NASA, SpaceX Target March 14 Crew Launch to Space Station – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-13 00:00
SpaceX’s SpaceX Crew-10 now is targeting no earlier than 7:03 p.m. EDT Friday, March 14, to launch four crew members to the International Space Station. Mission managers met this evening and decided to wave off a launch attempt on Thursday, March 13, due to high winds and precipitation forecasted in the flight path of Dragon. Launch teams also are working to address a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm for the Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Rocket Lab plans Friday launch of The Lightning God Reigns (iQPS Launch 1) Japan’s Earth imaging – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-13 00:00
Rocket Lab will launch a dedicated mission for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) The mission will launch a single synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging satellite to a 575km circular Earth orbit for iQPS called QPS-SAR-9. ‘The Lightning God Reigns’ is the first of eight upcoming launches for iQPS across 2025 and 2026.
Airbus awards Rocket Lab contract to power next generation OneWeb constellation for Eutelsat – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-13 00:00
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. Has been selected by Airbus Constellation Satellites to provide high efficiency, space grade solar panels for 100 OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for Eutelsat Group. Rocket Lab’s panels will provide the large LEO constellation with approximately 80 kW of power, enough to power 16 Hubble-sized space telescopes.
Arabsat launches multi-continental managed satellite services on neXat platform – SatNews
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-13 00:00
Arabsat has signed a deal with services and technology provider neXat. NeXat will enable them to manage various hubs in a single application. Arabsat will take advantage of the managed services offered through neXat’s virtualized platform as a service (PaaS)
NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024
Global sea level has gone up by 4 inches (10 centimeters) since 1993. This long-term record is made possible by an uninterrupted series of ocean-observing satellites starting with TOPEX/Poseidon in 1992. The current ocean-observing satellite in that series, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, launched in 2020.
NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 remain the most distant human-made objects ever built. Voyager 1 reached the edge of the heliosphere and the beginning of interstellar space in 2012; Voyager 2 reached the boundary in 2018. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space.
SpaceX scrub launch of NASA’s Crew-10 mission to the ISS
Original Publication Date: 2025-03-12 17:27
Crew-10 will be the 10th operational crewed mission under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Falcon 9 is expected to lift off from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, March 14. The March 12 launch attempt was scrubbed at approximately T-44:00 minutes after teams noted an issue with the hydraulics on ground support systems at LC-39A.