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Anonymous ID: 382c1b Nov. 26, 2018, 6:21 p.m. No.4043189   🗄️.is 🔗kun

SKY EVENTS IN DEC

 

December

Dec. 3: NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko will launch to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:31 a.m. EST (1131 GMT). They will dock at the space station approximately 6 hours later. [Watch Live]

Dec. 3: NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will arrive at asteroid Bennu.

Dec. 4: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon cargo spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 1:38 p.m. EST (1838 GMT) for a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station.

Dec. 4: An Ariane 5 ECA rocket will launch India's GSAT 11 communications satellite and GEO-Kompsat 2A, South Korea's first native geostationary weather satellite, from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.

Dec. 6: SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station at approximately 6 a.m. EST (1100 GMT). [Watch Live]

Dec. 8: A Chinese Long March 3B rocket will launch the Chang'e 4 mission to attempt the first robotic landing on the far side of the moon.

Dec. 13: NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev are scheduled to undock their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft from the International Space Station and land in Kazakhstan.

Dec. 13-14: The Geminid meteor shower peaks.

Dec. 14: Italy's first COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG 1) radar surveillance satellite and the European Space Agency's Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) will launch from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on an Arianespace Soyuz rocket.

Dec. 15: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the U.S. Air Force's first third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System (GPS 3-01) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:24-9:50 a.m. EST (1424-1450 GMT).

Dec. 16: Comet 46P/Wirtanen will make its closest approach to the sun, and it will be visible to the naked eye just after dusk. [See Two Bright-Green Comets in 2018's Night Sky: How, Where and When to Look]

Dec. 18: France's first Composante Spatiale Optique military reconnaissance satellite (CSO-1) will launch from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on an Arianespace Soyuz rocket.

Dec. 21: Winter solstice. Beginning at 5:09 p.m. EST (2209 GMT), it will officially be winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere. It will also be the shortest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere.

Dec. 22: Full moon. The Cold Moon, also known as the Long Nights moon, will become full at 12:49 p.m. EST (1749 GMT).

Dec. 25: A Russian Proton rocket will launch the Blagovest No. 13L communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:12 p.m. EST (2212 GMT).

Dec. 25: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch two Kanopus-V Earth observation satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia.

Dec. 27: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the EgyptSat-A Earth-observation satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Dec. 30: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 10 Iridium Next satellites (66-75) from Vandenberg Air Foce Base in California.

Also slated to launch in December (from Spaceflight Now):

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will launch on its fourth flight from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. It will loft into orbit 10 cubesats for NASA and other U.S. research institutions.

Also coming in 2018…

A Chinese Long March 2D rocket will launch two SaudiSat Earth observation satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

 

https://www.space.com/32286-space-calendar.html