Skynet Tonight "22 Amazing Facts about Space and Astronomy" 9 PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30 PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “22 amazing facts about space and astronomy” & Constellations “Coma Berenices, Bernice’s Hair” and “Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs”?? ? Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “From the Earth to the Moon” (1958) 2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, - Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247. ? Youtube.com Search “DARC Skynet” Facebook.com Search “DARC Skynet” ? Direct Video Link: ? IO Group:/g/DARCskynet/topics Facebook Group: Discussion Topic of the Evening.22 amazing facts about space and astronomy From Skyatnightmagazine.com The Moon is lemon-shaped Milky Way smells of rum, raspberries and booze On Mercury a day is twice as long as a year You could survive for a couple of minutes in a leaky spacesuit 1 tsp of neutron star weighs the same as the human population Gamma-ray bursts release more energy in 10 seconds than our Sun will in its entire life There are stars we will never be able to see Black holes have theoretical opposites known as white holes Jupiter’s magnetic field is bigger than the Moon Neptune has only completed one orbit around the Sun since its discovery Planets can wander through space without a parent star The Sun loses a billion kilos per second Most Sun-like stars in our galaxy are in multiple star systems Vast amounts of water have been found in space There is gravity on the International Space Station Our days are getting longer The Moon is getting farther away every year Heat from the Big Bang is still around today Venus spins backwards Uranus is the coldest planet in the Solar System Black holes give off light 5 billion Suns could fit in UY Scuti, one of the biggest known stars ?Waz Up?? Space Exploration and Space History? Astronaut Birthdays
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the WeekConstellations “Coma Berenices, Bernice’s Hair” and “Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs”?? Space Launches For This WeekSpace Flight Now Launch Schedule NET May 19 Falcon 9 ? NROL-146 Launch time: 12:22 a.m. PDT (3:22 a.m. EDT, 0722 UTC) Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NROL-146 mission on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). According to Dr. Troy Meink, the NRO principal deputy director, this will be the first launch for the agency’s proliferated architecture, which focuses on space-based ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). Reuters was the first to report that these satellites were built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman under a classified $1.8 billion contract. Updated: May 16 NET May 21 Atlas 5 ? CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch time: 4:43 p.m. ET (2043 UTC) Launch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, designated AV-085, will launch Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on its first mission with astronauts, known as the Crew Test Flight, to the International Space Station. The capsule will dock with the space station, then return to Earth to landing in the Western United States. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will fly on the mission. The rocket will fly in a vehicle configuration with two solid rocket boosters and a dual-engine Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August and 1st Quarter of 2020. Delayed from mid-2020 after Boeing decision to refly the Orbital Flight Test. Delayed from early 2021, June 2021, and late 2021. Delayed from late 2022 to implement fixes on the Starliner spacecraft after OFT-2. Delayed from April 2023, July 2023, April 2024, May 6, May 10 and May 17. Updated: May 14 TBD Eris ? TestFlight1 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Pad 1, Bowen Orbital Spaceport Gilmour Space in Australia is preparing to launch the inaugural flight of its Eris Block 1 rocket. The three-stage launch vehicle is 25 m (82 ft) tall and is equipped with 1.5 m (4.9 ft) diameter payload fairings. The rocket is designed to send up to 305 kg up to low Earth orbit. This first mission, called “TestFlight1,” does not appear to have a payload on board. Delayed from May 4 due to a lack of launch permit. Updated: April 23 June 24 Long March 2C ? SVOM Launch time: TBD Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China A Chinese Long March 2C rocket will launch the Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) spacecraft. The satellite is a dual Franco-Chinese mission, which is “dedicated to the study of the most distant explosions of stars, the gamma-ray bursts.”? There are four main instruments on board, two of which are French and two which are Chinese. The spacecraft will be launched to a 625-km Earth orbit and will operate for at least three years with an option to extend for another two years beyond that. Delayed from late 2023. Updated: January 28 June 25 Falcon Heavy ? GOES U Launch time: TBD Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon Heavy will launch the fourth and final satellite of the next-generation series of geostationary weather satellites for NASA and NOAA. GOES-U will orbit 22,300 miles above the equator to monitor weather conditions across the United States. The satellite will be renamed GOES-19 once it reaches its operational orbit. Delayed from April 30 and May.?? Recent Astronomical Discoveries?Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3 Earth-sized Exoplanet (Artist’s Concept) Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.?All times are “local” (Dallas) time. ISS May 26 Tiangong May 20 May 21 May 22 May 24 Hubble Space Telescope May 19 Envisat? May 20 May 21 May 23 |
Tom General