SPACEX POSTPONES 10TH TEST LAUNCH OF MASSIVE STARSHIP ROCKET - Space enthusiasts will have to wait awhile longer to see SpaceX attempt the 10th launch of its massive Starship rocket, the largest type of rocket ever built. The company had been targeting a one-hour window Sunday evening to launch Starship from a SpaceX facility near Boca Chica Beach in Texas. Soon after workers started loading the rocket with propellant, however, the company announced on social media that the effort was being halted.   More
(Source: NPR - Aug 26)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 5,000 POUNDS OF CARGO TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, LANDS ROCKET AT SEA - A SpaceX cargo ship laden with 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of supplies launched to the International Space Station early Sunday morning (Aug. 24). A robotic Dragon capsule lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday at 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida. The launch kicked off SpaceX's 33rd mission for NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program, hence the flight's name: CRS-33.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 25)

ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES 5 SATELLITES ON MYSTERY MISSION - Rocket Lab launched five satellites for a confidential customer this evening (Aug. 23) on the 70th overall liftoff of its Electron rocket. An Electron carrying the satellite quintet lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site today at 6:42 p.m. EDT (2242 GMT; 10:42 a.m. on Aug. 24 local New Zealand time). The mission, which Rocket Lab calls "Live, Laugh, Launch," is sending five satellites to a circular orbit 413 miles (665 kilometers) above Earth.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 25)

SPACEX LAUNCHES SPACE FORCE’S X-37B SPACEPLANE TO DEMO LASER COMMUNICATIONS, QUANTUM NAVIGATION - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered off launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida shortly before midnight, carrying with it a military spaceplane known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. The launch Thursday night kicked off the eighth mission for the program, which began operational flights in April 2010. United States Space Force (USSF) officials confirmed separation of the Boeing-built spacecraft in the hours following liftoff at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 UTC on Aug. 22).   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 23)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 24 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB - SpaceX launched its latest batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday. The Starlink 17-6 mission will add another 24 satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. With a successful completion of this mission, SpaceX will have launched more than 1,800 of its Starlink satellites in 2025 alone. In a social media post, SpaceX confirmed deployment of the satellites a little over an hour after launch.   More
(Source: SoaceFlight Now - Aug 23)

SOUTH KOREA'S K-RADCUBE RADIATION SATELLITE WILL HITCH A RIDE ON NASA'S ARTEMIS 2 MOON MISSION - South Korea's K-RadCube satellite has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida ahead of its launch toward the moon next year. The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) announced the arrival of the K-RadCube in Florida on Aug. 13 via the social media platform X. The milestone comes as preparations for NASA's Artemis 2 mission build. The 10-day mission will send four astronauts around the moon aboard the Orion spacecraft, with launch currently scheduled for no earlier than February 2026, and no later than April 2026.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 22)

SPACEX TO LAUNCH X-37B MILITARY SPACEPLANE ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The U.S. Space Force and SpaceX are preparing to launch the Boeing-built X-37B spaceplane on its eighth mission shortly before midnight on Thursday. The winged spacecraft, flying under the mission names USSF-36 and Orbital Test Vehicle 8 (OTV-8), will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 UTC).   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 22)

RUSSIA LAUNCHES BION-M NO.2 RESEARCH SATELLITE - Russia launched the Bion-M No.2 satellite at 17:13 UTC on Wednesday, Aug. 20, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b rocket from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This biomedical satellite is a continuation of a Soviet and later Russian scientific program, which started with the launch of Bion 1 back in 1973.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Aug 21)

SPACEX PARTNERS WITH ASTRONOMERS TO PROTECT RADIO ASTRONOMY FROM SATELLITE INTERFERENCE - An automated data-sharing system co-developed by SpaceX and American radio astronomers promises to protect radio telescopes around the world from disruptive interference from satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Big constellations such as SpaceX's Starlink bring high-speed internet to people in remote, under-connected areas. But they also stain optical telescope images with streaks and disrupt observations by radio telescopes — highly sensitive antennas designed to detect weak radio waves emitted by distant galactic cores, black holes and neutron stars.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 21)

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