2025.09.05 Announcements5 CubeSats will be deployed from “Kibo” Japanese Experiment Module on Friday, September 19, 2025. Experiment at KiboShareOn September 19, 2025, the following 5 CubeSats will be deployed from the “Kibo” Japanese Experiment Module. GHS-01 *1 DRAGONFLY *2 STARS-Me2 *1 RSP-03 *1 Atsushi Space Challenge *1*1 In May 2018, as a new step to enhance the commercial utilization of Kibo, JAXA selected Space BD Inc. and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Co., Ltd. as the J-SSOD service provider.Selection of Service Provider for Small Satellite Deployment from Kibo*2 This CubeSat will be deployed under the framework of the J-CUBE program, a CubeSat deployment opportunity established through an agreement between JAXA and the University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC).The deployment event for those satellites by J-SSOD#32 will be broadcast via YouTube JAXA Channel.September 19, 2025 (Friday)* The date and time of the deployment are subject to change due to the ISS schedule modification.* The YouTube link will be posted here once it is confirmed.
Miniature Satellite "Raichō" Built by High School Students in Gifu Successfully Launched into Space2025.09.01Centered around Gifu University, the "Gifu High School Sat (GHS) Project" brought together local technical high schools and companies to collaborate on the development of a miniature satellite. The first satellite from this initiative, GHS-01 "Raichō,"was successfully launched into space on August 24, 2025.On the day of the launch, a support event was held by the Center for Space Research and Utilization Promotion (c-SRUP) affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering, GU. The event featured simultaneous live broadcasts from three locations: OKB Gifu University Plaza on campus, the public viewing venue at Rekishi Mirai-kan in Kasamatsu Town, Gifu Prefecture and the launch site in Florida, USA. The launch was also streamed live on YouTube.At 3:45 PM Japan time, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying "Raichō" lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center. As the rocket appeared on screen, cheers and applause erupted from attendees at each venue, including Gifu University staff and students, Gifu Prefectural government officials, local senior high school students, alumni, and corporate partners.
From the NG-23 mission Prelaunch Media Teleconference:https://twitter.com/dpoddolphinpro/status/1966532165153267956QuoteBREAKING: NG-24 resupply will fly on a Falcon 9 - this is an additional 4th flight beyond the original 3 booked following the retirement of the Antares 230+. It sounds like this 4th flight was purchased a little while ago.Beyond that, @NorthropGrumman will work with @NASA on the manifest. "We're making great progress on the Antares 330". The first flight of that vehicle is NET 2026.The NG-22 mission will be manifested in the future. As a reminder, the Cygnus spacecraft for this mission was damaged at sea.
BREAKING: NG-24 resupply will fly on a Falcon 9 - this is an additional 4th flight beyond the original 3 booked following the retirement of the Antares 230+. It sounds like this 4th flight was purchased a little while ago.Beyond that, @NorthropGrumman will work with @NASA on the manifest. "We're making great progress on the Antares 330". The first flight of that vehicle is NET 2026.The NG-22 mission will be manifested in the future. As a reminder, the Cygnus spacecraft for this mission was damaged at sea.
Bagging Space Junk: TransAstra’s Inflatable Tech Takes Aim at Orbital Debris [Sep 10]Quote In space, orbital debris travels faster than a speeding bullet. To make the orbit around Earth safer for astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft, aerospace startup TransAstra Corporation developed an innovative debris removal technology. The Capture Bag system can trap objects of different shapes and sizes and even those that are tumbling, a common challenge in space debris removal. To advance the technology, the company is sending the system to the International Space Station for testing in an investigation sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory®.“The beauty of this technology is that we can pretty much capture anything that fits into the bag, whether that is an asteroid or a satellite,” said TransAstra chief engineer Thibaud Talon. “The system is designed around an inflatable, pressurized structure. Gravity plays a big role in how the bag behaves, so it is critical to demonstrate how it works in actual microgravity.For the investigation, the Capture Bag will be inflated inside Voyager Technologies’ Bishop Airlock on the space station. The airlock provides isolation from the atmosphere of the ISS cabin and can be depressurized to mimic conditions in space. The team will observe the bag’s deployment using four cameras in Bishop Airlock and one inside the Capture Bag system.“We’ve tested Capture Bag extensively in vacuum conditions on the ground but deploying it in microgravity is the only way to be sure that we understand how this works,” said TransAstra CEO Joel Sercel.The system is designed so that a carrier vehicle can take the bag to a target, open it, fly it over the target, and then close and cinch the bag. The bag can re-open as well, which allows the system to capture multiple pieces of debris during one flight. The captured items can then be safely de-orbited, placed in a higher “graveyard” orbit, or taken to an in-orbit repurposing station where a potential hazard can be turned into something useful. According to TransAstra, relocating debris to a repurposing facility could cost six times less than de-orbiting, use 80 percent less propellant, and clear a given orbit 40 percent faster.
