSTS ONEWEB PAST HALFWAY MARK IN FLEET DEPLOYMENT SUCCESSFUL SOYUZ LAUNCH THRUSTS ONEWEB PAST HALFWAY MARK IN FLEET DEPLOYMENT - Another batch of 36 satellites for OneWeb’s internet network rode a Russian Soyuz launcher into orbit Thursday, giving the company more than half of the 648-spacecraft fleet it aims to deploy by the end of next year. The satellites, each about the size of a mini-refrigerator, blasted off at 5:40:10 a.m. EDT (0940:10 GMT) Thursday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia’s newest spaceport in the far eastern Amur region near the Chinese border.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 16)


SHENZHOU 13 LAUNCHES FIRST LONG-DURATION CHINESE SPACE STATION CREW SHENZHOU 13 LAUNCHES FIRST LONG-DURATION CHINESE SPACE STATION CREW - After a successful launch to the new Chinese Space Station earlier this year and the initial 90-day “shakedown cruise” of the Shenzhou 12 crew, three taikonauts launched to the station aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft to begin the first long-duration stay aboard. Shenzhou 13 launched atop a Chang Zheng 2F (CZ-2F) rocket at 16:23 UTC (00:23 local time on Saturday), from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert, in north-central China.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Oct 16)


VARDA SPACE SELECTS SPACEX FOR LAUNCH OF FIRST SPACE MANUFACTURING SATELLITE VARDA SPACE SELECTS SPACEX FOR LAUNCH OF FIRST SPACE MANUFACTURING SATELLITE - Space manufacturing startup Varda Space will launch its first spacecraft on a Falcon 9 in early 2023 to demonstrate the ability to produce a wide range of materials in microgravity. Varda Space announced Oct. 11 it signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX for that smallsat, which will be part of a Falcon 9 rideshare mission scheduled for the first quarter of 2023. The companies did not disclose the terms of the contract.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Oct 12)


SECONDARY PAYLOADS LAUNCHED WITH LANDSAT BEGIN COMMISSIONING SECONDARY PAYLOADS LAUNCHED WITH LANDSAT BEGIN COMMISSIONING - Ground teams are stepping through testing of three small CubeSats launched with the Landsat 9 remote sensing satellite last month, preparing the small spacecraft for exoplanet observations and communications experiments. NASA says engineers have not established contact with another CubeSat designed for space weather research. Four CubeSats launched as rideshare payloads with the Landsat 9 mission Sept. 27 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 11)

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