HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM SPACE! WHAT TURKEY DAY DINNER LOOKS LIKE FOR NASA ASTRONAUTS ON ISS - The four NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station (ISS) just wished all of us all a happy Thanksgiving. Nick Hague, Don Pettit, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have beamed home a Turkey Day message from their orbital perch, which NASA released on Wednesday (Nov. 27).   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 30)

YOU CAN TAKE A SELFIE WITH THE EARTH USING THIS YOUTUBER’S SATELLITE - The stunt escalation on YouTube may have reached new heights with Mark Rober’s offer to snap anyone’s selfie with the planet Earth using a satellite he’s launching into orbit with the help of Google and T-Mobile. Rober is a former NASA engineer who made a name for himself on YouTube by glitter bombing porch pirates, creating the world’s largest Super Soaker, and building an obstacle course for squirrels. Now he’s merging his interests with the launch of a satellite that can take photos of anyone’s portrait displayed on a Google Pixel with the Earth — yes, Planet Earth — in the background.    More
(Source: The Verge - Nov 30)

SPACEX LAUNCHING 24 STARLINK SATELLITES FROM FLORIDA EARLY NOV. 30 - SpaceX plans to launch 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Saturday morning (Nov. 30). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday during a four-hour window that opens at 12:00 a.m. EST (0500 GMT). SpaceX will webcast the action via its X account, with the livestream beginning about five minutes before launch.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 30)

CHINA TO LAUNCH NEXT-GENERATION BEIDOU SATELLITES IN 2027 - China has announced a strategic roadmap for advancing its Beidou positioning and navigation system by 2035, in a move which could have global implications. The country plans to complete key technology research for the next-generation Beidou system by 2025 and launch three test satellites around 2027, according to the “Beidou Satellite Navigation System Development Plan before 2035,” released by the China Satellite Navigation System Management Office (CNSO) Nov. 28.   More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 29)

ASTRONAUT CATCHES DEXTRE SPACE ROBOT 'BUSTING A MOVE' OUTSIDE ISS — FOR SCIENCE - A space robot was just caught in action during a science experiment, high above Earth. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a short video of a Canadian handy-robot on the International Space Station (ISS). The long-running Dextre robot from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) was moving a science payload on the ISS. The video, which Pettit posted Monday (Nov. 25) on X, formerly Twitter, shows hours of science action with Dextre, which is managed by the company MDA Space.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 28)

ROCKET LAB SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES TWO MISSIONS IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS - Rocket Lab USA has successfully launched its 56 th Electron mission, deploying five satellites to Low Earth Orbit for French Internet-of-Things (IoT) constellation operator Kinéis. The “Ice AIS Baby” mission lifted-off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand at 4:55 pm on 25 November NZDT (03:55 UTC), successfully deploying five satellites to a 643 km low Earth orbit.    More
(Source: Satellite Evolution - Nov 27)

SPACEX LAUNCHES STARLINK SATELLITES ON FALCON 9 ROCKET FROM THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Shortly before midnight on Tuesday, SpaceX launched its lates batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites on the Starlink 6-76 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 UTC on Nov. 27). The rocket flew fly in a south-easterly trajectory once it left the pad.   More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 27)

'UNEXPECTED ODOR' ON RUSSIAN SPACECRAFT DELAYS CARGO DELIVERY FOR ISS ASTRONAUTS - Astronauts found an "unexpected odor" after trying to open the door to a new cargo spacecraft at the space station, according to NASA. A Russian Progress spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Saturday (Nov. 23) at the Russian Poisk module after its launch on Nov. 21. But astronauts couldn't keep the spacecraft hatch open for long to retrieve fresh food, supplies and equipment due to a stench coming from the capsule.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 27)

HOW AMATEUR RADIO IS CONNECTING ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE WITH KIDS ON EARTH - Consider this: It is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a crewmember on the space shuttle program's STS-9 mission. During that space shuttle flight in 1983, Garriott became the first-ever person in space to communicate with amateur radio operators on the ground. He was also the first person to be heard directly from space by members of the public using simple radio receivers and scanners.   More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 26)

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