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1 Space News Update - August 15, 2017 - In the News Departments Story 1:
SpaceX Launches Cargo Capsule Full of Science Experiments Story 2: TRAPPIST-1 is Older than Our Solar System Story 3: NASA Watches the Sun Put a Stop to Its Own Eruption Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

2 SpaceX Launches Cargo Capsule Full of Science Experiments
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 TRAPPIST-1 is Older than Our Solar System

4 NASA Watches the Sun Put a Stop to Its Own Eruption

5 The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, August 15
In early dawn Wednesday morning the 16th, look east for the waning Moon near Aldebaran, as shown here. Below them is Orion, with his three-star belt nearly vertical. Wednesday, August 16 The two brightest stars of summer are Vega, overhead soon after dark, and Arcturus, shining in the west. Vega is a white-hot, type-A star 25 light-years away. Arcturus is a yellow-orange-hot, type-K giant 37 light-years distant. Their color difference is clear to the unaided eye. Thursday, August 17 The W of Cassiopeia, tilting a little, is nicely up in the northeast these evenings. Its upper, right-hand side is the brightest. Watch it rise higher and tilt further through the night and through the next few months. In early dawn Friday morning the 18th, the waning crescent Moon hangs in the east with bright Venus to its lower left, as shown here. Look left or upper left of Venus for Pollux and Castor. Friday, August 18 In early dawn Saturday morning the 19th, the waning Moon is under Venus low in the east, as shown here. Pollux and Castor are still to Venus's left or upper left. On the morning of the 16th, Venus shines with Aldebaran high above Orion. Sky & Telescope

6 ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver: No ISS sightings are possible from Friday Aug 11, 2017 through Sunday Aug 27, 2017 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 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA NASA-TV Highlights Tuesday, August 15 10:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 52 In-Flight Media Event with Hearst Magazines/Women’s Day and NASA Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson (Starts at 10:45 a.m.) (all channels) Wednesday, August 16 5:30 a.m. - Coverage of the Rendezvous and Grapple of the SpaceX/Dragon Cargo Craft at the ISS (Grapple scheduled at approximately 7 a.m. ET) (NTV-1 (Public)) 6 a.m. - Live Interviews on the 2017 Historic Solar Eclipse – It’s Only Days Away (NTV-3 (Media)) 8:30 a.m. - Coverage of the Installation of the SpaceX/Dragon CRS-12 Cargo Craft to the Harmony Module of the ISS (all channels) 3 p.m. - Live Interviews on the 2017 Historic Solar Eclipse – It’s Only Days Away (NTV-3 (Media)) Thursday, August 17 9 a.m. - TDRS-M Prelaunch News Conference (all channels) 10 a.m. - Coverage of ISS Expedition 52 Russian Spacewalk #43 (Yurchikhin and Ryazanskiy; spacewalk begins at 10:45 a.m. ET) (all channels) 2 p.m. - TDRS-M NASA Social (NTV-3 (Media)) Friday, August 18 7:30 a.m. - TDRS-M Launch Commentary (all channels) 10 a.m. - ISS Expedition 52 In-Flight Interview with the ZDF Network, Germany for the European Space Agency and ESA Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli (In native language) (starts at 10:15 a.m.) (NTV-3 (Media)) (all times Eastern Time Zone) Tue May 30, 9:16 PM 1 min 14° 14° above N 10° above NNE Tue May 30, 10:53 PM < 1 min 10° 10° above N Wed May 31, 00:30 AM 18° 18° above N Wed May 31, 10:01 PM Wed May 31, 11:38 PM 2 min 15° 14° above NE Thu Jun 1, 9:09 PM 11° 11° above N Thu Jun 1, 10:45 PM 12° 12° above N 10° above NE Fri Jun 2, 00:20 AM 17° 10° above NW 17° above NNW Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8 Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Aug 15 - Comet 116P/Wild At Opposition (2.882 AU) Aug 15 - Comet P/2010 B2 (WISE) At Opposition (3.450 AU) Aug 15 - Comet P/2009 WX51 (Catalina) At Opposition (4.198 AU) Aug 15 - Comet 95P/Chiron Occults 2UCAC (14.3 Magnitude Star) Aug 15 - Apollo Asteroid (2011 EM51) Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU) Aug 15 - Apollo Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (1.109 AU) Aug 15 - Asteroid 3933 Portugal Closest Approach To Earth (1.966 AU) Aug 15 - Regional Meeting of the International Academy of Astronautics, Pasadena, California Aug 15 - Lecture: Venus - The Forgotten, Mysterious Planet, Washington DC Aug Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference (LCPM-12), Pasadena, California Aug Conference: Accretion - Building New Worlds, Houston, Texas Aug 16 - Zhangheng 1 (CSES 1)/ NuSat 4 (Aleph-1 4)/NuSat 5 (Aleph-1 5)/ GOMX 4A (Ulloriaq)/GOMX 4B/ Fengmaniu 1/ Shaonian Xing CZ-2D Launch Aug 16 - Moon Occults Aldebaran Aug 16 - Comet 77P/Longmore At Opposition (2.601 AU) Aug 16 - Comet 3D/Biela At Opposition (2.887 AU) Aug 16 - Apollo Asteroid 2017 PD25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU) Aug 16 - Apollo Asteroid 2017 HV3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU) Aug 16 - Asteroid Faraday Closest Approach To Earth (0.952 AU) Aug 16 - Asteroid 2713 Luxemburg Closest Approach To Earth (1.798 AU) Aug 17 - Blagovest 1 Proton-M Briz-M Launch Aug 17 - Asteroid 5335 Damocles (Burnt Out Comet) At Opposition ( AU) Aug 17 - Comet 69P/Taylor At Opposition (3.139 AU) Aug 17 - Comet C/2015 H2 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (4.644 AU) Aug 17 - Apollo Asteroid 2002 CY58 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU) Aug 17 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 CD137 Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU) Aug 17 - Asteroid 5107 Laurenbacall Closest Approach To Earth (2.271 AU) JPL Space Calendar

9 New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
Food for Thought Hint of Relativity Effects in Stars Orbiting Supermassive Black Hole at Center of Galaxy

10 Space Image of the Week Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: The Inner Ring
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope


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