SPACEX TO LAUNCH RESCHEDULED SATELLITE MISSION FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - SpaceX once again is slated to launch its 10th Starlink mission in the early morning hours on Saturday, Aug. 1, after postponing the flight a couple of times. The mission is scheduled for 3:21 a.m. Eastern time from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying 57 Starlink satellites that will bring the burgeoning constellation to nearly 600 satellites. More (Source: Orlando Business Journal - Aug 1)
AMAZON GAINS FCC APPROVAL FOR KUIPER INTERNET SATELLITE CONSTELLATION AND COMMITS $10 BILLION TO THE PROJECT - Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate a planned constellation of 3,236 internet satellites. That’s the backbone of Amazon’s Project Kuiper, an initiative to create a satellite-based broadband internet service designed to provide high-speed, low-latency connections to U.S.-based households that currently don’t have great access to a high-speed connection. More (Source: TechCrunch - Aug 1)
CREW DRAGON ASTRONAUTS READY FOR RE-ENTRY, SPLASHDOWN - With Hurricane Isaias threatening Florida’s East Coast, astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken are awaiting a go-ahead on plans to undock from the International Space Station Saturday, setting up a fiery plunge to splashdown Sunday, presumably in the Gulf of Mexico, to close out a 64-day flight. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 1)
PROTON LAUNCHES TWO RUSSIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES - The first Proton launch of the year took place July 30 carrying two satellites for the Russian Satellite Communications Company. Proton lifted off at 5:25 p.m. Eastern from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on an 18-hour mission to deploy the geostationary satellites, Express-80 and Express-103, according to Roscosmos. More (Source: SpaceNews - Jul 31)
PENTAGON PICKS SIERRA NEVADA CORP. TO BUILD UNMANNED ORBITING SPACE STATION FOR EXPERIMENTS IN MICROGRAVITY - The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit in Cambridge, Mass., the Pentagon's advocate for fast use of emerging commercial technologies, has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. in Sparks, Nev., a contract to build an unmanned orbiting space station. C4ISRnet reports. Continue reading original article The unmanned orbital outpost will be placed in low-Earth orbit (LEO) for experiments and demonstrations. More (Source: Military & Aerospace Electronics - Jul 30)
DARPA DEPLOYS TINY SATELLITE THAT COULD TAKE BEST PICTURES OF SPACE EVER - A tiny military satellite may be able to take the sharpest pictures yet of extremely distant and difficult to spot objects out in space. DARPA, the Pentagon’s research division, recently deployed what they call the Deformable Mirror (DeMi) CubeSat from the International Space Station, according to a press release. Over the next year, the toaster-sized satellite will use its camera to focus on the dim, distant objects in space that usually get washed out by nearby stars or other larger objects. More (Source: Futurism - Jul 30)
RAYTHEON TO DESIGN WEATHER SATELLITE PROTOTYPE FOR US SPACE FORCE - The U.S. Space Force has selected Raytheon Intelligence & Space to build an advanced weather satellite prototype that can provide the military with theater weather imaging and cloud characterization, the company announced July 22. The Next Generation Electro-Optical Infrared Weather Satellite is intended to replace the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, or DMSP, a series of satellites that have provided weather data for military operations since the 1960s. More (Source: C4ISRNet - Jul 30)
NEW SPACE SATELLITE PINPOINTS INDUSTRIAL METHANE EMISSIONS - Methane may not be as abundant in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but with a global warming potential many times greater than carbon dioxide, monitoring and controlling industrial emissions of this potent gas is imperative to helping combat climate change. GHGSat is a New Space initiative that draws on Copernicus Sentinel-5P data for mapping methane hotspots—and its Claire satellite has now collected more than 60 000 methane measurements of industrial facilities around the world. More (Source: Phys.org - Jul 30)
STUNNING PICTURES: NASA ASTRONAUT SHARES 'FIRST MOMENTS' OF SUNRISE FROM SPACE - NASA astronaut Bob Behnken shared the 'first moments' of sunrise from the International Space Station (ISS) on July 27, where he captured the exact moment of sun rising through the Earth's horizon. Bob Behnken, who flew in the SpaceX's Dragon Crew spacecraft last month shared the images from on board of ISS, which he is sharing with four other astronauts. More (Source: Republic World - Jul 29)
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