Russia Launching Compact Advanced Satellite (CAS500-1) Along With Numerous International Commercial Payloads
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MONDAY Highlights…
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Weekly Planet Watch – Evening Planets: Mars (W), Uranus (W); Morning Planets: Mercury (ESE), Jupiter (ESE), Saturn (ESE).
American Space Advocacy Meetings Start Next Week with LPSC 52Seven upcoming events online highlight various space development themes being advanced by venerable space organizations. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference on March 15-19 by LPI, NASA, USRA and JSC will be chaired by (L) Lisa Gaddis and Eileen Stansbery and feature nearly 3,000 accepted abstracts for live & recorded oral and poster presentations. AIAA is hosting 2021 Congressional Visits Day to raise awareness of the long-term value that science, engineering and technology bring to America on Mar 15-19, and co-hosting with Lockheed Martin the AscendxSummit: Accelerating the Next-Generation Workforce on Mar 16 with two webinars and an interactive workshop. Secure World Foundation webinar on ‘Security and Stability of Space: What You Need to Know’ features representatives from UN, UK and Victoria Samson of SWF. The 3-day ‘NASA and the Rise of Commercial Space Symposium’ is being held Mar 17-19 by MSFC History Office and Univ. of AL Huntsville. Some of the 26 speakers are Scott Pace, Pete Worden, Eric Berger, Brian Odom and Amy Kaminski. Global Alliance for International Space Collaboration Inaugural Congress on Mar 18-19 is supported by Space Renaissance International, NSS, SSPI and NASA. The 6 sessions will have talks by Madhu Thangavelu, Michelle Hanlon, Juan De Dalmau, Peter Martinez, Bernard Foing and Jean-Jacques Tortora. The American Astronautical Society ‘Future in Space’ discussion is on ‘Viewing Exoplanets Through A Solar Gravity Lens’ Mar 19. (Image Credits: LPI, USRA, NASA, AIAA, SWF, AAS, GALIX, LMC, et al) |
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TUESDAY
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Mar 16-20 — SXSW LLC, Online / Austin TX: South by Southwest Conference (SXSW 2021).
Mar 16 — Moon: 2.52° SE of Uranus, 19:00.
Mar 16 — Apollo Asteroid 2021 EQ3: Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
Mar 16 — Aten Asteroid 2021 EJ3: Near-Earth Flyby (0.005 AU)
Mar 16 — Apollo Asteroid 2021 DT: Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
WEDNESDAY
Mar 17 — British Interplanetary Society, Online / London, United Kingdom: Lecture: Flight Dynamics Operations for ESA Deep Space Missions; by Francesco Castellini – Flight Dynamics Engineer, ESA/ESOC; 18:00 UTC.
Mar 17 — SETI Institute, Online / Mountain View CA: Celebrating Stephen Hawking: How Black Holes are Not Quite Black; 19:30-21:00 PDT.
Mar 17-19 — 3AF (Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France), ESA, Online: 7th Space Propulsion Conference (2020+1).
Mar 17-19 — NASA Marshall Space Flight Center History Office, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Online / Huntsville AL: NASA and the Rise of Commercial Space Symposium.
Mar 17 — Moon: At apogee (distance 405,268 km), 19:00.
Mar 17 — Apollo Asteroid 2021 EO2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.016 AU)
THURSDAY
Mar 18 — Boeing, NASA, Stennis Space Center MS: SLS core stage 2nd hot fire test planned.
Mar 18-19 — Global Alliance for International Space Collaboration (GALIX), Space Renaissance International, National Space Society, Space Satellite Professionals International, NASA, Online: GALIX Inaugural Congress 2021; featuring participants from ISU, ILEWG, Moon Village Association, For All Moonkind, Off World Inc, ESPI, International Moonbase Alliance, others.
Mar 18 — Moon: 5.2° SE of Pleiades, 16:00.
FRIDAY
Mar 19 — ISS, Relocation of Soyuz MS-17, 405-km LEO: ISS Expedition 64 Soyuz MS-17 Spacecraft to be relocated from Rassvet module to Poisk module; undocking scheduled 12:38 EDT, redocking 13:07; live coverage available.
Mar 19 — American Astronautical Society, Online: Discussion: Viewing Exoplanets Through A Solar Gravity Lens; with Tony Darnell, Louis Friedman, Slava Turyshev, 15:00 EDT.
Mar 19 — March Equinox: The Sun rises exactly in east traveling through sky for 12 hours, sets exactly in west; every place on Earth experiences a 12-hour day; 23:40.
Mar 19 — Moon: 1.89° SE of Mars, 10:00; 5.1° N of Aldebaran, 10:00.
Mar 19 — Apollo Asteroid 2021 EY2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
SATURDAY
Mar 20 — Roscosmos, Launch Soyuz / CAS500 1, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Soyuz rocket to launch rideshare mission managed by GK Launch Services including CAS500 1 Earth observation satellite for KARI, Astroscale ELSA-d active debris removal demonstration mission, 4 Earth-imaging microsatellites built by Axelspace of Japan.
Mar 20 — British Interplanetary Society West Midlands Branch, Online / London, United Kingdom: Lecture: Missions with the Scorpion; by Mark Hempsell; 14:00 UTC.
Mar 20 — Mars: 6.9° N of Aldebaran, 22:00.
Mar 20 — Apollo Asteroid 2021 DP2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
SUNDAY
Mar 21 — SpaceX, Launch Falcon 9 / Starlink V1.0-L22, LC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS FL: Falcon 9 to launch next batch of ~60 satellites for SpaceX Starlink broadband network; 00:37 EDT.
Mar 21 — Moon: At first quarter, 04:41; 0.73° N of M35 cluster, 07:00.
Mar 21 — Apollo Asteroid 231937 (2001 FO32): Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)