India Rising: Chandrayaan-2 Moon Launch and India-Russia Astronaut Cooperation
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Jul 8 — USA: NASA selects 12 
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Weekly Planet Watch – Evening Planets: Jupiter (SE), Saturn (SE); Morning Planets: Venus (ENE), Uranus (E), Neptune (SE).
American Astronautical Society Hosts 1st John Glenn Memorial Symposium; Commemorations Abound as USA Accelerates to Apollo11@50
Named in honor of John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, the inaugural aerospace conference of AAS is being held in Cleveland, Ohio July 10-12. Subject matter applicable to both aeronautic and astronautic pursuits with theme ‘Powering Innovation from the Sky to the Stars’ will be discussed. Technical topics include avionics, propulsion and hypersonics. Human factors, policy and medicine are also to be considered. Symposium participants will enjoy a tour of Plum Brook Station, part of NASA Glenn Research Center located near Sandusky, Ohio. Plum Brook is home to advanced operational space simulation testing environments, such as the Space Power Facility thermal vacuum chamber – the world’s largest at 37 meters high and 30 meters in diameter. Astronauts Janet Kavandi, Franklin Chang Díaz and Charlie Bolden are among the notable scheduled presenters. A plethora of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon landing will also commence in the coming week, kicking off with the PBS premiere of ‘Chasing the Moon’, a film by documentarian Roger Stone that “reimagines the race to the Moon for a new generation”. On July 13, Apollo XI 50th Anniversary Gala with Buzz Aldrin at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, will treat attendees to dinner with Aldrin and other astronauts under the decommissioned Air Force One which carried Apollo 11 crew on an around-the-world tour upon return to Earth. (Image Credits: NASA) |
Jul 8 — California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA: Lecture: Science Expeditions to Planetary Analogs; featuring Rosalba Bonaccorsi of SETI Institute & NASA Ames, 19:30.
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WEDNESDAY
NET Jul 10 — SpaceX, Launch Falcon 9 / Amos 17, Cape Canaveral, FL: Falcon 9 to launch Amos 17 communications satellite to provide broadband connectivity over Africa, Middle East and Europe.
Jul 10-12 — American Astronautical Society, Cleveland OH: AAS John Glenn Memorial Symposium: Powering Innovation from the Sky to the Stars; Charlie Bolden, Janet Kavandi and others to discuss innovation in aerospace technologies and exploration.
THURSDAY
Jul 11 — Hayabusa2, Asteroid 1999 JU3: JAXA Hayabusa2 planning to do final touch-and-go sequence for sample material collection.
Jul 11, 12 — JPL, Caltech, NASA, Pasadena CA: von Kármán Lecture Series 2019: Apollo 50th Anniversary.
Jul 11-17 — NASA, Volcano HI: NASA Planetary Volcanology Workshop in Hawaii: Analogs to Volcanic Features and Processes in Satellite and Rover Images.
Jul 11-28 — Lāhainā Noon: As the Sun passes through the Zenith, directly overhead tropic locations, vertical objects cast no shadows; lā hainā means ‘cruel sun’; Hawaii Islands dates / times available.
FRIDAY
Jul 12 — Roscosmos State Corporation, Launch Proton / Spektr-RG, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Proton booster and Block DM upper stage to launch Spektr-RG X-ray observatory, a joint project between Roscosmos and Germany DLR.
Jul 12 — ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center, Hilo HI: Navigating the Night Sky; interactive program with observations from Mauna Kea visitor information station along with presentations on navigational stars and Hawaii star compass, 19:00-20:00, US$10 for non-members.
Jul 12 — Amor Asteroid 2016 NJ33: Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
Jul 12 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 KD: Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
SATURDAY
Jul 13 — Buzz Aldrin Ventures, Moon Express, Sublime Design Studio, The Charles Group, US1 Travel, Simi Valley CA: Apollo XI 50th Anniversary Gala with Buzz Aldrin; and Charlie Duke, Walt Cunningham, Dave Scott; at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Jul 13 — Mt Tam Astronomy Nights, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers and Wonderfest, Mt. Tamalpais State Park CA: Lecture: Cassini’s Spectacular Final Year at Saturn; by Matthew Tiscareno from SETI Institute.
Jul 13 — Hawai’i Public Library, EAO, Keck Observatory, CFHT, IfA, West Hawaii Astronomy Club, Kamuela HI: Astrobash! At Thelma Parker Memorial Public and School Library, 10:00-13:00.
Jul 13-20 — Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, Apogeo Spatial, SpaceNews, Denver CO: ApolloPalooza 2019.
Jul 13-20 — University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ: Moon Week; planetarium shows, special presentations, activities and exhibits starting with Hello Moon Night and ending with One Giant Leap Day!
Jul 13 — Moon: 7.8° NNE of Antares, 01:00; 2.31° NNE of Jupiter, 11:00.
Jul 13 — Apollo Asteroid 2019 MW1: Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
SUNDAY
Jul 14 — France 24, Paris, France: The Moon Landing Revisited; film co-directed by James André, Sylvain Rousseau and Sylvie Rottman to be made public 22:10.
Jul 14-18 — Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel MD: Conference: The Pluto System After New Horizons; international science conference focusing on Pluto system and the Kuiper Belt.
Jul 14-19 — University of Melbourne, Curtin University, Fitzroy Island, Australia: Conference: ‘Barefoot EoR’ – The First Billion Years of the Universe.