First Women / Americans at the Moon South Pole 2020-2021
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Weekly Planet Watch – Evening Planets: Jupiter (SW), Saturn (SE); Morning Planets: Venus (E), Uranus (E), Neptune (SE).
G20 Summit Leaders Urged to Consider Space Development for Sustainable Solar System Economy in the 21st Century
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MONDAY Ongoing… Jul 3 — Solar System: Mars Curiosity ‘Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science’ software allows rover to make its own selection of inspection-worthy rocks & aim instruments with 93% accuracy; new study from Voyager 2 data reveals Uranus magnetosphere flips ‘on’ allowing solar wind to flow in & ‘off’ shielding the planet from particles every day during its 17.24-hour rotation; Cassini diving closer & closer to Saturn, dramatic high res images of rings and moonlets shown. Jul 3 — Galaxy: Chandra X-ray telescope observing Arp 299 system 140M LY away where 2 galaxies are merging, creating 25 bright X-ray sources; China Hard X-ray Modulation telescope data on black holes & neutron stars to be shared with international scientists; self-adapting algorithm searching for rogue stars among star maps created by ESA Gaia; James Webb telescope undergoing 93-days of testing in 16.8-m diameter, 27.4-m tall vacuum chamber at JSC. Jul 3 — Global: UAE National Space Policy in depth outline of 5 fundamental purposes / priorities; India planning PSLV-C39 launch first week Aug, GSLV-Mk 2 in Dec, GSLV-Mk 3 early 2018; NASA announces new Astronaut class 5 women & 7 men; Reaction Engines building UK facility in Westcott, Buckinghamshire for testing subsystems / SABRE engine core ~2020; head of Russia RSC Energia discusses Soyuz rocket for space tourism, potential upgrade for cislunar flights. Jul 3 — NewSpace: Blue Origin to build rocket production facility in Huntsville AL if ULA selects BE-4 engine for Vulcan rocket; SpaceX launches 9 rockets in 2017, planning ~12 more, has more than 70 missions backlogged, worth more than US$10B; Pipeline2Space working to build underground tube to fire payloads to space from Spaceport America, test flights 1,500 – 3,050 meter altitude, US$100 per capsule – CEO, Director, Founder Mark Russell; Space Foundation hosting Explore Space Experience in Jun and Jul to prepare Next Gen for careers in Space. Jul 3-5 — IAA, Roscosmos, Federal State Unitary Enterprise ‘Technomash’, St. Petersburg, Russia: 4th International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Space Flight Safety Symposium. |
Jul 3-5 — IUGG Union Commission on Planetary Sciences (UCPS), International Association of Planetary Sciences (IAPS), DLR, Berlin, Germany: 1st IUGG Symposium on Planetary Science (IUGG-PS 2017).
Jul 3-7 — European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany: Conference: The Impact of Binaries on Stellar Evolution.
Jul 3-28 — Paris-Saclay University, Orsay, France: Program: The Interstellar Medium Beyond 3D.
Jul 3 — Earth: At aphelion (distance 1.01668 AU), 10:00.
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Jun 30 – Jul 29 — Space Media Ventures, National Space Society, Online: Kickstarter Campaign: Space Odyssey Game; presented by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, for people of all ages to experience new Worlds and add to them as real science & their collective imagination allows.
Jun 17 – Aug 19 — Singularity University, Moffett Field CA: SU 2017 Global Solutions Program; for students to develop Moonshot innovations addressing humanity’s grand challenges; Climate Change is overarching theme for 2017.
Jun 15 – Aug 15 — International Space Elevator Consortium, Online: ISEC 2017 Summer Internship Program; six interns to perform home-based / online intern studies with ISEC.
Jun 26 – Aug 25 — International Space University, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland: ISU 30th Space Studies Program (SSP 2017).
Jun 30 – Jul 3 — Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) 2017 General Assembly.
Jul 2-5 — University of Cambridge, Center for Theoretical Cosmology, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Stephen Hawking 75th Birthday Conference: Gravity and Black Holes.
Jul 2-6 — Royal Astronomical Society, Hull, United Kingdom: 25th Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting; at E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics – University of Hull.
TUESDAY
Jul 4-7 — CNES, Paris, France: French Astronomy Week 2017; at FIAP Jean Monnet Hôtel.
Jul 4-7 — National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India: Workshop on Gamma-ray Bursts: Prompt to Afterglow,; at FIAP Jean Monnet Hôtel.
Jul 4 — Venus: 6.5° S of Pleiades, 14:21.
WEDNESDAY
Jul 5-9 — University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana: 13th Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop; featuring Professor Mike Edmunds of Cardiff University.
Jul 5 — Moon: At apogee (distance 405,934 km), 18:27.
Jul 5 — Apollo Asteroid 2017 BM31: Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU).
THURSDAY
Jul 6 — ESA, JAXA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands: Media: Last chance to view ESA / JAXA Mercury Explorer BepiColombo; craft will be shipped to Kourou, French Guiana spaceport for October launch.
Jul 6 — Hawaii Preparatory Academy, W. M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela HI: Life in the Universe; by Abraham Loeb of Harvard University, at Gates Performing Arts Center, 19:00.
Jul 6 — Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (HAL5), Huntsville AL: Monthly Meeting featuring Omar Mireles from NASA MSFC on Additive Manufacture for Aerospace; at U.S. Space and Rocket Center Education Training Facility.
Jul 6 — Moon: 3.2° N of Saturn, 17:34.
Jul 6 — Apollo Asteroid 2017 MA: Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU).
FRIDAY
Jul 7-8 — G20 Summit, Hamburg, Germany: G20 Summit for heads of state or heads of government to discuss international economic cooperation; International Lunar Decade Working Group urges Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel to include space development as innovative, global strategy for building sustainable, long-term future for humanity.
SATURDAY
Jul 8 — Space Center Houston, Houston TX: Lunch with an Astronaut, Brian Duffy, adult US$69.95.
Jul 8 — Moon: Full (Buck Moon), 18:07.
SUNDAY
Jul 9 — The Space Show, Online / Tiburon CA: Dr. David Livingston talks with Attorney Laura Montgomery about Article 9 of the Outer Space Treaty.
Jul 9 — Tucson L5 Space Society – NSS Chapter, Tucson AZ: Tucson L5 Space Society monthly meeting.
Jul 9 — National Space Society of North Texas, Irving TX: National Space Society of North Texas monthly meeting; at Spring Creek BBQ, 15:30.
Jul 9-14 — Astronomical Society of Australia, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia: Astronomical Society of Australia 2017 Annual Meeting; includes Annual General Meeting of ASA and the public Harley Wood Lecture.
Jul 9-15 — Rencontres du Vietnam, Quy Nhon, Vietnam: 13th Rencontres du Vietnam: Cosmology; and Jul 9-21 Vietnam School on Neutrino Physics.
Jul 9 — Mercury: 0.1° N of Beehive Cluster, 15:33.