In space, orbital debris travels faster than a speeding bullet. To make the orbit around Earth safer for astronauts, satellites, and spacecraft, aerospace startup TransAstra Corporation developed an innovative debris removal technology. The Capture Bag system can trap objects of different shapes and sizes and even those that are tumbling, a common challenge in space debris removal. To advance the technology, the company is sending the system to the International Space Station for testing in an investigation sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory®.“The beauty of this technology is that we can pretty much capture anything that fits into the bag, whether that is an asteroid or a satellite,” said TransAstra chief engineer Thibaud Talon. “The system is designed around an inflatable, pressurized structure. Gravity plays a big role in how the bag behaves, so it is critical to demonstrate how it works in actual microgravity.For the investigation, the Capture Bag will be inflated inside Voyager Technologies’ Bishop Airlock on the space station. The airlock provides isolation from the atmosphere of the ISS cabin and can be depressurized to mimic conditions in space. The team will observe the bag’s deployment using four cameras in Bishop Airlock and one inside the Capture Bag system.“We’ve tested Capture Bag extensively in vacuum conditions on the ground but deploying it in microgravity is the only way to be sure that we understand how this works,” said TransAstra CEO Joel Sercel.The system is designed so that a carrier vehicle can take the bag to a target, open it, fly it over the target, and then close and cinch the bag. The bag can re-open as well, which allows the system to capture multiple pieces of debris during one flight. The captured items can then be safely de-orbited, placed in a higher “graveyard” orbit, or taken to an in-orbit repurposing station where a potential hazard can be turned into something useful. According to TransAstra, relocating debris to a repurposing facility could cost six times less than de-orbiting, use 80 percent less propellant, and clear a given orbit 40 percent faster.
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589LAUNCH at 2211 UTC Sep 14 of the Cygnus NG-23 cargo ship, S.S. Willie McCool, on a Falcon 9 from Canaveral.
HUCSat Updated: 26 Aug 2025... Planning a launch to the ISS on Voyager Space on a Northrup Grumman resupply mission (NG-24) from Wallops Island NET April 2026
GASRATS Updated: 26 Aug 2024...Planning a launch from Cape Canaveral in July 2026 to the ISS for eventual deployment.
RADSAT-SK2 Updated: 04 Aug 2025...Planning a ISS deployment in Q4 2026.
MOMIJI Updated: 04 Jul 2025...Planning a deployment from the ISS in Nov 2026
Alpha CubeSat's current launch date is September 2025, with the mission expected to take place in November.
September 2025: Launch from Cape Canaveral aboard NASA Commercial Resupply Mission NG-23Deployment from ISSFirst contact expected a few days after deploymentExpect to make contact through end of January 2026
embryriddledaytonaAfter seven years of painstaking work, an Embry‑Riddle student team is finally cleared to launch its second small satellite into orbit!Titled EagleSat-2, this student-built CubeSat will hitch a ride aboard Northrop Grumman’s NG-23 rocket mission, scheduled to lift off this month from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. View details with the link in our bio! #GoERAU
Embry-Riddle Students Prepare to Launch CubeSat to Study Memory Chip Decay From Radiationby Keaton S. Ziem for ERAU NewsDaytona Beach FL (SPX) Sep 03, 2025After seven years of painstaking work, an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University student team is finally cleared to launch its second small satellite into orbit.The CubeSat, named EagleSat-2, will hitch a ride aboard Northrop Grumman's NG-23 rocket mission, scheduled to lift off this month from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Cube Satellite Built by Rhodes College Team Set to Launch Sept. 14 as Part of NASA Mission Published on: September 12, 2025The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is targeting 6:11 p.m. EDT (5:11 p.m. CT) Sunday, Sept. 14, to launch a four-inch, cube-shaped satellite named RHOK-SAT into space. RHOK-SAT is a collaboration between Rhodes College and the University of Oklahoma and will launch aboard NASA’s Northrop Grumman CRS-23. This cargo spacecraft, carried on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, will lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and deliver RHOK-SAT and other materials to the International Space Station in low Earth orbit.Launch day coverage of the mission will be available on the NASA website.The RHOK-SAT project began in 2019, when Dr. Charles W. Robertson Jr., who is a member of the Rhodes Class of 1965 and co-founder of NanoDrop Technologies Inc., initially encouraged Rhodes to develop a proposal to be submitted to NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, and he generously provided funding for the project. The initiative provides U.S. universities, high schools, and nonprofit organizations the opportunity to fly their miniature satellites aboard a rocket as a NASA-sponsored payload. Rhodes announced that its research proposal for RHOK-SAT was selected for NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative in the spring of 2021.RHOK-SAT’s scientific mission is to test novel perovskite photovoltaic cells in the environment of space to determine if this type of cell material shows promise for future lunar and planetary missions. Perovskites have shown enhanced power production with or without direct sunlight when compared to traditional types of solar cells. The Rhodes team was responsible for designing the payload and top-level software of the satellite, while the University of Oklahoma team provided the experimental cells and analysis— ergo, the name RHOK-SAT.The Rhodes team is led by physics professors Bentley Burnham (program director), Brent Hoffmeister and Ann Viano, and computer science professor Phil Kirlin. Students from various majors and class years have contributed to the design of RHOK-SAT.The solar cells were fabricated at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO, under agreement with researchers in the material science department. The University of Oklahoma’s Photovoltaic Materials and Devices Group provided the Rhodes CubeSat with another solar cell, which has been standard use for many years, to compare known technology with the new perovskite cells.In March 2025, three members of the Rhodes team—Jose Pastrana ’20, Damian Nguyen ’25, and Ryan McCrory ’25—delivered RHOK-SAT to NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston to await its transport to Florida for liftoff.The wait is over, and once launched, RHOK-SAT is expected to be in orbit for approximately one year, transmitting data to the satellite ground station installed in Rhodes Tower (on campus) for the project.
