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Space News Update
- May 16, 2014 In the News
Story 1:
Telecom satellite lost after Proton launch failure
Story 2:
Sun’s Sibling Found
Story 3:
Rogozin threatens engine restrictions, ISS lifetime extension
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The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
Telecom satellite lost after Proton launch
failure
Sun’s Sibling Found
Rogozin threatens engine restrictions, ISS
lifetime extension
The Night Sky
Friday, May 16
Look for Mercury as twilight darkens. It's low in the west-northwest,
far to the lower right of Jupiter and lower left of Capella. Mercury is
having its highest showing of 2014 (for skywatchers at midnorthern latitudes).
Saturday, May 17
Arcturus shines high in the southeast these nights. Vega shines
much lower in the northeast. Look a third of the way from Arcturus
to Vega for dim little Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, with its
one modestly bright star, Alphecca or Gemma. Two thirds of the
way from Arcturus to Vega glimmers the dim Keystone of Hercules.
Continue on down past Vega, and you hit Cygnus.
Sunday, May 18
Look south after dark for Mars at its highest. Straight below Mars,
by more than a fist at arm's length, is the distinctive springtime
constellation Corvus the Crow. Its four brightest stars form a
distorted rectangle less than a fist in size.
Monday, May 19
Now that Vega is well up in the northeast in the evening, look to its
lower left (by two or three fists) for Deneb. As Deneb rises higher
through the night, a dark sky will reveal that it lies inside the Milky
Way band looming up all across the eastern sky.
Tuesday, May 20
As the stars come out, Saturn in the southeast, Vega in the
northeast, Capella in the northwest, and Procyon in the westsouthwest are all at about the same altitude (as seen from about
40° north latitude).
Sky & Telescope
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri May 16, 4:49 AM
4 min
52°
13 above SSW
31 above ENE
Sat May 17, 4:02 AM
3 min
28°
24 above SSE
15 above E
Sun May 18, 3:16 AM
1 min
14°
14 above ESE
11 above E
Sun May 18, 4:49 AM
4 min
52°
15 above WSW
33 above NNE
Mon May 19, 4:02 AM
2 min
86°
45 above SW
31 above NE
Tue May 20, 3:15 AM
2 min
33°
33 above E
13 above ENE
Tue May 20, 4:48 AM
4 min
24°
11 above W
18 above NNE
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
May 17, Saturday
9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Live Coverage of NASA’s 2014 Student Launch Project Competition (“Launchfest”) from Magna, Utah - MSFC(NTV-1, NTV-2)
May 18, Sunday
9 a.m. - Coverage of the Departure of the SpaceX/Dragon Cargo Craft from the ISS (Dragon release
scheduled at 9:26 a.m. ET - JSC (All Channels)
May 20, Tuesday
7 - 8 a.m. - Live Interviews with Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA - JSC (All
Channels)
11:10 a.m. - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Interview with CNN’s Original Video Division - JSC (All Channels)
11:30 a.m. - Space Station Live - JSC (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
May 16 - [May 16] GPS 2F-6 Delta 4 Launch
May 16 - Comet P/2013 EW90 (Tenagra) At Opposition (3.142 AU)
May 16 - Centaur Object 10199 Chariklo Occults 2UCAC 15354997 (14.8 Magnitude Star)
May 16 - Asteroid 2014 HL132 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
May 16 - Asteroid 697 Galilea Closest Approach To Earth (2.035 AU)
May 16 - 45th Anniversary (1969), Venera 5, Venus Impact
May 17 - [May 14] Cassini, Titan Flyby
May 17 - Comet P/2012 B1 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (3.165 AU)
May 17 - Comet C/2014 G1 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (4.679 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 2010 JO33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 2014 JH15 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
May 17 - [May 10] Asteroid 2014 JA31 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 3498 Belton Closest Approach To Earth (1.584 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 7220 Philnicholson Closest Approach To Earth (1.753 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 7755 Haute-Provence Closest Approach To Earth (1.764 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 6824 Mallory Closest Approach To Earth (2.692 AU)
May 17 - 45th Anniversary (1969), Venera 6, Venus Impact
May 18 - [May 11] Dragon Spacecraft Return to Earth (International Space Station)
May 18 - Comet C/2012 V1 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (2.934 AU)
May 18 - Comet 163P/NEAT At Opposition (3.738 AU)
May 18 - Comet P/2011 C2 (Gibbs) Closest Approach To Earth (5.244 AU)
May 18 - [May 11] Asteroid 2014 JT54 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
May 18 - Asteroid 2014 FP47 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
May 18 - Asteroid 88292 Bora-Bora Closest Approach To Earth (1.165 AU)
May 18 - Asteroid 8277 Machu-Picchu Closest Approach To Earth (1.340 AU)
May 18 - Asteroid 6563 Steinheim Closest Approach To Earth (1.410 AU)
May 18 - Asteroid 2636 Lassell Closest Approach To Earth (1.786 AU)
May 18 - Plutino 2006 HJ123 At Opposition (34.359 AU)
May 18 - 45th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 10 Launch
May 19 - Comet 15P/Finlay At Opposition (1.751 AU)
May 19 - Comet C/2013 G3 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (3.448 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
Space Calendar (cont.)
May 19 - Asteroid 2014 HF184 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
May 19 - Asteroid 2014 GD50 Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
May 19 - Asteroid 2063 Bacchus Closest Approach To Earth (0.399 AU)
May 19 - Asteroid 125071 Lugosi Closest Approach To Earth (1.374 AU)
May 19 - Asteroid 12759 Joule Closest Approach To Earth (2.187 AU)
May 19 - 10th Anniversary (2004), Hayabusa (MUSES-C), Earth Flyby
May 19 - Dick Scobee's 75th Birthday (1939)
May 19-22 - 30th National Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, Colorado
May 20 - Comet 272P/NEAT At Opposition (2.841 AU)
May 20 - Comet 141P/Machholz At Opposition (3.233 AU)
May 20 - Comet 226P/Pigott-LINEAR-Kowalski At Opposition (4.163 AU)
May 20 - Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann At Opposition (5.144 AU)
May 20 - Asteroid 242708 (2005 UK1) Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
May 20 - Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest Approach To Earth (1.544 AU)
May 20 - Asteroid 4345 Rachmaninoff Closest Approach To Earth (1.940 AU)
May 20 - Asteroid 305254 Moron Closest Approach To Earth (2.015 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
NASA's Saucer-Shaped Craft Preps for Flight Test
Space Image of the Week
Voyager's Neptune
Composite Image Credit & Copyright: Assembly/Processing - Rolf Olsen,
Data - Voyager 2, NASA Planetary Data System