Skynet Tonight! "Seeing vs. Transparency" & Constellation "Orion the Hunter" 9 PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30 PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “Seeing vs Transparency” & Constellation “Orion the Hunter”? ? Net Control: Billye KF5PDS ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (1977 - Director’s Edition) 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?Extreme supersonic winds measured on planet outside our Solar System Artist’s Concept Drawing of WASP-127b Discussion Topic of the Evening.“Seeing vs Transparency”? From “The Astronomical League” website “astroleague.org”. Clear Sky Chart Rayleigh Scattering Waz UpSpace Exploration and Space History?Brenda WB5OZL/Tom KE5ICX (Alternates Each Week) Space Exploration News Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon Rock NASA honors fallen astronauts with 'Day of Remembrance' ceremony Trillions of comets discovered orbiting alien planet systems Space-Related Birthdays ? January 20, 1930: Buzz Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11) January 20, 1948: Jerry L. Ross (STS-61-B, STS-27, STS-37, STS-55, STS-74, STS-88, STS-110) January? 21, 1950 Joseph R. Tanner (STS-66, STS-82, STS-97, STS-115)? January 22, 1955: Thomas David Jones (STS-59, STS-68, STS-80, STS-98) January 23, 1930: William Pogue (Skylab 4) January 23, 1943: Robert Cabana (STS-41, STS-53, STS-65, STS-88) January 23, 1973: Kjell Lindgren (Exp. 44/45, SpaceX Crew-4 – Exp 67/68) January 23, 1974: Jack Fischer (Exp. 51/52) January 24, 1952: William F. Readdy (STS-42, STS-51, STS-79) This Week in Space History 2015: January 19:? Launch of New Horizons Mission to Pluto January 22: 1968:? Launch of Apollo 5 January 23 2003: Pioneer 10 Sends Last Transmission January 24: 1986: Voyager 2 Flyby of Uranus 2004:? Mars Rover Opportunity Lands on Mars Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the WeekOrion, the Hunter. Space Launches For This WeekSpace Flight Now Launch Schedule January 27 Falcon 9 ? Starlink 12-7 Launch time: Window opens at 2:21 p.m. EST (1921 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 target a landing on a droneship positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: January 24 NET February 3/4 Electron ? ‘IOT 4 You and Me’ Launch time: 9:43 a.m. NZDT on Feb. 4 (3:43 p.m. EST, 2043 UTC on Feb. 3) Launch site: Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch a batch of five satellites for Kinéis’ Internet of Things (IOT) constellation. This will be the fourth out of five planned launches to deploy the 25 satellites. Rocket Lab will not be attempting to recover the booster. Updated: January 23 TBD Falcon 9 ? Starlink 10-12 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another 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 SpaceX droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Updated: January 24 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. Updated: October 17 ?? Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days. ? All times are “local” (Dallas) time. ISS Jan 29 Jan 30 Jan 31 Feb 1 Feb 2 Tiangong Jan 26 Jan 27 ? |
Tom General