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ALERTING TOOLS SPACE STATION PREDICTIONS BY VOICE SPACE STATION NOTIFICATION TOOL ALERTS BY EMAIL AND SMSLive Meteors - Listen to the sound of meteors as they hit the EarthLearn moreSPACE CALENDAR 2020: ROCKET LAUNCHES, SKY EVENTS, MISSIONS & MORE! - Here's a guide to all the rocket launches and astronomical events in 2020, as well as milestones for space missions, anniversaries and conferences.Read article ASTRA WILL LAUNCH ITS 1ST SATELLITE MISSION IN EARLY 2021 - Astra is moving full-speed ahead after notching its first spaceflight success this week.The Bay Area startup's two-stage Rocket 3.2 soared high on a test flight from Alaska on Tuesday (Dec. 15), acing a series of important milestones and hitting its target altitude of 236 miles (380 kilometers), Astra representatives wrote in a blog post on Thursday (Dec. 17). More (Source: Space.com - Dec 20) CAPELLA DELIVERS SUPER SHARP SATELLITE RADAR PICTURES - There is only one way to get persistent vision of the Earth's surface, and that is with satellite radar.Take a look at these images - they're the latest product from the San Francisco start-up Capella Space.The "spot" pictures have a resolution on the ground of 50cm by 50cm. This is a first for the commercial marketplace. More (Source: Yahoo News - Dec 19) ARIANESPACE TARGETS EARLY 2021 FOR VEGA RETURN-TO-FLIGHT - Presenting the results of an inquiry into a European Vega rocket failure last month, officials said Friday that misleading instructions and inadequate preflight checks caused teams to overlook wrongly-installed cables on the launcher’s upper stage steering system.Arianespace and European Space Agency officials said they aim to resume Vega launches before the end of March, once technicians complete additional inspections of already-built rocket components to ensure they are free of the problem that caused the failure in November. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Dec 19) ONEWEB SATELLITE COMPANY LAUNCHES INTO NEW ERA - The OneWeb satellite broadband company is back launching again, putting up 36 new satellites on Friday from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Eastern Russia.The spacecraft are to join the 74 already in orbit.OneWeb is now owned principally by the Indian conglomerate Bharti Global and the UK government after they bought the enterprise out of bankruptcy this year. More (Source: BBC News - Dec 18) SPACE FORCE OFFICIAL: RUSSIAN MISSILE TESTS EXPOSE VULNERABILITY OF LOW-ORBITING SATELLITES - Russia on Dec. 15 conducted a ballistic missile test that U.S. Space Command condemned as a threat to satellites in orbit. “The nation must do something about this,” said Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno, director of staff of the Office of the Chief of Space Operations of the U.S. Space Force.Speaking Dec. 16 at a Washington Space Business Roundtable virtual event, Armagno said the recent Russian missile test shows how vulnerable satellites are... More (Source: SpaceNews - Dec 18) PSLV DELIVERS INDIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE INTO ORBIT - A government communications satellite to link Indian citizens with telemedicine, education, and other services rocketed into orbit Thursday on an Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. The CMS 1 satellite, formerly known as GSAT 12R, is on track to replace India’s GSAT 12 spacecraft in geostationary orbit providing telecom services across the Indian subcontinent and neighboring islands.The roughly 1.5-ton satellite took off on the PSLV at 5:11 a.m. EST (1011 GMT) Thursday, or 3:41 p.m. local time in India. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Dec 18) SPACEX ABORTS US SPY SATELLITE LAUNCH DUE TO ROCKET BOOSTER PRESSURE ISSUE - SpaceX called off the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a classified spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office due to high pressure in the second-stage booster.The launch, dubbed NROL-108, was set to launch from Pad 39A of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a three-hour launch window that opened at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) today (Dec. 17). The next launch attempt could occur on Friday (Dec. 18). More (Source: Space.com - Dec 18) SANTA CLAUS TO FLY BY THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - Santa Claus will be performing a ceremonial fly-by of the International Space Station (ISS) on Dec. 24. The visit will honor the 20th anniversary of continuous life on the ISS, a milestone achieved in November.The official NORAD Santa Tracker at NoradSanta.org will allow users to track Santa’s journey all day on Dec. 24. New for this year, visitors will be able to see the ISS orbiting the planet in its precise real-time location by zooming out on the 3D Santa Tracker app. Other updates include additions to Santa’s traditional garb, including a face mask and space helmet. More (Source: GPS World magazine - Dec 17) SPACEX WILL LAUNCH A SPY SATELLITE FOR THE NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICE THURSDAY. WATCH IT LIVE! - SpaceX is set to launch a spy satellite into orbit for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Thursday (Dec. 17), and you can watch the action online. The flight is scheduled to blast off from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center here in Florida during a planned three-hour window that opens at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT). However, the exact liftoff time has not yet been announced. More (Source: Space.com - Dec 17) SPACE COMMAND CALLS OUT ANOTHER RUSSIAN ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPON TEST - Russia conducted its second test this year of a direct ascent anti-satellite missile test, according to a U.S. Space Command, yet again drawing sharp criticism from the U.S.