WATCH ROCKET LAB’S 12TH LAUNCH ‘DON’T STOP ME NOW’ TAKE OFF TONIGHT - Rocket Lab’s delayed 12th launch is scheduled to take place tonight late night Pacific time, mid-afternoon on the 11th at the company’s New Zealand launch facility. The Electron rocket will be taking payloads to orbit from NASA, the National Reconnaissance Office and the University of New South Wales. “Don’t Stop Me Now,” named after the favorite Queen song of board member Scott Smith, who passed away in February, was originally scheduled for takeoff in late March.   More
(Source: TechCrunch - Jun 11)

ROCKET LAB SCRUBS LATEST SATELLITE LAUNCH WITH JUST MINUTES TO GO - Strong winds forced Rocket Lab to scrub its latest small-satellite mission just minutes before liftoff from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on Thursday evening local time. The team paused the countdown clock several times during the launch window, but it eventually ran out of time. California-based Rocket Lab said there should be another launch opportunity in the coming days.   More
(Source: Yahoo Tech - Jun 11)

CREW DRAGON LIKELY TO SUPPORT EXTENDED SPACE STATION STAY - SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is performing well enough on orbit to give NASA confidence that the mission can last until August, an agency official said June 9. Ken Bowersox, the acting associate administrator for human exploration and operations at NASA, told an online meeting of two National Academies committees that NASA had been monitoring the health of the Crew Dragon spacecraft since its launch May 30 on the Demo-2 mission, carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Jun 11)

ROCKET LAB TO LAUNCH SATELLITES FOR US SPYSAT AGENCY AND NASA TONIGHT. HERE'S HOW TO WATCH. - The small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab will loft a mini-fleet of payloads for NASA, a U.S. spy satellite agency and universities in the wee hours of the morning this Thursday (June 11) and you can watch it live online. An Electron rocket will launch the mission, called "Don't Stop Me Know" after a song by the rock band Queen, at 12:43 a.m. EDT (0443 GMT) from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.    More
(Source: Space.com - Jun 11)

CHINA LAUNCHES OCEAN MONITORING SATELLITE - A civilian-operated Chinese oceanography satellite deployed in orbit after lifting off on a Long March 2C rocket Wednesday, joining a predecessor launched in 2018 to monitor ocean color and water temperatures.Chinese engineers also debuted modifications to the Long March 2C’s payload fairing to help the structure keep its shape during the fall to Earth, the latest in a series of experiments that could help lead to the recovery and reuse of future Chinese rockets.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jun 11)

TROPICAL STORM CRISTOBAL CAPTURED IN ASTRONAUT, SATELLITE IMAGERY - Photos of now-Tropical Depression Cristobal taken by a NASA astronaut and a satellite show the powerful storm tearing through the Gulf Coast region and making its way north across the United States. Astronaut Chris Cassidy on the International Space Station captured four views of Cristobal, then still a tropical storm, on Monday (June 8) as it appeared from 260 miles (420 kilometers) above Earth.    More
(Source: Space.com - Jun 10)

SPACEX'S NEXT STARLINK LAUNCH WILL HELP IMPROVE SATELLITE IMAGERY OF THE EARTH - When Planet purchased the SkySat constellation from Google in 2017, it did so with the aim of becoming the most agile and comprehensive satellite imaging company in the world. Now, thanks to some smart space math, and with a little help from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the company is gearing up to provide the most detailed and up-to-the-minute imaging of Earth yet. Planet provides satellite imaging services to a wide range of sectors, such as agriculture, energy, maritime and forestry.   More
(Source: Yahoo Tech - Jun 10)

SOUTH KOREAN SATELLITE SHIPPED TO CAPE CANAVERAL FOR FALCON 9 LAUNCH NEXT MONTH - A communications satellite built for the South Korean military arrived at Cape Canaveral this week from an Airbus factory in France to begin final preparations for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in July. The Anasis 2 communications satellite flew to the Kennedy Space Center Monday aboard an Antonov An-124 cargo plane from Toulouse, France, the site of an Airbus spacecraft manufacturing facility.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jun 10)

NIGERIA TO LAUNCH NEW SATELLITE TO REPLACE NIGERIASAT-2 - Nigeria Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has announced that the country is working on launching a new satellite to replace NigeriaSat-2. NigeriaSat-2 was launched alongside NigeriaSat-X at the Yasny military base in Russia. The satellite was developed and built by UK-based film Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) and it was launched into orbit by Ukrainian Dnepr rocket.    More
(Source: SatelliteProME.com - Jun 9)

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