SPACECRAFT LAUNCHED FROM WALLOPS TO DEPART SPACE STATION ON TUESDAY - The Cygnus spacecraft launched from Wallops Island on Sept. 18 will complete its supply mission to the International Space Station next week. NASA TV - which can be seen at www.nasa.gov/ntvnews - will air the spacecraft's departure from the space station beginning at 7 a.m. Tuesday. Cygnus is a commercial cargo carrier developed by Orbital Sciences Corp. It launched on an Antares rocket from the Mid- Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility.   More
(Source: HispanicBusiness.com - Oct 21)

RUSSIA RUSSIA READIES PROTON ROCKET FOR OCTOBER 20 LAUNCH - A Proton-M carrier rocket with a US telecoms satellite will be transported early Thursday to a launch pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch on October 20, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. According to Roscosmos, the Proton rocket with a Briz-M booster and the Sirius FM-6 satellite has been cleared for the launch by a special state commission on Wednesday.   More
(Source: RIA Novosti - Oct 20)

NEXT DELTA 4 ROCKET GROUNDED BY RL10 ENGINE INQUIRY - Next Delta 4 rocket grounded by RL10 engine inquiry BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: October 18, 2013 6 United Launch Alliance has postponed the next launch of a Delta 4 rocket from Oct. 23 to sort out the significance of fresh conclusions stemming from an investigation into an RL10 engine anomaly during another Delta 4 launch one year ago, the company said in a statement Friday. The launch company, which operates the Atlas and Delta rocket fleets, said it has not set a new date for the Delta 4 rocket's launch of the GPS 2F-5 spacecraft to replenish the U.S. Air Force's fleet of positioning, navigation and timing satellites.    More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 20)

SPACEX COULD LAUNCH ROCKET FROM NM SITE THIS YEAR - Space Explorations Technologies Corp. says it could launch its first test flight from Spaceport America by late December. The Las Cruces Sun-News (http://bit.ly/1aPixT9 ) reports that SpaceX President and CEO Gwynne Shotwell addressed a space symposium in Las Cruces Wednesday. She said about 25 of SpaceX's more than 3,000 employees will be based temporarily at New Mexico at the spaceport near Truth or Consequences for the test work on the company's Grasshopper rocket.   More
(Source: Greenwich Time - Oct 18)

ELECTRIC PROPULSION SATELLITE PROJECT GETS GO-AHEAD - A new generation of satellites propelled by solar electric thrusters will be developed by ESA following the signing of a new contract. The space agency has signed a contract with satellite operator SES, of Luxembourg, to move to the next phase of the Electra project – a partnership between ESA and SES to develop and validate in space an electric-only propulsion platform for geostationary telecommunication satellites of about three tonnes launch mass.   More
(Source: E&T - Oct 17)

SATELLITE DESIGNED BY TAYLOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HEADING TO NASA - A small satellite designed and built by engineering students at Taylor University in Upland has completed final pre-launch tests and is set to be delivered to NASA for launch in early 2014. Dr. Hank Voss at Taylor University says the students are directly involved. "I think they also get motivated where they really want to do the academics at a higher level," Voss says.    More
(Source: 93.1 WIBC Indianapolis - Oct 13)

EUROPE'S GRAVITY-MAPPING GOCE SATELLITE FACES BIG FALL FROM SPACE - A European-built satellite built to map Earth's gravity like never before is about to fall victim to the planet's ever-present gravitational pull. The European Space Agency's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE for short, is nearly out of fuel and will make a nosedive to Earth this month after more than four successful years studying the planet's gravitational field.   More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 13)

HISPASAT TO LAUNCH AMAZONAS 4A SATELLITE IN DECEMBER - Spain's Hispasat plans to launch the Amazonas 4A satellite, built in the record time of 18 months, in December to meet existing demand in the Americas, where the company gets 55 percent of its business, Hispasat CEO Carlos Espinos said. The European satellite market has felt the economic recession and is "in contraction" but the overall market is reaching equilibrium thanks to the fact that growth is continuing in the Americas, Espinos said in an interview.   More
(Source: Latin American Herald Tribune - Oct 8)

SOUTH AFRICA TO LAUNCH THIRD SATELLITE NEXT MONTH - South Africa will launch its third satellite into space next month to observe the earth for research purposes, authorities said on Saturday. The satellite ZA-Cuba will join Sunsat and Sumbandla launched in 2009, according to the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The satellite, designed by students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, will be ready for possible launch in late November, DST Director-General Phil Mjwara said at the World Space Week celebrations in Kimberley, the Free State Province.   More
(Source: EastDay.com - Oct 8)

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