NASA and Northrop Grumman are delaying the arrival of the Cygnus XL to the International Space Station as flight controllers evaluate an alternate burn plan for the resupply spacecraft. The Cygnus XL will not arrive to the space station on Wednesday, Sept. 17, as originally planned, with a new arrival date and time under review.Early Tuesday morning, Cygnus XL’s main engine stopped earlier than planned during two burns designed to raise the orbit of the spacecraft for rendezvous with the space station, where it will deliver 11,000 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA. All other Cygnus XL systems are performing normally.NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is scheduled to capture Cygnus XL using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm with backup support from NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. After capture, the spacecraft will be installed on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port and will remain at the space station until March 2026.
Thursday, Sept. 185:45 a.m. | NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 23 Rendezvous and Capture | NASA+ | Amazon Prime | YouTube8:25 a.m. | NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 23 Installation | NASA+ | Amazon Prime | YouTube
LaunchingSeptember 14th, 2025 6:11 PM ContentCube launching on the NG-23 Mission on Space-X Falcon 9 rocket out of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
CU Aerospace, LLC, a leading aerospace engineering company for small satellite propulsion, is proud to announce the successful launch of their Dual Propulsion Experiment, better known as DUPLEX. The CubeSat is now successfully in orbit on Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL spacecraft for the Commercial Resupply Services 23 (CRS-23/NG-23) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.
NASA and Northrop Grumman are targeting the safe arrival of the company’s Cygnus XL at approximately 7:18 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 18, to the International Space Station. The Cygnus XL now will conduct a series of burns to bring the spacecraft to the space station for its robotic capture and installation.NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is scheduled to capture Cygnus XL using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm with backup support from NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. After capture, the spacecraft will be installed on the Unity module’s Earth-facing port and will remain at the space station until March 2026.The Cygnus XL spacecraft launched at 6:11 p.m. on Sept. 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. On Sept. 16, Cygnus XL commanded the main engine to shutdown earlier than planned during two, non-sequential rendezvous burns (delta velocity burns 3 and 5), designed to raise the orbit of the spacecraft for rendezvous with the space station. Cygnus XL’s trajectory placed the spacecraft a safe distance behind the space station while engineers assessed the spacecraft and developed its alternate burn plan. Data shared by the spacecraft confirmed that Cygnus XL operated as intended during two planned maneuvers when an early warning system initiated a shutdown command and ended the main engine burn because of a conservative safeguard in the software settings.NASA’s arrival, capture, and installation coverage are as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):Thursday, Sept. 185:45 a.m. – Arrival coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more.7:18 a.m. – Capture of Cygnus XL with the space station’s robotic arm.8:25 a.m. – Installation coverage begins on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more.Follow the space station blog for the most up-to-date information. The mission is known as NASA’s Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 23, or Northrop Grumman CRS-23, and is the first flight of the larger, more cargo-capable version of the solar-powered spacecraft.
International Space Station @Space_Station.@NorthropGrumman 's Cygnus XL cargo craft, packed with over 11,000 pounds of science and supplies, was captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm operated by @JonnyKimUSA as @Zenanaut monitored at 7:24am ET today.
NASA’s coverage is underway for the installation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft to the International Space Station on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and more. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.At 7:24 a.m. EDT, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, with NASA astronaut Zena Cardman acting as backup, captured the Cygnus XL spacecraft using the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.The spacecraft is carrying more than 11,000 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory. It launched at 6:11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 14 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Cygnus XL will remain at the space station until March 2026, when it will depart and dispose of several thousand pounds of trash by burning up during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
Video post (the second one)QuoteNASANASAAt 10:10am ET (1410 UTC), the Cygnus XL spacecraft was successfully installed to the @Space_Station, bringing more than 11,000 pounds of supplies to the orbital lab.https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1968680655383871678
NASANASAAt 10:10am ET (1410 UTC), the Cygnus XL spacecraft was successfully installed to the @Space_Station, bringing more than 11,000 pounds of supplies to the orbital lab.
