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Saturday’s Topic: “What's the maximum number of planets that could orbit the sun?” & “Auriga, the charioteer or shepherd.”?
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Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “Escape from the Planet of the Apes” (1973)
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Artist Rendering of Various Planetary Types
Solar System Schematic (Not to Scale - Not Even Close)
Kepler-90 System Planet Sizes
Solar Transit?
Detecting Advanced Civilizations
Planetary Collisions
Gravity Wells
PlanetPlanet?
Waz Up
Space Exploration and Space History?
Space Exploration News
“Space Flavored” Coca-Cola
Perseverance?
Space-Related Birthdays
Roger B. Chaffee Feb 15, 1935 Selected for Apollo I, but died in the Apollo I fire
Leland D. Melvin Feb 15, 1964 STS-122, STS-129
Theodore Freeman Feb 18, 1930 No missions; died in a T-38 crash
Joseph P. Kerwin? Feb 19, 1932 Skylab 2
Donald E. Williams Feb 13, 1942 STS-51D, STS-34
G. David Low Feb 19, 1956 STS-32, STS-43, STS-57
Byron K. Lichtenberg? Feb 19, 1948 STS-9, STS-45
Stephen Bowen? Feb 13, 1964
STS-126, STS-132, STS-133, SpaceX Crew-6
This Week in Space History
Enterprise flight
Pluto discovered
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Auriga, the charioteer or shepherd.
8.? Space Launches For This Week
Space Coast Launches
Space Flight Now Launch Schedule
Late FebruaryFalcon 9 ? Starlink
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch with another batch of Starlink internet satellites. [Feb. 2]
Feb. 27
Electron ? StriX β
Launch time: 2035 GMT (3:35 p.m. EST)
Launch site: Launch Complex 1A, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch the StriX β synthetic aperture radar satellite for Synspective, a Japanese Earth-imaging company. Synspective is developing spacecraft for a planned constellation of more than 30 small radar observation satellites to collate data of metropolitan centers across Asia on a daily basis that can be used for urban development planning, construction and infrastructure monitoring, and disaster response. [Feb. 14]
March 1
Atlas 5 ? GOES-T
Launch time: 2138-2338 GMT (4:38-6:38 p.m. EST)
Launch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch GOES-T, the third next-generation geostationary weather satellite for NASA and NOAA. GOES-T will orbit 22,300 miles above the equator to monitor weather conditions across the United States. The rocket will fly in the 541 vehicle configuration with a five-meter fairing, four solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. Delayed from Dec. 7, Jan. 8, and Feb. 16. [Nov. 29]
Early March
Falcon 9 ? Starlink
Launch times: TBD
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch with another batch of Starlink internet satellites [Feb. 14]
March 5
Soyuz ? OneWeb 14
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
A Russian Soyuz rocket, marketed by Arianespace, 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 (Soyuz ST-B) rocket will use a Fregat upper stage. [Jan. 28]
NET March
Electron ? BlackSky 16 & 17
Launch window: TBD
Launch site: Launch Complex 1A, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch two small second-generation satellites for BlackSky’s commercial fleet of Earth observation spacecraft. Rocket Lab has nicknamed this mission “Without Mission a Beat.” Delayed from September, December. Delayed from Feb. 4 and Feb. 13 by payload issues. [Feb. 14]
TBDS
SLV ? 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. Delayed from April. [March 31]
TBD
SSLV ? BlackSky Global
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India
India’s Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) will launch on its first commercial mission with four Earth observation satellites for BlackSky Global, a Seattle-based company. The rideshare mission for BlackSky is being arranged by Spaceflight. Delayed from November, late 2019 and early 2020. Delayed from early 2021 and July. [March 31]
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Recent Astronomical Discoveries?
How galaxies can exist without dark matter
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.
ISS
Feb 20
Tiangong
Feb 23
Feb 25
X-37B
Feb 23
Envisat
Feb 21
Feb 22
Feb 24
Feb 27
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