UASPACE is a student club that builds satellites as part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative. In the program, satellites built by students get to hitch a ride on a NASA launch. It’s a hands-on opportunity for students to experience actual flight hardware design, development and building experience. Students in the club are now working on BAMA-2, expected to launch in late 2026.
Satellite project takes offSep 16, 2025 11:00 AMPERKINS TWP. — Perkins Schools reached new heights over the weekend.The high school’s robotics club dedicated years to constructing its satellite, Foras Promineo, which translates to "Outreach" in Latin.Their hard work — put in by club members, volunteers and adviser John Stout — finally paid off on Sunday as they watched the satellite launch into space. The satellite was launched on a SpaceX shuttle from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is en route to the International Space Station.Perkins Schools and SpaceX posted videos of the launch.
The Perkins Robotics Club's satellite, Foras Promineo, launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 shuttle bound for the International Space Station on Sunday, September 14, 2025.Congratulations to our Perkins Pirate Robotics Club members, volunteers, and Advisor John Stout.
CAPTURE confirmed at 15:58 UTC !!(some words from Kimiya Yui and then Aki Hoside)
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589Starlink Group 10-37 launched at 1635 UTC Oct 29 from Canaveral.Japan's HTV-X1 cargo ship arrived at ISS Oct 29 and was berthed at the nadir port on Harmony at 1850 UTC
MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/. Cosmonauts plan to conduct over 40 scientific experiments, including two spacewalks, as part of the upcoming Soyuz MS-28 mission. Roscosmos cosmonaut and Hero of Russia Sergei Kud-Sverchkov announced this on the Rossiya-1 television channel."More than 40 experiments are planned for our expedition this time. For example, two spacewalks are planned for our flight. During one of the spacewalks, we plan to install equipment on the outer surface of the station that will help us study the Sun in the three-hertz range," he said.
Quote from: catdlr on 10/30/2025 08:50 pmIntuitive Machines Secures $8.2 Million AFRL Contract Extension to Advance In-Space Nuclear Power TechnologyStirling Technology spAce Research experimenT (START) poster [Oct 23, 2024]Quote from: START ScheduleLaunch to ISS: August 27th 2027Note: The co-founder of Intuitive Machines, Kam Ghaffarian, also founded X-energy, which designs small modular reactors.
Intuitive Machines Secures $8.2 Million AFRL Contract Extension to Advance In-Space Nuclear Power Technology
Launch to ISS: August 27th 2027
Quote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/05/2025 02:54 amQuote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/05/2025 02:42 amQuote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/04/2025 03:00 pmRobotics operations yesterday and overnight - SSRMS picked up Dextre from the MBS and moved nadir of the station near HTV-X1, and the JEM RMS (with the Small Fine Arm) moved over to a handoff position. This is probably related to the i-SEEP 3 activities that are part of the HTV-X1 tests.Robo ops today - Dextre was positioned down near the nadir end of HTV-X1 and took some survey photos of the attachment points on the flight support equipment for i-SEEP 3B...... and after all four bolts were loosened, Dextre returned to the H-fixture and used that to remove i-SEEP (held in its FSE) from HTV-X1, then moved it towards where it will be handed off to the JEM RMS.More robotics ops - I think this is from a camera on the JEM RMS Small Fine Arm, as Dextre moves i-SEEP 3 into position for a handoff.
Quote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/05/2025 02:42 amQuote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/04/2025 03:00 pmRobotics operations yesterday and overnight - SSRMS picked up Dextre from the MBS and moved nadir of the station near HTV-X1, and the JEM RMS (with the Small Fine Arm) moved over to a handoff position. This is probably related to the i-SEEP 3 activities that are part of the HTV-X1 tests.Robo ops today - Dextre was positioned down near the nadir end of HTV-X1 and took some survey photos of the attachment points on the flight support equipment for i-SEEP 3B...... and after all four bolts were loosened, Dextre returned to the H-fixture and used that to remove i-SEEP (held in its FSE) from HTV-X1, then moved it towards where it will be handed off to the JEM RMS.
