SPACEX LAUNCHES 28 STARLINK SATELLITES WITH A FALCON 9 BOOSTER FLYING FOR A 29TH TIME - SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday night, which added another 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. The Starlink 11-17 mission flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 8:54 p.m. PDT (11:54 p.m. EDT / 0354 UTC).   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 10)

SPACEX LAUNCHES FALCON 9 ROCKET ON 90TH STARLINK MISSION OF 2025 - SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida in more than a week in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning. The launch gap was highlighted by a run of persistent, daily storms in Central Florida and over the Atlantic Ocean. The Starlink 10-59 mission added 28 more broadband internet satellites into the growing megaconstellation. Prior to this launch, SpaceX has more than 8,500 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, according to astronomer an expert orbital tracker, Jonathan McDowell.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 8)

NEW PRIVATE 'ARC' SPACECRAFT AIMS TO DELIVER CARGO FROM ORBIT TO ANYWHERE ON EARTH IN LESS THAN AN HOUR - A new private spacecraft aims to help the U.S. military get key supplies where they're needed, and fast. On Wednesday (Oct. 1), the California-based company Inversion unveiled Arc, a vehicle designed to serve as an orbital storehouse and superfast delivery system for mission-critical gear, getting it anywhere on Earth in less than an hour.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 8)

ARIANESPACE TARGETS SENTINEL-1D LAUNCH ON NOV. 4 - Arianespace will launch the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1D satellite in early November. The satellite will be the third commercial flight for Ariane 6, Europe’s new heavy-lift launcher. With this launch, Arianespace supports a major environmental mission while supporting Europe’s autonomous access to space. Arianespace announced the launch details, Oct. 6.   More
(Source: Via Satellite - Oct 7)

DATA CENTRES IN SPACE? JEFF BEZOS SAYS IT'S POSSIBLE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted on Friday gigawatt-scale data centres will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years and that continuously available solar energy meant they would eventually outperform those based on Earth. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence to the internet boom of the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles.   More
(Source: Reuters - Oct 6)

SPACEX TO LAUNCH 4 FALCON HEAVY ROCKETS AS PART OF NEWEST U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY MISSIONS AWARD - The latest missions carrying payloads for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) were announced on Friday with a combined value of $1.142 billion. SpaceX was tasked with five missions and United Launch Alliance (ULA) received two. This is the second order year (OY2) for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 contract, which was awarded to Blue Origin, SpaceX and ULA. Back in April, USSF’s Space Systems Command announced the trio as the recipients of this half of the Phase 3 Acquisition Strategy.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 6)

AS NASA'S ISS CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF HUMANS LIVING IN SPACE, WHAT'S AHEAD FOR SPACE STATIONS - It's official. Not a single person under the age of 25 has lived a day where there has not been a human orbiting Earth − and that is likely to never change. On Nov. 2, 2000, Expedition 1 arrived at the still-under-construction International Space Station. And since that day, this outpost that orbits 250 miles above the Earth has never been uninhabited even as its construction continued. That's almost 25 years of human life traveling around the Earth 16 times a day.   More
(Source: Yahoo News - Oct 6)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 3RD CONSECUTIVE FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM VANDENBERG SFB, UNINTERRUPTED BY A CAPE MISSION - SpaceX launched its 125th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025, which carried a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. The company’s first mission of the month took flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base shortly after sunrise on Friday morning. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) happened 7:06 a.m. PDT (10:06 a.m. EDT / 1406 UTC). This was SpaceX’s 47th launch from Vandenberg so far this year.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 4)

BLUE ORIGIN REVEALS SPACE TOURISTS TO LAUNCH ON NEXT NEW SHEPARD ROCKET - We now know which people will fly on Blue Origin's next space tourism mission — most of them, anyway. On Wednesday (Oct. 1), Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, announced the passenger list for NS-36, the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle. (We don't yet know when NS-36 will launch; that info is coming soon, according to Blue Origin.)   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 4)

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