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NASA LAUNCHES PYRAMID SATELLITE PROJECT TO STUDY SPACE WEATHER NASA LAUNCHES PYRAMID SATELLITE PROJECT TO STUDY SPACE WEATHER - Controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are doing some pretty tight flying. Alex DeMetrick reports four satellites are being brought close together to get a closer look at space weather. The Blue Angels pull off tight formations every day, but in Maryland, controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are bringing four satellites into a very close formation for the first time. “No one’s ever gotten this close before,” said Conrad Schiff, with the project. Four small satellites are being brought within ten miles of each other. That’s a whisker close in space. “Keeping the spacecraft close enough to meet the science goals, and at the same time, keeping them from actually getting so close they could collide,” Schiff said.   More
(Source: CBS Local - Oct 16)


CYGNUS SERVICE MODULE ARRIVES IN FLORIDA FOR STATION FLIGHT CYGNUS SERVICE MODULE ARRIVES IN FLORIDA FOR STATION FLIGHT - The power and propulsion section of Orbital ATK’s next Cygnus supply ship, featuring new solar panel and fuel tank designs, arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday to be joined with a cargo module for a Dec. 3 launch to the International Space Station. The shipment comes nearly one year after Orbital ATK’s last space station supply flight crashed seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, aboard the company’s own Antares booster. Orbital ATK engineers blame the failure on one of the Antares main engines, and officials purchased two Atlas 5 rockets from United Launch Alliance to keep the Cygnus missions flying while a new engine model is added to the Antares.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 16)


WATCH VIRGIN GALACTIC TEST FIRE ITS SATELLITE LAUNCHING ROCKET WATCH VIRGIN GALACTIC TEST FIRE ITS SATELLITE LAUNCHING ROCKET - On top of doing space tourism, Virgin Galactic aims to launch small satellites under 200 kilograms (440 pounds) into standard orbit via its LauncherOne program by the end of 2016. To achieve that (and hit the $10 mllion target price) Branson's outfit will not launch rockets from terra firma, but via a carrier plane at a height of around 50,000 feet. So far nary a rocket has flown, but Virgin says it's making "great progress" after a test this month. It managed to "hotfire" its NewtonThree first-stage rocket for nearly 90 seconds, or about half its projected mission burn time.   More
(Source: Engadget - Oct 15)


SMALL SATELLITES TO LAUNCH FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER BEGINNING 2018 SMALL SATELLITES TO LAUNCH FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER BEGINNING 2018 - NASA announced Wednesday it has selected three companies to help the agency develop rockets that can deliver small satellites to space. Firefly Space Systems plans to test suborbital flights from new launch pad 39C at Kennedy Space Center in 2017. The Texas-based company is building a two-stage rocket named "Alpha." NASA is awarding Firefly $5.5 million to launch small satellites, and $6.9 million to a second company, Los Angeles-based Rocket Lab USA. Rocket Lab is developing the Electron rocket to send small satellites, called CubeSats, to space. The company is also considering using pad 39C, which KSC opened over the summer.   More
(Source: News 13 Orlando - Oct 15)


PROTON ROLLED OUT FOR LAUNCH OF TURKISH SATELLITE PROTON ROLLED OUT FOR LAUNCH OF TURKISH SATELLITE - Russian ground crews moved a Proton rocket to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for liftoff with a Japanese-built broadcasting platform for Turkey’s national telecom satellite operator Friday. The 191-foot-tall booster was rotated vertical at the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Complex 200 launch facility after an early morning rollout by rail car from a nearby assembly hangar. A mobile service gantry was expected to move into place around the rocket to give workers access to the Proton for final prelaunch checks.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 14)


NASA SAYS FIRST CUBESAT NANO-SATELLITE IS FUNCTIONAL NASA SAYS FIRST CUBESAT NANO-SATELLITE IS FUNCTIONAL - A miniature satellite sent in the space aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on October 8 is working fine, Nasa has announced. The Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) CubeSat spacecraft is in orbit and operational, said Nasa and The Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, California on Monday. CubeSats are going to play a key role in exploration, technology demonstration, scientific research and educational investigations.   More
(Source: NDTV - Oct 14)


CHINA'S SPACE STATION PLANNERS PUT OUT WELCOME MAT CHINA'S SPACE STATION PLANNERS PUT OUT WELCOME MAT - China is soliciting international participation in its future manned space station in the form of foreign modules that would attach to the three-module core system, visits by foreign crew-transport vehicles for short stays and the involvement of non-Chinese researchers in placing experiments on the complex, the chief designer of China’s manned space program said Oct. 12. But he declined to commit to an international orbital docking technology that would facilitate international participation in the Chinese facility. The Chinese orbital station, consisting of a core module and two experiment-carrying modules, can be expanded to a total of six modules if international partners want to invest in their own components, said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of the China Manned Space Program at the China Manned Space Agency.   More
(Source: Space News - Oct 14)


COMPANIES WANT TO LAUNCH SATELLITES THAT CAN SEE A PHONE IN YOUR HAND FROM SPACE COMPANIES WANT TO LAUNCH SATELLITES THAT CAN SEE A PHONE IN YOUR HAND FROM SPACE - If you've ever used Google Earth to zoom in on an aerial view of your house, then you know that the level of detail you can see is spooky. Regardless, satellite imaging technology continues to get better and better. Not long ago we measured satellite image resolution in meters; now it's down to centimeters. Last year the US government relaxed its restrictions on commercial satellite imagery. Satellite companies can now legally distribute photos at about 25-centimeter resolution — enough to clearly make out a mailbox and four times as detailed as the previous 50-centimeter restriction.   More
(Source: Tech Insider - Oct 13)


ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES UNVEILS LIGHTWEIGHT SATELLITE ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES UNVEILS LIGHTWEIGHT SATELLITE - Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) today unveiled the development program of the new AMOS E communications satellite, which is powered by an electrical propulsion system. AMOS E will provide a broad range of communications services including TV broadcasts and broadband Internet. The new satellite weighs only 1.5-2 tons, less than half a regular communications satellite, and is designed to operate for 15 years. IAI announced today that development of the AMOS E has been completed but that the date of its launch into space has yet to be set.    More
(Source: Globes - Oct 13)


THIS HUMANOID ROBOT MIGHT TRAVEL TO SPACE TO HELP ASTRONAUTS THIS HUMANOID ROBOT MIGHT TRAVEL TO SPACE TO HELP ASTRONAUTS - German researchers are creating a humanoid robot designed to assist astronauts on the International Space Station. Named AILA, the robot is designed to assist with not-so-complicated, day-to-day tasks so that astronauts can spend their time doing projects requiring more thought. Like any new hire, AILA will first need to be taught how to perform assignments. After watching a human demonstrate a task, AILA will be able to perform the job herself.    More
(Source: Tech Insider - Oct 13)

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