CHINA LAUNCHES SEVEN SATELLITES INTO SPACE - China launched a carrier rocket from a northwestern spaceport on Tuesday morning, sending seven satellites into orbit, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contractor. The 43-meter-tall rocket blasted off at 11:21 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in a mountainous region in Shanxi province and soon placed the satellites into their preset orbital positions, the State-owned conglomerate said in a news release.   More
(Source: China Daily - Aug 26)

NASA SATELLITES ACE WORLD'S 1ST 'LOST-IN-SPACE' GPS-FREE NAVIGATION EXPERIMENT - No GPS available in space? A satellite experiment may have a solution for that. NASA's Starling mission — made up of a swarm of four cubesats in low Earth orbit (LEO) — is testing out navigation by using other satellites as moving landmarks. The hope is that this tech will allow future missions to navigate if GPS is not available.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 26)

SPACEX LAUNCHES STARLINK MISSION ON A FALCON BOOSTER’S RECORD-BREAKING 37TH FLIGHT - SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida early Tuesday morning, using a first-stage booster making a record-breaking 37th flight. The Starlink 10-49 mission added another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit constellation consisting of more than 11,000 spacecraft. It could be the last Starlink flight from Cape Canaveral for a while, with no further missions for the company’s internet service appearing on the near-term schedule.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 26)

NASA IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH A POWERFUL NEW EYE ON THE UNIVERSE - NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has been cleared for final launch preparations ahead of a targeted August 30 liftoff aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. The powerful new observatory will probe cosmic expansion, the history of the universe, and distant exoplanets. NASA and SpaceX are targeting liftoff no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30. The telescope is scheduled to ride into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.   More
(Source: ScienceDaily - Aug 25)

SPACEX SENDS 27 STARLINK SATELLITES TO ORBIT ON 100TH FALCON ROCKET LAUNCH OF THE YEAR - SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites this morning (Aug. 22) on a milestone mission for the company's Falcon rocket family. A Falcon 9 carrying 27 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California today at 3:25 a.m. EDT (0725 GMT; 12:25 a.m. local California time). It was the 99th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year, and the 100th Falcon mission of 2026 overall. The other flight was performed by a Falcon Heavy, which lofted the telecom satellite Viasat-3 F3 in April.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 24)

SPACEX LAUNCHES 29 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM CAPE CANAVERAL FOLLOWING LAST-MINUTE SCRUB - SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday morning. The flight followed a last-minute scrub on Thursday due to an undisclosed issue. The Starlink 10-39 mission adds another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 11:14 a.m. EDT (1514 UTC).   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Aug 22)

WHITE HOUSE TARGETS SUPPORT FOR 1,000 LAUNCHES PER YEAR BY 2030 - The White House set a target for the U.S to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 in a new National Security Presidential Memorandum released Thursday. That would be a massive jump increase in orbital launches over the next few years. In 2025, there were 193 orbital launches in the U.S. — 85% of which were SpaceX launches, according to BryceTech’s 2025 analysis. The White House called the new policy a “comprehensive, America First approach,” to launch a “golden age of space transportation.”    More
(Source: Via Satellite - Aug 22)

ROCKET LAB LAUNCHES PRIVATE JAPANESE EARTH-OBSERVING SATELLITE TO ORBIT - Rocket Lab launched a private Japanese satellite to orbit this morning (Aug. 20), adding to a growing constellation of Earth-observing spacecraft. An Electron vehicle lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site at 9:04 a.m. EDT (1304 GMT; 1:04 a.m. on Aug. 21 local New Zealand time), carrying aloft a radar satellite for the Tokyo-based company iQPS.   More
(Source: Space.com - Aug 21)

NASA SAYS MISSION TO SAVE SATELLITE HAS FAILED - A complicated mission to save a NASA satellite from burning up in the atmosphere has failed, the US space agency said Wednesday, August 19, as the rescue spacecraft could not be controlled. The Swift space telescope, which studies the most powerful explosions in the universe, will now likely plunge back to earth and disintegrate along the way later this year. The unprecedented $30 million dollar mission attempted to send a robot to grab the telescope and move it farther into orbit.   More
(Source: Le Monde - Aug 21)

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