SpaceX is targeting Thursday, September 3rd at 08:46 a.m. EDT, 13:46 BST, for launch of its tenth Starlink mission – Starlink 11. Launching 60 Starlink satellites to orbit. Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and you can watch live here.
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Perseid Meteor Shower 2020 – There are many things to see when you look up on any clear night. Stars, planets, satellites, the moon and more. But there is nothing more breathtaking than seeing a meteor. Otherwise known as a shooting star. Occasionally, you can see many meteors/ shooting stars over the course of a few evenings. These are known as meteor showers. In August we have the best and most well known meteor shower of the year – The Perseid Meteor Shower, also known as the Perseids.
(more…)On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the next day Crew Dragon autonomously docked to the International Space Station. This test flight with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Dragon spacecraft returned human spaceflight to the United States.
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Launch is scheduled for 22:00 BST and you can watch the live launch of the Falcon 9 Rocket carrying the ANASIS-II Mission below.
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Comet NEOWISE for the past few weeks has been a stunning object in the pre-dawn sky. It is now visible to evening stargazers and those who like to stay up all night.
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International Space Station UK Passes – The International Space Station – ISS is back over UK skies with some great evening passes during July 2020.
