WEATHER LOOKS GOOD FOR ULA'S ELECTION DAY ROCKET LAUNCH FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - Excellent weather conditions are expected for the liftoff of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Tuesday, a mission that will boost one of three secretive national security satellites currently waiting for their rides to orbit. The Space Force on Saturday said it expects 90% "go" conditions for the rocket's 5:58 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The window at Launch Complex 41 will remain open until 8:10 p.m.   More
(Source: Florida Today - Nov 1)

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'S 1ST CREW RECALLS A HALLOWEEN LAUNCH 20 YEARS AGO - Next week, the International Space Station will hit a major milestone: 20 years of continuous crewed operations — two decades in which there have always been humans in space. That legacy began on Halloween in 2000, when the first crew lifted off. On Oct. 31, 2000 to be exact, three men boarded a Soyuz spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for Expedition 1.    More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 1)

ROSCOSMOS SAYS PREMATURE TO BLAME EXTERNAL IMPACT FOR CRACK ABOARD SPACE STATION - Specialists continue studying the fracture found in Russia’s Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS) but it is premature to blame a possible external impact for its emergence, the federal space agency Roscosmos told TASS on Friday. "Specialists are currently considering various versions of the fracture’s origin and that is why it is premature to make conclusions about its causes, including an external impact on the module," Roscosmos said.   More
(Source: TASS - Oct 31)

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION MARKS 20 YEARS OF HUMANS ON BOARD - The 20th anniversary Saturday of humans living aboard the International Space Station spotlights the global cooperation and scientific discoveries that benefit all people, according to astronauts and others involved in missions there. NASA and space agencies around the world are using the milestone to underscore achievements in space since the end of deep-space crewed missions in the 1970s and the space shuttle program in 2011.    More
(Source: UPI.com - Oct 31)

ELECTION DAY SPY SATELLITE LAUNCH HAS INEXPLICABLE LORD OF THE RINGS THEME - A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is being prepped for a mission that will send a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite into orbit from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this Tuesday, which is Election Day in the United States. While information about NRO launches is always a little scarce for obvious reasons, this one looks to be relatively routine except for the baffling mission artwork that includes a phrase in ... Elvish?    More
(Source: CNET - Oct 31)

KACIFIC TO LAUNCH SECOND COMMS SATELLITE, KACIFIC2 - Kacific, a a next-generation broadband satellite operator based in Singapore and catering to the Asia-Pacific market, has announced it is in the design and planning stage of a second satellite, Kacific2. Kacific2 will complement Kacific1, launched in December 2019 via SpaceX. Kacific2 will add capacity to Kacific’s largest markets – Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea – as well as expand its reach wider into South East Asia and further into Central and Western Asia, and potentially Eastern Africa.    More
(Source: KABC-TV - Oct 31)

NORTHSTAR SATELLITE SYSTEM TO MONITOR THREAT OF SPACE DEBRIS - The Canadian company NorthStar Earth and Space has contracted Thales Alenia Space to build the first three satellites of its Skylark space traffic monitoring system, with LeoStella, a Seattle-based firm, overseeing the final assembly. This will make NorthStar the first commercial company to monitor space traffic from space. The service will alert users to potential collisions between satellites, both operational and defunct, and other large pieces of debris.   More
(Source: The Guardian - Oct 30)

ROCKET LAB SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES SATELLITES FOR PLANET AND CANON - An experimental satellite for Canon Electronics and nine Earth-imaging CubeSats for Planet fired into orbit from New Zealand on Wednesday on top of a Rocket Lab Electron booster, taking the place of similar spacecraft destroyed in a Rocket Lab launch failure in July. Nine Rutherford main engines roared to life and sent the nearly 60-foot-tall (18-meter) Electron rocket into an overcast sky at 5:21:27 p.m. EDT (2121:27 GMT) Wednesday.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 29)

NASA’S CREW-1 COMMANDER TO BE SWORN INTO U.S. SPACE FORCE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, a U.S. Air Force colonel and the commander of the upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon mission, is transferring to the U.S. Space Force and is expected to be commissioned aboard the International Space Station. “If all goes well, we’re looking to swear him into the Space Force from the International Space Station,” said Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Oct 29)

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