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CHINA MOVING FORWARD WITH BIG SPACE STATION PLANS CHINA MOVING FORWARD WITH BIG SPACE STATION PLANS - Space travelers from around the globe recently got a firsthand sense of China's blossoming plans to explore Earth orbit and beyond. At the 27th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), held in Beijing last month, China's space industry leaders extended an open invitation for other nations to take part in China's emerging space station program. "We reserved a number of platforms that can be used for international cooperative projects in our future space station when we designed it," Yang Liwei, deputy director of China Manned Space Engineering and China's first astronaut, said at the event, which was held in China for the first time. "In addition to collaboration in applied experiments, we also designed adapters that can dock with other nations' spacecraft."   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 17)


INDIAN PSLV LOFTS IRNSS-1C SATELLITE INDIAN PSLV LOFTS IRNSS-1C SATELLITE - India has launch its third navigation satellite Thursday morning local time, with a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully carrying the IRNSS-1C satellite on the first leg of its journey towards geostationary orbit. Liftoff was on schedule at 01:32 local time (20:02 Wednesday) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. IRNSS-1C forms part of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), a constellation of geosynchronous satellites which the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has been deploying to provide navigation data to India and the surrounding region.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Oct 16)


BIGELOW INFLATABLE MODULE TO BE ADDED TO SPACE STATION IN 2015 BIGELOW INFLATABLE MODULE TO BE ADDED TO SPACE STATION IN 2015 - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are going to be getting an addition in the near future, and in the form of an inflatable room no less. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is the first privately-built space habitat that will added to the ISS, and it will be transported into orbit aboard a Space X Falcon 9 rocket sometime next year. "The BEAM is one small step for Bigelow Aerospace," Bigelow representative Michael Gold told Universe Today, "but is also one giant leap for private sector space activities since the BEAM will be the first privately owned and developed module ever to be part of a crewed system in space."    More
(Source: Phys.Org - Oct 15)


GALILEO LAUNCH FAILURE BLAMED ON FROZEN FREGAT FUEL LINE GALILEO LAUNCH FAILURE BLAMED ON FROZEN FREGAT FUEL LINE - A design flaw in a Russian Fregat upper stage was responsible for the botched orbital injection of two European Galileo navigation satellites in August, officials said Wednesday, causing hydrazine fuel to freeze inside the rocket's maneuvering system and rendering it unable to point in the right direction during a critical engine burn. The frozen hydrazine propellant disrupted fuel flow to two thrusters that were supposed to control the orientation of the Fregat rocket stage as it coasted through space after liftoff Aug. 22. Engineers found that hydrazine fuel and super-cold helium pressurization lines were routed too close together and connected through a support structure that served as a thermal conduit, triggering the hydrazine to freeze and block the fuel line.    More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 13)


NASA DIRECTS BOEING, SPACEX TO BEGIN WORK ON SPACE TAXIS - Nasa has ordered the US multi-national Boeing Company and the California-based Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) to restart work to develop space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) using their CST-100 and Crew Dragon spacecraft respectively. Last month, Nasa had asked Boeing and SpaceX to suspend work in response to a protest filed with the US government accountability office (GAO) by Sierra Nevada Corporation, who lost the bid to build commercial space taxis.    More
(Source: Times of India - Oct 13)


ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - From tomorrow (Friday) night, the International Space Station will be visible in the skies over Ireland and Britain every evening until October 27th. At 8:11pm tomorrow, the ISS will blaze across Irish skies from west to east. The ISS will be the brightest object in the sky as it passes over Ireland, outshining even the brightest star in the sky by a factor of 10 to 100 times. On board the most expensive object ever built are 6 astronauts, 5 men and 1 woman. “ISS is an amazing sight when it appears in evening skies. Even those out walking their dog have called us the next day to ask what that bright light was in the sky?” said David Moore, Chairman of Astronomy Ireland, who has been predicting when manned spaceships are visible in Irish skies since the 1980’s.   More
(Source: The Clare Herald - Oct 10)


ORB-3 MISSION FROM VA. TO SPACE STATION SET FOR OCT. 24 - The third operational mission from Virginia to deliver supplies to the International Space Station has a new launch date: Oct. 24. Rocket-maker Orbital Sciences announced Wednesday that its Antares rocket is set to lift off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island at 7:52 p.m., boosting a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the orbiting science lab. The mission, called Orb-3, had been set for Oct. 14. The Antares is a medium-lift rocket whose launches are visible throughout Hampton Roads and the Mid-Atlantic, weather permitting.   More
(Source: Daily Press - Oct 9)


H-2A ROCKET BOOSTS JAPANESE WEATHER SATELLITE INTO ORBIT H-2A ROCKET BOOSTS JAPANESE WEATHER SATELLITE INTO ORBIT - Japan launched a next-generation geostationary weather satellite Tuesday on the 25th flight of the country's H-2A rocket, deploying an upgraded meteorological observatory critical to the minute-by-minute tracking of tropical cyclones and other storm systems across the Asia-Pacific. With its twin solid rocket boosters and hydrogen-burning main engine firing, the 315-ton H-2A launcher blasted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan at 0516 GMT (1:16 a.m. EDT; 2:16 p.m. JST). The 174-foot-tall rocket, covered in orange insulating foam, pitched east from the picturesque island space base, passed the speed of sound in less than a minute, and accelerated into the upper atmosphere before releasing two empty 49-foot-long strap-on solid rocket motor casings to fall into the Pacific Ocean 28 miles below.    More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 8)


HOW CAN I SEE THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION? TOP TIPS FOR SPOTTING THE ISS HOW CAN I SEE THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION? TOP TIPS FOR SPOTTING THE ISS - To celebrate World Space Week, we caught up with Twitter's Virtual Astronomer for a guide to spotting the ISS. This week is World Space Week - an event created by the United Nations in 1999 to 'celebrate contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition.' We can't all be astronauts, but we can appreciate our universe from right here, with our feet firmly on the ground. One person championing this view is social media's space guru Virtual Astronomer, who aims to guide people in their enjoyment of space whatever their level of interest or ability.    More
(Source: Mirror.co.uk - Oct 7)


PRIVATE INFLATABLE ROOM LAUNCHING TO SPACE STATION NEXT YEAR PRIVATE INFLATABLE ROOM LAUNCHING TO SPACE STATION NEXT YEAR - A privately built inflatable room for astronauts on the International Space Station is on track to launch into orbit next year. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is expected to head to space inside SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft in 2015, according to a senior representative for the company Bigelow Aerospace, which is building the module. Once BEAM gets to the space station, the robotic Canadarm2 will install it on the Tranquility node's aft port to test out expandable-habitat technology.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 7)

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