70th IAC Convenes in USA with Apollo@50 Theme ‘The Power of the Past, the Promise of the Future’
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MONDAYHighlights… Oct 21 — NewSpace: Japan Dymon rover to fly on Astrobotic Peregrine Mission 1 to Moon 2021; Stratolaunch continues operations under new owners; SNC Dream Chaser arrives at CO production facility; SpaceX plans for 30,000 more Starlink satellites; Parabolic Arc annual fundraising open. Oct 21 — Solar System: Study of lunar south polar regions suggests that many craters contain ice; observations indicate that flows on Venus were lava; Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter images InSight lander and Curiosity rover on surface. Oct 21 — Galaxy: Milky Way core burst of energy from 3.5M years ago being studied; several observatories research J1357.2-0933 black hole candidate; Gaia data shows Milky Way merging with Large Magellanic Cloud. Oct 21 — Global: Long March 5 launch preparations begin with departure of transport ships; India Reusable Launch Vehicle to undergo glide tests; Mauritius MIR-SAT1 under construction for 2020 launch in cooperation with JAXA. Oct 21 — USA: NASA shows off new spacesuit designs for Artemis; Starliner planned for Pad Abort Test Nov 4 and orbital test in Dec; NASA and Boeing sign contract for up to 10 Space Launch System core stages for Artemis missions. Oct 21 — Hawai’i: Gemini North observatory observes interstellar comet 2I / Borisov; Mauna Kea Management Board outlines documents for telescope decommissioning and approvals; IfA working on ROBO-AO program for automated classification system to speed up celestial discovery / analysis process. Oct 21 — International Space Station, U.S. EVA #59, 405-km LEO: Expedition 61 crewmembers Christina Koch and Jessica Meir conduct first all-female EVA to install new lithium-ion batteries in P6 Truss; live coverage available. |
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Weekly Planet Watch – Evening Planets: Mercury (WSW), Venus (WSW), Jupiter (SW), Saturn (SW), Uranus (E), Neptune (S); Morning Planets: Mars (E).
Realizing Artemis / First Women on the Moon 2024 Requires Increased Support, Funding
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Oct 21 — U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Washington DC: U.S.-India Commercial Space Dialogue.
Oct 21-22 — Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt MD: XMM-NEWTON 20th Anniversary GSFC Symposium. Oct 21-23 — National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Irvine CA: Astro2020 Meeting: Panel on Exoplanets, Astrobiology, and the Solar System. Oct 21-25 — International Astronautical Federation, AIAA, IAA, IISL, Lockheed Martin Corp., Washington DC: 70th International Astronautical Congress 2019: Space – The Power of the Past, the Promise of the Future. Oct 21-25 — International Astronomical Union, Hilo HI: IAU Symposium 357: White Dwarfs as Probes of Fundamental Physics and Tracers of Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Evolution. Oct 21-25 — International Astronomical Union, Yokohama, Japan: Conference: New Horizons in Galactic Center Astronomy and Beyond. Oct 21 — Moon: At last quarter, 02:40. Continued from…Jan 2019 – Sep 2020 — New Horizons, Kuiper Belt: Full data from spacecraft 7 instruments during KBO Ultima Thule flyby to be transmitted to Earth over this time period. NET Aug – Nov — Hayabusa2, Asteroid 162173 Ryugu: JAXA Hayabusa2 with 2 sample returns planned to remain at Asteroid for observations during this time period, then return to Earth. Oct 18-23 — New Man’s Business Accelerator, Goldilocks State Foundation, Macedonian Association for Rocketry, Science and Space (MARSS), Skopje, North Macedonia: Space Tech Convention 2019. Oct 20-23 — International Dark-Sky Association, Tekapo, New Zealand: New Zealand Starlight Conference. |
TUESDAY
Oct 22 — Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, Online: Virtual Seminar: New Horizons: Exploration of Distant Worlds in the Kuiper belt; by Dr. Kelsi Singer from SwRI, 08:30-09:30 PDT.
Oct 22-24 — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington DC: Astro2020: Panel on An Enabling Foundation for Research Meeting One.
Oct 22 — Apollo Asteroid 2017 MN8: Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
WEDNESDAY
Oct 23 — Chang’e-5T1 Service Module, Lunar Orbit: China module collecting data on Lunar surface for future Moon missions reaches 5 full years in Space today, launched 2014.
Oct 23 — Secure World Foundation, Caelus Foundation, Chinese Society of Astronautics (CSA), Washington DC: The Sino-U.S. Space Commercialization Workshop II: Dialogues about the Future of Space Commercialization and the Global Space Community; 13:00-17:00.
Oct 23 — DC-L5 Chapter of National Space Society, Washington DC: Monthly meeting of DC-L5 Society; to foster the vision of communities in space through educating people in space exploration and settlement tech; at Dolley Madison Library, Meeting Room 2, at 14:30-16:30.
Oct 23 — Moon: 3.3° NNE of Regulus, 10:00.
THURSDAY
Oct 24 — Star Gaze Hawaii, Waikoloa HI: Stargazing at Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort; adults US$40, kids $20, 19:00.
FRIDAY
Oct 25 — International Space Station, U.S. EVA #60, 405-km LEO: Expedition 61 crewmembers Jessica Meir and Luca Parmitano to install new lithium-ion batteries in P6 Truss; live coverage available.
Oct 25 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 TQ2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
Oct 25 — Aten Asteroid 2017 TG5: Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
Oct 25 — Apollo Asteroid 162082 (1998 HL1) : Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
SATURDAY
Oct 26 — STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) A & B, Heliocentric Orbit: NASA craft imaging Sun and solar phenomena reach 13 full years / enter 14th year in space today, launched 2006.
Oct 26 — Moon: Moon at perigee (distance 361,003 km), 00:42; 4.2° NNE of Mars, 11:00.
SUNDAY
Oct 27 — Standard Time (Europe): Change clocks back 1 hour, from Summer Time to Standard Time.
Oct 27 — Moon: 7.0° NNE of Spica, 02:00; New Moon, 17:39.