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VINTAGE NASA SATELLITE FALLS TO EARTH, MEETS FIERY DOOM AFTER 56 YEARS IN SPACE VINTAGE NASA SATELLITE FALLS TO EARTH, MEETS FIERY DOOM AFTER 56 YEARS IN SPACE - A long-retired NASA satellite burned up in Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, the agency has confirmed. NASA launched the satellite, called Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1, or OGO-1, in September 1964, the first in a series of five missions to help scientists understand the magnetic environment around Earth. OGO-1 was the first to launch but the last to fall out of orbit; the satellite had circled Earth aimlessly since its retirement in 1971.   More
(Source: Space.com - Sep 1)


ROCKET LAB RETURNS TO FLIGHT WITH CAPELLA SPACE LAUNCH ROCKET LAB RETURNS TO FLIGHT WITH CAPELLA SPACE LAUNCH - Rocket Lab successfully launched a radar imaging satellite for Capella Space Aug. 30 in the first flight of its Electron rocket since a failure nearly two months earlier. The Electron lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. Eastern. It deployed its payload, the Sequoia radar imaging satellite for Capella Space, about an hour after liftoff into a 500-kilometer orbit at a 45-degree inclination.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Aug 31)


US SPY SATELLITE LAUNCH DELAYED A WEEK AFTER ABORT IN FINAL SECONDS US SPY SATELLITE LAUNCH DELAYED A WEEK AFTER ABORT IN FINAL SECONDS - The launch of a new U.S. spy satellite on a massive Delta IV Heavy rocket has been delayed at least a week after a last-minute abort prevented an attempted liftoff early Saturday (Aug. 29). The abort occurred just three seconds before the planned launch of the clandestine NROL-44 satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 3:28 a.m. EDT (0728 GMT), according to the United Launch Alliance, which built the heavy-lift Delta IV Heavy.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 31)


SPACEX LAUNCHES FIRST POLAR ORBIT MISSION FROM FLORIDA IN DECADES SPACEX LAUNCHES FIRST POLAR ORBIT MISSION FROM FLORIDA IN DECADES - Vaulting away from Cape Canaveral on an unusual southerly trajectory, a Falcon 9 rocket dodged stormy weather and successfully placed an Argentine radar observation satellite into an orbit over Earth’s poles Sunday on SpaceX’s 100th launch.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 31)


LAUNCH OF NRO SPY SATELLITE DELAYED AT LEAST A WEEK LAUNCH OF NRO SPY SATELLITE DELAYED AT LEAST A WEEK - The launch from Cape Canaveral of a top secret spy satellite for the U.S. government was aborted at the last moment early Saturday as its United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket ignited three main engines, a dramatic cutoff of the countdown that will delay the mission by at least one week. The 235-foot-tall (71.6-meter) Delta 4-Heavy rocket was three seconds from liftoff at 3:28 a.m. EDT (0728 GMT) when a computer detected a problem and automatically called the abort.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 30)


56-YEAR-OLD NASA SATELLITE EXPECTED TO FALL TO EARTH THIS WEEKEND 56-YEAR-OLD NASA SATELLITE EXPECTED TO FALL TO EARTH THIS WEEKEND - A NASA geophysics satellite's long space odyssey is nearly at an end. The Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 spacecraft, or OGO-1, launched in September 1964 to study Earth's magnetic environment and how our planet interacts with the sun. The satellite gathered data until 1969, was officially decommissioned in 1971 and has been zooming silently around Earth on a highly elliptical two-day orbit ever since.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 29)


HOW LOW CAN SATELLITES GO? AIR FORCE BETS VERY LOW EARTH ORBIT WILL GIVE IT MORE CAPABILITIES HOW LOW CAN SATELLITES GO? AIR FORCE BETS VERY LOW EARTH ORBIT WILL GIVE IT MORE CAPABILITIES - Earlier this month, a small San Francisco-based startup called Earth Observant announced it had won a development contract with the Air Force’s AFWERX technology incubator to advance its design for a small, very low Earth orbit (VLEO) optical imaging satellite. Another small satellite development contract might not seem like a big deal given the many smallsats now in production (and in space) for communications, data and imaging purposes.   More
(Source: Forbes - Aug 29)


BEFORE AND AFTER SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION FROM HURRICANE LAURA BEFORE AND AFTER SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW WIDESPREAD DESTRUCTION FROM HURRICANE LAURA - New satellite images are giving a glimpse of the destruction that Hurricane Laura has waged across Louisiana. Hurricane Laura roared through southwestern Louisiana early Thursday morning, killing six and leaving behind a wide path of destruction. CNN has obtained new satellite images from Maxar Technologies that are showing just how destructive the storm was.   More
(Source: CNN - Aug 29)


RUSSIA’S LONG-DELAYED SPACE STATION RESEARCH MODULE ARRIVES AT LAUNCH BASE RUSSIA’S LONG-DELAYED SPACE STATION RESEARCH MODULE ARRIVES AT LAUNCH BASE - A long-delayed Russian science module was transported by train from Moscow to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan earlier this month for a final series of electrical tests and outfitting before launch to the International Space Station next year. The bus-sized Nauka research module — also known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module, or MLM — has been in development for more than 20 years, originally as a backup for Russia’s Zarya module, the first element of the space station to launch in 1998.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 29)


ETHIOPIA SET TO LAUNCH SECOND SATELLITE IN SEPTEMBER ETHIOPIA SET TO LAUNCH SECOND SATELLITE IN SEPTEMBER - Ethiopia is set to launch its second China-funded satellite into orbit in September, just eight months after the launch of its ETRSS-1 Satellite last December, according to Quartz. The satellite was designed by Ethiopian engineers in an initiative co-funded by both Ethiopia and China.   More
(Source: SatelliteProME.com - Aug 28)

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