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Mars Naming Conventions
Belva Crater
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Close-up Belva Crater
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Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
NASA begins 60th round of space artifact awards for schools, museums
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Brightest Cosmic Explosion Ever Detected Had Other Unique Features
Cosmic Rays in the Atmosphere
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Space-Related Birthdays
Shannon Walker June 4, 1965 Soyuz TMA-19 (Expedition 24/25), SpaceX Crew-1 (Expedition 64/65)
Robert S. Kimbrough June 4, 1967 STS-126, Soyuz MS-02 (Expedition 49/50), SpaceX Crew-2 (Expedition 65/66)
Richard A. Searfoss June 5, 1956 STS-58, STS-76, STS-90
Jay C. Buckey June 6, 1956 STS-90
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David Scott June 6, 1932 Gemini 8, Apollo 9, Apollo 15
Anne McClain June 7, 1979 Soyuz MS-11 (Expedition 58/59)
Stanley G. Love June 8, 1965 STS-122
Bruce McCandless II June 8, 1937 STS-41-B, STS-31
F. Drew Gaffney June 9, 1946 STS-40
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James McDivitt June 10, 1929 Gemini 4, Apollo 9
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This Week in Space History
X-15 First Glide Flight
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June 7
In 1992, the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer, or EUVE, headed to space. For over eight years, the EUVE spacecraft rotated as it orbited Earth, allowing its telescopes to survey nearly the entire sky as well as make pointed observations of stars, comets, planets, and more.
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Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Libra, the Scales
Space Launches For This Week
Space Coast Launches
Space Flight Now Launch Schedule
June 12 Falcon 9 • Starlink 5-11
Launch time: 0710 GMT (3:10 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of 52 Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from June 9, June 10, and June 12.
Updated: June 09
June 12 Falcon 9 • Transporter 8
Launch time: 2114-2257 GMT (5:14-6:57 p.m. EDT; 2:14-3:57 p.m. PDT)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 8 mission, a rideshare flight to a sun-synchronous orbit with numerous small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers. Launch site changed from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to Vandenberg Space Force Base. Delayed from June 8.
Updated: June 08
June Falcon 9 • Starlink 5-12
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: June 09
June 16 Ariane 5 • Syracuse 4B & Heinrich Hertz
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana
Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA260, to launch the Syracuse 4B and Heinrich Hertz communications satellites. Syracuse 4B, built by Airbus, will relay secure communications between French military aircraft, ground vehicles, and naval vessels, including submarines. The Heinrich Hertz satellite, built by OHB, will test new communications technologies on a mission funded by the German government. This will be the final launch of an Ariane 5 rocket. Delayed from February due to problems completing the Heinrich Hertz satellite. Moved forward from June 21.
Updated: May 05
June 19 Falcon 9 • Satria
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Satria communications satellite for the Indonesian government and the Indonesian satellite operator PSN. The Satria satellite will provide broadband internet and communications capacity for schools, hospitals, and other public use facilities in Indonesia’s rural regions. The satellite was built by Thales Alenia Space, and is based on the Spacebus Neo platform. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: June 08
June 21 Delta 4-Heavy • NROL-68
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket will launch a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The largest of the Delta 4 family, the Heavy version features three Common Booster Cores mounted together to form a triple-body rocket. This is the penultimate flight of a Delta 4 rocket. Delayed from March and April 20.
Updated: May 27
June Falcon 9 • Starlink 5-7
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V1.5 internet satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.
Updated: May 11
TBD Falcon 9 • O3b mPOWER 5 & 6
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the third pair of O3b mPOWER broadband internet satellites into Medium Earth Orbit for SES of Luxembourg. The satellites, built by Boeing, will provide internet services over most of the populated world, building on SES’s O3b network. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Delayed from March and June 9.
Updated: June 03
June Falcon 9 • SDA Tranche 0B
Launch time: TBD
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 18 Tranche 0 demonstration satellites for the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency. The launch is the second of two Falcon 9 missions to carry SDA demonstration spacecraft for a future constellation of military missile tracking and data relay satellites. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg.
Updated: June 08
July 1 Falcon 9 • Euclid
Launch time: 1512 GMT (11:12 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Euclid mission for the European Space Agency. Euclid is an astrophysics mission with a telescope and two scientific instruments designed to explore the evolution of the dark universe. It will make a 3D-map of the universe by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years, across more than a third of the sky. Euclid will be launched to an observing orbit at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point. The mission was originally supposed to launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Recent Astronomical Discoveries
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New study identifies mechanism driving the sun’s fast wind
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230607124055.htm
Solar Wind
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
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Tiangong
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Hubble Space Telescope
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