Skynet Tonight! "What are Gravity Waves?" 9PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30PM CT ? Saturday¡¯s Topic: ¡°What are Gravitational Waves?¡±? Net Control: Tom KE5ICX ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: ¡°Radius¡± (2017) 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.What are Gravitational Waves? Gravitational Waves? Space Distorting Gravity Waves Gravity Waves from Two Neutron Stars Artist¡¯s Concept Binary Star Distortions Waz UpMay 28/29, 2021, Evening Dusk Moon, Mercury and Venus Bird¡¯s Eye View of the Inner Solar System Space Exploration and Space History?Space Exploration News UFO's Canada announces plans to land a rover on the moon Potential organic salt detection from Curiosity yields further evidence for past organics on Mars Space-Related Birthdays Sally Ride? May 26, 1951 STS-7, STS-41G? Michael L¨®pez-Alegr¨ªa May 30, 1958 STS-73, STS-92, STS-113, Soyuz TMA-9 (Expedition 14), SpaceX AX-1? John D. Olivas May 25, 1965 STS-117, STS-128 Paul Scully-Power May 28, 1944 STS-41G Ronald Parise May 24, 1951 STS-35, STS-67 Nathan J. Lindsay May 24, 1936 No flights Frank Drake, May 28, 1930 American astronomer and astrophysicist. Known for SETI and the Drake equation, which estimates the number of active alien civilizations. This Week in Space History 55 Years Ago: The First Saturn V Rocket Rolls Out to the Launch Pad 60 Years Ago: President Kennedy Proposes Moon Landing Goal in Speech to Congress Space Launches For This WeekSpace Coast Launches Space Flight Now Launch Schedule May 29 Long March 7 ? Tianzhou 2 Launch time: Approx. 1300 GMT (9:00 a.m. EDT) Launch site: Wenchang, China A Chinese Long March 7 will launch the Tianzhou 2 resupply ship to dock with the Chinese space station. The automated cargo craft will be the first resupply freighter for the Chinese space station. Scrubbed on May 19 and May 20. [May 28] TBD Long March 3B ? Fengyun 4B Launch time: TBD Launch site: Xichang, China A Chinese Long March 3B rocket will launch the Fengyun 4B geostationary weather satellite, the second in a new generation of Chinese meteorological observatories. Delayed from May 27. [May 26] June 3 Falcon 9 ? SpaceX CRS 22 Launch time: 1729 GMT (1:29 p.m. EDT) Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on its second cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The flight is the 22nd mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. Delayed from March and May 20. [May 20] June 10 Long March 2F ? Shenzhou 12 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Jiuquan, China A Chinese Long March 2F rocket will launch the Shenzhou 12 spacecraft with multiple Chinese astronauts to rendezvous and dock with the Chinese space station in low Earth orbit. This will be China¡¯s seventh crewed space mission, and the first to the Chinese space station. [May 13] June Falcon 9 ? SXM 8 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SXM 8 satellite for SiriusXM. The satellite will replenish SiriusXM¡¯s fleet providing satellite radio programming to consumers across North America. SXM 8 was built by Maxar Technologies, and features a large unfurlable S-band reflector to broadcast radio signals to users on the ground. Delayed from June 1. [May 26] June 15 Minotaur 1 ? NROL-111 Launch window: TBD Launch site: Pad 0B, Wallops Island, Virginia A U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 rocket will launch a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. Delayed from December 2018, 2nd Quarter 2019, late 2019, and March 2021. [May 20] TBD GSLV Mk.2 ? GISAT 1 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India India¡¯s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 2 (GSLV Mk.2), designated GSLV-F10, will launch India¡¯s first GEO Imaging Satellite, or GISAT 1. The GISAT 1 spacecraft will provide continuous remote sensing observations over the Indian subcontinent from geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) above Earth. Delayed from Jan. 15, February and March 5, 2020. Delayed from March 28, April 18, and May 2021. [May 13]?? Recent Astronomical Discoveries?Violent Phenomena at the Center of Our Galaxy? Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.?All times are ¡°local¡± (Dallas) time. ISS? June 1 June 2 June 4 X-37B June 6 |
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