Skynet Tonight! "What is the Event Horizon Telescope?" & Constellations "Coma Bernices" and "Canes Venatici" 9PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30PM CT ? Saturday¡¯s Topic: ¡°What is the Event Horizon Telescope?¡± & Constellations ¡°Coma Berenices¡±, Bernice¡¯s Hair, and ¡°Canes Venatici¡±, the Hunting Dogs¡±? ? Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL? ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: ¡°Star Trek: Strange New Worlds¡± (2022) 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 EveningWhat is the Event Horizon Telescope? Event Horizon Telescope Telescope Array EHT Telescopes throughout the World M87 Blackhole 3C279 Sagittarius A* Waz UpSpace Exploration and Space History?Astronaut Birthdays
Miss Carolyn¡¯s Constellation of the WeekComa Berenices, Bernice¡¯s hair, and Canes Venatici, the hunting dogs Space Launches For This WeekTom KE5ICX? Space Coast Launches Space Flight Now Launch Schedule May 25 Falcon 9 ? Transporter 5 Launch time: 1835 GMT (2:35 p.m. EDT) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 5 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Moved to Cape Canaveral from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Falcon 9¡¯s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. [April 28] May Alpha ? Multi-payload Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-2W, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A Firefly Alpha rocket will launch on its second test flight with a rideshare payload consisting of multiple unspecified small satellites. [March 25] May 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. Delayed from April 2021. [March 25] NET May 31 Electron ? CAPSTONE Launch time: TBD Launch site: Launch Complex 1B, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch NASA¡¯s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, mission to the moon. CAPSTONE will fly to the moon on Rocket Lab¡¯s Photon space tug, entering a unique halo-like lunar orbit to test deep space navigation and communications in the same orbit to be used by NASA¡¯s Gateway mini-space station. Moved from Launch Complex 2 in Virginia to Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand. Delayed from 2021 due to COVID-related issues. Delayed from March 2022. [May 4] 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] June 3 Soyuz ? Progress 81P Launch time: 0923 GMT (5:23 a.m. EDT) Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan A Russian government Soyuz rocket will launch the 81st Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station. The rocket will fly in the Soyuz-2.1a configuration. [April 20] June Long March 2F ? Shenzhou 14 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Jiuquan, China A Chinese Long March 2F rocket will launch the Shenzhou 14 spacecraft with three Chinese astronauts to rendezvous and dock with the Chinese space station in low Earth orbit. This will be China¡¯s ninth crewed space mission, and the third to the Chinese space station. Delayed from May. [April 20] June 7 Falcon 9 ? SpaceX CRS 25 Launch time: 1530 GMT (11:30 a.m. EDT) Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon 2 spacecraft on its fifth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9¡¯s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. The flight is the 25th mission by SpaceX conducted under a Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. [May 9] June Falcon 9 ? Nilesat 301 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Nilesat 301 geostationary communications satellite. Nilesat 301, built by Thales Alenia Space, will provide digital broadband and internet connectivity services for the Egyptian operator Nilesat. The Falcon 9¡¯s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from April 30. [April 20] June Astra Rocket 3.3 ? TROPICS 1 & 2 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-46, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A commercial small satellite launch vehicle developed by Astra will launch the first pair of small CubeSats for NASA¡¯s TROPICS mission. The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats, or TROPICS, mission will measure environmental and inner-core conditions for tropical cyclones. Delayed from April. [April 28] June Vega C ? LARES 2 Launch time: TBD Launch site: ZLV, Kourou, French Guiana An Arianespace Vega C rocket will launch the LARES 2 satellite for ASI, the Italian space agency. The spherical LARES 2 satellite is covered in laser mirrors to enable precise tracking from the ground, enabling research into geoodynamics and general relativity. This will mark the inaugural flight of Europe¡¯s new Vega C rocket, featuring a more powerful first stage motor, an enlarged second stage, an improved liquid-fueled upper stage, and a new payload fairing design. Delayed from mid-2020 by coronavirus impacts. Delayed from December 2020, early 2021, April 2022, and May 2022. [April 9] NET June Falcon 9 ? O3b mPOWER 1, 2, 3 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the first three O3b mPOWER broadband internet satellites into Medium Earth Orbit for SES of Luxembourg. The satellites, built by Boeing, will provide internet services over most of the populated world, building on SES¡¯s O3b network. The Falcon 9¡¯s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from May. [April 20] Recent Astronomical Discoveries?Merging Black Holes, New Method of Measuring Void Measuring Super Massive Black Holes Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.You can use the website to find out what¡¯s in orbit and where to look during fly-overs All times are ¡°local¡± (Dallas) time. X-37B May 23 Envisat May 22 May 25 May 28 May 30 |
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