1. Space News Update - June 29, 2018 - In the News Departments Story 1:
Interstellar Asteroid is Really a Comet
Story 2:
JWST suffers another launch delay, breaches cost cap
Story 3: Complex Organics Bubble up from Enceladus
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Interstellar Asteroid is Really a Comet
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. JWST suffers another launch delay, breaches cost cap

4. Complex Organics Bubble up from Enceladus

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, June 29
• The waning gibbous Moon rises in the east-southeast in late twilight. An hour later, watch for Mars to clear the horizon about a fist at arm's length to the Moon's lower right (for North America).
Saturday, June 30
• By late evening the Moon and Mars are arisen together, low in the east-southeast.
Sunday, July 1
• The Big Dipper, high in the northwest after dark, is beginning to turn around to "scoop up water" through the evenings of summer and early fall.
Monday, July 2
• Ganymede, Jupiter's biggest moon, crosses Jupiter's face tonight from 8:35 to 10:21 p.m. EDT, distantly followed by its tiny black shadow much later: from 12:58 to 2:42 a.m. EDT (when Jupiter is getting low or setting for Easterners). Meanwhile, Jupiter's Great Red Spot should transit the planet's central meridian around 9:48 p.m. EDT.
Tuesday, July 3
• 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 in the east, and down behind Saturn and the spout of the Sagittarius Teapot in the south.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Sat Jun 30, 4:52 AM
4 min
19°
10° above S
13° above E
Mon Jul 2, 4:43 AM
47°
11° above SSW
28° above E
Tue Jul 3, 3:53 AM
24°
19° above SSE
10° 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)
July 2, Monday 5:30 a.m. – Coverage of the Rendezvous and Capture of the SpaceX CRS-15 Dragon Cargo Craft at the International Space Station; Capture scheduled at 7 a.m. EDT (All Channels) 9 a.m. – Coverage of the Installation of the SpaceX CRS-15 Dragon Craft to the Harmony Module of the International Space Station (All Channels) 1:25 p.m. - Space Station astronaut Ricky Arnold talks with the Eisenhower Museum and Boyhood Home in Abilene, Kansas (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Jun 29 - [Jun 24] CRS-15/ ECOSTRESS/ MISSE-FF 2/ Biarri-Squad 1-3 Falcon 9 Launch (International Space Station)
Jun 29 - Comet 82P/Gehrels Perihelion (3.634 AU)
Jun 29 - Asteroid 3727 Maxwell Occults HIP 5346 (5.5 Magnitude Star)
Jun 29 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 LR3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.016 AU)
Jun 29 - Apollo Asteroid Izhdubar Closest Approach To Earth (0.738 AU)
Jun 29 - Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.387 AU)
Jun 29 - George Hale's 150th Birthday (1868)
Jun 29 - Angelo Secchi's 200th Birthday (1818)
Jun 30 - [Jun 23] Asteroid Day
Jun 30 - Comet 164P/Christensen Closest Approach To Earth (2.655 AU)
Jun 30 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults 2UCAC  (11.5 Magnitude Star)
Jun 30 - Asteroid 2991 Bilbo Closest Approach To Earth (0.826 AU)
Jun 30 - Asteroid 7816 Hanoi Closest Approach To Earth (1.530 AU)
Jun 30 - Asteroid 6471 Collins Closest Approach To Earth (1.652 AU)
Jun 30 - Asteroid 9500 Camelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.047 AU)
Jun th Anniversary (1918), Richardton Meteorite Fall (Hit Building in North Dakota)
Jun th Anniversary (1908), Tunguska Explosion Event
Jul 01 - Comet 110P/Hartley At Opposition (3.725 AU)
Jul 01 - Comet 75D/Kohoutek At Opposition (4.137 AU)
Jul 01 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 LT6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
Jul 01 - Amor Asteroid 2018 LJ1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
Jul 01 - Asteroid 1022 Olympiada Closest Approach To Earth (1.406 AU)
Jul 01 - Jupiter Trojan Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To Earth (4.682 AU)
Jul 01 - Centaur Object Hylonome At Opposition ( AU)
Jul 01 - Ed Lu's 55th Birthday (1963)
Jul 01 - Dick Rutan's 80th Birthday (1938)
Jul 01 - Amy Johnson's 115th Birthday (1903)
Jul 02 - Comet 361P/Spacewatch Perihelion (2.779 AU)
Jul 02 - Amor Asteroid 1916 Boreas Closest Approach To Earth (0.657 AU)
Jul 02 - Asteroid 3498 Belton Closest Approach To Earth (1.510 AU)
Jul 02 - Neptune Trojan 2008 LC18 At Opposition ( AU)
Jul 02 - Kinch Kincheloe's 90th Birthday (1928)
Jul 02 - Hugh Dryden's 120th Birthday (1898)
Jul 03 - Aten Asteroid 2005 MF5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)
Jul 03 - [Jun 21] Amor Asteroid 2018 MQ5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
Jul 03 - Asteroid Emilylakdawalla Closest Approach To Earth (2.060 AU)
Jul 03 - Kuiper Belt Object (2002 MS4) At Opposition ( AU)
Jul 03 - Seminar: Galactic Rotation Curves vs. Ultra-Light Dark Matter, Trieste, Italy
Jul th Anniversary (1998), Nozomi Launch (Japan Mars Mission)
JPL Space Calendar

9. Food for Thought

10. Space Image of the Week
Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud  Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Colombari