Quote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/04/2025 03:00 pmRobotics operations yesterday and overnight - SSRMS picked up Dextre from the MBS and moved nadir of the station near HTV-X1, and the JEM RMS (with the Small Fine Arm) moved over to a handoff position. This is probably related to the i-SEEP 3 activities that are part of the HTV-X1 tests.Robo ops today - Dextre was positioned down near the nadir end of HTV-X1 and took some survey photos of the attachment points on the flight support equipment for i-SEEP 3B...
Robotics operations yesterday and overnight - SSRMS picked up Dextre from the MBS and moved nadir of the station near HTV-X1, and the JEM RMS (with the Small Fine Arm) moved over to a handoff position. This is probably related to the i-SEEP 3 activities that are part of the HTV-X1 tests.
Quote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/06/2025 11:16 amQuote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/06/2025 01:57 amQuote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/05/2025 09:55 pmSFA is gradually moving in to the grapple point on i-SEEP.i-SEEP has been handed off to the JEM RMS.Continuing from last night, JEM RMS moved i-SEEP into position, then the JEM airlock opened and extended the slide table...i-SEEP was then installed on the slide table and brought inside the ISS.
Quote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/06/2025 01:57 amQuote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/05/2025 09:55 pmSFA is gradually moving in to the grapple point on i-SEEP.i-SEEP has been handed off to the JEM RMS.Continuing from last night, JEM RMS moved i-SEEP into position, then the JEM airlock opened and extended the slide table...
Quote from: Yellowstone10 on 11/05/2025 09:55 pmSFA is gradually moving in to the grapple point on i-SEEP.i-SEEP has been handed off to the JEM RMS.
SFA is gradually moving in to the grapple point on i-SEEP.
September 18, 2025 Suzanne PollakStudent-Created Satellite Launched Into SpaceAround the start of the pandemic, middle and high school students began designing a cube that finally was launched into space Sunday. Beginning in mid-November, their satellite will tweet photos from space directly onto X, the social media platform.David Copeland, an electrical engineer specializing in deep space communication, started SilverSat in 2014 to get students in the Downcounty area interested in space.About 20 young people and their scientist mentors meet regularly on Saturdays. As soon as a participant graduates high school, another student joins the group. Together, they applied to NASA with their idea about creating a satellite that takes photos when activated by radio control by the students. Their CubeSat then tweets the photos itself.The satellite is only 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters.The rocket holding their CubeSat docked with the International Space Station Thursday morning.Once set out in space in November, it will operate for two to six months, before burning up in space.The CubeStat launched in the Northrop Grumman’s new Cygnus XL spacecraft. Along with their satellite, the spacecraft was filled with more than 11,000 pounds of research and supplies.
SilverSat...Launch Date 2025-09-14 T22:11:00+00:00 Deploy Date 2025-11-17 T00:00:00+00:00
UPDATE: Baikonur, Progress MS-33, launch postponed from December 19 to December 21, 05:55 local time, sunrise 08:24
The Soyuz MS-28 manned spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the ISS on November 27, 2025, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The crew's mission will last 242 days. Return to Earth is scheduled for July 27. During their eight months in orbit, the Russian cosmonauts will conduct more than 40 scientific experiments and perform two spacewalks.According to Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, the first spacewalk is planned for April. During it, they plan to install the Solntse-Teragerts equipment for solar studies in the terahertz range and operate the Ekran-M equipment. The second spacewalk is scheduled for June, when the crew will service the Zarya module and replace components that have reached the end of their service life.
2025TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA-94) from Quest airlock (ModKit 8 iROSA Prep 3B)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (Install iROSA 2A on the P4 truss segment)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (Install iROSA 3B on the S6 truss segment)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (replace the S1 pump)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (replace the S1 pump)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (replace the S1 pump)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (replace the P1 pump)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (replace the P1 pump)TBD - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA) from Quest airlock (replace the P1 pump)
