WILL SPACEX’S STARLINK SATELLITES RUIN STARGAZING? - I walk outside my rural Saskatchewan house before dawn and look up, expecting to have my breath taken away by the sheer number of stars overhead. I’m a professional astronomer, but I still appreciate unaided-eye stargazing as much as an eager child. This is the first place I’ve lived that’s dark enough to easily see the Milky Way, and I’m stunned and awed every time I look up. This time though, I curse softly. There’s a bright satellite. And another following behind. And another. And another.   More
(Source: EarthSky - Nov 23)

SPACEX SCRUBS STARLINK SATELLITE LAUNCH ON RECORD 7TH FLIGHT OF A FALCON 9 ROCKET - SpaceX called off the launch of its next Starlink satellite fleet late Sunday (Nov. 22), delaying a potentially record-setting flight for the mission's Falcon 9 rocket. A Falcon 9 rocket was poised to make its seventh launch (a record for the reusable booster) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida when SpaceX scrubbed the mission. The liftoff was scheduled for 9:56 p.m. EST (0256 GMT) to deliver 60 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 23)

ROCKET LAB HAS SUCCESSFULLY RECOVERED A BOOSTER FOR THE FIRST TIME - New Zealand company Rocket Lab has hit a key milestone with the successful launch and recovery of its flagship Electron rocket. The mission, the firm’s 16th so far, included a soft parachute landing of the first-stage booster to the ocean for the first time. The mission: Electron was launched around 1:46 a.m. local time this morning from the company’s launch site on the southern tip of New Zealand’s North Island. The mission successfully deployed 30 satellites into low Earth orbit.    More
(Source: MIT Technology Review - Nov 22)

INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE LAUNCHES TO EXTEND MEASUREMENTS OF SEA LEVEL RISE - A European-built satellite with the unusual shape of a house launched into orbit Saturday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Central Coast, carrying a sophisticated radar altimeter to measure rising sea levels on our home planet. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich observation satellite lifted off at 9:17:08 a.m. PST (12:17:08 p.m. EST; 1717:08 GMT) Saturday from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base around 140 miles (225 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 22)

JOINT NASA-ESA SATELLITE WHICH WILL MONITOR SEA LEVELS TO LAUNCH SATURDAY - The U.S. space agency, NASA, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), is set to launch a satellite Saturday designed to monitor rising sea levels, the latest in a series of orbiting spacecraft monitoring the status of the world’s oceans. NASA says the satellite, called the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California early Saturday.    More
(Source: Voice of Ameriuca - Nov 21)

SPACEX LINING UP 2 LAUNCHES FROM CA AND FL ON SAME DAY - A week after it sent four astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time, SpaceX is shooting for a bicoastal doubleheader: Launching a NASA Earth observation satellite Saturday morning from California and another batch of Starlink satellites from Florida that night, according to News 6 partner Florida Today. SpaceX is slated to launch NASA’s Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich oceanography satellite from Vandenberg Air Force base at 9:17 a.m. PST. The satellite is named in honor of the late director of NASA’s Earth science division.   More
(Source: WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando - Nov 21)

BOEING SUBSIDIARY READY TO LAUNCH SATELLITE DEORBITING EXPERIMENT - Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing subsidiary, built two small satellites awaiting launch Thursday night on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket on a mission to test the effectiveness of a drag-inducing device that could help remove spacecraft from orbit. The two small satellites are part of the DragRacer mission, which is set to launch with a cluster of payloads on a Rocket Lab Electron vehicle during a window opening at 8:46 p.m. EST Thursday (0146 GMT) and closing at 11:34 p.m. EST (0434 GMT).   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 20)

NASA, ESA ARE PREPARING TO LAUNCH THE LARGEST EARTH-OBSERVING SATELLITE EVER - The world's largest Earth-observing satellite is getting ready for liftoff. On November 21, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA will launch the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft into Earth's orbit where it will keep a watchful eye on a dangerous side effect of climate change — rising sea levels. Viewing the Earth from space, it has an unparalleled view of this deadly trend on a global scale — and could help us here on Earth tackle it.   More
(Source: Inverse - Nov 19)

JAPAN’S ASTROSCALE TO LAUNCH SATELLITE FOR SPACE DEBRIS REMOVAL IN MARCH - Japanese startup Astroscale is scheduled to launch a satellite into orbit next March on a test mission to remove space debris, according to the company’s officials. The satellite will be carried into space by a Russian Soyuz rocket lifting off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.   More
(Source: SatelliteProME.com - Nov 19)

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