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NASA WILL ALLOW PRIVATE COMPANIES TO HOOK UP MODULES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NASA WILL ALLOW PRIVATE COMPANIES TO HOOK UP MODULES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Private space companies may soon get the opportunity to add their own habitat modules to the outside of the International Space Station. That’s according to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who announced the new initiative today as a way to help expand the number of companies and people that can do work and research in space. That can eventually help companies gain the experience and capability to create private space stations of their own. "A vibrant user community will be key to ensuring the economic viability of future space stations," wrote Bolden in a White House blog post. The announcement of this new opportunity comes just a few months after NASA asked private companies for ideas of how they might use one of the docking ports on the ISS. Based on the responses NASA received, Bolden said companies had a "strong desire" to attach commercial modules to the station that could benefit both NASA and the private sector.    More
(Source: The Verge - Oct 12)


CHINA TO LAUNCH WORLD'S FIRST PULSAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM SATELLITE IN NOVEMBER CHINA TO LAUNCH WORLD'S FIRST PULSAR NAVIGATION SYSTEM SATELLITE IN NOVEMBER - China plans to launch the world's first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite, XPNAV-1, in November, local media reported Monday. The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) will base the new space navigation system on signals from 26 X-ray pulsars to be received and analyzed by the satellite, the project's lead scientist, Shuai Ping, said as quoted by the Xinhua news agency. The system, which will rely on a pulsar signal database and is set to exceed current ground-based space navigation systems in timing and accuracy, will take between five to 10 years to set up, Shuai said.    More
(Source: Sputnik International - Oct 11)


LAUNCHING SOCIAL MEDIA IN SPACE: RUSSIAN COSMIC ROBOT SPOTTY TO JOIN ISS TEAM LAUNCHING SOCIAL MEDIA IN SPACE: RUSSIAN COSMIC ROBOT SPOTTY TO JOIN ISS TEAM - Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and the VK social network will send a cute robot named Spotty into space to join the ISS team in 2017. The robot will allow social media users to communicate with cosmonauts and send photos and videos from space. Spotty was introduced at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow on Monday “With its help, social network users will be able to communicate with cosmonauts and receive photos and videos from ISS and space. A projector which has been inserted into it will be able to broadcast content on the station received from VK users,” Roscosmos said in a statement.   More
(Source: RT - Oct 11)


ORBITAL ATK RESCHEDULES NEXT CARGO MISSION TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ORBITAL ATK RESCHEDULES NEXT CARGO MISSION TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Dulles-based Orbital ATK Inc. (NYSE: OA) announced Monday that its next cargo mission to the International Space Station is set for Oct. 14 at 8:51 p.m. EDT. On Oct. 12, the company plans to roll out its Antares rocket to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island. The launch was originally scheduled for Oct. 13 at 9:13 p.m. EDT, but teams on the ground "encountered and resolved a minor vehicle processing issue over the weekend which, together with time spent on contingency planning for Hurricane Matthew, necessitated the one-day slip," the company said in a news release. This launch will be significant because it will be the first time the company will be using its own rockets since an ill-fated October 2014 flight when its Antares rocket exploded six seconds after lift-off.   More
(Source: Washington Business Journal - Oct 11)


'STAR TREK BEYOND' BEAMS UP TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 'STAR TREK BEYOND' BEAMS UP TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Talk about "Beam me up!" The latest entry in the "Star Trek" science fiction franchise — "Star Trek Beyond" — has been "beamed up" to the International Space Station for real-life space explorers to enjoy as they live and work in the final frontier. Representives with Paramount announced on Oct. 4 that "Star Trek Beyond" was sent to the space station crew. The timing coincided with World Space Week and the 59th anniversary of the first orbital launch of Sputnik 1 on Oct. 4, 1957. "The International Space Station serves as the world's leading laboratory for conducting cutting-edge microgravity research, and is the primary platform for technology development and testing in space to enable human and robotic exploration...   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 11)


