INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TO BE IN CROSS-BAND REPEATER MODE FOR FIELD DAY - The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) cross-band repeater will be available for ARRL Field Day, June 26 – 27. Contacts will count toward Field Day bonus points as satellite contacts and Field Day contacts. Field Day rules limit stations to one contact on any single-channel FM satellite. Note that contacts made during Field Day by ISS crew would only count for contact credit, but not for satellite bonus points.   More
(Source: ARRL - Jun 10)

LONG MARCH 2F ROCKET ROLLS OUT TO LAUNCH PAD FOR CHINA’S NEXT HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT - The Long March 2F rocket and Shenzhou 12 spaceship set to ferry three Chinese astronauts to the country’s new space station later this month rolled out to a launch pad Wednesday at a remote military-operated spaceport in northwestern China. The launcher and crew capsule emerged from an assembly building at the Jiuquan space base in the Gobi Desert, riding a mobile platform along rail tracks to cover the one-mile (1.6-kilometer) distance to the launch pad.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jun 10)

RS0ISS WILL TRANSMIT SLOW-SCAN TV IMAGES FROM THE ISS ON JUNE 9 – 10 - Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) plan to transmit slow-scan TV (SSTV) images on 145.800 MHz FM June 9 – 10. The transmissions, which will use SSTV mode PD120, are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment (MAI-75) and will be made from RS0ISS in the Russian Service Module of the ISS using a Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver. The tentative schedule calls for transmissions on June 9 from 0935 UTC until 1350 UTC and on June 10 from 0855 UTC until 1550 UTC.   More
(Source: ARRL - Jun 9)

RELATIVITY SPACE REVEALS FULLY REUSABLE MEDIUM LIFT LAUNCH VEHICLE TERRAN R - Relativity Space, leveraging their 3D printing technology, has announced the next step towards supporting multiplanetary spaceflight: a fully reusable, medium lift launch vehicle named Terran R. The company’s second launch vehicle, succeeding the Terran 1 rocket to debut later this year, will have more payload capacity than the partially reusable SpaceX Falcon 9, and is only the second fully reusable commercial launch vehicle to be revealed publicly after SpaceX’s Starship.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jun 9)

JEFF BEZOS IS GOING TO SPACE (FOR A FEW MINUTES) - Jeff Bezos has already selected a hobby for his post-CEO life: space travel. Just two weeks after he steps down as CEO of Amazon, Bezos will climb aboard a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin. "If you see the earth from space, it changes you. It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. It's one earth," Bezos said in a video posted to Instagram on Monday morning.   More
(Source: NPR - Jun 8)

RUSSIA’S SPACE CHIEF THREATENS TO LEAVE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION PROGRAM UNLESS U.S. LIFTS SANCTIONS - Russia’s space chief threatened Monday to withdraw from the International Space Station program if U.S. sanctions against Moscow’s space entities are “not lifted in the near future.” “If the sanctions against Progress and TsNIIMash remain and are not lifted in the near future, the issue of Russia’s withdrawal from the ISS will be the responsibility of the American partners,” Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said during a Russian parliament hearing on Monday, according to an NBC translation.   More
(Source: CNBC - Jun 8)

SPACEX DRAGON DOCKS AT SPACE STATION TO DELIVER NEW SOLAR ARRAYS AND TONS OF SUPPLIES - A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station today (June 5) to deliver new solar arrays along with tons of fresh research experiments and NASA supplies as part of the company's 22nd cargo resupply mission. The uncrewed Dragon autonomously linked up with the orbiting laboratory at 5:09 a.m. EDT (0909 GMT), parking at the zenith, or space-facing, side of the station's Harmony module.    More
(Source: Space.com - Jun 6)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 2ND MISSION IN THREE DAYS WITH SIRIUSXM-8 - SpaceX launched its 18th mission of 2021 with the SiriusXM-8 (SXM-8) high-power broadcasting satellite. A Falcon 9 rocket lofted the SXM-8 satellite to a sub-synchronous geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) after launching from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) on Sunday, June 6 at 00:26 EDT/04:26 UTC. The 45th Weather Squadron at Space Launch Delta 45 predicted a 70% chance of favorable weather with Debris Cloud and Anvil Cloud rules as the primary concerns.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jun 6)

SPACEX TARGETING OVERNIGHT SUNDAY FALCON 9 LAUNCH WITH SIRIUSXM SATELLITE - Downrange from where SpaceX recently launched a spacecraft full of supplies to the International Space Station, the company is targeting early Sunday to send up another Falcon 9, this time with a spacecraft for satellite radio provider SiriusXM. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Launch Complex 40 is scheduled for some time after 12:26 a.m. Sunday during a one hour and 59-minute launch window.   More
(Source: WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando - Jun 5)

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