ARIANE 5 ORBITS EUTELSAT 21B AND STAR ONE C3 SATELLITES - Two telecommunications satellites that will provide expanded relay capacity over areas that include Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and South America were orbited today by Arianespace on the company's sixth Ariane 5 flight of 2012. Lifting off on time at 6:05 p.m. from the Spaceport's ELA-3 launch complex in French Guiana, the heavy-lift workhorse deployed its EUTELSAT 21B and Star One C3 spacecraft passengers during a 33-minute mission.    More
(Source: Space-travel.com - Nov 11)

HOW DO ASTRONAUTS VOTE FROM SPACE? - While NASA astronauts are orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station, it doesn’t mean they won’t be able to participate in today’s presidential election in the United States. They’ll have the option to vote just like any other American citizen, only from the most amazing polling place ever. How do they do it? It’s actually a fairly simple process, Discovery News explains.   More
(Source: SmartPlanet.com - Nov 7)

NASA HELPING BUILD SPACECRAFT — JUST SO IT CAN BE DEMOLISHED - Work is under way to create a spacecraft that won't be rocketed into outer space but will be purposely destroyed on the ground. DebriSat is a 110-pound (50 kilograms) satellite that's a double for a modern low-Earth orbit spacecraft in terms of its components, materials used, and fabrication procedures. But once fabricated and tested, DebriSat is doomed. The spacecraft will be the target of a future hypervelocity impact experiment to examine the physical characteristics of debris created when two satellites collide.    More
(Source: MSNBC - Nov 7)

RUSSIA LAUNCHES SATELLITES - Russia Saturday launched two satellites that will be used to survey Russian territory and track low-flying space objects, the country's space said. The satellites successfully reached orbit Saturday, Roscosmos said. The Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying Yamal-300K telecoms satellite and Luch 5B relay satellite was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan Saturday, RIA Novosti reported.    More
(Source: UPI - Nov 4)

NASA LAUNCHES ALERTS FOR SPOTTING SPACE STATION - Galactic tourism may still be a daydream for most of us, but for anyone interested in a glimpse of the International Space Station sooner, NASA is ready to help. The US space agency, celebrating the 12th anniversary of astronauts living and working on the orbiting lab, launched a new service Friday that alerts people when the space station is visible from their back yard. Those who sign up will get an email or a text message with a few hours warning. Then, when the moment is right, NASA said, you just go outside and look up -- no fancy equipment required.    More
(Source: AFP - Nov 4)

RUSSIA LAUNCHES TWO SATELLITES FROM BAIKONUR - A Russian Proton-M launch vehicle carrying Yamal-300K telecoms satellite and Luch 5B relay satellite lifted off early on Saturday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said. “The launch was carried out successfully at a scheduled time,” Roscosmos spokesman said. “The separation of the Yamal satellite from the Briz-M booster is expected at 10.19 a.m. Moscow time [06:19 GMT] followed by the separation of the Luch satellite at 10.33 a.m. Moscow time [06.33 GMT],”    More
(Source: RIA Novosti - Nov 3)

GAZPROM TO LAUNCH TWO SATELLITES BY YEAREND - Gazprom Space Systems (GSS), a telecommunications arm of Russia's energy giant Gazprom, is planning to launch two Yamal class satellites by the end of 2012, the company's general designer Nikolai Sevastyanov said on Thursday. GSS, formerly known as Gazcom, already operates a cluster of three Yamal telecoms satellites in orbit.    More
(Source: Space Daily - Nov 3)

SATELLITE CAPTURES THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HURRICANE SANDY ON HALLOWEEN (W/ VIDEO) - This GOES-13 satellite image was captured on Oct. 31 at 1240 UTC as Sandy's circulation was winding down over Pennsylvania. Sandy had been downgraded a remnant low pressure area. Credit: NASA GOES Project Hurricane Sandy is giving up the ghost on Halloween over Penn. As the storm weakened to a remnant low pressure area the NASA GOES Project released an animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery covering Hurricane Sandy's entire life.    More
(Source: Phys.Org - Nov 2)

PROGRESS M-17M DOCKS WITH ISS JUST SIX HOURS AFTER LAUNCH - The Russian Progress M-17M cargo spacecraft lifted off atop a Soyuz-U booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning, on its way to an accelerated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) that was completed just six hours later. The launch marks the final delivery of cargo to be made to the ISS in the 2012 calendar year, apart from some small items aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in December.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Nov 1)

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