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Recent Astronomical Discoveries
Astrophysicists use echoes of light to illuminate black holes | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241107160747.htm
Artist’s Rendering of Black Hole
Discussion Topic of the Evening.
New Report Details What Happened to the Arecibo Observatory
Radar images of 1991 VH and its satellite by Arecibo Observatory in 2008. Credit: NSF
https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1991-VH.jpeg
Aerial view of the damage to the Arecibo Observatory following the collapse of the of the telescope platform on December 1st, 2020. Credit: Deborah Martorell
https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/EoKhkcCXMAY5-10-1024×575.jpg
Waz Up
Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
Starship 31
SpaceX has formally announced on its official website that the sixth flight of Starship 31 and Super Heavy Booster 13 is scheduled for November 18th at 4:00 p.m. CT. The necessary launch license has already been obtained.
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BhNxzNuiXfbPXotKVsA93c-970-80.jpeg.webp
X-59 Fires Up its Engine for First Time on its Way to Takeoff
Final Venus Flyby for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Queues Closest Sun Pass
Space-Related Birthdays
Jeanette Epps Nov 3, 1970 SpaceX Crew-8 ( Expeditions 70/71/72)
Kevin P. Chilton Nov 3, 1954
STS-49
STS-59
STS-76
William H. Dana Nov 3, 1930
X-15 Flight 174, X-15 Flight 197
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/X-15_%282151457821%29.jpg
Charles Edward Jones Nov 4, 1952
Canceled Space Shuttle missions (STS-71-B)
(Died on 9-11 as a passenger on Flight 11)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Jones.charles.jpg/220px-Jones.charles.jpg
Alan G. Poindexter Nov 5, 1961
STS-122
STS-131
Charles O. Hobaugh Nov 5, 1961
STS-104
STS-118
STS-129
Alvin Drew Nov 5, 1962
STS-118
STS-133
Robert J. Cenker Nov 5, 1948
STS-61-C
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Robert_Cenker.jpg/220px-Robert_Cenker.jpg
Margaret Rhea Seddon Nov 8, 1947
STS-51-D
STS-40
STS-58
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/MRSeddon.jpg/220px-MRSeddon.jpg
Dale Gardner Nov 8, 1948
STS-8
STS-51-A
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Gardner-d.jpg/220px-Gardner-d.jpg
Richard E. Lawyer Nov 8, 1932 no flights
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Col._Richard_E._Lawyer.jpg
Edward Gibson Nov 8, 1936 Skylab 4
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Gibson-e.jpg/800px-Gibson-e.jpg
This Week in Space History
Nov. 8, 2005: Europe launches its 1st mission to Venus
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GNHjLPstsXPVtAMCWFZLPn-970-80.jpeg
Tycho’s Supernova
Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week
Constellation “Pegasus, the Winged Horse”
Space Launches For This Week
Space Flight Now Launch Schedule
November 10 Falcon 9 • Starlink 6-69
Launch time: Window opens at 4:28 p.m. EST (2128 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch another batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will land on a SpaceX droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Updated: November 07
November 11 Falcon 9 • Koreasat-6A
Launch time: Window opens at 12:07 p.m. EST (1707 UTC)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Koreasat-6A on behalf of KT SAT Corporation Ltd., a satellite provider in South Korea. According to the satellite manufacturer, Thales Alenia Space, Koreasat-6A will “embark a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) payload to improve the continuity and availability of the Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS),” which is “similar to the European Geostationary
Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).” A little less than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage booster will return to Florida for a touchdown at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Updated: November 05
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
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.
Updated: September 11
TBD 2025 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.
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.
ISS
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Tiangong
Nov. 12