NASA WILL BEAM SUPER BOWL LIX TO ORBIT FOR ASTRONAUTS ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Are you ready to catch the big game? On Sunday (Feb. 9), across the United States and around the world, Americans and American football fans will tune in to watch the top two teams in the National Football League (NFL) go head-to-head in the ultimate post-season game, and even astronauts living in space will have the chance to watch the action live. More (Source: Space.com - Feb 9)
ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES FOURTH SET OF KINéIS SATELLITES - Rocket Lab launched a fourth set of satellites for French company Kinéis Feb. 8 as it extends its lead in the small launch sector. A Rocket Lab Electron lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1, Pad A, at 3:43 p.m. Eastern. The vehicle’s kick stage deployed its payload of five satellites a little more than an hour after liftoff in orbits with planned altitudes of 646 kilometers and inclinations of 97 degrees. More (Source: SpaceNews - Feb 9)
SPACEX TO LAUNCH 23 STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM CALIFORNIA - SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket its latest batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday. The Starlink 11-10 mission will send 23 satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is set for 4:03 p.m. PST (7:03 p.m. EST, 0003 UTC). More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Feb 8)
SPACEX LAUNCHING 21 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM FLORIDA ON FEB. 8 - SpaceX is set to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Saturday (Feb. 8). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink spacecraft, including 13 with direct-to-cell capability, is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday, during a nearly four-hour window that opens at 1:23 p.m. EST (1823 GMT). More (Source: Space.com - Feb 8)
NASA ASTRONAUT SUNITA WILLIAMS SAYS "WE DON'T FEEL ABANDONED" OR "STUCK" AS SPACE MISSION STRETCHES ON - Contrary to a recent social media post from President Trump, Starliner astronaut Sunita Williams says she and crewmate Barry "Butch" Wilmore have not been "virtually abandoned" in space, despite a mission that's been extended from a little more than one week to more than nine months. "I don't think I'm abandoned. I don't think we're stuck up here," she told CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson during an in-flight interview airing Friday night. "We've got food. We've got clothes. We have a ride home in case anything really bad does happen to the International Space Station. More (Source: CBS News - Feb 8)
NASA INSPECTOR ISSUES WARNING ABOUT CRACKS AND LEAKS IN SPACE STATION - According to a new report by NASA's inspector general, the space agency is growing significantly concerned over leaks in a tunnel connecting the International Space Station's Russian segment to a docking port. Worse yet, officials are still not entirely sure what is causing them. "On-going cracks and air leaks in the Service Module Transfer Tunnel are a top safety risk," the report reads. More (Source: MSN - Feb 8)
JAPAN PUTS NEW US SPACE FORCE CAPABILITY INTO ORBIT - A Japanese navigation satellite launched from one of Japan’s southernmost islands earlier this week, carrying into space a U.S. Space Force space domain awareness payload. The successful Feb. 2 launch aboard a Japanese H3 rocket is a milestone in the U.S.-Japan alliance and in the Space Force’s push to deepen its international partnerships. It marks just the third USSF payload to be hosted on a foreign-owned satellite. More (Source: Air & Space Forces Magazine - Feb 7)
NASA SATELLITES CATCH EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD MAKING MUSIC - Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not sound waves. When converted to audio signals, though, these strange bursts sound like a rising chorus of chirping vocals similar to morning birdsong, which is why physicists call these short, intense bursts of radiation "chorus waves." Each burst of radiation lasts just a few tenths of a second, but the signals can repeat for hours. And, as pretty as they sound, chorus waves can be extremely dangerous to satellites in orbit. More (Source: Space.com - Feb 7)
VAST BEGINS HAVEN-1 TESTING AND RESCHEDULES ITS LAUNCH - Vast has started testing a qualification model of its first commercial space station but has pushed back the launch of that station into 2026. Vast announced Feb. 6 that it started testing the primary structure qualification article for its Haven-1 station at a facility in Mojave, California. That included a proof test where the module was pressurized to 1.8 times its normal pressure as well as a leak test. More (Source: SpaceNews - Feb 7)
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