Skynet Tonight! "The Moon Has.a Comet-Like Tail!" & "Constellations Canis Minor and Monoceros" 9PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “The Moon has a Comet-Like Tail” & “Constellations Canis Minor and Monoceros”? ? Net Control: Bill N5BB ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “12 to the Moon” (1960) 2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, - Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247. ? Youtube.com Search “DARC Skynet” Facebook.com Search “DARC Skynet” Twitch.tv Search “KE5ICX” ? Direct Video Link: ? IO Group: /g/DARCskynet/topics Facebook Group: Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT. ? Discussion Topic of the Evening.The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth. Movie at: ? Waz UpSkynet – Waz Up? – March 6, 2021 Space Exploration and Space History?Commercial Crew Spacecraft Mars Sample Return Artist’s Rendering Space-Related Birthdays Jack Lousma Feb 29, 1936 Skylab and STS-3 Gordon Cooper Mar 06, 1927 Mercury-Atlas 9; Gemini 5 Deke Slayton Mar 01, 1924 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Bonnie J. Dunbar Mar 03, 1949 5 shuttle missions Philip K. Chapman Mar 05, 1935 First Australian astronaut, no missions Robert Curbeam Mar 05, 1962 3 shuttle missions James S. Voss Mar 03, 1949 6 shuttle, 1 ISS James C. Adamson? Mar 03, 1946 2 shuttle Michael Lampton Mar 01, 1941 2 shuttle This Week in Space History Original Gemini Crew See and Bassett Rings Discovered Around Jupiter Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the WeekConstellations of the week this week are Canis Minor, the Little Dog, and Monoceros, the unicorn. ? ?? Space Launches For This WeekSpace Coast Launches Space Flight Now Launch Schedule March 9/10 Falcon 9 ? Starlink V1.0-L20 Launch time: Approx. 0255 GMT on 10th (9:55 p.m. EST on 9th) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 21st batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink V1.0-L20. [Feb. 23] March 12 Long March 7A ? XJY 6 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Wenchang, China A Chinese Long March 7A rocket will launch a classified satellite known as XJY 6. The launch will mark the second flight of the Long March 7A rocket variant with a third stage to place spacecraft into high-energy orbits. The XJY 6 payload is the second satellite to carry that name after the first XJY 6 payload was lost on a Long March 7A launch failure in March 2020. [Feb. 28] March 13 Falcon 9 ? Starlink V1.0-L21 Launch time: 1006 GMT (5:06 a.m. EST) Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 22nd batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink V1.0-L21. [March 5] March 20 Soyuz ? CAS500 1 Launch time: 0607 GMT (2:07 a.m. EDT) Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch on a rideshare mission managed by GK Launch Services. The payloads on this mission include the CAS500 1 Earth observation satellite for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Astroscale’s ELSA-d active debris removal demonstration mission, and four Earth-imaging microsatellites built by Axelspace of Japan. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket will use a Fregat upper stage. [Feb. 23] March 25 Soyuz ? OneWeb 5 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch 36 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket will use a Fregat upper stage. Delayed from Feb. 25. [Feb. 16] Early 2021 SSLV ? Demonstration Launch Launch time: TBD Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) will launch on its first orbital test flight. Consisting of three solid-fueled stages and a liquid-fueled upper stage, the SSLV is a new Indian launch vehicle designed to carry small satellites into low Earth orbit. Delayed from September and December 2019. Delayed from January and December 2020. [Dec. 11]?? Recent Astronomical Discoveries?Factoring in gravitomagnetism could do away with dark matter Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.? All times are “local” (Dallas) time. ISS Mar. 11 Mar. 14 X-37B Mar. 9 Mar. 11 Envisat Mar. 8 Mar. 13 |
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