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Internal: Missions | Horizons Screen Shots | Jan 1 First Reports | Jan 2 Press Briefing | Jan 3 Press Briefing
InSight | Dragon | New Links | News Articles | Space Telescopes | reserve

Updates

Launch from American Soil

businessinsider.com | NASA and SpaceX plan to launch the first astronauts from US soil in nearly a decade on May 27
spaceflightnow.com | NASA, SpaceX set May 27 as target date for first crew launch
kennedyspacecenter.com | Rocket Launch: May 27, 2020 4:32 PM EDT | Commercial Crew SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 (CREWED)

Previous Updates

Last Update on Nasa TV : 2 PM Jan 2, 2019 Wednesday
Last Update on Nasa TV : 2 PM Jan 3, 2019 Thursday

Next Update

Next Update on Nasa TV : Unknown

Following Six Missions

There are 4 US missions, 1 China mission, 1 Japanese mission

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Dates for events: Jan 1, 2, & 3
The three missions
- US, New Horizons spacecraft does Ultima Thule flyby
- US, Osiris-Rex spacecraft enter orbit of asteroid Bennu
- China, Chang’e-4 spacecraft - Landing a lander and rover on the dark side of the moon
- US, InSight
- Japan, Hayabusa-2
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**Tracking Six Missions**
Count	Spacecraft	Country	Description	following on Twitter	Google Search	Nasa.gov
1	New Horizons	US	Ultima Thule flyby	NASA New Horizons @NASANewHorizons	new horizons	Home
2	Osiris-Rex	US	Enter orbit of asteroid Bennu	NASA's OSIRIS-REx @OSIRISREx	osiris-rex	Home
3	Chang’e-4	China	Landing a lander and rover on the dark side of the moon	Chris B - NSF @NasaSpaceflight SpaceRef China @ChinaInSpace	chang’e-4
4	InSight	US	Stationed on Mars		nasa insight news
5	Hayabusa-2	Japan	orbit asteroid Ryugu	BBC article: Hayabusa 2: Asteroid image shows touchdown marks 2/25/19 BBC article: Hayabusa 2: Japanese spacecraft makes final touchdown on asteroid
6	no official name	US	NASA's Mars 2020 rover, scheduled July 2020 launch date, 30 soil samples to be picked up and returned to Earth from another spacecraft, touchdown Feb 18, 2021	REUTERS article: NASA's Mars 2020 rover set to hunt Martian fossils, scout for manned missions	nasa's mars 2020 rover	MARS 2020 Mission Mission News Multimedia Participate ...

Horizon sends OK message Jan 1 10:31 AM

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screenshots from Nasa TV at Jan 1, 2019 10:31 AM
just before first signal received

From Back

From Front

Jan 1 First Reports - folks that have their data first report first

Top | Jan 1 Press Briefing
These notes came in with the first signal
- communication
- thermal
- planning
- FC
- GMC
- prop
- power
- cndh - pointers where predicted
- autonomy
- navigation ? xxxxx - 30 minutes wait is typical
- status - overall spacecraft
- solid state had data
Press Briefing came later in the day
Next Update on Nasa TV : 2 PM Jan 2, 2019 Wednesday

Jan 2 Press Briefing

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Information about this press briefing can be found in New Links
the best pictures came out Jan 2 press briefing
- the Jan 3rd press briefing had no new or better pictures of Ultima Thule
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Jan 3 Press Briefing

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screenshot just before the briefing

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no moons discovered so far that are smaller than 100 and larger than 500
- will have data to look inbetween later
5 days of no transmission
- because spacecraft on other side of the sun
- team will pause until Jan 10
- whole team will meet in two weeks
next month better pictures
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InSight

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BBC article Feb 5, 2019 8:00 AM : Nasa's InSight mission: Mars sensor gets its protective 'hat'
Google Search: nasa insight
Nasa MARS InSight Mission : mars.nasa.gov/insight/
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Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Screenshot 2 after Protective Cover in place.

