Commercial Small Launch Capacities Developing in 2018
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Weekly Planet Watch – Evening Planets: Uranus (SW), Neptune (WSW); Morning Planets: Mars (ESE), Jupiter (SE), Saturn (SE).
Singapore Hosts EmTech Asia Conference and Global Space Technology Convention This Week
About 1,200 individuals in the emerging and space technology sector will gather in Singapore for EmTech and Global Space and Technology Convention (GSTC). On January 30-31, MIT Technology Review is hosting EmTech Asia, an annual global emerging technologies conference. Expecting over 700 participants, this event covers 14 key themes, including “New Frontiers in Space and Aerospace Innovation”. Among the speakers are Shana Diez, Director of Build Reliability at SpaceX, Adam Gilmour, CEO of Gilmour Space Technologies, and Jonathan Hung (pictured), President of Singapore Space and Technology Association. Just prior to GSTC, Space Generation Advisory Council is holding the inaugural Space Generation (ASEAN) workshop on Jan 31. This is an all-day workshop for ~40 university students and young professionals in the ASEAN region who will be upcoming leaders in space development. On February 1-2, SSTA is holding the 10th annual GSTC, anticipating ~500 international delegates. The first panel of the 1st day invites leaders of space agencies from Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, UAE and Russia. On the 2nd day, the CEO Rahul Narayan of Axiom Research Labs, which runs Team Indus, will give a presentation titled “A New World Beyond Earth Orbit”. GSTC will conclude with an awards ceremony for Singapore Space Challenge, an annual national design competition challenging student teams to design realistic space-related projects. Registration for GSTC is still open. (Also Pictured: SSTA Executive Director Lynette Tan; Image Credit: MIT Technology Review, SGAC, SSTA, Fawwaz Baktee) |
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Jan 29 — USA: Jan 15 – Feb 16 — International Space University, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia: 2018 Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program; intensive, five week, live-in experience built around an international, intercultural and interdisciplinary educational philosophy.
Jan 16 – Feb 16 — NASA, Online / Chico CA: Kickstarter Campaign: First to the Moon – The Journey of Apollo 8; to create a feature documentary film about Apollo 8 mission that brought back ‘Earthrise’ photo and the three astronauts that crewed it – Commander Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders.
Jan 22 – Feb 2 — Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan: 2018 ELSI Origins Network-Earth-Life Science Institute (EON-ELSI) Winter School.
TUESDAY
Jan 30 — SpaceX, Launch Falcon 9 / SES 16/GovSat 1, Cape Canaveral AFS FL: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch SES 16/GovSat 1 communications satellite for LuxGovSat, a joint venture between SES and government of Luxembourg.
Jan 30 — 2018 USA State of the Union Address, Washington DC: President Trump to give speech to Congress; will address range of issues, perhaps including Space Policy Directive 1, Human Return to Moon, National Space Council.
Jan 30 — Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt MD: 2nd NASA Satellite Servicing Technology Transfer Industry Day.
Jan 30 — British Interplanetary Society (BIS) Scotland Branch, Glasgow, United Kingdom: Lecture: Emerging Space Technologies – Opportunities for the Future.
Jan 30 — Cornell University, Ithaca NY: Lecture: A Bird’s Eye View of Extrasolar Planets; Erik Petigura from Caltech, 16:00.
Jan 30 — Silicon Valley Space Center, AIAA San Francisco Section, Santa Clara CA: Tech Talk: Numerical Simulation for NewSpace and Beyond; at Hacker Dojo.
Jan 30 — Keck Institute for Space Studies, Caltech, Pasadena CA: Symposium: Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration.
Jan 30-31 — MIT Technology Review, EmTech, Singapore: EmTech ASIA: The Conference on the Emerging Technologies That Matter.
Jan 30 — Moon: 8.6° S of Pollux, 00:00; 2.0° S of Beehive Cluster, 21:00.
Jan 30 — Apollo Asteroid 2018 BE6: Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU).
Jan 30 — Aten Asteroid 2017 BG136: Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU).
WEDNESDAY
Jan 31 — Global Space and Technology Convention, Space Generation Advisory Council, Singapore: Inaugural Space Generation Workshop 2018.
