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NEW NASA-ESA SEA LEVEL SATELLITE ARRIVES AT CALIFORNIA LAUNCH SITE NEW NASA-ESA SEA LEVEL SATELLITE ARRIVES AT CALIFORNIA LAUNCH SITE - The Sentinel-6B satellite will soon start final preparation to ready it for launch later this year. After a trans-Atlantic journey on a cargo ship and a truck ride from Texas to California, the international sea level satellite Sentinel-6B arrived at a NASA facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Aug.18. Teams from the main mission partners, NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), as well as ESA’s prime contractor Airbus, will begin final preparations for the spacecraft’s launch this fall.   More
(Source: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Aug 21)


NASA INVITES MEDIA TO NORTHROP GRUMMAN CRS-23 STATION RESUPPLY LAUNCH NASA INVITES MEDIA TO NORTHROP GRUMMAN CRS-23 STATION RESUPPLY LAUNCH - Media accreditation is open for the next launch to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft will launch to the orbital laboratory on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for NASA. The mission is known as NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 23, or Northrop Grumman CRS-23. Liftoff is targeted for mid-September from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.   More
(Source: NASA - Aug 20)


CHINESE ASTRONAUTS BEEF UP TIANGONG SPACE STATION'S DEBRIS SHIELD DURING 6.5-HOUR SPACEWALK CHINESE ASTRONAUTS BEEF UP TIANGONG SPACE STATION'S DEBRIS SHIELD DURING 6.5-HOUR SPACEWALK - Chinese astronauts added more debris shielding to the Tiangong space station during a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Friday (Aug. 15), according to state media. Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission ventured outside Tiangong to do the spacewalk, which concluded Friday at 9:27 a.m. EDT (1447 UTC, or 10:47 p.m. in Beijing). It was at least the second effort for the crew to put "debris protection" devices on the three-module space station, following similar work on May 22.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 20)


NASA SETS COVERAGE FOR SPACEX 33RD STATION RESUPPLY LAUNCH, ARRIVAL NASA SETS COVERAGE FOR SPACEX 33RD STATION RESUPPLY LAUNCH, ARRIVAL - NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbital laboratory for NASA. Filled with more than 5,000 pounds of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Dragon will dock autonomously about 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 25, to the forward port of the space station’s Harmony module.   More
(Source: NASA - Aug 20)


HIJACKED SATELLITES AND ORBITING SPACE WEAPONS: IN THE 21ST CENTURY, SPACE IS THE NEW BATTLEFIELD HIJACKED SATELLITES AND ORBITING SPACE WEAPONS: IN THE 21ST CENTURY, SPACE IS THE NEW BATTLEFIELD - As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw parade footage beamed in from Moscow: waves of tanks, soldiers and weaponry. The message was meant to intimidate and was an illustration that 21st-century war is waged not just on land, sea and air but also in cyberspace and the reaches of outer space.   More
(Source: AP News - Aug 19)


SPACEX SENDS 24 STARLINK SATELLITES INTO ORBIT ON 100TH FALCON 9 LAUNCH OF THE YEAR SPACEX SENDS 24 STARLINK SATELLITES INTO ORBIT ON 100TH FALCON 9 LAUNCH OF THE YEAR - SpaceX sent another batch of its Starlink broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit today (Aug. 18), atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch, at 12:26 p.m. EDT (1626 GMT or 9:26 a.m. PDT local time) on Monday marked the company's 100th Falcon 9 flight of 2025. It was SpaceX's 103rd mission overall for the year, including three suborbital test flights of Starship, the rocket being developed to land humans on the moon and Mars.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 19)


CHINA SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES NEW TEST SATELLITE CHINA SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES NEW TEST SATELLITE - China on Sunday sent a new test satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan. The Shiyan-28B 02 satellite was launched at 4:55 p.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a Long March-4C carrier rocket and entered its preset orbit successfully.   More
(Source: www.gov.cn - Aug 18)


SPACEX SCHEDULES 10TH TEST FLIGHT FOR STARSHIP, DETAILS RECENT SETBACKS SPACEX SCHEDULES 10TH TEST FLIGHT FOR STARSHIP, DETAILS RECENT SETBACKS - SpaceX is once again gearing up for a launch of its massive Starship rocket from southern Texas. On Friday, it announced plans for the tenth flight of the fully integrated, two-stage rocket as soon as Sunday, Aug. 24, from its headquarters in Starbase. The test flight of the towering rocket is tentatively scheduled during an hour-long window that opens at 6:30 p.m. CDT (7:30 p.m. EDT / 2330 UTC). It comes three months after the previous test flight experienced multiple issues and two months after a test stand explosion destroyed the ship originally intended to fly this mission.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 18)


NASA-ISRO'S $1.3 BILLION SATELLITE NISAR DEPLOYS ITS ANTENNA IN ORBIT NASA-ISRO'S $1.3 BILLION SATELLITE NISAR DEPLOYS ITS ANTENNA IN ORBIT - In a landmark moment for global Earth science and international space collaboration, the world's most expensive civilian Earth imaging satellite-the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR)-has successfully deployed its massive radar antenna in orbit, marking a critical step toward delivering life-saving data to communities across the globe.   More
(Source: NDTV - Aug 17)


FAA APPROVES STARSHIP FLIGHT 10 AFTER MISHAP PROBE, EYES AUGUST 24 LAUNCH FAA APPROVES STARSHIP FLIGHT 10 AFTER MISHAP PROBE, EYES AUGUST 24 LAUNCH - SpaceX has received clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct the 10th test flight of its Starship rocket, with a targeted launch date of August 24. The approval for Flight 10 comes after the closure of an investigation into anomalies during the vehicle’s previous mission, marking a key step forward in SpaceX’s test program.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Aug 16)

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