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NASA IS OFFERING $30K TO THE PERSON WHO SOLVES ITS SPACE POOP PROBLEM NASA IS OFFERING $30K TO THE PERSON WHO SOLVES ITS SPACE POOP PROBLEM - Space travel presents scientists with seemingly infinite challenges. Aside from the technological feat of getting astronauts off the planet, scientists have to figure out how to keep them healthy with no-gravity exercise, clean air, and nutrition once they’re up in space. But there’s one much-less-glamorous problem space scientists have to solve: How to get rid of astronaut poop on long missions in spacesuits. The question has NASA scientists stumped, and so they’re taking suggestions from the public.    More
(Source: Quartz - Dec 1)


WAR IN SPACE: KAMIKAZES, KIDNAPPER SATELLITES AND LASERS WAR IN SPACE: KAMIKAZES, KIDNAPPER SATELLITES AND LASERS - It was May 2014 when a small team of American airmen monitoring a Russian satellite launch saw something they had never seen before. An object the team thought was a piece of debris from the launch suddenly came to life. "The one object that we assumed was a piece of debris started to maneuver in close proximity to the (rocket) booster," recalled Lt. Gen. David Buck, commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space located at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Buck, who oversees US military space forces, said the deliberate maneuvers the mystery object made close to the rocket's booster were a red flag.   More
(Source: CNN - Nov 30)


JAPAN TO LAUNCH FIRST MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE ON JANUARY 24 JAPAN TO LAUNCH FIRST MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE ON JANUARY 24 - The Japanese Ministry of Defense plans to launch the Kirameki-2 satellite that will be one of three military satellites, which will replace the civil analogues that are currently used for communication between Japan's military units.TOKYO (Sputnik) - The Japanese Ministry of Defense plans to launch its first satellite into orbit on January 24, 2017, to improve military communications infrastructure amid North Korea nuclear and military threats, media reported on Friday, citing a military source. According to the Kyodo news agency, the Kirameki-2 satellite will be one of three military satellites, which will replace the civil analogues that are currently used for communication between Japan's military units.    More
(Source: Space Daily - Nov 30)


ADVANCED WEATHER SATELLITE REACHES PLANNED ORBIT ADVANCED WEATHER SATELLITE REACHES PLANNED ORBIT - A powerful new weather satellite, the first of four at the heart of a nearly $11 billion upgrade to the nation’s forecasting infrastructure, completed a fifth and final main engine rocket firing Tuesday, the last step in a 10-day climb to its operational orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. Greg Mandt, the GOES-R program director with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the agency hopes to downlink the first pictures from the satellite’s camera, the Advanced Baseline Imager, or ABI, in early January, after allowing trapped gases and contaminants to escape in the vacuum of space.   More
(Source: CBS News - Nov 30)


NASA ENDS EFFORTS TO REPAIR SPACE STATION EARTH SCIENCE INSTRUMENT NASA ENDS EFFORTS TO REPAIR SPACE STATION EARTH SCIENCE INSTRUMENT - NASA announced Nov. 28 it was formally ending a mission of an instrument on the International Space Station that malfunctioned earlier this year, a setback in the agency’s efforts to use the station as an Earth sciences platform. NASA said it was terminating the ISS Rapid Scatterometer, or RapidScat, instrument, that had been operating on the station since October 2014. The instrument collected wind speed and direction data over the oceans by measuring the scattering of radar waves it transmitted and then received.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 30)


RUSSIA'S SOYUZ SPACECRAFT MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE FIRST FLIGHT RUSSIA'S SOYUZ SPACECRAFT MARKS 50 YEARS SINCE FIRST FLIGHT - It launched under a different name and was not officially disclosed until almost two decades later, but Russia's first Soyuz spacecraft lifted off into history 50 years ago Monday (Nov. 28). The Soyuz, which became the former Soviet Union's third class of crewed transport spacecraft and is still used today to take cosmonaut and astronaut crews to the International Space Station, first flew under the intentionally nondescript title "Kosmos 133" on Nov. 28, 1966. The less-than-successful, 34-orbit uncrewed maiden mission ended with the Soyuz's descent capsule self-destructing, instead of landing off-course in China. But that was only the last of its problems.    More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 29)


ATLAS 5 ROCKET TO FINISH YEAR WITH COMMERCIAL BROADBAND SATELLITE LAUNCH ATLAS 5 ROCKET TO FINISH YEAR WITH COMMERCIAL BROADBAND SATELLITE LAUNCH - Preparing for its eighth launch of the year, the Atlas 5 rocket program has begun stacking the vehicle that will deploy a commercial satellite to provide Internet connectivity to rural America. The United Launch Alliance rocket will haul the EchoStar 19 spacecraft into a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 on Dec. 16. The two-hour launch window opens at 1:22 p.m. EST (1822 GMT). Stacking started today at the Vertical Integration Facility as the first stage was erected aboard the mobile launch platform. Three side-mounded solid rocket boosters and Centaur upper stage will be added in the coming days before the payload is attached next week.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 29)


NASA TELEVISION TO AIR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP LAUNCH, DOCKING NASA TELEVISION TO AIR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP LAUNCH, DOCKING - A Russian cargo spacecraft is set to launch Thursday, Dec. 1, to deliver more than two and a half tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station crew. Coverage on NASA Television and the agency's website begins at 9:30 a.m. EST ahead of the 9:51 a.m. (8:51 p.m. Baikonur time) launch. The unpiloted Russian Progress 65 will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft is set to dock to the rear port of the space station's Zvezda Service Module at 11:43 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 11 a.m.    More
(Source: PR Newswire - Nov 29)


TEENAGE GIRLS HAVE BUILT AFRICA'S FIRST-EVER PRIVATE SATELLITE TEENAGE GIRLS HAVE BUILT AFRICA'S FIRST-EVER PRIVATE SATELLITE - In May next year, Africa will launch its first-ever private satellite into space, to monitor the continent's shifting weather conditions. Unlike most private satellites out there, this one has mostly been built by 14 South African teenage girls, as part of a high school science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) boot camp. The students have designed and made the payload for the satellite, which will orbit over Earth's poles and scan the surface of the African continent.   More
(Source: ScienceAlert - Nov 28)


LOST AND FOUND: MOST DRAMATIC SPACE MISSIONS OF 2016 LOST AND FOUND: MOST DRAMATIC SPACE MISSIONS OF 2016 - It's been a busy year of transition around the solar system. Some spacecraft crashed on distant planets, while others were found after we thought they were lost. And some cool stuff began to happen with new missions, such as exploring Jupiter and figuring out how useful inflatable structures will be in space. Here are some of the mission transitions of 2016. 2016 has seen some amazing space exploration feats. Here are just a few that have kept us on the edge of our seats.   More
(Source: Seeker - Nov 25)

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