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)

SEE HURRICANE HANNA FROM SPACE AS SEEN BY ASTRONAUTS AND SATELLITES - For astronauts and satellites alike, space is proving to be a perfect vantage point to spot swirling hurricanes. NASA astronaut Bob Behnken spotted Hurricane Hanna from the International Space Station as it swirled over the Gulf of Mexico on Friday (July 24). Hanna made landfall in southern Texas on Saturday and has since been reclassified as a tropical storm.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 28)

PROTON ROCKET ROLLED OUT FOR LAUNCH WITH TWO RUSSIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES - Two satellites designed to beam radio and television broadcasts, Internet connectivity and other communications services across Russia have arrived at a launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff Wednesday on the first flight of a Russian Proton rocket this year. The Proton rocket rolled out to pad 39 at the Site 200 launch complex at Baikonur on Sunday, riding a railcar from a fueling station across the Kazakh steppe to the launch facility. Once it arrived at the pad, the rocket was raised vertical and a mobile tower moved into position around the launcher for final pre-flight checks.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 28)

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