Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion Topic of the Evening.
James Webb Space Telescope
Launch Configuration
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/JWST_launch_configuration.png
Deployed in Orbit (1)
Deployed in Orbit (2)
Support Personnel Next to Full Scale Model
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/JWST_people.jpg/300px-JWST_people.jpg
Waz Up
Space Exploration and Space History
Brenda WB5OZL
Space Exploration News
Death of Graeme Ferguson
Bennu’s samples coming home
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pisuxioKXrXmz9t5PtyMQW-970-80.jpg.webp
Space-Related Birthdays
May 9, 1931
Vance Brand
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/VanceDBrand.jpg
May 10
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1900
Lisa Novak, 1963
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Lisa_M._Nowak.jpg
May 12, 1962
Gregory Johnson
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Gregory_H._Johnson.jpg
May 14
Jessica Watkins 1988
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Jessica_Watkins_official_portrait.jpg
William Gregory 1957
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/WilliamGGregory.jpg
James Kelly 1964
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/James_m_kelly.jpg
Donald McMonagle 1952
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Donald_McMonagle.jpg
May 15
Williamina Fleming born 1857
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Williamina_Paton_Stevens_Fleming_circa_1890s.jpg
Anthony England 1942
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/AnthonyWEngland.jpg
Frank Culbertson Jr. 1949
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Frank_Culbertson_Jr.jpg
This Week in Space History
Morse Code on Mars
https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/images/imagesmsl20120829pia16093-43.width-1024.jpg
May 10, 1967 M2-F3 crash
May 13, 1963: Faith 7 launched, last Mercury program flight
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/screen_shot_2018-05-17_at_5.22.37_pm.png
May 14, 1973: Skylab launched
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Skylab_launch_on_Saturn_V.jpg
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Crater, the cup and Corvus, the crow or raven
Space Launches For This Week
Space Coast Launches
Space Flight Now Launch Schedule
May 17
Atlas 5 • SBIRS GEO Flight 5
Launch time: 1735 GMT (1:35 p.m. EDT)
Launch site: SLC-41, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch the U.S. Space Force’s fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous satellite, or SBIRS GEO 5, for missile early-warning detection. The rocket will fly in the 421 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, two solid rocket boosters, and a single-engine Centaur upper stage. [May 8]
May 20
Long March 7 • Tianzhou 2
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: Wenchang, China
A Chinese Long March 7 will launch the Tianzhou 2 resupply ship to dock with the Chinese space station. The automated cargo craft will be the first resupply freighter for the Chinese space station. [May 13]
May 27
Soyuz • OneWeb 7
Launch time: 1743 GMT (1:43 p.m. EDT)
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. [May 13]
May 27
Long March 3B • Fengyun 4B
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: Xichang, China
A Chinese Long March 3B rocket will launch the Fengyun 4B geostationary weather satellite, the second in a new generation of Chinese meteorological observatories. [May 13]
Recent Astronomical Discoveries
How Planets Form
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210510113607.htm
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.
ISS
May 16
May 17
X-37B
May 16