S. KOREA'S NEW SCIENCE SATELLITE SET TO BLAST OFF FROM RUSSIA - South Korea will launch its first science satellite with infrared radar in Russia later Thursday. The Science and Technology Satellite 3 (STSAT-3) will be launched at 1:10 p.m. (4:10 p.m. KST) from here at Russia's Yasny Launch Base. "So far, no problems have been detected in either the launch vehicle or satellite," Park Gyeong-soo, an official from Seoul's Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, told reporters here.   More
(Source: Korea Times - Nov 21)

UL SATELLITE LAUNCHED INTO ORBIT - A small, cube satellite designed and built by a team of UL-Lafayette students is finally in orbit after almost a half a decade wait. The Cajun Advanced Pico-Satellite was part of a payload that was launched into orbit at 7:30pm Tuesday night. Five years after the project started, the satellite was supposed to launch in the first week of November, but a government shutdown pushed the date back.    More
(Source: KLFY - Nov 21)

SATELLITE BUILT AT UNM GOES INTO ORBIT - The first satellite built by University of New Mexico researchers and students blasted into orbit Tuesday on a Minotaur I rocket from the East Coast. The satellite, appropriately, is called Trailblazer. It is small: a four-inch by four-inch by four-inch cube, also known as a CubeSat. It is one of 28 CubeSats, many of which were built at other universities. In a sense, Trailblazer will go where no satellite has gone before. While it may be small, its mission is complex. It aims to prove that off-the-shelf component parts are possible for larger Air Force satellites.    More
(Source: ABQ Journal - Nov 21)

CHINESE MILITARY SATELLITE LAUNCHED INTO ORBIT - A Long March rocket shot a Chinese intelligence-gathering satellite into orbit Wednesday. Consistent with China's usual communications policy for military space missions, official sources did not announce the launch in advance. China's state-run Xinhua news agency declared the launch successful. The Yaogan 19 satellite lifted off on a Long March 4C rocket at 0331 GMT Wednesday (10:31 p.m. EST Tuesday), or 11:31 a.m. Beijing time, from the Taiyuan launching center in northern China's Shanxi province.    More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 21)

BALL AEROSPACE-BUILT STPSAT-3 SATELLITE LAUNCHES FROM WALLOPS ISLAND, VA - The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. STPSat-3 satellite built for the Department of Defense and part of the Operationally Responsive Space-3 (ORS-3) mission, successfully launched from Wallops Island, VA, on board a Minotaur I at 8:15 p.m. EST. TPSat-3 joins its predecessor, the Ball-built STPSat-2, which launched in 2010 on the same date. These satellites demonstrate the ability to rapidly access space by using standard interfaces on a standard spacecraft bus.    More
(Source: Wall Street journal - Nov 20)

ORBITAL’S MINOTAUR I SUCCESSFULLY LOFTS MULTITUDE OF PAYLOADSROCKET TO LIFT OFF WITH SATELLITE BUILT - Orbital Sciences Corporation have launched the ORS-3 mission for the US military, using a Minotaur I rocket to demonstrate technology aimed at reducing costs for future missions. The rocket lofted a record 29 satellites, as well as two attached payloads, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island at 20:15 local time Tuesday (01:15 UTC on Wednesday).   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Nov 20)

NASA LAUNCHES MAVEN ORBITER TO PROBE MYSTERIES IN MARS' AIR - NASA launched its Maven orbiter on Monday to begin a journey that could unravel the mysteries surrounding Mars' past and current atmosphere — and perhaps reveal how the planet lost its life-friendly environment. A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket rose from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 in Florida at 1:28 p.m. ET, carrying the probe into space to kick off its $671 million mission.   More
(Source: NBC News - Nov 18)

ECUADOR SET TO LAUNCH 2ND SATELLITE - Ecuador is ready to send its second satellite into space, with the launch scheduled for this week from a military base in Russia, the Ecuadorian Civilian Space Agency, or EXA, said. "Everything is set for the launch" of the Krysaor satellite on Tuesday, EXA director Ronnie Nader told Efe. The satellite will be carried into space by a Russian-made Dnepr RS-20 rocket. "Let's just say that we are just waiting for the launch. We're ready," Nader said. The rocket is scheduled to be launched at 0700 GMT Tuesday from the Dombarovsky missile complex at the Yasni base, Nader said.   More
(Source: GlobalPost - Nov 18)

SATELLITES TO PROBE EARTH'S STRANGE SHIELD - Europe next week will launch a trio of hi-tech satellites to explore something that may seem utterly mundane: Earth's magnetic field. After all, magnetism has been with us for billions of years. We harness it in innumerable ways, in navigation and electrical devices. What's new? Well, plenty, actually. If all goes well, the 230-million-euro ($276-million) Swarm mission will explain some of the weird things happening to the planet's magnetism.   More
(Source: GlobalPost - Nov 18)

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