SPECTACULAR STAR TRAILS DAZZLE FROM THE SPACE STATION SPECTACULAR STAR TRAILS DAZZLE FROM THE SPACE STATION - With the aid of a camera, a clear night and a long exposure shot, anybody on Earth can photograph star trails. But let's check in with the astronauts on board the International Space Station for a very different look at star trails. NASA released a series of images last week showing streaks of starlight in space accompanied by trails of light from human-made sources down on Earth. The photos make it look like the heavens are raining down on the planet. The curve of the horizon separates space from the parallel lines of light on Earth. Parts of the space station hang down into the images.    More
(Source: CNET - Oct 11)


POLLUTION SENSING SATELLITE DELAYED POLLUTION SENSING SATELLITE DELAYED - The `Next Generation Earth Monitoring and Observation and Aerosol Monitoring' (NEMO-AM) satellite, which will analyse pollution levels in Indian cities and towns is being delayed by a year. Isro's Canadian partners in the project, Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) of University of Toronto have demanded a year to develop the satellite's extremely complicated polarimetric sensors and optics.NEMO-AM will be ready by 2018, Space Applications Centre director Tapan Misra told TOI. NEMO-AM is among Isro's most important high-performance nano-satellite missions in the country. The nano-satellite, 2x2x1 feet and weighing 15 kg, will be launched 500 km above the earth.    More
(Source: Times of India - Oct 10)


CHINA'S 'HEAVENLY PALACE' SPACE STATION WILL GO DOWN IN FLAMES CHINA'S 'HEAVENLY PALACE' SPACE STATION WILL GO DOWN IN FLAMES - "Beijing, we have a problem." Since it first went up in 1998, the International Space Station has played host to astronauts from more than a dozen countries -- but not one of them was from China. In fact, in 2011, the U.S. Congress passed a law specifically prohibiting Chinese access to the ISS over concerns about "national security." This, of course, has the Chinese a bit miffed. And as we mentioned last year, China has been planning to build its own, all-made-in-China space station instead. Slated for completion by 2022, the Tiangong 3, or "Heavenly Palace," space station will probably comprise three separate-but-linked modules, with a pair of laboratories flanking a central living habitat. Heavenly Palace is expected to go into service just as America and Russia are preparing to disassemble their International Space Station for obsolescence.   More
(Source: Motley Fool - Oct 10)


CUBESATS: TINY PAYLOADS, HUGE BENEFITS FOR SPACE RESEARCH CUBESATS: TINY PAYLOADS, HUGE BENEFITS FOR SPACE RESEARCH - CubeSats are miniature satellites that are commonly used in low Earth orbit for applications such as remote sensing or communications. As engineers become more familiar with the technology, CubeSats are also being considered for flights outside of Earth orbit — particularly to locations such as Mars or Jupiter. The design was first proposed in the late 1990s by two professors: Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford University. They were trying to help students gain engineering experience in satellites, which are traditionally expensive to build and launch. Inspiration for the CubeSat came in part from the miniature toy craze of the day, Beanie Babies, according to Spaceflight Now.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 8)


ROSCOSMOS SETS OCTOBER 19TH AS LAUNCH DATE FOR NEXT SPACE STATION CREW ROSCOSMOS SETS OCTOBER 19TH AS LAUNCH DATE FOR NEXT SPACE STATION CREW - After reviewing the documents on operations that were carried out to repair the technical malfunction of the Soyuz MS-02 manned transport vehicle (MTV) the State Commission resolved that the space ship may be launched to the International Space Station (ISS). Based on quality assurance tests of MTV Soyuz MS-02, the specialists of Rocket and Space Corporation Energiya determined that the control equipment was activated by the landing system cable, which was jammed during the test operations. After the cable malfunction was fixed, engineers ran a full trial of the space ship.   More
(Source: Space Ref - Oct 8)

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