INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SAFE FROM ORBITING SPACE DEBRIS - Russia's Mission Control Center said Wednesday it dropped an earlier plan to move the International Space Station into a different orbit to avoid possible collision with space debris after additional calculations showed that there was no such threat. Mission Control Center said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies that a fragment of space debris would fly by too far to pose any danger to the space outpost, so a plan to fire booster rockets to carry out the maneuver on Thursday at 07:22 a.m. Moscow time (0322 GMT) was canceled. More (Source: Fox News - Oct 4)
EUROPEAN CARGO SPACESHIP PLUNGES TO ITS DOOM - An unmanned European cargo craft the size of a bus burned up during atmospheric re-entry on Tuesday, four days after undocking from the International Space Station with a load of trash. The six-month supply mission of the Edoardo Amaldi Automated Transfer Vehicle 3, also known as ATV-3, ended as planned with a plunge from orbit over the Pacific Ocean, the European Space Agency reported. More (Source: MSNBC - Oct 3)
GPS 2F-3 SATELLITE READIED TO LAUNCH - About three weeks before before its scheduled launch, the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System 2F-3 navigation satellite was encapsulated in the Delta 4 rocket's two-piece nose cone at Cape Canaveral's DSCS Processing Facility, then transported to Complex 37 a week later for hoisting into the mobile service gantry and placement atop the United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket. More (Source: Spaceflight Now - Oct 2)
2 TELECOM SATELLITES LAUNCHED FROM FRENCH GUIANA - Arianespace has launched two satellites from the South American country of French Guiana that will provide telecommunication services to the Eastern Hemisphere. The ASTRA 2F will provide direct-to-home broadcast services to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The GSAT-10 satellite will serve the Indian Space Research Organization and provide direct-to-home broadcasting and radio-navigation services. More (Source: ABC News - Sep 29)
INDIA'S HEAVIEST SATELLITE GSAT-10 LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY - India's advanced communication satelliteGSAT-10 that would augment telecommunication, direct-to-home broadcasting and radio navigation services was successfully launched early today on board Ariane-5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana in South America. At the end of a smooth countdown lasting 11 hours and 30 minutes, Ariane-5 ECA rocket injected GSAT-10 into an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit... More (Source: Economic Times - Sep 29)
REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE LAUNCHED FOR VENEZUELA - China launched Venezuela's second satellite on Saturday, delivering the spacecraft into a 400-mile-high orbit to monitor the country's territory, survey crops and natural resources, and aid Venezuela's security services. The satellite lifted off from the Jiuquan space center in northwest China at 0412 GMT (12:12 a.m. EDT) atop a Long March 2D rocket. The two-stage launcher deployed the Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite, or VRSS 1, into orbit less than 13 minutes later. More (Source: Spaceflight Now - Sep 29)
ATV-3 FINALLY UNDOCKS FROM THE ISS FOLLOWING EVENTFUL STAY - After accidentally extending its stay at the International Space Station (ISS), Europe’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) has successfully undocked from the orbital outpost on Friday. The extension of its stay nearly resulted in it conducting a Debris Avoidance Maneuver (DAM) for the ISS on Thursday morning, prior to managers deciding the debris threats would not pass close enough to the Station. More (Source: NASASpaceflight.com - Sep 28)
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION MAY HAVE TO DODGE DEBRIS FROM OLD RUSSIAN SATELLITE, INDIAN ROCKET - The International Space Station may have to move to avoid some space junk. NASA said debris from an old Russian satellite and a fragment from an Indian rocket could come too close to the station on Thursday. The station would be moved Thursday morning if necessary, NASA said Wednesday. There are three astronauts living at the orbiting outpost. More (Source: Washington Post - Sep 27)
COMPUTER GLITCH DELAYS SPACE STATION UNDOCKING - An unmanned European cargo ship as large as a double-decker bus inside will have to wait a bit longer before leaving the International Space Station due to computer problems, NASA officials say. The robotic Automated Transfer Vehicle 3 (ATV-3) spacecraft was slated to undock from the space station Tuesday evening, but a technical glitch with a laptop computer inside the station prevented to orbital departure. The two spacecraft were scheduled to part ways at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT). More (Source: MSNBC - Sep 26)
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