Space News Update - November 13, 2018 -

1. Space News Update - November 13, 2018 - • In the News • Story 1: • Parker Solar Probe Reports Good Status After Close Solar Approach • Story 2: • Rover News: Planetary Scientists Have Chosen a Few Landing Sites for the Mars 2020 Rover • Story 3:Johns Hopkins Scientist Finds Elusive Star with Origins Close to Big Bang • Departments • The Night Sky • ISS Sighting Opportunities • NASA-TV Highlights • Space Calendar • Food for Thought • Space Image of the Week

2. Parker Solar Probe Reports Good Status After Close Solar Approach

3. Rover News: Planetary Scientists Have Chosen a Few Landing Sites for the Mars 2020 Rover

4. Johns Hopkins Scientist Finds Elusive Star with Origins Close to Big Bang

5. The Night Sky Tuesday, November 13 • As dawn begins to brighten Wednesday and Thursday mornings, spot Venus low in the southeast. First-magnitude Spica, about 1/200 as bright, will be only 1¼° above Venus or to its upper right. Wednesday, November 14 • The Moon shines in Capricornus this evening. The bright orange point to its upper left is Mars. Several times farther to the Moon's upper right shines Altair, accompanied by little Tarazed (Gamma Aquilae) a finger-width to Altair's upper right. Thursday, November 15 • First-quarter Moon (exact at 9:54 a.m. EST today). It's close to Mars this evening, as shown above. • The Moon is nearly at apogee; does it really look a trace smaller than usual? And spot Fomalhaut about 20° to the Moon's lower left. Friday, November 16 • From very high in the south this evening, the right side of the Great Square of Pegasus points down toward the Moon. Saturday, November 17 • When the waxing gibbous Moon passes highest in the south in early evening, it'll be straight below the Great Square of Pegasus, which is now level and upright. • The Leonid meteor shower, which has been very weak this decade, should be at its modest best in the three hours between moonset and the beginning of Sunday's dawn. Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities ISS For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone) • November 13, Tuesday • 2 p.m. – “What’s on Board?” Briefing for Northrop Grumman  Cygnus CRS-10 Cargo Flight to the International Space Station • November 14, Wednesday • 11 a.m. – Pre-launch Briefing for Northrop Grumman  Cygnus CRS-10 Cargo Flight to the International Space Station • 4 p.m. – Video File of the International Space Station Expedition 58 Crew Soyuz Qualification Training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia (Recorded on Nov. 13-1) (Media Channel) • November 15, Thursday • 4:15 a.m. – Coverage of the Launch of the Northrop Grumman “SS John Young” Cygnus CRS-10 Cargo Craft to the International Space Station; Launch scheduled at 4:49 a.m. EST) from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia (All Channels) • 5:45 a.m. – Coverage of Solar Array Deployment on the Northrop Grumman “SS John Young” Cygnus CRS-10 Cargo Craft (All Channels) • 7 a.m. – Northrop Grumman “SS John Young” Cygnus CRS-10 Post-Launch News Conference (All Channels) • 3 p.m. – RS-25 Engine Test from Stennis Space Center (All Channels) • 4 p.m. - Replay of the International Space Station Expedition 58 Crew News Conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia  (All Channels) • 4:45 p.m. – Video File of the International Space Station Expedition 58 Crew’s Ceremonial Visit to the Gagarin Museum at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center and Visit to Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow (Media Channel) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar • Nov 13 - Aten Asteroid 2018 VC7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU) • Nov 13 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 VR6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU) • Nov 13 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 VF5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU) • Nov 13 - Apollo Asteroid 2015 VM105 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU) • Nov 13 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 WC Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU) • Nov 13 - Survive and Operate Through the Lunar Night Workshop, Columbia, Maryland • Nov 13 - Lecture: Cassini's Spectacular Final Year at Saturn, Palo Alto, California • Nov 13 - Lectures: The Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway: an Outpost to Live and Work in Deep Space?, Menlo Park, California • Nov 13 - Colloquium: The Evolution of Volatile Molecules During Planet Formation, Tucson, Arizona • Nov 13 - Seminar: The Nuclear Equation of State - From Experiments to Astrophysical Observations by the Hand of Theory, Barcelona, Spain • Nov 13-14 - Space Engineering and Technology Final Presentation Days (SET-FPDs), Noordwijk, The Netherlands • Nov 13-14 - 2nd GNN Workshop on Indirect Dark Matter Searches with Neutrino Telescopes (Dark Ghosts), Brussels, Belgium • Nov 13-15 - 2018 Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research (CODER) Workshop, College Park, Maryland • Nov 13-15 - IAA SciTech Forum on Space Flight Mechanics and Space Structures and Materials, Moscow, Russia • Nov 13-16 - Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), Columbia, Maryland • Nov 14 - GSAT-29 GSLV Mk III Launch • Nov 14 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 VX5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU) • Nov 14 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 VO3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU) • Nov 14 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 VD7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU) • Nov 14 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 UQ1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU) • Nov 14 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 VW4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU) • Nov 14- Apollo Asteroid 2018 VK1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU) • Nov 14 - Amor Asteroid 2018 VR5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU) • Nov 14 - Colloquium: Ultraviolet Spectroscopy from Suborbital and SmallSat Platforms - Little NASA Missions Supporting Big NASA Observatories and Bigger Science, Tucson, Arizona • Nov 14 - Colloquium: The Hexagon KH-9 Spy Satellite, Greenbelt, Maryland • Nov 15 - Es'hail 2 Falcon 9 Launch • Nov 15 - Cygnus CRS-10 (OA-10)Antares 230 Launch (International Space Station JPL Space Calendar

9. Food for Thought Arizona State University Geoscientists Discover an Overlooked Source for Earth's Water

10. Space Image of the Week Jovian Close Encounter Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran