Een dagje later dan normaal en door andere drukke bezigheden een beperkte aflevering. Met 9 lanceringen werd het echter weer een drukke week. En China testte opnieuw haar maanraket. Dat en nog veel meer in het Nieuws uit De Ruimtevaart.

Bij de foto: Ooit leven op Mars ? Dat is nog steeds de vraag. Foto: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Belgisch ruimtevaartnieuws. 

Satellietcontract voor Redwire België.
VRTNWS:  Redwire Space in Kruibeke bouwt satellieten in België die gegevens extra goed beschermen.

De lanceringen van de afgelopen week.

06.09.2025 – Chinese Lange Mars 6A lanceert Yaogan 40 Group 03.
China In Space: Third Yaogan Trio Reaches Space [Long March 6A Y12].
Space News: China launches new set of Yaogan-40 satellites into polar orbit.

Filmpjes:
Point Or View: China’s Rocket Rush Continues: Another Long March 6A roared into the skies.
SciNews: Long March-6A launches Yaogan-40 03.

06.09.2025 – SpaceX lanceert Starlink-satellieten Group 17-9.
SpaceCom: SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites from California.

Filmpjes:
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California.
SciNews: SpaceX Starlink 300 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 6 September 2025.

08.09.2025 – Chinese Jieong 3 lanceert Group 5 voor de Geely satellietconstellatie.
China in Space: Geely's Constellation Continues Rapid Deployment [Jielong-3 Y7].
SpaceNews: China launches mystery Yaogan-45 spysat, expands Geesatcom constellation.

Filmpje:
SciNews: Smart Dragon-3 launches Geely-05.

09.09.2025 – Chinese Lange Mars 7A lanceert Yaogan 45.
China in Space: Yaogan Satellite Heads for Medium Earth Orbit [Long March 7A Y14].
SpaceNews: China launches mystery Yaogan-45 spysat, expands Geesatcom constellation.

Filmpje:
SciNews: Long March-7A launches Yaogan-45.

10.09.2025 – SpaceX lanceert satellieten voor SDA’s PWSA – Tranche 1 Transport Layer B.
SDA: Space Development Agency Completes Successful Launch of First Tranche 1 Satellites.

Payload: SDA Prepares for First Operational Launch of Comms Tech.
SpaceCom: SpaceX launches 1st 21 satellites for advanced new US military constellation.
Spaceflight Now: Launch preview: Space Development Agency, SpaceX to launch next-gen national security satellites.
Spaceflight Now: New U.S. military satellite constellation takes shape with first launch from Vandenberg SFB.
Space News: SpaceX launches 21 satellites for Space Development Agency ‘Transport Layer’ military network.
Breaking Defense: Space Development Agency launches first ‘operational’ satellites for data relay.

Filmpjes:
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch the SpaceForceDoD and SemperCitiusSDA’s first Tranche 1 mission to low-Earth orbit.
SciNews: Tranche 1 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing.

11.09.2025 – Rusland lanceert bevoorradingscapsule naar het ISS – Progress MS-32.
TASS: Progress MS-30 space freighter taken to orbit.
TASS: Russia’s Progress space freighter launched from Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.

SpaceCom: Russian Soyuz rocket launches robotic Progress cargo ship with 2.8 tons of supplies toward the ISS.
NSF: Progress MS-32 launches to ISS from Baikonur.

TASS: Roscosmos to carry out over 20 rocket launches in 2025 — head.

Filmpjes:
Roscosmos: De lancering.
NASA: Progress 93 Cargo Ship Launch.
SciNews: Progress MS-32 launch.

12.09.2025 – SpaceX lanceert Nusantara Lima.
De lancering werd een aantal keer uitgesteld omwille van het slechte weer.
UPI: SpaceX set to launch Indonesian communication satellite after scrub.
Spaceflight Now: Poor weather halts SpaceX launch attempt of Indonesian communications satellite for second day in a row.
Spaceflight Now: SpaceX launches Indonesian communications satellite following three days of scrubs.
SpaceCom: SpaceX launches powerful satellite to orbit for Indonesian telecom company.

Filmpjes:
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch the Nusantara Lima mission to orbit (scrub).
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch the Nusantara Lima mission to orbit. Teams are continuing to monitor weather ahead of liftoff.
SciNews: Falcon 9 aborted launch with Nusantara Lima.
SciNews: Nusantara Lima launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing.
SciNews: Nusantara Lima deployment.

13.09.2025 – Russische Soyuz lanceert navigatiesatelliet Glonass K1 n°18L.
TASS: Spacecraft launched from Plesetsk reaches target orbit.
Russian Spaceweb: Sixth GLONASS-K satellite lifts off.

13.09.2025 – SpaceX lanceert Starlink-satellieten Group 17-10 – VSFB.
Spaceflight Now: SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB.
SpaceCom: SpaceX launches two dozen Starlink broadband satellites from California.

Filmpjes:
SpaceX via X: Watch Falcon 9 launch 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California.
SciNews: SpaceX Starlink 301 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 13 September 2025.

Raketnieuws.

12.09.2025 – Tweede (geslaagde) static fire voor Chinese maanraket – LM 10.
China in Space: Long March 10 Completes Second Static Fire.
Inside Outer Space: China’s Moon Rocket Roars in 2nd Static Test.
Space News: China completes second hot-fire test for new moon rocket, including engine restarts.

Filmpje:
CCTV: China's Long March-10 Carrier Rocket Succeeds in Second Static Fire Test.

Bemande ruimtevaart / Ruimtestations.

09.09.2025 – Progress MS-30 verlaat het ruimtestation.

Filmpjes:
Roscosmos: Ontkoppeling Progress MS-30.
SciNews: Progress MS-30 undocking.

13.09.2025 – Progress MS-32 koppelt met het ruimtestation.
TASS: Progress spacecraft to dock with ISS.
TASS: Progress MS-32 spacecraft with scientific equipment and a new spacesuit docks with the ISS.
TASS: Docking of Progress MS-32 with ISS proceeded normally — cosmonaut.
TASS: Launch of Soyuz MS-28 manned mission to the ISS scheduled for November 27.

SpaceCom: Russian Progress spacecraft arrives at the ISS with 2.8 tons of cargo.

Filmpjes:
Roscosmos: Koppeling met het ISS.
NASA: Progress 93 Cargo Ship Docking.
SciNews: Progress MS-32 docking.

ISS – De blogentries / On the ISS this week.
NASA ISS Blog: Station Gets Ready for Two Cargo Missions Launching Days Apart.
NASA ISS Blog: Roscosmos Progress 91 Undocked from Space Station.
NASA ISS Blog: Cargo Craft Departs Before Two Resupply Spacecraft Launch.
NASA ISS Blog: Biology, Botany Research Advancing Health as Two Resupply Missions Near Launch.
NASA ISS Blog: Progress 93 Cargo Craft Lifts Off to Resupply Station Crew.
NASA ISS Blog: Space Cargo Out for Delivery Days Before Next Resupply Mission Launches.
NASA ISS Blog: Progress 93 Cargo Craft Approaching Station for Docking.
NASA ISS Blog: Progress 93 Cargo Craft Approaching Station for Docking.

SpaceCom: Astronaut preps purple kefir for a vitamin boost | On the International Space Station Sept. 8-12, 2025.

CSS – Meer nieuws uit het Chinese ruimtestation.

Filmpje:
CGTN: Chinese movies dare to boldly go into space.
New China TV: China's Shenzhou-20 crew advances multi-domain experiments aboard space station

Naar de Maan (en Mars).

Commerciële missies voor Orion.
Lockheed Martin: Exploring Commercial Services for Orion.

Wie zal er eerst zijn – Amerika of China.
SpaceCom: The race back to the moon: What if China lands its astronauts first?
SpaceCom: 'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China.

Filmpje:
NASA: NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy: We’re Going Back to the Moon – and Staying.

Artemis 2 – Mensen rond de Maan.
NASA: Launch Your Name Around Moon in 2026 on NASA’s Artemis II Mission.
Collect Space: NASA wants to fly your name to the moon with Artemis II astronauts.

NASA: Artemis II Crew Walks Out for Practice Scenarios.
NASA: Artemis II Crew Both Subjects and Scientists in NASA Deep Space Research.
NASA: Artemis II Crew to Advance Human Spaceflight Research.

NASA: Houston, we have a podcast – Artemis II: Launch.

Artemis 3 – Opnieuw mensen op de Maan / HLS.
NASA: NASA Uses Colorado Mountains for Simulated Artemis Moon Landing Course.

Filmpje:
NASA: NASA Astronauts Practice Landing Procedures for the Moon.

Artemis – Naar de Maan en Mars.
SpaceCom: 'Artificial super astronauts': How AI and robotics could help humanity settle Mars.
Universe Today: This Trio Of Robots Could Explore Lunar Caves.

Starship – IFT 11 – Nog deze maand?
SpaceCom: SpaceX test fires next Super Heavy booster for Starship's 11th upcoming launch.
NSF: Eye on the future, as SpaceX prepare Pad 2 and Block 3 at Starbase.
Ars Technica: SpaceX’s lesson from last Starship flight? “We need to seal the tiles.”.
Space News: The grief of a fandom: on Starship, Musk and losing the spark.
Space News: Musk confident Starship will start launching 100 tons to orbit next year.
Space News: How carrying enough water to make return-trip propellant simplifies a Starship mission to Mars.
NSF: Flight 11 closing in as Booster 15 completes testing, Pad 1 awaits Ship 38.

Filmpjes:
LabPadre Space: The End of Block 2 Starship is Almost Here - Spaceflight Weekly #183.
NSF: SpaceX Performs Final Booster Static Fire on Pad 1.
NSF: "All Gas No Brakes towards Flight 11" | SpaceX Starbase.
NSF: Starship Flight 11 Preps Begin! | Starbase Update.
NSF: Flight 11: SpaceX isn't Playing Around | SpaceX Starbase.
Marcus House: SpaceX Just Revealed the Plan for Starship Flight 11!

Op ontdekking door het zonnestelsel.

Leven op Mars (?).
NASA: NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding.
NASA: NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year.

SpaceCom: Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars? The plot thickens.
BBC: Life on Mars? 'Leopard-spot' rocks could be biggest clue yet.
Ars Technica: Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars?
Space News: NASA highlights potential evidence of past life in Martian rock.

Space Policy Online: Mars Samples Must Be Returned To Earth to Prove If Life Existed There.

VRTNWS: NASA vindt aanwijzingen dat er vroeger mogelijk leven was op Mars.
Spacpage: NASA’s Perseverance Mars zou vorig jaar potentiële biologische sporen hebben ontdekt.

Filmpjes:
NASA: NASA to Share Details of New Perseverance Mars Rover Finding.
New Scientist: Did We Just Find Signs of Life on Mars?
NSF Breaking Space: What did NASA's Rover Actually Find on Mars?
New Scientist: Why We Can’t Announce Life on Mars (Yet).

Meer nieuws uit de (inter)planetaire ruimte.

Mars:
NASA Curiosity Status Report: Curiosity Blog, Sols 4649-4654: Ridges, Hollows and Nodules, Oh My.
NASA: Perseverance Meets the Megabreccia.
Universe Today: InSight Data Reveals More About Mars' Evolution.

Planetoïde Ryugu:
New Scientist: Asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing through it
SpaceCom: Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. 'It was a genuine surprise!' 

Meer ruimtevaartnieuws.

SpaceX en AT&T kopen EchoStar-spectrum.
In juni was er sprake van mogelijk bankroet.
Space News: EchoStar delays bankruptcy threat after Trump pushes for FCC resolution.

Begin augustus kondigde EchoStar nog de deal met MDA aan voor de bouw van een satellietconstellatie.
SpaceQ: MDA Space announced as prime contractor for EchoStar’s NTN satellite constellation.

Eind augustus verkocht een deel van het spectrum aan AT&T.
Via Satellite: EchoStar to Sell $23B of Mid and Low-band Spectrum to AT&T.
Space News: EchoStar’s $23 billion spectrum sale clears path for direct-to-device constellation.

Begin september kocht SpaceX het andere deel.
NSF: SpaceX’s $17 Billion Spectrum Coup: Securing Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell Revolution.
Space News: EchoStar sells spectrum to SpaceX, cancels MDA satellite contract.
Teslarati: Starlink’s EchoStar spectrum deal could bring 5G coverage anywhere.

Gevolg, een FCC-onderzoek werd afgesloten.
Via Satellit: FCC Closes Investigation of EchoStar After Spectrum Sales.
Space News: FCC closes EchoStar probes as spectrum sales reshape D2D race.

Filmpje:
NSF Breaking Space: SpaceX Just Spent $17 Billion to be Your Next Phone Provider

Celeste, of Galileo in een lage aardbaan.
ESA: Galileo ‘daughter mission’ name revealed: Celeste.
ESA: LEO-PNT.
ESA: Celeste mission patch.
ESA (filmpje): 30 years of European satellite navigation.

GPS World: ESA’s Celeste LEO-PNT demonstrator mission set to launch in December.

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