PRIVATE DRAGON SPACECRAFT 'GO' TO LAUNCH SPACE STATION CARGO SUNDAY - A private Dragon space capsule is poised for a weekend launch to the International Space Station with the first big cargo shipment ever aboard an unmanned American spacecraft. The gumdrop-shaped Dragon spacecraft, built by the commercial spaceflight company SpaceX, will blast off on Sunday (Oct. 7) from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is set for 8:35 p.m. EDT (0035 Monday GMT), with a planned arrival at the station set for on Wednesday (Oct. 10).    More
(Source: Space.com - Oct 7)

JAPAN MINI-SATELLITE TO FLASH CODE FROM SPACE - A palm-sized Japanese satellite in orbit around Earth will flash a Morse code message that will be visible around the world from next month, the mission commander said Friday. Researchers hope the satellite, measuring 10 centimetres (four inches) cubed and launched from the International Space Station on Friday, will become the first orbiter to transmit an LED message across the night sky.   More
(Source: Phys.Org - Oct 6)

ASTRONAUTS LAUNCH TECHEDSAT FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - A small cube-like satellite launched from the International Space Station on Thursday and it has NASA engineers, student interns and amateur radio enthusiasts around the world listening. TechEdSat was released from the new Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer aboard the space station at 11:44 am EDT. The small satellite measures only 4 inches to a side and carries a ham radio transmitter. Developed by a group of student interns from San Jose State University (SJSU)    More
(Source: RedOrbit - Oct 6)

SPACE STATION DEPLOYS FIVE CUBESATS - Five research CubeSats – all with Amateur Radio communication systems – were successfully deployed from the International Space Station beginning around 1430 UTC today. The satellites were launched from the Kibo station module using a specially equipped robotic arm.   More
(Source: ARRL - Oct 6)

AIR FORCE LAUNCHES LATEST GPS SATELLITE INTO ORBIT - The Air Force has launched a satellite from Cape Canaveral to be part of the existing navigation system for the military. The latest Global Positioning System satellite, GPS IIF-3, rocketed into space Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which is separate from NASA's space center on the Florida coast. The satellite was carried up by an unmanned Delta 4 rocket in the medium-plus configuration, wihcih includes two solid-rocket boosters.    More
(Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49290825/ns/technology_and_science-space/ - Oct 5)

WATCH SPACEX'S UPCOMING LAUNCH LIVE - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will try and launch its second private spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. The rocket is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8:35pm EDT, making for a real life prime time spectacle for people living near the launch site. However, for anyone living anywhere else in the world, there is still the opportunity to watch thanks to the Internet.   More
(Source: Examiner.com - Oct 4)

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)

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