EXPLAINED: EOS-01, INDIA’S LATEST EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE THAT WAS LAUNCHED TODAY - India sent its first space mission in almost a year with a launch of EOS-01, an earth observation satellite, this afternoon. EOS-01, along with nine satellites from foreign countries, was launched by a PSLV rocket twelve minutes past three. This is ISRO’s first mission since the launch of RISAT-2BR1, another earth observation satellite similar to EOS-01, on December 11 last year.   More
(Source: The Indian Express - Nov 10)

CHINA SENDS SATELLITE IN SPACE TO TEST 6G SPECTRUM - China has launched what it claims is the world’s first 6G satellite into space in order to test new spectrum bands that will be used to power future networks. The development of 6G is still at a very early stage and it is still unclear what network technologies will form a commercial standard and what use cases will emerge. This means the satellite will contain very little ‘6G technology’.   More
(Source: TechRadar - Nov 10)

SPACEX GETS $29 MILLION SPACE FORCE CONTRACT FOR SURVEILLANCE OF NON-MILITARY LAUNCHES - SpaceX was awarded a $29.6 million contract under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract that allows the U.S. Space Force to monitor and study data from the company’s commercial and civil space missions. The one-year contract “provides early integration studies and fleet surveillance for non-national security space missions,” said the Space Force contract announcement Nov. 9.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 10)

SPACEX'S CREW-1 ASTRONAUT LAUNCH FOR NASA: LIVE UPDATES - SpaceX plans to launch the first operational flight of its Crew Dragon astronaut taxi to the International Space Station on Nov. 14, 2020. Called Crew-1, this will be the second Crew Dragon mission to carry astronauts, following the successful Crew Dragon Demo-2 test flight in 2019. Riding on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, will lift off from the historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:49 p.m. EST (0049 GMT), if all goes according to plan.    More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 9)

NEW CHINESE ROCKET SUCCESSFUL IN DEBUT LAUNCH - A new four-stage rocket operated by the Chinese launch company Galactic Energy succeeded on its inaugural flight Saturday, delivering a data relay microsatellite to an orbit 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth. The Ceres 1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan launch base in in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China at 0712 GMT (2:12 a.m. EST) Saturday, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 9)

INDIAN PSLV DEPLOYS 10 SATELLITES IN FIRST LAUNCH SINCE START OF PANDEMIC - A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifted off Saturday with India’s EOS 1 radar imaging satellite and nine rideshare payloads for customers based in the United States, Luxembourg, and Lithuania. The successful mission was India’s first launch in nearly a year due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The 146-foot-tall (44.5-meter) PSLV took off at 0942 GMT (4:42 a.m. EST) Saturday from the Satish Dhawan Space Center, located on India’s east coast around 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Chennai.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 8)

INDIA SET TO TOUCH 328 FOREIGN SATELLITE LAUNCHES TOMORROW - If all goes well with the Saturday evening rocketing of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C49) then the Indian space agency would have slung a total of 328 foreign satellites, all for a fee. The 26-hour countdown for the Saturday rocket launch from the first launch pad will begin on Friday afternoon.    More
(Source: The Tribune - Nov 7)

CHINA LAUNCHES 13 SATELLITES ON A SINGLE LONG MARCH 6 ROCKET - China launched a Long March 6 rocket early Friday (Nov. 6), successfully sending 13 satellites into orbit. The Long March 6 lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 11:19 a.m. local time Friday (0319 GMT; 10:19 p.m. EDT on Nov. 5) carrying 10 remote sensing satellites for Satellogic, an Argentine imagery company.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 7)

SPACEX LAUNCHES GPS NAVIGATION SATELLITE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from Cape Canaveral with the U.S. Space Force’s newest third-generation Global Positioning System navigation satellite, helping clear the way for the launch of SpaceX’s first operational Crew Dragon astronaut mission later this month.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 6)

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