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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 21st batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink V1.0-L20. Scrubbed on March 9. [March 9]

March 12

Long March 7A • XJY 6

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: Wenchang, China

A Chinese Long March 7A rocket will launch a classified satellite known as XJY 6. The launch will mark the second flight of the Long March 7A rocket variant with a third stage to place spacecraft into high-energy orbits. The XJY 6 payload is the second satellite to carry that name after the first XJY 6 payload was lost on a Long March 7A launch failure in March 2020. [Feb. 28]

March 14

Falcon 9 • Starlink V1.0-L21

Launch time: 0944 GMT (5:44 a.m. EDT)

Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 22nd batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink V1.0-L21. Delayed from March 13. [March 10]

March 20

Soyuz • CAS500 1

Launch time: 0607 GMT (2:07 a.m. EDT)

Launch site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch on a rideshare mission managed by GK Launch Services. The payloads on this mission include the CAS500 1 Earth observation satellite for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, Astroscale’s ELSA-d active debris removal demonstration mission, and four Earth-imaging microsatellites built by Axelspace of Japan. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket will use a Fregat upper stage. [Feb. 23]

March

Falcon 9 • Starlink V1.0-L22

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 23rd batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink V1.0-L22. [March 9]

March 25

Soyuz • OneWeb 5

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia

A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch 36 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket will use a Fregat upper stage. Delayed from Feb. 25. [Feb. 16]

March 28

GSLV Mk.2 • GISAT 1

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, India

India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mk. 2 (GSLV Mk.2), designated GSLV-F10, will launch India’s first GEO Imaging Satellite, or GISAT 1. The GISAT 1 spacecraft will provide continuous remote sensing observations over the Indian subcontinent from geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) above Earth. Delayed from Jan. 15, February and March 5, 2020. [March 9]

TBD

Electron • STP-27RM

Launch time: TBD

Launch site: Launch Complex 2, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, Wallops Island, Virginia

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch on its first mission from a new launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia. The launch customer is the U.S. Air Force, and the mission will launch an experimental mission for the Space Test Program called Monolith with a space weather instrument. The Monolith mission will demonstrate the ability of a small satellite to support large aperture payloads. Delayed from 2nd Quarter of 2019. Delayed from August 2020 and September 2020. Delayed from 4th Quarter of 2020. [Nov. 27]

Recent Astronomical Discoveries

How the habitability of exoplanets is influenced by their rocks

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210311142047.htm

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.

You can use the http://www.heavens-above.com website to find out what’s in orbit and

where to look during fly-overs

ISS

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST

Mar. 14

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=25544&mjd=59287.4629053269&type=V

Mar. 16

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=25544&mjd=59290.0911869386&type=V

Mar. 17

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=25544&mjd=59291.0581666136&type=V

Mar. 17

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=25544&mjd=59291.1249309674&type=V

Envisat

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST

Mar. 16

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=27386&mjd=59289.5044070975&type=V

Mar. 19

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.078&lng=-97.0417&loc=Unnamed&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=27386&mjd=59292.4964739582&type=V

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Skynet! 3-13-21 “March 13, 1968 – Soviets Secret Blueprints are Hatched” & “Constellation Gemini, the Twins” 9PM CT

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Space Exploration and Space History

Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week

Constellation: Gemini, the Twins

Space Launches For This Week

Recent Astronomical Discoveries

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.

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Waz Up

Space Exploration and Space History

Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week

Constellation: Gemini, the Twins

Space Launches For This Week

Recent Astronomical Discoveries

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.

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