CHINA AIMS TO LAUNCH REUSABLE SPACE PLANE BY 2. China plans to launch a homegrown, reusable space plane for the first time in 2. Chinese media reports. The spacecraft can transport people or payload into the orbit and return to Earth," China's state- run outlet Xinhua reported last week. Xinhua cited a statement by the state- owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), as well as Chen Hongbo, a researcher at the corporation: "Chen said that the spacecraft will be easier to maintain and can improve the frequency of launches at lower cost, bringing new opportunities for more people to travel into space." More(Source: Space. Nov 4)WIND SATELLITE VACUUM PACKED - With liftoff on the horizon, ESA's Aeolus satellite is going through its last round of tests to make sure that this complex mission will work in orbit.
Over the next month, it is sitting in a large chamber that has had all the air sucked out to simulate the vacuum of space. Aeolus carries one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit: Aladin, which includes two powerful lasers, a large telescope and very sensitive receivers.
More(Source: Phys. Nov 3)NASA TO LET SPACEX LAUNCH ISS DELIVERIES ON USED ROCKETS - Space. X just secured permission to do something it has been planning for years, fly NASA payloads on Falcon 9 first stage boosters that have previously been launched and landed. According to NASASpaceflight. NASA has approved the use of a "flight- proven" Falcon 9 rocket for CRS- 1.
Space. X resupply mission to the International Space Station. It's hard to overstate the significance of this announcement for Space. X. The company has been perfecting vertical rocket landings ever since it stuck the first one back in December 2. Space. X aerospace engineers have gotten good, successfully landing all 1. Falcon 9 first stage boosters this year in missions where a landing was attempted. More(Source: Popular Mechanics - Nov 3)TEN COMMERCIAL EARTH- OBSERVING SATELLITES LAUNCHED ABOARD MINOTAUR- C ROCKET - Returning to service after a six- year hiatus, Orbital ATK’s revamped Minotaur- C rocket soared into space Tuesday from California’s Central Coast with 1. Earth- imaging spacecraft for Planet, a San Francisco- based company with a globe- spanning satellite fleet mapping the world’s land masses every day.
The 1. 04- foot- tall (3. Castor 1. 20 first stage booster at 2: 3.
PDT (5: 3. 7 p. m. EDT; 2. 13. 7 GMT) Tuesday after a smooth countdown, quickly climbing away from pad 5. E at Vandenberg Air Force Base. More(Source: Space. Flight Now - Nov 2)ORBITAL ATK'S 'FRANKENSTEIN' MINOTAUR C ROCKET BLASTS OFF ON HALLOWEEN - A brand- new type of rocket, the Minotaur C, blasted off on its maiden voyage today (Oct. Earth observation satellites into orbit. Orbital ATK's Minotaur C lifted off from Space Launch Complex 5. E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5: 3.
EDT (2: 3. 7 p. m. GMT). About 1. 5 minutes later, the rocket deployed six Sky. Sat Earth- imaging satellites and four Dove cubesats for the commercial imaging company Planet. Liftoff of Minotaur C, carrying the Sky. Sat and Dove satellites for Planet," Sean Wilson, director of corporate communications for Orbital ATK, said during a live webcast of the launch. More(Source: Space.
Nov 1)ISRO TO LAUNCH 3. SATELLITES IN A SINGLE MISSION - On Monday the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said that it will launch 3.
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in December. The mission, whose main payload would be Cartosat- 2 series earth observation satellite, will be the first PSLV mission after the unsuccessful launch of navigation satellite IRNSS- 1.

H in August. While talking to the reporters ISRO Chairman Kiran Kumar said, “We are planning our next launch in the second half of December; all things are in place. It will be a satellite of Cartosat- 2 series along with other co- passengers.” More(Source: Easterneye - Oct 3. NORTH KOREA SEEKS TO DEVELOP SPACE PROGRAM, VOWS TO LAUNCH MORE SATELLITES - As North Korea forges ahead with its nuke and missile programs, Kim Jong Un is also trying to boost Pyongyang's power in space, vowing to launch more satellites and saying efforts to kneecap the Hermit Kingdom's space program are "not tolerable.".

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North Korea announced the five- year space plan in its main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, on Monday, citing the regime’s goals of improving the economy and “livelihood” of North Korean residents, according to Yonhap News Agency. More(Source: Fox News - Oct 3. SPACEX LAUNCHES — AND LANDS — THIRD ROCKET IN THREE WEEKS - Heading into the home stretch of a banner year, Space.
X launched its third Falcon 9 rocket flight of the month Monday with a Korean- owned commercial communications satellite built to connect customers across a swath from the Middle East to East Asia. The Falcon 9 rocket took off with the Koreasat 5. A communications satellite at 3: 3. Vampire In Vegas Online Putlocker.
EDT (1. 93. 4 GMT) Monday from pad 3. A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, turning east as it surpassed the speed of sound and climbed into a clear autumn sky with 1. Merlin 1. D main engines. More(Source: Space. Flight Now - Oct 3. KOREAN COMMUNICATIONS CRAFT INSTALLED ON SPACEX’S FALCON 9 ROCKET - A multipurpose communications satellite owned by a South Korean telecom company is set for liftoff Monday from Florida’s Space Coast aboard a Space. X Falcon 9 booster, and forecasters predict near- ideal conditions for a rocket launch.
The Koreasat 5. A spacecraft, manufactured in Cannes, France, by Thales Alenia Space, was being attached this weekend to Space. X’s Falcon 9 rocket inside the company’s hangar near launch pad 3.
A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More(Source: Space. Flight Now - Oct 3.
NASA’S GRACE- 1 AND GRACE- 2 SATELLITES END OPERATIONS - After more than 1. U. S./German GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission has ended science operations. During their mission, the twin GRACE satellites have provided unprecedented insights into how our planet is changing by tracking the continuous movement of liquid water, ice and the solid Earth. GRACE made science measurements by precisely measuring the distance between its twin satellites, GRACE- 1 and GRACE- 2, which required that both spacecraft and their instruments be fully functional. More(Source: Clarksville Online - Oct 3. U. S. ARMY’S KESTREL EYE IIM MICROSATELLITE DEPLOYED FROM SPACE STATION - Nano. Racks LLC successfully deployed the Kestrel Eye IIM microsatellite on Tuesday, Oct.