Skynet Tonight: "What Are Gravitational Waves? (Part 2) & Constellation "Virgo, the Maiden" 9PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “What are Gravitational Waves? (Part 2)” & “Virgo, the Maiden”? ? Net Control: Tom KE5ICX ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “Galaxy Quest” (1999)? 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? (Part 2) Gravitational Waves? Artist Depiction of a Neutron Star collision after Inspiral Continuous Gravitational Waves Compact Binary Inspiral Gravitational Waves Example of Binary Inspiral Waves Inspiral Gravitational Wave Signal in Seconds Stochastic Gravitational Waves Burst Gravitational Waves Waz UpSpace Exploration and Space History?Space Exploration News The giant crescent of the sun rising during the partial solar eclipse? June 10. Observers on the U.S. West Coast couldn’t see the full annular eclipse, a type of eclipse that occurs when the moon is too far away from Earth and doesn’t cover the solar disk completely, leaving a “ring of fire” around as it passes in front of the sun.?? Close up of Ganymede Monday, June 7, 2021: European astronaut Thomas Pesquet took a picture of the approaching Dragon Cargo capsule shortly before its docking at the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday 5 June.? Space-Related Birthdays David Scott Jun 06, 1932 Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15 Anne McClain Jun 07, 1979 Soyuz MS-11 Bruce McCandless II Jun 08, 1937 STS-41-B, STS-31 James McDivitt Jun 10, 1929 Gemini 4, Apollo 9 Stanley G. Love Jun 08, 1965 STS-122 James van Hoften Jun 11, 1944 STS-41-C, STS-51-I Jay C. Buckey Jun 06, 1956 STS-90 F. Drew Gaffney Jun 09, 1946 STS-40 This Week in Space History Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV)[3] was the second crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965.? X-15 First Unpowered Glide On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 p.m. at night. Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the WeekVirgo, the Maiden Space Launches For This WeekSpace Coast Launches Space Flight Now Launch Schedule June 13 Pegasus XL ? TacRL-2 Launch time: 0811 GMT (4:11 a.m. EDT; 1:11 a.m. PDT) Launch site: L-1011, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California An air-launched Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket will deploy a payload into orbit for the U.S. Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Launch program. [June 10] June 15 Minotaur 1 ? NROL-111 Launch time: 1100 GMT (7:00 a.m. EDT) 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. [June 10] June 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. Delayed from June 10. [May 31] June 17 Falcon 9 ? GPS 3 SV05 Launch window: 1609-1624 GMT (12:09-12:24 p.m. EDT) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will the U.S. Space Force’s fifth third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System. The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin. [June 7] June 24 Falcon 9 ? Transporter 2 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 2 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Moved up from July. [June 7] 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] June 29 Soyuz ? Progress 78P Launch time: 2327 GMT (7:27 p.m. EDT) Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan A Russian government Soyuz rocket will launch the 78th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. The rocket will fly in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. Delayed from March 19. [June 7]?? Recent Astronomical Discoveries?Astronomers Spot a “Blinking Giant” Near the Center of the Galaxy Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.All times are “local” (Dallas) time. Tianhe-1 June 17 June 19 X-37B June 19 June 21 |
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