Skynet Tonight! “Using Sunlight to Power Deep Space Exploration” & Constellation “Lupus, the Wolf” 9PM CT
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SKYNET!!!!? 9PM CT - 10:30 PM CT ? Saturday’s Topic: “Using Sunlight to Power Deep Space Exploration” & Constellation? “Lupus, the Wolf” ? Net Control: Tony NT5TM ? Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: "Backward Faces" (2022) 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.? Discussion Topic of the Evening.ACS3 Solar Sail ACS Solar Sail ACS Deployment (Artist’s Concept) ACS’s 12-unit CubeSat Spacecraft Waz UpSpace Exploration and Space History?Astronaut Birthdays:
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the WeekLupus, the Wolf Space Launches For This WeekSpace Flight Now Launch Schedule NET June 18/19 Electron ? “No Time Toulouse” Launch time: 6:13 a.m. NZT on June 19 (2:13 p.m. EDT, 1813 UTC on June 18) Launch site: Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch the “No Time Toulouse” mission, the first of five dedicated flights on behalf of Kinéis, a French Internet-of-Things company, which also has financial backing from France’s space agency, CNES (Centre National d’?tudes Spatiales). The rocket will carry the first five Internet-of-Things (IOT) satellites of a 25-satellite constellation. Updated: June 10 June 18/19 Falcon 9 ? Starlink 9-1 Launch time: Window opens at 8 p.m. PDT (11 p.m. EDT, 0300 UTC) Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. More than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ Delayed from June 13. Updated: June 12 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. Updated: March 26 Second Quarter 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 and April 2024. Updated: March 26 Summer 2024 Falcon 9 ? ASBM Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission, consisting of two satellites owned by Space Norway. The Falcon 9 will launch the two Northrop Grumman-built satellites into a highly elliptical orbit that lingers over the Arctic region. The satellites carry communications payloads for the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, the U.S. Space Force, and Inmarsat. Updated: December 13 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: May 28 NET June Soyuz ? Kondor-FKA 2 Launch time: TBD Launch site: Pad 1S, Vostochny Cosmodrome A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the Kondor-Experimental SAR Spacecraft FKA 2 (Kondor-FKA 2) satellite to sun-synchronous orbit at 510 km altitude and an inclination of 97.4°. The mission, with a roughly five-year live span, is being launched on behalf of NPO Mashinostroyeniya. Updated: June 10 June 29/30 H3 ? DAICHI-4 Launch time: 12:06:42 - 12:19:34 p.m. JST (11:06:42 - 11:19:34 p.m. EDT, 0306:42-0319:34 UTC) Launch site: Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center The Japanese Exploration Aerospace Agency (JAXA) will launch the third flight of its H3 Launch Vehicle. The mission, H3 F3: Flight No. 3, will launch the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 “DAICHI-4” (ALOS-4). This Earth observation satellite is manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation will use a phased array type L-band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR-3) and is designed to operate for seven years or orbit. Updated: April 26 NET July 8 Falcon 9 ? Türksat 6A Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Türksat 6A communications satellite for the Turkish operator Türksat. Türksat 6A is the first geostationary communications satellite to be built in Turkey, with development led by T?B?TAK Space Technologies Research Institute and Turkish Aerospace Industries. Delayed from 2nd Quarter 2023 and March 2024. Updated: March 25 NET July Falcon 9 ? Polaris Dawn Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The Polaris Dawn mission will be commanded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, making his second trip to space. He will be joined on the all-private mission by pilot Scott “Kidd” Poteet, and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. Delayed from November and December 2022, March 2023, April 2024 and early summer 2024. Updated: June 07 3rd Quarter Falcon 9 ? BlueBird Block 1 Launch time: TBD Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch five 700-square-foot Block 1 BlueBird satellites on behalf of its customer, AST SpaceMobile, Inc. 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. Recent Astronomical Discoveries?Wind from black holes may influence development of surrounding galaxies Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.?All times are “local” (Dallas) time. Jun 20 Jun 21 Jun 22 Jun 23 Tiangong Jun 16 Jun 18 ACS3 Solar Sail Jun 14 Jun 15 Jun 16 Jun 17 Jun 18 ? |
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