![]() STATION PREPS FOR AXIOM MISSION 2 NEARING SUNDAY LAUNCH - Axiom Mission 2 Nearing Sunday Launch SPACEX LAUNCHES 22 NEXT-GEN STARLINK SATELLITES TO ORBIT, LANDS ROCKET AT SEA - SpaceX launched 22 of its "V2 mini" Starlink broadband satellites to orbit early Friday morning (May 19) and landed the returning rocket at sea.Ī Falcon 9 rocket topped with 22 next-generation Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday at 2:19 a.m. The four-member crew will spend eight days docked at the ISS.Īxiom Space’s Director of Human Spaceflight Peggy Whitson –- a former NASA astronau. MoreĪXIOM MISSION 2: 4 ASTRONAUTS TO HEAD TO SPACE SUNDAY - The second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station is on target for a Sunday afternoon liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center. payloads are optical sensors developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Space Force announced May 17 it has delivered the second of two payloads to be hosted on Japanese satellites under an agreement the United States signed with Japan in 2020. PAYLOAD TO BE HOSTED ON JAPANESE SATELLITE - The U.S. ![]() MoreĪXIOM’S SECOND CREW MISSION HAS NARROW WINDOW FOR LAUNCH - The second fully commercial astronaut flight to the International Space Station will have just two opportunities to launch Sunday and Monday, or else wait until after an upcoming SpaceX resupply mission next month to deliver a new set of high-priority solar arrays to the complex. SPACEX LAUNCHES ONEWEB GEN 2 TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR - SpaceX launched a technology demonstration satellite for OneWeb’s second-generation broadband constellation May 20, along with spares for the British firm’s current low Earth orbit (LEO) network and another that U.S.-based Iridium Communications operates.Ī Falcon 9 rocket carrying a total 21. TWO AMERICANS, TWO SAUDIS LAUNCH ON COMMERCIAL ASTRONAUT MISSION - Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, with more time in space than any other American, rocketed back into orbit for the fourth time Sunday, riding a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher from Florida with a fare-paying investor and private pilot, and the first two Saudi Arabian astronauts to fly to the Internatio. The first Iceye-built Emirati synthetic aperture radar satellites is scheduled to launch in the first quarte. ICEYE TO SUPPLY UAE SAR SATELLITES - Finland-based Iceye announced an agreement May 17 to develop a five-satellite constellation for Bayanat, a United Arab Emirates geospatial analysis firm, and Emirati fleet operator Yahsat. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2C carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Cen. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) said that the satellites were launched at 4:00 p.m. ![]() CHINA LAUNCHES "MACAO SCIENCE 1" SPACE EXPLORATION SATELLITES - China successfully sent two satellites of "Macao Science 1," a space exploration program, into space on Sunday. ![]()
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