STATION GETS READY FOR TWO CARGO MISSIONS LAUNCHING DAYS APART - The Progress 93 cargo craft from Roscosmos rolled out to its launch pad today at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where will launch at 11:54 a.m. EDT on Thursday to the International Space Station. Progress 93, carrying 2.8 tons of food, fuel, and supplies to resupply the Expedition 73 crew, will arrive at the orbital outpost and automatically dock to the Zvezda service module’s aft port at 1:27 p.m. on Saturday. NASA+ will begin its live launch broadcast at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday followed by docking coverage beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. More (Source: NASA - Sep 11)
ROSCOSMOS PROGRESS 91 UNDOCKED FROM SPACE STATION - The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 91 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station at 11:45 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, backing away from the station for a deorbit maneuver and destructive re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere to dispose of trash loaded by the crew. More (Source: NASA - Sep 11)
SPACEX ATTEMPTS TO LAUNCH INDONESIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE FOLLOWING THREE DAYS OF SCRUBS - SpaceX scrubbed launching a communications satellite from an Indonesian company for a third consecutive day. Possible technical issues got in the way of a launch attempt Wednesday evening after back-to-back days of weather delays. When it’s able to launch, the Nusantara Lima (N5) satellite will be sent into a geosynchronous transfer orbit roughly 27 minutes after liftoff. It’s the latest satellite from Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN). More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 11)
SDA READIES FOR PRIME TIME WITH FIRST OPERATIONAL SATELLITE LAUNCH - The Space Development Agency is ready to start launching operational satellites—and launch and launch again over the next 10 months. Twenty-one of SDA’s low-Earth orbit satellites are scheduled to launch shortly after 7 a.m. Pacific time on Sept. 10. The spacecraft, built by York Space Systems, will fly atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. More (Source: Air & Space Forces Magazine - Sep 11)
CHINA LAUNCHES NEW REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE - China launched a new remote sensing satellite from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan on Tuesday. The Yaogan-45 satellite was launched at 10 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-7 carrier rocket. It has entered the preset orbit successfully. It will be mainly used for scientific experiments, land resource surveys, crop yield estimates, and disaster prevention and relief work. More (Source: www.gov.cn - Sep 10)
POOR WEATHER FORCES SPACEX TO SCRUB LAUNCH OF INDONESIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE FROM CAPE CANAVERAL - An Indonesian company is looking to improve its space-based communications service with a state-of-the-art Boeing-built satellite bound for geostationary orbit. The spacecraft comes from Satelit Nusantara Lima (SNL), a subsidiary of Indonesia’s first private satellite company, Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN). The satellite itself is called Nusantara Lima or N5 for short. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Sep 9)
CHINA LAUNCHES NEW REMOTE SENSING SATELLITE GROUP - China launched a new group of remote sensing satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday. The satellites of the Yaogan-40 03 group were launched at 12:34 a.m. (Beijing Time) aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket, and they entered the preset orbits successfully. More (Source: www.gov.cn - Sep 8)
GOP MAY FINALLY SUCCEED IN UNRELENTING QUEST TO KILL TWO NASA CLIMATE SATELLITES - It was in 2002, during the George W. Bush administration, when NASA decided to put a satellite into orbit to track emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas pumped into the atmosphere through human activity. After many twists and turns, NASA's 23-year remit of charting greenhouse gas emissions could come to a close as soon as the end of this month. President Donald Trump's budget request to Congress calls for terminating 41 of NASA's 124 science missions in development or operations, and another 17 would see their funding zeroed out in the near future. More (Source: Ars Technica - Sep 7)
SPACEX PASSES 2,000 STARLINK SATELLITES DEPLOYED IN 2025 WITH SATURDAY LAUNCH - SpaceX deployed its 2,000th Starlink satellite of the year when its Falcon 9 rocket following a flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning. The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-9, carried 24 broadband satellites into a polar, low Earth orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 11:06 a.m. PDT (2:06 p.m. EDT / 1806 UTC). More (Source: ue-6PbisLQs - Sep 7)
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