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RUSSIAN CARGO SHIP ARRIVES AT SPACE STATION RUSSIAN CARGO SHIP ARRIVES AT SPACE STATION - A robotic Russian cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station this evening (Oct. 1), ending a brief orbital chase. Russia's uncrewed Progress 61 freighter, also known as 61P, docked with the space station's Zvezda service module at 6:52 p.m. EDT (2252 GMT), while the two craft were zooming together over the North Atlantic Ocean. The cargo vessel, which is stocked with more than 3 tons of food and supplies for the astronauts aboard the orbiting lab, had launched atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan just 6 hours earlier.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 3)


LQSAT LAUNCH MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 LQSAT LAUNCH MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 - Monday, October 5 should see the launch of LQSat which was developed by researchers and students at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP) and carries an amateur radio payload. The launch will take place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC) in Inner Mongolia on a Chang Zheng 2D (CZ-2D) rocket.   More
(Source: AMSAT-UK - Oct 3)


ISS CUBESATS TO DEPLOY MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 ISS CUBESATS TO DEPLOY MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 - The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that two Danish CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads should be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, October 5. Originally launched to the ISS on August 19, 2015 the two CubeSats, AAUSat-5 and GomX-3, will be deployed from the ISS Japanese Kibo module airlock. An astronaut will manipulate the Kibo robotic arm to lift AAUSAT-5 from the airlock and place it in orbit.   More
(Source: AMSAT-UK - Oct 3)


RUSSIA LAUNCHES PROGRESS SUPPLY SHIP TO SPACE STATION RUSSIA LAUNCHES PROGRESS SUPPLY SHIP TO SPACE STATION - An automated Russian Progress supply ship docked at the International Space Station Thursday evening six hours after launch from Kazakhstan, bringing 3.1 tons of supplies and equipment to the outpost after a problem-free rendezvous. "A flawless journey of six hours three minutes for the Progress 61 cargo craft," reported Rob Navias, NASA's mission control commentator. "All the pre-programmed engine firings to increase its altitude and to begin the journey to catch up to the International Space Station went by the book, with no issues whatsoever." The mission began at 12:49:40 p.m. EDT (GMT-4; 10:49 p.m. local time) when the cargo ship's Soyuz booster roared to life and climbed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, two minutes after the space station passed overhead.   More
(Source: CBS News - Oct 2)


SKY MUSTER: ROCKET CARRYING NBN SATELLITE LAUNCHES AMID CONCERNS INTERNET SPEEDS OVERPROMISED SKY MUSTER: ROCKET CARRYING NBN SATELLITE LAUNCHES AMID CONCERNS INTERNET SPEEDS OVERPROMISED - A rocket carrying the half-a-billion-dollar satellite, nicknamed Sky Muster and considered the great hope of the National Broadband Network (NBN), was launched in French Guiana about 6:30am (AEST). NBN said Sky Muster was designed to deliver broadband internet services to more than 400,000 rural and remote homes, including on Norfolk, Christmas, Macquarie and Cocos islands. The company said of the 400,000 premises in the total footprint for the satellite, it expected around 200,000 to take up a service.   More
(Source: ABC Online - Oct 1)


CHINESE LONG MARCH 3B LOFTS NEXT BEIDOU-3 SATELLITE CHINESE LONG MARCH 3B LOFTS NEXT BEIDOU-3 SATELLITE - The fifth Chinese launch in September took place at 23:13 UTC on Tuesday (Wednesday morning local time) with a Long March-3B/G2 rocket orbiting another Beidou-3 navigation satellite. The launch of BDS I2-S (or Beidou-20) took place from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center via the modified pad 3. Tuesday’s launch is another steady step in the completion of the Phase III of the Beidou program several years ahead of schedule – by as soon as 2017, rather than 2020. However, the launch initially received a blackout in the Chinese media, with lift-off only confirmed by local observers. It took over an hour – once the spacecraft was successfully deployed – for the Chinese media to acknowledge the launch.   More
(Source: NASASpaceflight.com - Sep 30)


HTV SUPPLY SHIP SETS COURSE FOR RE-ENTRY HTV SUPPLY SHIP SETS COURSE FOR RE-ENTRY - Heading for a destructive re-entry over the South Pacific with several tons of trash, Japan’s fifth HTV cargo craft departed the International Space Station on Monday after overcoming a last-minute snag in the lab’s robotics system. The space station’s 58-foot-long robotic arm disengaged the HTV supply ship from a docking port on the outpost’s Harmony module early Monday, then maneuvered the spacecraft to a departure point about 30 feet beneath the complex. Astronauts Kimiya Yui and Kjell Lindgren were gearing up to release the H-2 Transfer Vehicle at 1520 GMT (11:20 a.m. EDT), but mission control instructed the crew to stand down after receiving an error message on the station’s robotic arm.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 30)


NASA TV TO AIR SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP LAUNCH, DOCKING NASA TV TO AIR SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP LAUNCH, DOCKING - NASA Television will provide live coverage of the next launch and docking of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress 61, to resupply the International Space Station Thursday, Oct. 1. NASA TV coverage will begin at 12:30 p.m. EDT. ISS Progress 61 is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:49 p.m. EDT (10:49 p.m. Baikonur time) on a fast-track, four-orbit journey to the orbital outpost.    More
(Source: PR Newswire - Sep 30)


AS NORTH KOREA'S SATELLITE DECAYS IN SPACE, FEARS RISE OVER NEXT LAUNCH AS NORTH KOREA'S SATELLITE DECAYS IN SPACE, FEARS RISE OVER NEXT LAUNCH - The satellite that North Korea launched into space three years ago circles the earth every 95 minutes at an altitude of about 540km, its orbit decaying. No signal has ever been detected from the crude-looking 100kg hunk of black metal that the North said was mounted with cameras to take images and transmit them back to Pyongyang. The North is planning another satellite launch next month, reigniting fears that it is really testing a system to deliver nuclear weapons. The secretive state is already under international sanctions for its nuclear and missile tests. South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said this month the North's plan to launch a new satellite, which could be timed around the 70th anniversary of its ruling party on October 10, would be a disguised missile test.   More
(Source: South China Morning Post - Sep 29)


FIFTH JAPANESE KOUNOTORI CARGO SHIP DEPARTS FROM ISS - SPACEFLIGHT INSIDER FIFTH JAPANESE KOUNOTORI CARGO SHIP DEPARTS FROM ISS - SPACEFLIGHT INSIDER - After five weeks attached to the International Space Station, Japan’s Kounotori (White Stork) 5 cargo ship was unberthed by the station crew on Sept. 28, 2015, and sent on a path that will lead to its destructive atmospheric re-entry over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, Sept. 29. Expedition 45 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and NASA Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren commanded the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the spacecraft at 11:53 a.m. CDT (16:53 p.m. GMT). Ten minutes later, the cargo ship executed a thruster firing that pushed it away from the space station and into an orbit that would be ideal for its re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.   More
(Source: Space Flight Insider - Sep 29)

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