1. Space News Update - July 07, 2015 - In the News Departments Story 1:
New Horizons Exits Safe Mode, Operating Flawlessly for Upcoming Pluto Encounter
Story 2:
Opportunity Rover's 7th Mars Winter to Include New Study Area
Story 3: NuSTAR Stares Deep into Hidden Lairs of Black Holes
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. New Horizons Exits Safe Mode, Operating Flawlessly for Upcoming Pluto Encounter
In this computer graphic, NASA's Voyager 1 probe, moving toward upper left, nears the edge of the sun's influence, flying through a region of space dominated by a "magnetic highway" that helps mediate the flow of particles into and out of the solar system. The region includes particles from the sun's southern hemisphere that have been forced northward by the pressure of the interstellar wind. Voyager 1 is expected to cross the boundary into interstellar space sometime within the next few years if not sooner. (Credit: NASA)

3. Opportunity Rover's 7th Mars Winter to Include New Study Area
Ratchet Wrench ‘ ed’ to Space Station

4. NuSTAR Stares Deep into Hidden Lairs of Black Holes

5. The Night Sky Tuesday, July 7
The Big Dipper, high in the northwest after dark, is turning around to "scoop up water" through the evenings of summer and early fall.
Wednesday, July 8
Last-quarter Moon (exact at 4:24 p.m. EDT). It rises around 1 a.m. tonight, in Pisces far below the Great Square of Pegasus (and close below dim Uranus!).
Have you ever explored the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud, between M23 and M25? On these moonless late evenings, work through this area with Sue French's Deep-Sky Wonders story, chart, and photos in the July Sky & Telescope, page 56.
And stretch your observing skills with Rod Mollise's Deep-Sky Summer tour, page 62.
Got a big scope? Explore the galaxy cluster above the back of Draco with Ken Hewitt-White's Going Deep, page 59.
Thursday, July 9
This month two spacecraft are imaging the two brightest dwarf planets, Ceres and Pluto, up close. Find Ceres, magnitude 7.7, just below Capricornus using the chart in the July Sky & Telescope, page 50. Pluto is a daunting 14th magnitude, but its chart starts on page 52. Coincidentally, both are in the late-night southern sky about 25° apart.
Friday, July 10
If you have a dark enough sky, the Milky Way now forms a magnificent arch high across the whole eastern sky after nightfall is complete. It runs all the way from below Cassiopeia in the north-northeast, up and across Cygnus and the Summer Triangle (crowned by bright Vega) in the east, and down past the spout of the Sagittarius Teapot in the south.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri Jul 10, 5:12 AM
4 min
17°
10 above S
13 above E
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone)
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
9:30 a.m., Wednesday, July ISS R&D Conference Panel on Leveraging the ISS to Enable LEO Commercialization (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-2 (Education))
11:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 8 - Daily Update on the New Horizons/Pluto Pre-Flyby Mission (Produced by Johns Hopkins applied Physics Laboratory) (all channels)
12:30 p.m., Wednesday, July ISS R&D Conference -- ISS User Innovation Keynote (Starts at 12:45pm) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-2 (Education))
2 p.m., Wednesday, July 8 - Replay of the ISS Expedition 44 Crew News Conference (starts at 2:15 p.m. ET) (all channels)
3 p.m., Wednesday, July 8 - Video File of the Expedition 44 Crew’s Ceremonial Activities in Star City, Russia (all channels)
8 a.m., Thursday, July 9 - ISS R&D Conference Panel (including NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman) on the Role of ISS in Support of Exploration (Starts at 8:15am) (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-2 (Education))
11:30 a.m., Thursday, July 9 - Daily Update on the New Horizons/Pluto Pre-Flyby Mission (Produced by Johns Hopkins applied Physics Laboratory) (all channels)
10 a.m., Friday, July 10 - Video File of the ISS Expedition 44 Crew Departure from Star City, Russia (all channels)
11:30 a.m., Friday, July 10 - Daily Update on the New Horizons/Pluto Pre-Flyby Mission (Produced by Johns Hopkins applied Physics Laboratory) (all channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Jul 07 - [Jul 07] Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jul 07 - Comet C/2015 F4 (Jacques) At Opposition (0.772 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 2015 HM10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
Jul 07 - [Jul 02] Asteroid 2015 MO116 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 2005 VN5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 2015 MY53 Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 2015 JY1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
Jul 07 - Centaur Object 944 Hidalgo At Opposition (6.892 AU)
Jul 07 - Dwarf Planet Pluto At Opposition ( AU)
Jul 07 - Yuji Hyakutake's 65th Birthday (1950)
Jul 08 - Asteroid 2015 MO89 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
Jul 08 - Asteroid 2201 Oljato Closest Approach To Earth (0.522 AU)
Jul 08 - Asteroid 904 Rockefellia Closest Approach To Earth (2.283 AU)
Jul 08 - Lecture: An Odyssey Revisited, London, United Kingdom
Jul 08 - Lecture: Finding Beagle, London, United Kingdom
Jul 09 - Moon Occults Uranus
Jul 09 - Asteroid 2015 JH2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)
Jul 09 - George Darwin's 170th Birthday (1845)
Jul 10 - [Jul 03] DMC 3A/3B/3C SkySat 3/ CBNT-1/ DeorbitSail Dnepr Launch
Jul 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #416 (OTM-416)
Jul 10 - Comet 135P/Vaisala-Oterma Closest Approach To Earth (2.015 AU)
Jul 10 - Asteroid 2014 WU200 Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)
Jul 10 - Asteroid 9342 Carygrant Closest Approach To Earth (1.153 AU)
Jul 10 - Asteroid 4183 Cuno Closest Approach To Earth (1.202 AU)
Jul 10 - Asteroid 4659 Roddenberry Closest Approach To Earth (1.378 AU)
Jul 10 - Asteroid 4197 Morpheus Closest Approach To Earth (2.750 AU)
Jul th Anniversary (2010), Rosetta, Asteroid 21 Lutetia Flyby
Jul th Anniversary (1985), Bion 7 Launch (Carried Monkeys Verny & Gordy, Newts)
Jul 10 - Owen Chamberlain's 95th Birthday (1920)
JPL Space Calendar

9. Pebbles Poised to Make Planets
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
Food for Thought
Pebbles Poised to Make Planets

10. Space Image of the Week
Colorful Clouds Near Rho Ophiuchi  Image Credit & Copyright: Markus Noller (Deep-Sky-Images)