Skynet Tonight! "The Bra-Maker Who Won the Right to Make Astronaut Suits" & Constellation "Capricorn" 9 PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30 PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “The Bra-maker Who Won the Right to Make Astronaut spacesuits” & “Capricorn the Sea Goat”? ? Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “Amelia 2.0” (2017) 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.4.? Recent Astronomical Discoveries? Volcanoes may help reveal interior heat on Jupiter moon | ScienceDaily? ?Discussion Topic of the Evening.The improbable story of the bra-maker who won the right to make astronaut spacesuits ?Waz UpSpace Exploration and Space History?
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week“Capricorn the Sea Goat” ? Space Launches For This Week Space Flight Now Launch Schedule TBD Electron ? Kinéis Mission 2 Launch time: 11 a.m. NZST ion 19th (7 p.m. EDT / 2300 UTC on 18th) Launch site: Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch the second of five dedicated flights on behalf of French Internet-of-Things company Kinéis. Electron and the Curie upper stage will add five more satellites to Kinéis’ planned 25-satellite constellation. It will be the 53rd flight of the Electron rocket. The mission is nicknamed “Kinéis Killed the RadIOT Star’. Delayed from Sept. 16/17 due to poor weather. Launch aborted at T-0 on Sept. 18/19 due to ground systems issue. Updated: September 20 NET September 26 Falcon 9 ? Crew 9 Launch time: 2:05 p.m. EDT (1805 UTC) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon spacecraft carrying a new crew of four to the International Space Station. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Following the decision to return the Starliner astronauts aboard the Crew 9 Dragon, the mission will now be commanded by Nick Hague. He will be accompanied aboard the Dragon Freedom by Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov to start a six-month expedition to the station. Delayed from Aug. 18 due to the extension of the Starliner Crew Flight Test mission and delayed from Sept. 24 & 25 for separation between launches from pad 40. Updated: September 18 TBD Vulcan ? Certification Flight 2 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida The second flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket will carry ballast and a collection of small payloads. ULA changed this mission when it became clear the original payload, Sierra Space Dream Chaser cargo ship, would not ready for launch. This second test flight is needed to gain certification from the U.S. military to fly national security payloads. Updated: September 12 TBD H-2A ? IGS-Radar 8 Launch time: 14:24:20 JST (1:24:20 a.m. EDT, 0524:20 UTC) Launch site: Launch Pad 1, Tanegashima Space Center A Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., H-2A rocket will launch an intelligence-gathering satellite called the Information Gathering Satellite Radar 8 (IGS-Radar 8). Historically, these satellites have launched in pairs, labeled IGS-Optical and IGS-Radar. The IGS-Optical 8 spacecraft launched on Jan. 12, 2024. Delayed from Sept. 16 due to poor weather. Updated: September 18 October 7 Falcon 9 ? Hera Launch time: 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 UTC) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida SpaceX will launch the Hera European Space Agency mission to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by the DART mission in September 2022. Updated: September 01 NET October 10 Falcon Heavy ? Europa Clipper Launch time: 12:31 p.m. EDT (1631 UTC) Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Europa Clipper to begin its journey to the Galilean moon of the same name. Europa, a moon believed to have a saltwater ocean on its surface, is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons. It’s also the sixth closest to the planet. This Falcon Heavy rocket will be flown in a fully expendable configuration, bringing an end to the side booster, tail numbers B1064 and B1065, after they each flew on five previous Falcon Heavy missions. Updated: September 12 NET November New Glenn ? NG-1 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Launch Complex 36 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: September 11 TBD 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: July 12 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. We currently have the following people checked in via w5fc.org…? You can check-in via the club website by clicking on the hotlink provided.?? (Read check ins so far) I’ll now take check-ins or comments At this point we should be reaching our 90 minute cut-off point, so NCS can decide whether to cut any of these topics due to lack of time. ?? 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? Sept. 29 Sept. 30 Tiangong Sept. 28 Sept. 29 Sept. 30 |
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