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 SPACE FOR THIS WEEK Welcome to another blog of " SPACE FOR THIS WEEK"! By Ramesh S Krishna The first segment is about   "The launches" which are going to take place this week The first launch of this week is ONEWEB 9 on Soyuz 2.1B rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome. It's taking 5022 KG of payload mass to  LEO. The link to watch it: https://youtu.be/FKNexvO2OgE The second launch is on 23rd August by China  @ 17:00:00 UTC.   The third launch of this week takes place on 24th August from  China. The launch is on Long March 3B  taking the TJSW-7   from XICHANG Satellite launch center. The third one is a very special launch because it's a New Shepard launch . This is the 17th launch of   New Shepard. The last  launch NS-16 was the first human-carrying launch of Blue origin. This mission of  New Shepard will  Launch from Site 1 of South Texas. The launch is on the  25th of August @ 17.00 UTC. This launch is a  ...

10-8-2021STARGAZING   By Ramesh S Krishna Today was a special evening because I  did a lot of Star gazing! What made it even more interesting was that I had my buddies on a video call with me! 1. Venus, Mars and  Moon conjunction .  It appeared in the west just after the sunset. Venus was very bright and the  Waxing crescent babymoon was a delight to watch. Mars was very dim because later this month it is going to be hidden. I was not able to take a photo of mars because it was not visible.  Myself and my buddy took this picture. 2. Spotting of ISS[International space station]. I spotted it with the help of spotthestation.nasa.gov. You can open the website and enter your city. Then it will show a timetable, Follow it and you can spot the station. Today it was a beautiful sight to watch because today was a 7minute pass.It passed from the Northeast to the southeast direction. If you look at the video, you will be able to spot a pale yellow dot which will keep...

  Space for this week By Ramesh S Krishna 7-8-2021 to 14- 8-2021  We would be looking at the Launches,  Astronomical events  that are happening this week and how to spot them. Let us start with the launches. The first launch is on Aug 10 taking the Cygnus spacecraft[Northrop gurrman's spacecraft] to the ISS with essential things like food, cloth, and a new science experiment to the station. The next launch is on the 12th of aug by ISRO from Sriharikota with GSLV MK 2 carrying GI Sat 1 .Taking earth observing telescope Well! that's it about the launches for this week.  So the next one is the astronomical events which takes place this week. On the 8th of Aug the new moon. So this is also a good time to watch Persedies meteoroid shower. 10th of  Aug is MOON, VENUS & MARS conjunction. Look them at the west after sunset the venus would be bright and mars would be a bit dim.  We will get a bit deeper about Persedies meteoroid shower. Persedies meteoroid ...

I'm a ten-year-old passionate space enthusiast who has just started to blog. In this blog and my following blogs, we will be going through the interesting happenings in the world of Astronomy and rocketry. Please keep supporting me. Thanks Trouble in ISS Nauka’s docking problem   By Ramesh S Krishna Nauka is a Module launched by Russia in a proton rocket on the 21st of July 2021. It’s an MLM  [Multipurpose Laboratory module]. It will dock at the docking port of the Zvezda module , where previously the PIRS module was docked. The PIRS was undocked and re-entered the atmosphere of earth on July 26th, 2021 and after spending 7252 days docked to the station. After the undocking of PIRS and before Nauka’s docking , the robotic arm went and connected with the arm of the Zarya module and checked the port on which PIRS was docked. There were concerns that the astronauts should go for an EVA and check the docking port but the port looked perfect so they didn’t go for an EVA.  Wh...