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NASA, SPACEX PICK MAY 27 TO RESUME ASTRONAUT LAUNCHES IN US NASA, SPACEX PICK MAY 27 TO RESUME ASTRONAUT LAUNCHES IN US - NASA and SpaceX have picked May 27 for resuming astronaut launches from the U.S. after nine years of complete Russian dependence. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the launch date Friday. Astronauts haven’t launched into orbit from the U.S. since NASA’s last space shuttle flight in 2011. SpaceX aims to end the drought by sending two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.    More
(Source: AP News - May 27)


CANADIAN ROBOTIC ARM CAPTURES JAPANESE SPACE FREIGHTER CANADIAN ROBOTIC ARM CAPTURES JAPANESE SPACE FREIGHTER - After a five-day journey, the H-II Transport Vehicle-9 (HTV-9) was captured by Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm from the station’s cupola to grapple the 12-ton spacecraft.   More
(Source: NASA - May 27)


TWO PAYLOADS QUALIFIED FOR U.S. SPACE FORCE EARLY WARNING SATELLITES TWO PAYLOADS QUALIFIED FOR U.S. SPACE FORCE EARLY WARNING SATELLITES - Two sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Force’s new missile warning satellites have passed a key design review. One of them will be selected for the first Next-Generation Overhead Infrared satellite scheduled to launch in 2025. Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team designed competing sensor payloads for the Next-Gen OPIR geosynchronous satellites that Lockheed Martin is developing for the Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center. Both payloads completed preliminary design reviews last week, SMC said on May 22.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - May 26)


SMALL SATELLITE LAUNCHER VIRGIN ORBIT FAILS TO LAUNCH ROCKET TO SPACE DURING FIRST TEST FLIGHT SMALL SATELLITE LAUNCHER VIRGIN ORBIT FAILS TO LAUNCH ROCKET TO SPACE DURING FIRST TEST FLIGHT - Virgin Orbit’s test flight ended in failure shortly after LauncherOne dropped from under the company’s carrier 747 airplane. Virgin Orbit confirmed that the drop was successful and that the rocket’s main engine ignited. But then it quickly suffered some kind of anomaly at the beginning of the flight. The company says no one was hurt during the test and the team will be digging into the data to learn what went wrong.   More
(Source: The Verge - May 26)


ASK AN ASTRONOMER: SPACE DEBRIS AND THREAT THEY POSE TO SATELLITES, SPACE MISSIONS ASK AN ASTRONOMER: SPACE DEBRIS AND THREAT THEY POSE TO SATELLITES, SPACE MISSIONS - Thousands of satellites orbit the Earth to study the planet, support communication and several other purposes. However, once these satellites reach their expiry time, they become space junk or space debris and can turn into a major hazard for other multi-million dollar satellites. Recently, China’s mission Long March 5B fell into Earth in an uncontrollable manner—this event once again raised a major alarm related to the space junk floating around in space.   More
(Source: The Weather Channel - May 26)


SPACEX'S HISTORIC DEMO-2 CREW DRAGON ASTRONAUT LAUNCH: FULL COVERAGE SPACEX'S HISTORIC DEMO-2 CREW DRAGON ASTRONAUT LAUNCH: FULL COVERAGE - SpaceX is set to make history on May 27, 2020. On that date, Elon Musk's company is scheduled to launch its first crewed mission, a test flight called Demo-2 that will send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. If all goes well with Demo-2, Crew Dragon and SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will be validated for operational crewed missions, the first of which is expected to launch later this year.    More
(Source: Space.com - May 26)


NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO BE ITS GUESTS TO CELEBRATE HISTORIC ‘LAUNCH AMERICA’ NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO BE ITS GUESTS TO CELEBRATE HISTORIC ‘LAUNCH AMERICA’ - NASA is inviting the public to help celebrate a historic milestone in human spaceflight as it prepares for #LaunchAmerica – the first flight into orbit of American astronauts on American rockets from American soil since the end of the space shuttle era in 2011. Known as NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 test flight, which is targeted for lift off at 4:33 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 27...   More
(Source: NASA - May 25)


CHINA'S LOW-ORBIT BROADBAND COMMUNICATION SATELLITE BEARS FRUITFUL RESULTS CHINA'S LOW-ORBIT BROADBAND COMMUNICATION SATELLITE BEARS FRUITFUL RESULTS - China's first technology experiment satellite for low-orbit broadband communication has completed more than 180 communication tests and generated fruitful results, according to its developer Friday. As the first satellite of the Hongyun Project, a low-orbit broadband communication satellite system developed by the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), it has worked stably for more than 8,800 hours...   More
(Source: Space Daily - May 25)


NASA SPACE STATION ON-ORBIT STATUS 21 MAY, 2020 - SPACEX CREW PREPS FOR LAUNCH NASA SPACE STATION ON-ORBIT STATUS 21 MAY, 2020 - SPACEX CREW PREPS FOR LAUNCH - The International Space Station will welcome a pair of different spaceships next week. Japan's space freighter will arrive first on Monday followed by the first crewed mission from SpaceX on Thursday. The H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 (HTV-9) is in space racing toward the orbiting lab following its launch from Japan on Wednesday. The HTV-9, nicknamed Kounotori, or "white stork", will arrive at the station Monday packed with over four tons of crew supplies, space experiments and new lithium-ion batteries to upgrade station power systems.   More
(Source: Space Ref - May 24)


VENERABLE AO-7 SATELLITE CONTINUES TO DELIVER VENERABLE AO-7 SATELLITE CONTINUES TO DELIVER - The nearly 46-year-old AO-7 amateur satellite made a remarkable contact possible on May 4 between Diego Feil, LW2DAF, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (GF05rk), and Tom Ambrose, ZS1TA, in Cape Town, South Africa (JF95fx). The contact spanned 4,329 miles across the South Atlantic, with both stations aiming at only 2 or 3 degrees above the horizon.   More
(Source: ARRL - May 24)

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