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OCEAN SATELLITE DIES AFTER 11½-YEAR MISSION - Jason-1, a satellite that for more than a decade precisely tracked rising sea levels across a vast sweep of ocean and helped forecasters make better weather and climate predictions, has ended its useful life after circling the globe more than 53,500 times, NASA announced Wednesday. The joint U.S. and French satellite was decommissioned this week after its last remaining transmitter failed, according to a NASA statement.    More
(Source: Boston.com - Jul 5)


SCIENCE EXPERIMENT REQUIRES NEW ALTITUDE FOR SPACE STATION SCIENCE EXPERIMENT REQUIRES NEW ALTITUDE FOR SPACE STATION - Crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had to add a little more distance between the orbiting laboratory and Earth on Sunday for a science experiment. NASA said astronauts raised the space station’s altitude to accommodate a research project aimed at learning about Earth’s atmosphere and climate change. “The European scientists requested that we reposition the station slightly because by having this period of time they could bridge over the two Solar observing visibility windows, allowing them to view the sun for a full solar rotation without interruption"...    More
(Source: RedOrbit - Jul 3)


ORS-1 SATELLITE COMPLETES SECOND YEAR IN SPACE - UTC Aerospace Systems announced today that the ORS-1 satellite has celebrated its second anniversary in space. ORS-1, the first Operationally Responsive Space satellite specifically designed to support combatant command operations was launched from Wallops Island Flight Facility aboard a Minotaur I launch vehicle on June 29, 2011, at 11:09 p.m. EDT. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp.   More
(Source: Wall Street Journal - Jul 3)


PROTON ROCKET CRASHES PROTON ROCKET CRASHES - A Russian Proton rocket went out of control and slammed into the steppes of Kazakhstan mere moments after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday night. The government booster was carrying three Russian navigation satellites on the ill-fated mission that launched at 0238 GMT (10:38 p.m. EDT). Live video showed the Proton gyrating left and then right as it ascended off the pad before going horizontal, barrel rolling and falling into a nose dive.    More
(Source: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1307/01proton/ - Jul 2)


INDIAN PSLV SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES IRNSS-1A NAVIGATION SATELLITE INDIAN PSLV SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES IRNSS-1A NAVIGATION SATELLITE - India have launched their Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Monday carrying IRNSS-1A, the first satellite of the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. Liftoff from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre occurred at 18:11 UTC (23:41 local time). The IRNSS-1A satellite is the first of seven which will make up the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).    More
(Source: NASAspaceflight.com - Jul 2)


INDIA'S FIRST MIDNIGHT SATELLITE LAUNCH SET FOR MONDAY INDIA'S FIRST MIDNIGHT SATELLITE LAUNCH SET FOR MONDAY - The countdown for the Monday midnight launch of an Indian navigation satellite is progressing smoothly with the liquid fuel filling for the fourth stage engine getting completed, an official said on Sunday. "Yesterday (Saturday) evening, the filling of the liquid fuel in the fourth stage was completed and the fuel for the second stage will be filled during the countdown. In addition, pressurisation of the stages with gases will also be done," a senior official at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.    More
(Source: Times of India - Jul 1)


NASA LAUNCHES SUN-WATCHING TELESCOPE TO PROBE SOLAR SECRETS NASA LAUNCHES SUN-WATCHING TELESCOPE TO PROBE SOLAR SECRETS - NASA's newest solar observatory launched into space late Thursday (June 27), beginning a two-year quest to probe some of the sun's biggest mysteries. An Orbital Sciences Corp. Pegasus XL rocket and the new solar telescope — called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph satellite, or IRIS — left California's Vandenberg Air Force Base underneath a specially modified aircraft at 9:30 p.m. EDT Thursday (6:30 p.m. local time; 0130 GMT Friday).    More
(Source: Space.com - Jun 28)


CREW RETURNS FROM CHINA SPACE STATION CREW RETURNS FROM CHINA SPACE STATION - A space capsule with three astronauts has safely landed on grasslands in northern China after a 15-day trip to the country's prototype space station. The Shenzhou 10's descent module landed by parachute in Inner Mongolia early on Wednesday with the three crew members reported in good health. The two men and one woman taught lessons to Chinese schoolchildren while in space.    More
(Source: Independent Online - Jun 27)


NASA’S SUN SATELLITE LAUNCH DELAYED; NOW TARGETED FOR THURSDAY EVENING FROM CALIFORNIA NASA’S SUN SATELLITE LAUNCH DELAYED; NOW TARGETED FOR THURSDAY EVENING FROM CALIFORNIA - NASA has delayed the launch of a sun-observing satellite by a day so that technicians can restore power to launch range equipment. The Iris satellite was supposed to be carried aloft from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Wednesday. But the launch range recently lost electricity after an equipment failure at a utility substation darkened much of the central coast. The problem is expected to be fixed by Thursday evening.    More
(Source: Washington Post - Jun 27)


NAVIGATION SATELLITE LAUNCH WORK PICKS UP STEAM NAVIGATION SATELLITE LAUNCH WORK PICKS UP STEAM - Hectic activity is on at Sriharikota for the lift-off of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C22) at 11.41 p.m. on July 1, which will put the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, IRNSS-1A into orbit. A PSLV-XL version, which uses six powerful strap-on booster motors, will put the 1,425-kg IRNSS-1A into orbit. “Everything is going well for the launch and the satellite has been integrated with the PSLV,” ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan told The Hindu on Monday from New Delhi.    More
(Source: The Hindu - Jun 27)

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