UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE POSTPONES SPY SATELLITE LAUNCH AGAIN - United Launch Alliance postponed launch of a spy satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense on Monday due to lightning and stormy weather in the area near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company's powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket had been scheduled to carry the satellite aloft at 12:02 a.m. EDT Tuesday. More (Source: UPI.com - Sep 29)
SPACEX DELAYS NEXT STARLINK SATELLITE FLEET LAUNCH DUE TO BAD WEATHER - SpaceX postponed the launch of a new fleet of Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 28) due to bad weather at the mission's Florida launch site. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scheduled to launch 60 Starlink satellites from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:22 a.m. EDT (1422 GMT), but thick clouds over the launch site prevented the flight. More (Source: Space.com - Sep 29)
UH SATELLITE TO COLLECT NEUTRONS IN SPACE - Neutron-1, a small satellite involving more than 100 University of Hawaiʻi students, faculty, staff and volunteers, will be launched on September 29 (delayed to October 1) on the ELaNa 31, NG-14 International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. During the mission, Neutron-1 will measure neutrons in space and radiation coming from the Sun. More (Source: UH System Current News - Sep 28)
CYGNUS NG-14 MISSION UPDATES - The launch of the Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus spacecraft is now scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 1, at 9:38 p.m. from Wallops Island, Virginia. Tune in to NASA TV to watch the launch live. Northrop Grumman, along with NASA, has rescheduled the Antares and Cygnus launch for the NG-14 mission to NET Thursday, Oct. 1, at 9:38 p.m. EDT due to unfavorable weather conditions. More (Source: Northrop Grumman - Sep 28)
NASA LAUNCHING NEW SPACE TOILET AND MORE TO SPACE STATION THIS WEEK - A private cargo spacecraft will lift off from Virginia on Tuesday (Sept. 29), carrying tons of fresh supplies to the International Space Station, including scientific experiments, skincare from Estée Lauder and a brand-new space toilet. The mission, known as Cygnus NG-14, will be deliver 7,624 lbs (3,458 kilograms) of cargo on the14th flight for Northrop Grumman's robotic Cygnus spacecraft and the resupply craft's 13th mission to the International Space Station. More (Source: Space.com - Sep 28)
SECRETIVE CHINESE LAUNCH SENDS TWO REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES INTO ORBIT - China added to its Earth observation capabilities with the clandestine launch of two satellites from Taiyuan late Saturday. The unexpected launch of a Long March 4B rocket carrying satellites HJ-2A (Huanjing-2A) and HJ-2B took place at 11:23 p.m. Eastern Saturday. While Chinese launches are rarely publicly announced ahead of time, the publishing of airspace closures usually provides a few days of notice. No notices were apparently issued ahead of the launch. More (Source: SpaceNews - Sep 28)
ULA DELAYS LAUNCH OF SPY SATELLITE FOR 3RD TIME; 2 MORE LAUNCHES PLANNED - United Launch Alliance (ULA) has delayed the launch of its Delta IV Heavy NROL-44 mission for the third time in two days. The space company said that while the rocket is ready for launch, they are taking extra precautions to ensure that all issues are resolved with the swing arm retraction system. More (Source: FOX 35 Orlando - Sep 28)
LIVE COVERAGE: SPACEX READIES FALCON 9 ROCKET FOR LAUNCH MONDAY - After an 11-day delay, SpaceX plans to deploy 60 more Starlink broadband satellites with a Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for 10:22 a.m. EDT (1422 GMT) Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket was originally supposed to launch from pad 39A at Kennedy on Sept. 17, but SpaceX scrubbed the countdown due to unfavorable conditions in the Atlantic Ocean, where the company's booster recovery vessel "Just Read the Instructions" was unable to maintain position for landing of the Falcon 9's first stage. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 28)
THE PANDEMIC IS SPEEDING UP THE SPACE INTERNET RACE - In vast swaths of the United States and the world, there are millions of people who don’t have reliable internet access. These unconnected people aren’t just in far-flung places like rural America or New Zealand or sub-Saharan Africa, either. There are plenty of people living in dense city centers who struggle to access affordable broadband. The pandemic has brought new urgency to the problem, and while companies like Google and Facebook have floated far-out ideas for solving this problem, the internet technology that’s most promising is also the one that’s already proven: satellite broadband. More (Source: Vox - Sep 27)
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