Skynet Tonight! "Do We Live in a Special Part of the Universe?" & Constellations "Perseus" and "Camelopardalis" 9PM
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30 PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “Do We Live in a Special Part of the Universe?” & Constellations “Perseus, the Hero” and “Camelopardalis, the Giraffe”? ? Net Control: Bill N5BB ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: Mission Stardust” (1967)? 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: Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT. ?Recent Astronomical Discoveries?Scientists Pin Down the Origins of a Fast Radio Burst (FRB) Artist’s Concept - FRB Discussion Topic of the Evening.Do We Live in a Special Part of the Universe? An illustration of the Cosmic Web CMB Map Large Scale Universe Structure Cosmological Principle (Redshift) Illustrated Waz UpSpace Exploration and Space History?Space Exploration News ? Blue Origin test fires New Glenn first stage ahead of inaugural launch Scientists have discovered a new way oxygen can form in carbon-dioxide-rich atmospheres of worlds beyond our own? Space-Related Birthdays Nancy Currie-Gregg Dec 29, 1958 STS-57, STS-70, STS-88, STS-109 Barry “Butch” Wilmore, Dec 29, 1962 STS-129, Exp 41/42, Boeing Crewed Flight Test – April 2025? Daniel Barry Dec 30, 1953 STS-72, STS-96, STS-105 Steven Smith Dec 30, 1958 STS-68, STS-82, STS-103, STS-110 Martin J. Fettman? Dec 31 1956 STS-58 Christopher Cassidy Jan 4 1970 STS-127, Soyuz TMA-08M (Expedition 35/36), Soyuz MS-16 (Expedition 62/63)? This Week in Space History December 30, 1930 The First Photograph Taken Showing the Curvature of the Earth The photo was taken from an airplane east of the Andes Mountain range in South America. Capt. Albert W. Stevens, an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps and an aerial photographer, took the image while flying at an altitude of 21,000 feet over Villa Mercedes, Argentina. The Andes Mountains, 287 miles away, and although taller than the plane’s altitude, lay below the sensible horizon. The Earth’s curvature explains this phenomenon, as described in the diagram accompanying the photograph. The Earth’s curvature is also visible laterally in the photograph, although the effect is subtle as the image encompasses only 1/360 of the Earth’s circumference. About 5 years later, Capt. Stevens took another photo from a high-altitude balloon from over South Dakota at a then world record altitude of 72,395 feet. January 1, 1801 Ceres Discovered December 31, 2004? Flyby of Iapetus Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the WeekConstellations “Perseus, the Hero” and “Camelopardalis, the Giraffe”? Space Launches For This WeekSpace Flight Now Launch Schedule January 5 Falcon 9 ? Starlink 6-71 Launch time: 12:10 p.m. EST (1710 UTC) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on a droneship positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: December 30 NET January 6 New Glenn ? NG-1 Launch time: 1 a.m. EST (0600 UTC) Launch site: Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch the company’s Blue Ring spacecraft, which is capable of both hosting and deploying multiple payloads. Blue Origin will attempt to land the first stage booster on its sea-based landing platform, ‘Jacklyn.’ Updated: January 02 January 6 Falcon 9 ? Starlink 12-11 Launch time: Window opens at 11:19 a.m. EST (1619 UTC) Launch site: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the latest batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on a droneship positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: January 03 NET January 10 Starship ? Flight 7 Launch time: 4 p.m. CST (5 p.m. EST, 2200 UTC) Launch site: OLP-A, Starbase, Boca Chica Beach, Texas SpaceX will launch its sixth, suborbital flight test of its fully integrated Starship rocket, a combination of the Ship upper stage (S33) and the Super Heavy booster (B14). SpaceX plans to catch the Super Heavy booster using the chopsticks on the launch tower, but will make a final determination on the catch following liftoff and stage separation. This mission will feature first block upgrades for the Ship upper stage. S33 will perform a landing flip and made a gentle splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Updated: December 30 NET Spring 2025 New Glenn ? EscaPADE Launch time: TBD Launch site: Launch Complex 36, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket will launch a pair of identical spacecraft on NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission. The two satellites, named Blue and Gold, will make a roughly 11-month journey to Mars where they will then perform about an 11-month science mission while orbiting the Red Planet. Blue and Gold were manufactured by Rocket Lab over about 3.5 years and carry science experiments from the University of California, Berkeley. This launch of the New Glenn rocket will also feature a landing attempt on its landing barge in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from October 13. Updated: September 11 TBD 2025 Vulcan Centaur ? Dream Chaser 1 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch on its second demonstration flight with Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser cargo vehicle for the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser is a lifting body resupply spacecraft that will launch on top of a rocket and land on a runway. This will be the Dream Chaser’s first flight to space. The Vulcan Centaur rocket will fly in the VC4L configuration with four GEM-63XL solid rocket boosters, a long-length payload fairing, and two RL10 engines on the Centaur upper stage. Delayed from August 2022, December 2023, January 2024,? April 2024 and September 2024. Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.?All times are “local” (Dallas) time. ISS Jan 11 Jan 12 Jan 13 Tiangong Jan 10 Jan 11 Jan 12 Jan 13 |
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