Jan 31 — Foothill College Observatory, Los Altos CA: Lunar Eclipse Viewing Party; 04:00-06:00 local time.
Jan 31 — National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Washington DC: Event: A Celebration of the Explorer 1 Mission and the Discovery of Earth’s Radiation Belts.
Jan 31 – Feb 1 — European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany: Workshop: Planning ESO Observations of Future Gravitational Wave Events.
Jan 31 – Feb 2 — Spire, Ecometrica, SpaceKnow, DigitalGlobe, AstroSat, Glasgow, United Kingdom: DATA.SPACE 2018 Conference.
Jan 31 — Moon: Super, Blue, Blood, Full Snow Moon, 03:29.
Jan 31 — Total Eclipse of Moon: Totality lasting 77 minutes, starts 02:51 HST with maximum at 03:29; best viewing from Pacific Ocean, followed by Central and East Asia, Indonesia, New Zealand and most of Australia; will be first total eclipse of a Blue Moon in nearly 152 years.
Jan 31 — Aten Asteroid 2003 CA4: Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU).
Jan 31 — Aten Asteroid 2017 BB30: Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU).
THURSDAY
Feb 1 — Deep Space, Kupier Belt: Historic New Horizons mission heading toward first-ever Kuiper Belt Object encounter on 1 Jan 2019, remains in hibernation mode for 3 more months.
Feb 1 — Roscosmos State Corporation, Launch Soyuz / Kanopus-V 3 and 4, Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia: Roscosmos Soyuz rocket to launch Kanopus-V 3 and 4 Earth observation satellites.
Feb 1 — Columbia STS-107 15th Observation, Nationwide USA / Global: Annual international conferences and events take place to further space exploration efforts in remembrance of Columbia 7 loss: Commander Richard D. Husband, Mission Specialist Laurel Clark, Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon (the ‘1st Israeli astronaut’) and Astronauts: William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown and Kalpana Chawla (the ‘1st Indian American astronaut’ and ‘1st Indian woman in space’).
Feb 1-2 — Singapore Space and Technology Association (SSTA), Singapore: Global Space and Technology Convention 2018; alongside GSTC 10th Year Celebration Dinner; and Singapore Space Challenge 2017/18 Award Ceremony; sign up at GSTCSATmob2018.eventbrite.sg with passcode Friendsof SSTA.
Feb 1-7 — American Astronautical Society – Rocky Mountain Section, Breckenridge CO: 41st Annual AAS Guidance. Navigation and Control Conference.
Feb 1 — Moon: 0.92° NNE of Regulus, 09:00.
Feb 1 — Apollo Asteroid 2018 AG12: Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU).
FRIDAY
Feb 2 — ISS, Russia Extra Vehicular Activity #44, 405-km LEO: Expedition 54 crew members Anton Shkaplerov and Alexander Misurkin to perform 6.5-hour spacewalk to retrieve science samples and install a high gain antenna on rear of Zvezda service module; live coverage available.
Feb 2 — Apollo Asteroid 2002 CB19: Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU).
Feb 2 — Apollo Asteroid 2018 AQ2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU).
Feb 2 — Apollo Asteroid 2018 BH5: Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU).
Feb 2 — Apollo Asteroid 2008 OC9: Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU).
SATURDAY
Feb 3 — JAXA, Launch SS-520-5 / TRICOM 1R, Uchinoura Space Center, Japan: Second flight of SS-520-5 rocket, modified sounding rocket with an added third stage, to launch experimental demonstration flight with TRICOM 1R spacecraft.
Feb 3 – Mar 19 — Johnson Space Center, NASA, Houston TX: Campaign 4: Mission 4 – Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA 2017); 45 day analog spaceflight / Moon / Mars mission.
Feb 3 — Apollo Asteroid 2018 BG3: Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU).
Feb 3 — Apollo Asteroid 2018 BN5: Near-Earth Flyby (0.041 AU).
SUNDAY
Feb 4-8 — Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, European Geosciences Union, Tagaytay, Philippines: New Dimensions for Natural Hazards in Asia: An AOGS-EGU Joint Conference.
Feb 4 — Apollo Asteroid 2018 AH12: Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU).
Feb 4 — Apollo Asteroid 276033 (2002 AJ129): Near-Earth Flyby (0.028 AU).