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Dragon - Sunday March 3, 2019 8:30 AM

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Re-entry NASA TV Coverage below

Re-entry - NASA TV Live Coverage - March 7 & 8, 2019

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Test the Crew Dragon's departure, reentry and parachute systems.
- SpaceX's Go Searcher recovery ship will pick up the capsule from the water.
Thursday 12:15 PM ET - SS crew is set to close the hatch set at 12:25 pm EST
Friday 2:00 AM ET - Undocking
Friday 7:30 AM ET - deorbit, splash down at 8:45 am EST

Split Screen

Inside Dragon

Mission Control

New Links

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Google Search: new horizons ultima thule
Google Search: osiris-rex
Google Search: chang’e-4
Google Search: does chang’e-4 have a twitter account
Nasa.gov Home page for New Horizons
Nasa.gov Home Page for OSIRIS-REx
Twitter feed : SpaceRef China @ChinaInSpace covering space activities from China
pluto.jhuapl.edu page : Press Briefings note: last breifing Jan 2, 2019 Wed 2:00 PM

News Articles

New Horizons

BBC News article : 1 January 2019 : New Horizons: Nasa probe survives flyby of Ultima Thule
Space.com article : Jan 2, 2019 07:50 am ET : NASA's New Horizons Just Made the Most Distant Flyby in Space History. So, What's Next?
BBC News article : Jan 2, 2019 2:30 pm ET : Nasa's New Horizons: 'Snowman' shape of distant Ultima Thule revealed
pluto.jhuapl.edu article : Jan 2, 2019 NASA's New Horizons Mission Reveals Entirely New Kind of World

Chang'e-4

BBC News article : Jan 3, 2019 4:44 am ET : China Moon mission lands Chang'e-4 spacecraft on far side
BBC News article : Jan 4, 2019 9:45 am ET : Chang'e-4: Chinese rover now exploring Moon
BBC News article : Jan 11, 2019 : Chang'e-4: China Moon probes take snaps of each other
BBC News article : May 15, 2019 : Chang'e-4: Chinese rover 'confirms' Moon crater theory

Touchdown and Leave Moon's surface

BBC News article : Dec 1, 2020 : China's Chang'e-5 Moon mission probe touches down
BBC News article : Dec 3, 2020 : China's Chang'e-5 mission leaves Moon's surface

InSight

BBC News article : Feb 5, 2019 8:00 AM : Nasa's InSight mission: Mars sensor gets its protective 'hat'

Hayabusa 2

BBC News article : Feb 25, 2019 : Hayabusa 2: Asteroid image shows touchdown marks
BBC News article : July 11, 2019 : Hayabusa 2: Japanese spacecraft makes final touchdown on asteroid
BBC News article : Dec 5, 2020 : Hayabusa-2: Rocks from an asteroid set for delivery to Earth
BBC News article : Dec 6, 2020 :  Hayabusa-2: Capsule with asteroid samples in 'perfect' shape
BBC News article : Dec 15, 2020 : Hayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsule

SpaceX Dragon

BBC News article : Mar 3, 2019 8:26 AM : SpaceX Dragon capsule docks with space station

Spektr-RG

BBC News article : July 13, 2019 : Spektr-RG: Powerful X-ray telescope launches to map cosmos (Russia & Germany)

Euclid space telescope

BBC News article : Sept 20, 2019 : Euclid space telescope to study 'dark Universe' makes progress

Euclid space telescope

REUTERS article : Dec 27, 2019 : NASA's Mars 2020 rover set to hunt Martian fossils, scout for manned missions

Space and Ground Telescopes seraching for info on Dark Matter and Dark Energy

List of Space Telescopes
Count	Telescope Name	Links	Light Waves	Country or Lead Space Agency	Launch Date	Description	Cost	Rocket
1	Euclid space telescope	BBC Article	visible and the infrared	European Space Agency (Esa)	2022	will map the cosmos for clues to the nature of dark matter and dark energy	€800m	a Russian Soyuz OR Europe's new Ariane-62 rocket
2	Spektr-RG	BBC Article	X-ray	Russia & Germany	July 13, 2019	map X-rays across the entire sky in unprecedented detail investigate the mysterious cosmic components referred to as "dark matter" and "dark energy"		Proton rocket
3	The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)	Home Page	Spectroscopic Instrument	America Department of Energy Office of Science	start date 2019	baryon acoustic oscillations techniques that rely on spectroscopic measurements		Ground based Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory
4	Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project	About LSST				10 year survey - 500 petabyte set of images and data products .... about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it		Ground based Cerro Pachón ridge in north-central Chile

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