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SPACEWALKING ASTRONAUTS REPLACE OLD SPACE STATION BATTERIES AS PART OF YEARS-LONG UPGRADE SPACEWALKING ASTRONAUTS REPLACE OLD SPACE STATION BATTERIES AS PART OF YEARS-LONG UPGRADE - Two NASA spacewalkers swapped out vital solar array batteries on the International Space Station Thursday (July 16), nearly completing the extensive replacement work needed to keep the orbiting lab powered through at least 2024. NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken zoomed through their tasks, removing six aging nickel-hydrogen batteries on the far starboard S6 truss of the ISS.   More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 17)


MINOTAUR ROCKET SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYS FOUR NRO SATELLITES IN ORBIT MINOTAUR ROCKET SUCCESSFULLY DEPLOYS FOUR NRO SATELLITES IN ORBIT - A solid-fueled Northrop Grumman Minotaur 4 rocket vaulted into orbit Wednesday from Virginia’s Eastern Shore and deployed four top secret spacecraft for the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency, extending the program’s success record ahead of three more Minotaur missions planned in 2021.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 16)


BANKRUPTCY COURT FREES PAYMENT TO ONEWEB SATELLITES TO RESTART SATELLITE MANUFACTURING BANKRUPTCY COURT FREES PAYMENT TO ONEWEB SATELLITES TO RESTART SATELLITE MANUFACTURING - OneWeb received permission from a U.S. bankruptcy court Friday to pay its satellite vendor to resume building spacecraft for the company’s broadband megaconstellation. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the payment during a July 10 hearing that clears the way for the sale of OneWeb to the British government and Bharti Global, which bid together July 3 as BidCo 100 Ltd. to acquire the bankrupt megaconstellation startup and return it to operations.    More
(Source: SpaceNews - Jul 16)


POCKET-SIZED GERMAN SATELLITE MAKER SHOOTS FOR STARS POCKET-SIZED GERMAN SATELLITE MAKER SHOOTS FOR STARS - Holding its own against aerospace giants like pan-European Airbus Space or French-Italian Thales Alenia, German minnow OHB has carved out a space as a national champion in satellite building. Its latest coup was claiming a hefty slice of business from contracts signed in early July by the European Space Agency (ESA) as it builds up its Earth observation programme known as Copernicus.   More
(Source: Phys.org - Jul 16)


MINOTAUR ROCKET READY TO LAUNCH FOUR PAYLOADS FOR U.S. SPY SATELLITE AGENCY MINOTAUR ROCKET READY TO LAUNCH FOUR PAYLOADS FOR U.S. SPY SATELLITE AGENCY - Four clandestine payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office are awaiting liftoff Wednesday from Wallops Island, Virginia, on a Minotaur 4 rocket powered by Cold War-era missile stages stored for more than 30 years until their conversion into a satellite launcher.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 15)


SPACEX DELAYS LAUNCH OF SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY SATELLITE TO PERFORM ROCKET CHECKS SPACEX DELAYS LAUNCH OF SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY SATELLITE TO PERFORM ROCKET CHECKS - SpaceX postponed the upcoming launch of a South Korean military satellite Monday (July 13), due to hardware issues with the Falcon 9 rocket. The California-based rocket builder planned to launch South Korea's first military satellite, called Anasis 2, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday evening (July 14). The Falcon 9 was scheduled to take off during a 4-hour window that opened at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT).    More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 15)


NASA BROADCASTS FINAL SPACEWALKS TO UPGRADE SPACE STATION POWER SYSTEM NASA BROADCASTS FINAL SPACEWALKS TO UPGRADE SPACE STATION POWER SYSTEM - NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken will conduct a pair of spacewalks Thursday, July 16, and Tuesday, July 21, to finish a 3.5-year effort to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system. Coverage each day will begin at 6 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency’s website. The spacewalks will begin around 7:35 a.m., and could last up to seven hours.   More
(Source: NASA - Jul 14)


CHINA LAUNCHES NEW COMMERCIAL TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITE CHINA LAUNCHES NEW COMMERCIAL TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITE - China successfully sent a commercial telecommunication satellite, known as APSTAR-6D, into a planned orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. The APSTAR-6D telecommunication satellite was launched by a Long March-3B carrier rocket at 8:11 pm (Beijing Time), according to the center.   More
(Source: Space Daily - Jul 13)


COMET STREAKING PAST EARTH, PROVIDING SPECTACULAR SHOW COMET STREAKING PAST EARTH, PROVIDING SPECTACULAR SHOW - A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its tail. Comet Neowise swept within Mercury’s orbit a week ago. Its close proximity to the sun caused dust and gas to burn off its surface and create an even bigger debris tail. Now the comet is headed our way, with closest approach in two weeks.   More
(Source: KULR-TV - Jul 13)


SPACEX TEST-FIRES ROCKET FOR SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY SATELLITE LAUNCH THIS WEEK SPACEX TEST-FIRES ROCKET FOR SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY SATELLITE LAUNCH THIS WEEK - The SpaceX rocket that launched the company's first astronaut mission for NASA last month fired up its engines once more Saturday (July 11) in a test that sets the stage for the launch of South Korea's first military satellite this week. The Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine first-stage Merlin engines briefly in a so-called static fire test at Space Launch Compex-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is set for Tuesday, July 14, at 5 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT).    More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 13)

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