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Space News Update - April 1, 2014 -

Space News Update - April 1, 2014 -. In the News Story 1: SLS positioning for ARRM and Europa missions Story 2: Soyuz docks with International Space Station Story 3: Opportunity Rover Gets Power Boost from Wind Events on Mars Departments The Night Sky

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Space News Update - April 1, 2014 -

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  1. Space News Update - April 1, 2014 - In the News Story 1:SLS positioning for ARRM and Europa missions Story 2:Soyuz docks with International Space Station Story 3:Opportunity Rover Gets Power Boost from Wind Events on Mars Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting OpportunitiesNASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. SLS positioning for ARRM and Europa missions

  3. Soyuz docks with International Space Station

  4. Opportunity Rover Gets Power Boost from Wind Events on Mars

  5. The Night Sky Tuesday, April 1 • The biggest and brightest asteroids, 1 Ceres and 4 Vesta respectively, are only about 2° apart in eastern Virgo, some 12° northeast of Mars. They've brightened to magnitudes 7.1 and 5.9, respectively. They'll be at opposition in mid-April. Use our finder chart for Ceres and Vesta. Wednesday, April 2 • The crescent Moon shines below the Pleiades, Aldebaran, and the V-shaped Hyades, as shown above. Thursday, April 3 • With binoculars or a telescope, North Americans can watch the waxing crescent Moon crossing the Hyades star cluster. The Moon's dark, earthlit limb will occult three 4th- and 5th-magnitude stars depending on where you are, as told in the April Sky & Telescope, page 50. Friday, April 4 • Spot Mars and Spica in the southeast after dark and look far left from them to find Arcturus, the "Spring Star," shining in the east. Arcturus forms the pointy bottom of the long, narrow kite asterism made by the brightest stars of Bootes. The kite is currently lying on its side to the left of Arcturus, with its head at the far left bent slightly upward. The kite is 23° long, about two fist-widths at arm's length. Saturday, April 5 • The Moon passes below Jupiter in Gemini this weekend, as shown at right Sky & Telescope

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

  7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) • April 1, Tuesday12:30 p.m.- Deep Space Network’s 50th Anniversary NASA Social - JPL (NTV-1, NTV-2) • April 3, Thursday • 8:15 a.m.- ISS Expedition 39 In-Flight Interview for JAXA with TV Tokyo (native language on NTV-3) - JSC (All Channels) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

  8. Space Calendar • Apr 01 - Asteroid 3902 Yoritomo Occults HIP 26571 (6.5 Magnitude Star) • Apr 01 - Asteroid 2009 SA100Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU) • Apr 01 - Asteroid 2010 GD35Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU) • Apr 01 - Asteroid 2009 FDNear-Earth Flyby (0.101 AU) • Apr 01 - Asteroid 3297 Hong Kong Closest Approach To Earth (2.584 AU) • Apr 02 - Comet 297P/BeshoreClosest Approach To Earth (1.563 AU) • Apr 02 - Comet C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS)At Opposition (1.794 AU) • Apr 02 - Comet 119P/Parker-HartleyPerihelion (3.027 AU) • Apr 02 - Comet 78P/GehrelsAt Opposition (3.862 AU) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 1014 Semphyra Occults HIP 74392 (4.5 Magnitude Star) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 2014 EQ12Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU) • Apr 02 - [Mar 30] Asteroid 2014 FL38Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 11335 Santiago Closest Approach To Earth (1.150 AU) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 12258 Oscarwilde Closest Approach To Earth (1.341 AU) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 3720 Hokkaido Closest Approach To Earth (1.428 AU) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 7088 IshtarClosest Approach To Earth (1.915 AU) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 6701 Warhol Closest Approach To Earth (1.967 AU) • Apr 02 - Asteroid 42355 TyphonClosest Approach To Earth (18.494 AU) • Apr 02 - 50th Anniversary (1964), Zond 1 Launch (USSR Venus Flyby Mission) • Apr 02 - 55th Anniversary (1959), Selection Of The Mercury 7 Astronauts • Apr 03 - [Mar 28] DMSP F-19Atlas 5 Launch • Apr 03 - Comet P/2007 C1 (Christensen)Closest Approach To Earth (1.421 AU) • Apr 03 - Comet 281P/MOSSClosest Approach To Earth (3.613 AU) • Apr 03 - Comet P/2008 T1 (Boattini)At Opposition (3.871 AU) • Apr 03 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 0238-00901-1 (11.3 Magnitude Star) • Apr 03 - Asteroid 2014 EC49Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU) JPL Space Calendar

  9. Space Calendar • Apr 04 - Sentinel 1ASoyuz-STB Fregat-MT Launch • Apr 04 - [Mar 30] IRNSS 1B/ Swayam PSLV-XL Launch • Apr 04 - Comet P/2010 A2 (LINEAR)Closest Approach To Earth (1.334 AU) • Apr 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #376 (OTM-376) • Apr 04 - Asteroid 2013 TT5Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU) • Apr 04 - Asteroid 128036 Rafaelnadal Closest Approach To Earth (1.162 AU) • Apr 04 - Asteroid 2266 Tchaikovsky Closest Approach To Earth (2.637 AU) • Apr 05 - Comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEATAt Opposition (4.277 AU) • Apr 05 - Asteroid 99942 ApophisClosest Approach To Earth (0.376 AU) • Apr 05 - Asteroid 2956 Yeomans Closest Approach To Earth (1.580 AU) • Apr 05 - Asteroid 24750 Ohm Closest Approach To Earth (1.953 AU) • Apr 05 - Asteroid 6594 Tasman Closest Approach To Earth (2.014 AU) • Apr 05 - Judith Resnick's 65th Birthday (1949) JPL Space Calendar

  10. Food for Thought Satellite Shows High Productivity from U.S. Corn Belt

  11. Space Image of the Week Io in True Color Image Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA

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