SPACEX LAUNCHES 46 STARLINK SATELLITES, LANDS ROCKET ON SHIP AT SEA - SpaceX launched 46 satellites and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea on Sunday (July 10).Ī two-stage Falcon 9 rocket topped with 46 of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday at 9:39 p.m. It is part of a launch by Virgin Orbit, which will deploy multiple satellites into l. It will be a test, with the company aiming to launch a returnable and reusable satellite next year. SPACE: FIRST WELSH SATELLITE SET TO BE LAUNCHED LATER IN 2022 - Space Forge's satellite was built in a unit in Rumney, Cardiff, that was previously used to make burger vans. Blastoff is expected (opens in new tab) at 7:1. The cubesat-sized CELESTA (CERN Latchup Experiment STudent sAtellite) is scheduled to launch on Wednesday (July 13) aboard a new European rideshare rocket, called Vega-C. MoreĬERN WILL LAUNCH ITS FIRST SATELLITE THIS WEEK ON NEW EUROPEAN RIDESHARE ROCKET - A tiny satellite aims to extend radiation studies conducted by CERN into space. NROL-162 is the first of two back-to-back Electron missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES FIRST OF TWO BACK-TO-BACK MISSIONS FOR NRO - Rocket Lab launched its 28th Electron rocket on the “Wise One Looks Ahead” mission, also designated National Reconnaissance Office Launch (NROL)-162. “I think we’re really looking at a sea state change,” Bruno said at the Space Innovation Summit, an online event and global economies, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said July 11. SPACE INDUSTRY WARNED TO PREPARE FOR IMPACT FROM LURKING RECESSION - Some companies in the space industry may not survive the coming headwinds in the U.S. NASA UNVEILS NEW ‘FIRST LIGHT’ IMAGES FROM WEBB - NASA unveiled more spectacular “first light” pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope Tuesday, showcasing interacting galaxies, the death throes of a doomed star and a stellar nursery where massive young suns are being born, blazing with gale-force solar winds that sculpt vast clouds of gas. The Tianlian II-03 satellite was launched at half hour to one o'clock Wednesday Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. MoreĬHINA LAUNCHES NEW DATA RELAY SATELLITE - China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Wednesday, Trend reports citing Xinhua. Mission managers have given the go for the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship as it counts down to a liftoff toward the. MoreĬARGO DRAGON IS GO FOR LAUNCH ON THURSDAY - The Expedition 67 crew members are training for this weekend’s arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft to the International Space Station as it prepares for its launch on Thursday. Falcon 9 B1067-5 lifted Dragon 2 Capsule 208-3 (C208-3) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) on July 1. SPACEX AND NASA LAUNCH CRS-25 MISSION TO THE ISS - SpaceX launched its 25th commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for the International Space Station (ISS) on a flight-proven Falcon 9 while also utilizing a flight-proven Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft.

Sam Russ, a professor at the University of South Alabama and scientist for the JagSat-1 Mission, spoke with WKRG News 5 about the road to get to launch and what the team hopes to gain fro. And it is from the University of South Alabama.ĭr. SATELLITE DEVELOPED AT SOUTH ALABAMA HEADS TO SPACE ON SPACEX ROCKET - A mission years in the making is truly out of this world. And recently the small constellation had to make an emergency maneuver on short notice to avoid a potential collision with space debris. MoreĪ CONSTELLATION OF ‘SWARM’ SATELLITES JUST DODGED A COLLISION OVER OUR HEADS - The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission is made up of three spacecraft circling Earth to study our planet’s magnetic field. NASA announced today (July 15) that it has signed a deal with Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos to exchange seats on craft traveling to and from the orbiting lab. RUSSIAN COSMONAUT WILL FLY TO SPACE STATION WITH SPACEX THIS FALL - It's official: SpaceX will soon start flying Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The robotic Dragon launched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday night (July 14) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

WATCH SPACEX'S DRAGON CARGO CAPSULE DOCK WITH THE SPACE STATION SATURDAY MORNING - A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule will meet up with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday (July 16), and you can watch the orbital action live.

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