“Russia has made space a war-fighting domain by testing space-based and ground-based weapons intended to target and destroy satellites. This fact is inconsistent with Moscow’s public claims that Russia seeks to prevent conflict in space,” said Space Command head Gen. James Dickinson in a statement. “Space is critical to all nations. More (Source: C4ISRNet - Dec 17) INDIA READYING PSLV ROCKET TO LAUNCH CMS-01 COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE - The Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, is preparing for their second launch of 2020 using their workhorse rocket: the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, or PSLV. The mission will carry the CMS-01 replacement communications satellite to orbit on Thursday, 17 December at 10:11 UTC, or 05:11 EST. The launch is scheduled to occur locally at 15:41 IST (Indian Standard Time) from the Second Launch Pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on India’s east coast. More (Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Dec 17) INCREDIBLE SATELLITE VIEW OF THE MOON’S SHADOW CROSSING THE SURFACE OF EARTH DURING THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE - The first and only total solar eclipse of 2020 occurred on December 14, with the path of totality stretching from the equatorial Pacific to the South Atlantic and passing through southern Argentina and Chile. The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 (GOES-16) captured images of the shadow of the Moon crossing the surface of Earth. More (Source: SciTechDaily - Dec 16) ROCKET LAB CLOSES OUT YEAR WITH LAUNCH OF SYNSPECTIVE’S FIRST RADAR SATELLITE - Rocket Lab’s seventh and final launch of the year delivered a small radar observation satellite into orbit for Synspective, a Japanese startup planning a fleet of 30 or more Earth-imaging spacecraft providing day-and-night imagery of cities around the world.The liquid-fueled Electron rocket’s kick stage deployed Synspective’s StriX-α demonstration satellite into a roughly 310-mile-high (500-kilometer) sun-synchronous polar orbit around an hour after liftoff, Rocket Lab said in a statement. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Dec 16) NASA ASSIGNS ASTRONAUTS FOR THIRD SPACEX COMMERCIAL CREW MISSION - NASA has selected three astronauts for a future SpaceX commercial crew mission to the International Space Station as it leaves open the possibility of exchanging seats with Russia.NASA and the European Space Agency jointly announced Dec. 14 they had assigned NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer to the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. That commercial crew mission is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2021. More (Source: SpaceNews - Dec 15) SIRIUSXM’S NEW SATELLITE IS IN ORBIT - A new satellite serving SiriusXM is in orbit and “performing properly” after a Sunday launch.That announcement was made by the company along with Maxar Technologies, which built the satellite, and SpaceX, which launched it.SXM-7 Ready For Launch. SpaceXThe SXM-7 ready for launch in an image from SpaceX.The satellite is SXM-7 and it has an expected service life of 15 years. More (Source: Radio World - Dec 15) RUSSIA LAUNCHES NEW ANGARA A5 ROCKET ON SECOND TEST FLIGHT IN NIGHTTIME LIFTOFF - Six years after acing its first test flight, Russia's monster Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket has done it again.The rocket launched flawlessly Monday (Dec. 14) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 12:50 a.m. EST (0550 GMT or 8:50 a.m. Moscow time), according to Russian space agency Roscosmos. Roscosmos also confirmed the Breeze-M upper stage and a mock spacecraft successfully separated from the launch vehicle 12 minutes and 28 seconds after the liftoff. More (Source: Space.com - Dec 15) SIRIUSXM SATELLITE RIDES SPACEX ROCKET INTO ORBIT - A hefty new satellite to beam SiriusXM radio programming across North America rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Sunday from Cape Canaveral on course to replace an aging broadcast station launched more than 15 years ago.SiriusXM’s SXM 7 spacecraft, built by Maxar in Palo Alto, California, is the first of two new-generation digital broadcasting satellites set to join the company’s fleet in the coming months. More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Dec 14) VSS UNITY ABORTS AFTER ENGINE START, SAFELY LANDS WITH CREW BACK AT SPACEPORT AMERICA - Virgin Galactic was to perform their first human spaceflight of their VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle from Spaceport America, just south of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, today.The spaceship and crew took off at 10:24 EST (15:24 UTC) firmly attached to their WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft from the runway at Spaceport America. The combined aircraft climbed to altitude before Unity was released at 11:15 EST (16:15 UTC). More (Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Dec 12) CHINA LAUNCHED TWO SATELLITES TO FIND SOURCES OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES - China has launched a pair of satellites which will watch for the electromagnetic counterparts that are emitted along with gravitational waves. These signals will be relayed quickly to the ground, helping narrow the area of sky scientists need to search to find the sources of gravitational waves.These two 140-kilogram satellites make up the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), which will watch the entire sky at all times for signals from some of the most violent events in the universe – collisions between a… More (Source: New Scientist - Dec 12) SPACEX SCRUBS FALCON 9 LAUNCH ATTEMPT WITH SIRIUSXM SATELLITE - SpaceX called off the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Friday at Cape Canaveral, halting the countdown less than a minute before liftoff to allow time to perform additional ground system checkouts before the mission’s next launch opportunity no earlier than Sunday. SpaceX was set to launch the Falcon 9 rocket with the SiriusXM SXM 7 radio broadcasting satellite at 12:55 p.m. EST (1755 GMT) Friday, less than 17 hours after a Delta 4-Heavy rocket from rival launch company United Launch Alliance took off from a nearby pad at Cape Canaveral More (Source: SpaceFlight Now - Dec 12) Older news

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