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SATELLITE SET TO STREAM DAILY IMAGES OF EARTH FROM SPACE SATELLITE SET TO STREAM DAILY IMAGES OF EARTH FROM SPACE - There's something majestic, even awe-inspiring about the sight of planet Earth as a blue disc, hanging in the vastness of space. The three astronauts aboard Apollo 8 were the first to get that view; if all goes well, later this year everyone will be able to get it on a daily basis over the Internet. The images will come courtesy of a spacecraft called Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). It's a mission with an unusual history. Al Gore first proposed the idea for DSCOVR back in 1998, when he was vice president. Gore was so smitten with the view of Earth from space that he put an enormous print of a picture taken by Apollo 17 on the wall of his West Wing office. "Wouldn't it be nice," Gore asked in 1998, "to have that image continuous, live, 24 hours a day?"   More
(Source: NPR - Feb 7)


NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR U.S. CARGO SHIP’S DEPARTURE FROM SPACE STATION - After delivering more than 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station last month, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to leave the orbiting laboratory on Tuesday, Feb. 10. NASA Television will provide live coverage of Dragon's departure beginning at 1:45 p.m. EST. The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to detach from the Earth-facing side of the station's Harmony module and release through commands sent by ground controllers in mission control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston operating the Canadarm 2 robotic arm. Mission control will maneuver Dragon into place for its release, which is scheduled for 2:09 p.m.   More
(Source: Space Ref - Feb 7)


NASA SET TO LAUNCH SATELLITE TO DETECT DISRUPTIVE SOLAR STORMS NASA SET TO LAUNCH SATELLITE TO DETECT DISRUPTIVE SOLAR STORMS - A satellite that had sat in storage for years will be launched this month to replace an aging satellite used to monitor space weather for the United States. The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) will give officials a 15- to 60-minute lead time for approaching solar storms that could disrupt electric supplies, communications, GPS navigation, satellites and air travel. A severe solar event could cause up to $2 trillion in damages and other costs and take up to 10 years from which to recover, the National Research Council of the National Academies estimated in a 2008 report.   More
(Source: Accuweather.com - Feb 6)


NASA SATELLITE HEADS TO ORBIT -- AND YOU CAN WATCH NASA SATELLITE HEADS TO ORBIT -- AND YOU CAN WATCH - A strategically placed video camera aboard an upper-stage rocket motor captured NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, spacecraft as it scooted off toward an operational orbit 425 miles above the planet. The footage, courtesy of NASA’s spaceflight services company, United Launch Alliance, provides a birds-eye view of the orbital action, backdropped against the marble blue beauty of Earth. The satellite, which is designed to map the amount of moisture in topsoil worldwide, can be seen unfolding its solar panel wings before the video feed ends.   More
(Source: Discovery News - Feb 5)


GERMANY JOINS SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAM GERMANY JOINS SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS PROGRAM - Germany is to receive space situational information and services from the U.S. Air Force under an agreement signed recently with the U.S. Strategic Command. The Air Force said the deal will enable and enhance each nation's awareness within the space and increase the safety of their spaceflight operations. "Space Situational Awareness requires cooperation, and arrangements such as this allow us to partner more effectively," said STRATCOM commander U.S. Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney. "As more countries, companies and organizations field space capabilities and benefit from the use of space systems, it is in our collective interest to act responsibly, promote transparency and enhance the long-term sustainability, stability, safety and security of space."   More
(Source: Space Daily - Feb 5)


INMARSAT LAUNCHES SECOND GLOBAL XPRESS SATELLITE INMARSAT LAUNCHES SECOND GLOBAL XPRESS SATELLITE - The UK satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat has launched the second of its I5 series of spacecraft. The 7m-long, 6.1-tonne platform went into orbit on a Proton M rocket, despatched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan. The I5s - there will be four in total - make up Inmarsat's next-generation constellation called Global Xpress. And with an investment of £1bn ($1.5bn), they represent the single biggest commercial space project in Britain right now. The I5-F2 was released into its super-synchronous transfer orbit at 04:02 GMT on Monday, following a mammoth 15-and-a-half-hour journey aboard the Proton and its Breeze upper-stage. Currently, this orbit takes the satellite out to a distance of 65,000km from the Earth.   More
(Source: BBC News - Feb 3)


AMATEUR RADIO PAYLOADS SHARE RIDE INTO SPACE WITH SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING SATELLITE AMATEUR RADIO PAYLOADS SHARE RIDE INTO SPACE WITH SOIL MOISTURE MONITORING SATELLITE - Four NASA Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNA-X) CubeSats carrying Amateur Radio payloads launched successfully January 31 from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. The primary payload for the Delta II launcher was the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite. SMAP's onboard radar will share Amateur Radio spectrum at 1.26 GHz. Amateur Radio is secondary on the 23 centimeter band, which covers 1240 to 1300 MHz. “This is a good example of a compatible sharing partner,” ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, observed. “Any interference to amateur communication in the band will be brief as the satellite passes overhead.”   More
(Source: ARRL - Feb 3)


STATE TELEVISION REPORTS IRAN LAUNCHES SATELLITE CALLED 'FAJR' INTO SPACE AMID ROCKET TESTS STATE TELEVISION REPORTS IRAN LAUNCHES SATELLITE CALLED 'FAJR' INTO SPACE AMID ROCKET TESTS - State television in Iran is reporting the Islamic Republic has launched a new satellite into space, its fourth in recent years to orbit the Earth. The report Monday quoted Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehghan saying the satellite, designed and built in Iran, is named "Fajr," or dawn in Farsi. The report did not elaborate. The satellite's launch comes amid negotiations with world powers over Iran's contested nuclear program. International observers worry that Iran's space program could help it design rockets that could carry nuclear weapons.   More
(Source: Fox Business - Feb 2)


JAPAN LAUNCHES NEW SPY SATELLITE JAPAN LAUNCHES NEW SPY SATELLITE - Japan on Sunday successfully launched a back-up spy satellite, its aerospace agency said, after canceling an earlier lift-off due to bad weather. Tokyo put spy satellites into operation in the early 2000s after its erratic neighbor North Korea fired a mid-range ballistic missile over the Japanese mainland and into the western Pacific in 1998. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries delayed Thursday's planned launch of the H-2A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan, due to the possibility of lightning during lift-off.   More
(Source: DefenseNews.com - Feb 2)


ULA DELTA II LAUNCHES WITH SMAP ULA DELTA II LAUNCHES WITH SMAP - United Launch Alliance (ULA) has conducted a rare Delta II launch on Saturday morning, at 6:22 am local, following a scrub on Thursday, along with a debonding of insulation on the booster, suffered during the subsequent detanking . The venerable rocket is now en route to orbiting the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite for NASA. Soil Moisture Active Passive, or SMAP, is a NASA mission to produce a global map of the moisture content in the Earth’s soil. During its planned three-year mission the spacecraft will take repeated measurements of the Earth’s surface as it orbits the planet, allowing scientists to study the distribution of water in soil around the world and its role in the water cycle.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jan 31)

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