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CHINESE ASTRONAUTS COMPLETE FIRST SPACEWALK OUTSIDE NEW SPACE STATION CHINESE ASTRONAUTS COMPLETE FIRST SPACEWALK OUTSIDE NEW SPACE STATION - Two Chinese astronauts headed outside the country’s space station Saturday for the second-ever spacewalk in China’s space program, and the first staged from the new Tiangong complex in low Earth orbit. Astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo tested new-generation Chinese-built spacesuits, installed foot restraints and a work platform on the space station’s robotic arm, and mounted a panoramic camera outside the complex, according to the China Manned Space Agency.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 9)


CHINA PICKS UP THE LAUNCH PACE WITH THREE SPACE MISSIONS IN FOUR DAYS CHINA PICKS UP THE LAUNCH PACE WITH THREE SPACE MISSIONS IN FOUR DAYS - China appears to be returning to its pre-pandemic pace of launching back-to-back space missions. Various Chinese sources indicate the country finished three successful orbital launches in four days, with the latest of the group launching from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China on Tuesday (July 6).    More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 8)


EUROPE WILL LAUNCH A NEW TWO-HANDED ROBOTIC ARM TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SOON EUROPE WILL LAUNCH A NEW TWO-HANDED ROBOTIC ARM TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SOON - An autonomous robotic arm is readying to fly to the International Space Station to service its Russian segment. The European Robotic Arm (ERA), built by European aerospace company Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA), will fly to the orbital outpost on July 15 together with the new Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, also known as Nauka (the Russian word for science).    More
(Source: Space.com - Jul 7)


TROPICAL STORM ELSA DELAYS SPACEX DRAGON UNDOCKING FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION TROPICAL STORM ELSA DELAYS SPACEX DRAGON UNDOCKING FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Tropical Storm Elsa has thrown a wrench in the timing of SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft undocking from the International Space Station, with high winds and heavy rains expected to hit the carrier's landing site off the coast of Florida. The Dragon was originally set to undock on Tuesday and land in Florida waters via parachute two days later.    More
(Source: Fox Business - Jul 6)


OQ TECHNOLOGY’S FIRST COMMERCIAL 5G, IOT SATELLITE NOW OCCUPIES ITS ORBITAL SLOT OQ TECHNOLOGY’S FIRST COMMERCIAL 5G, IOT SATELLITE NOW OCCUPIES ITS ORBITAL SLOT - Among the company’s recent steps to expand its business are the successful launch of its Tiger-2 satellite aboard the SpaceX Transporter-2 rideshare mission, organized by Spaceflight Inc., a fourth ESA contract for a 5G agile network configuration via satellite, the installation of a new ground station in Luxembourg and its newly established LEO Constellation Control Center.   More
(Source: SatNews Publishers - Jul 6)


CHINA LOFTS FENGYUN 3E POLAR WEATHER SATELLITE CHINA LOFTS FENGYUN 3E POLAR WEATHER SATELLITE - China has successfully launched a new polar weather satellite, Fengyun 3E. Liftoff of the mission took place at 23:28 UTC on 4 July 2021 from launch site SLS-2 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center using a Chang Zheng 4C rocket. The launch was the second in as many days for China and successfully placed Fengyun 3E into a Sun-Synchronous Orbit at 808 km in altitude, inclined 98.8 degrees to the equator.   More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jul 6)


NASA ROCKET, SATELLITE TAG-TEAM TO VIEW THE GIANT ELECTRIC CURRENT IN THE SKY NASA ROCKET, SATELLITE TAG-TEAM TO VIEW THE GIANT ELECTRIC CURRENT IN THE SKY - Some 50 miles up, where Earth’s atmosphere blends into space, the air itself hums with an electric current. Scientists call it the atmospheric dynamo, an Earth-sized electric generator. It’s taken hundreds of years for scientists to lay the groundwork to understand it, but the principles that keep it running are only just now being revealed in detail.   More
(Source: SpaceCoastDaily.com - Jul 6)


RADIO TELESCOPE FACES “EXTREMELY CONCERNING” THREAT FROM SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS RADIO TELESCOPE FACES “EXTREMELY CONCERNING” THREAT FROM SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS - A multibillion-dollar radio telescope is moving into its construction phase while still working to raise funding and deal with satellite megaconstellations whose interference “change the game” for their plans. In a June 29 talk at the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society, Philip Diamond, director general of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Observatory, announced that the observatory’s council had formally approval plans to move into the construction phase of the radio telescope.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Jul 4)


CHINA LAUNCHES FIVE SATELLITES ON A CHANG ZHENG 2D CHINA LAUNCHES FIVE SATELLITES ON A CHANG ZHENG 2D - At 02:51 UTC, or 10:51 AM Beijing time on Saturday, July 3, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) successfully launched a Chang Zheng 2D rocket from LC-9 at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, carrying five satellites into Sun Synchronous Orbit. The launch is the beginning of what is expected to be a busy launch period for the Chinese space program.    More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Jul 4)


RICHARD BRANSON TO FLY IN SPACE JULY 11, NINE DAYS BEFORE RIVAL BEZOS RICHARD BRANSON TO FLY IN SPACE JULY 11, NINE DAYS BEFORE RIVAL BEZOS - Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Galactic, will fly into space aboard his company’s VSS Unity rocketplane July 11 for an up-and-down test flight, beating Amazon-founder and rival Jeff Bezos into sub-orbital space by nine days. “I’ve always been a dreamer. My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars. On July 11, it’s time to turn that dream into a reality,” Branson tweeted.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Jul 4)

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