Skynet Tonight! "Surprise Vulnerabilities of Europa Clipper" & Constellation "Puppis" 9PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30 PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “End-run Around Radiation – The Saga and Surprise Vulnerabilities of Europa Clipper” & Constellation “Puppis, the Poop Deck” ? Net Control: Virginia NV5F ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: 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?Small and large planets have significantly different upbringings How Planets Are Born Discussion Topic of the Evening.End-run around radiation – The saga and surprise vulnerabilities of Europa Clipper Europa Clipper Artist’s Conception - Europa Clipper Flyby Europa Clipper Modules Assembly MOSFET Construction Europa Electronics Call-out Europa Clipper Integration - Kennedy Space Center Radiation Hazard Schematic? Typical MOSFET ? Mission Concept PP ?Waz UpSpace Exploration and Space History?Space Exploration News Space X Starship Explodes in Flight NASA Seeking Designs for Zero Gravity Indicator Space-Related Birthdays James Adamson March 3, 1946: STS-28, STS-43 Bonnie Dunbar March 3, 1949: STS-61-A, STS-32, STS-50, STS-71, STS-89 James Voss March 3, 1949: STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, STS-102/STS-105 part of Exp 2 Robert Curbeam March 5, 1962: STS-85, STS-98, STS-116 Gordon Cooper March 6, 1927: Mercury-Atlas 9, Gemini 5 Loren Acton March 7, 1936: STS-51-F This Week in Space History March 3: 1915:? Congress authorized the creation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to "supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight." March 5: 1998:? Scientists announced that the Lunar Prospector spacecraft had found evidence of hydrogen at both poles of the Moon, suggesting the existence of water ice. March 6: 2015:? Dawn spacecraft went into orbit around Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the WeekConstellation “Puppis, the Poop Deck” Space Launches For This WeekSpace Flight Now Launch Schedule March 8 Falcon 9 ? Starlink 12-21 Launch time: 11:10 p.m. EST (0410 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 into low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will target a landing on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’. Updated: March 06 NET March 12 Falcon 9 ? Crew-10 Launch time: 7:48 p.m. EDT (2348 UTC) Launch site: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch three astronauts and a cosmonaut to the International Space Station. The quartet will fly onboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft named ‘Endurance.’ Originally, the crew was to fly on the C213 Crew Dragon (yet unnamed), but swapped the vehicle to compensate for the fact that C213 still needs additional work before it can fly. The mission will carry NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers along with Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. This will be the second spaceflight for both McClain and Onishi and the first for both Ayers and Peskov. Updated: February 11 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 NET March 15/16 Alpha ? ‘Message in a Booster’ Launch time: 6:25 p.m. PDT (9:25 p.m. EDT, 0125 UTC) Launch site: SLC-2, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket will launch Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 satellite bus to low Earth orbit. The sixth launch of an Alpha rocket, designated FLTA006, marks the second flight within a multi-launch agreement between Firefly Aerospace and Lockheed Martin, which may include up to 25 missions within a five-year timeframe. Updated: March 06 NET March Falcon 9 ? Transporter-13 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch dozens of satellites on the company’s 13th smallsat rideshare mission to a sun-synchronous orbit. Among those satellites are a trio of CubeSats for NASA’s Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission; Arvaker 1, the first microsatellie for Kongsberg NanoAvionics’ N3X constellation; and the Botsat-1 satellite from Botswana. Less than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will return for a touchdown at a landing pad near the launch site. Updated: February 27 Spring 2025 Alpha ? ‘Message in a Booster’ Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-2, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket will launch Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 Technology Demonstrator, a mid-sized satellite bus, to low Earth orbit. This is the second flight as part of a multi-launch agreement with Lockheed Martin for up to 25 missions across a five-year timespan. Updated: February 27 NET April 8 Soyuz 2.1a ? Soyuz MS-27 / 73S Launch time: 8:47 a.m. MSK (1:47 a.m. EDT, 0547 UTC) Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 31 A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket will launch a three-man crew to the International Space Station. Crew commander Sergey Ryzhikov will be joined by fellow cosmonaut Alexey Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonny Kim. The Soyuz is set to dock with the ISS at about 5:04 a.m. EDT (0904 UTC). The spacecraft will remain docked with the orbiting outpost until about Dec. 8, 2025. This will be the third spaceflight for Ryzhikov and the first for both Zubritsky and Kim. Updated: February 05 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 NET November 2025 Falcon 9 ? Sentinel-6B Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the second of the two-satellite Sentinel-6 series. NASA awarded SpaceX a $94 million firm fixed price contract for the launch in 2022. The Sentinel-6B “will use a radar altimeter to bounce signals off the ocean surface and deliver continuity of ocean topography measurements,” according to NASA. The mission is designed through a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Organization for the Exploration of Meteorological Studies.?? 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. ISS Mar 10 Mar 11 Mar 12 Mar 13 Mar 14 Tiangong NO PASSES |
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