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)

SEE SANDY FROM SPACE: NASA CAMERAS CAPTURE HURRICANE'S CHURN ALONG THE EAST COAST - As Hurricane Sandy begins to make landfall in New York, hunkering storm-watchers can now see what the colossal "Frankenstorm" looks like from space. A camera aboard the International Space Station has captured the hurricane roaring up from the Caribbean, and NASA has posted videos on its website, nasa.gov.    More
(Source: New York Daily News - Oct 30)

RETURN OF THE DRAGON: COMMERCIAL CRAFT BACK HOME - A commercial capsule built by SpaceX descended from orbit Sunday with a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, bringing back nearly one ton of precious experiment samples and other gear from the International Space Station. The 14-foot-tall, 12-foot-diameter Dragon spaceship splashed down several hundred miles west of Baja California at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT) under the canopy of three 116-foot parachutes.    More
(Source: Spaceflight Now - Oct 29)

HURRICANE SANDY NASA VIDEO: INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CAPTURES STUNNING VIDEO OF SANDY FROM SPACE - NASA released stunning video Thursday of Hurricane Sandy captured from the International Space Station. The video shows Sandy as it approaches the United States. As of Friday morning, Sandy was still a Category 1 hurricane and was passing near Great Abaco Island. NASA officials said the International Space Station took this photo when "The storm was located about 85 miles south-southeast of Great Exuma Island."    More
(Source: ABC2 News - Oct 28)

SPACEX CAPSULE, PACKED WITH SUPPLIES, SET TO RETURN FROM STATION - SpaceX's Dragon space capsule, currently on the first contracted mission to resupply the International Space Station, is scheduled to return to Earth on Sunday afternoon. At 12:20 p.m. PDT, the capsule is set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean about 250 miles west of Southern California. It will be the culmination of the mission carried out by the Hawthorne company, which is officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp. The spacecraft delivered 882 pounds of cargo to the station earlier this month.    More
(Source: Los Angeles Times - Oct 28)

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