Space News Update

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Space News Update
January 28-31, 2008
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News Content This Week

• Hyperfast Star Ejected from the Large Magellenic
  Cloud
• Jupiter's giant storms caught in Hubble telescope
  images S
• U.S. Spy Satellite Could Crash to Earth in
  February
• Space Calendar
• NASA TV
• Upcoming Launch Schedule
• Popular Space
• Space Image of the Week
• (click on the images for more information)

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Hyperfast Star Ejected from the Large Magellenic
Cloud
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Jupiter's giant storms caught in Hubble telescope
images
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U.S. Spy Satellite Could Crash to Earth in
February
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Space Calendar

• Jan 28 - Express AM-33 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Jan 28 - Comet P/2008 A2 (LINEAR) Closest
  Approach To Earth (1.129 AU)
• Jan 28 - Asteroid 143 Adria Occults HIP 47779
  (6.7 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 28 - Asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard Closest
  Approach To Earth (1.271 AU)
• Jan 28 - Asteroid 13926 Berners-Lee Closest
  Approach To Earth (1.781 AU)
• Jan 29 - Comet C/2007 S2 (Lemmon) Closest
  Approach To Earth (4.710 AU)
• Jan 29 - Asteroid 2007 TU24 Near-Earth Flyby
  (0.004 AU)
• Jan 29 - Asteroid 79896 Billhaley Closest
  Approach To Earth (1.383 AU)

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Space Calendar, Continued

• Jan 30 - Theos Dnepr 1 Launch
• Jan 30 - Asteroid 2007 WD5 Near-Mars Flyby
• Jan 30 - Asteroid 2347 Vinata Occults HIP 14893
  (5.8 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 30 - 140th Anniversary (1868), Pultusk
  Meteorite Shower in Poland
• Jan 31 - 50th Anniversary (1958), Explorer 1
  Launch (1st US Satellite)
• Jan 31 - Asteroid 3329 Golay Occults HIP 45058
  (6.0 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 31 - Asteroid 2710 Veverka Closest Approach
  To Earth (1.223 AU)

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NASA TV
(all times Eastern)
Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website.
January 29, Tuesday10 a.m. - STS-122 Crew
Training - HQ KSC (Public and Media Channels)1
p.m. - ESA Columbus/ATV Briefing - KSC (Public
and Media Channels)2 p.m. - Interviews with
STS-122 Pilot Alan Poindexter and Mission
Specialist Leland Melvin - HQ (Public and Media
Channels)4 p.m. - Interviews with STS-122
Commander Steve Frick and European Space Agency
Astronaut Léopold Eyharts - HQ (Public and Media
Channels)6 p.m. - Interviews with STS-122
Mission Specialists Rex Walheim and Stanley Love
- HQ (Public and Media Channels)8 p.m. -
Interview with European Space Agency Astronaut
Hans Schlegel - HQ (Public and Media Channels)
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NASA TV, Continued

• January 30, Wednesday4 a.m. - ISS Expedition 16
  Spacewalk Coverage - JSC (Spacewalk begins at
  520 a.m., or earlier, if the crew is ready All
  Channels)1 p.m. - MESSENGER M1 Flyby News
  Conference - HQ (Public and Media Channels)2
  p.m. - ISS Expedition 16 Post-Spacewalk Briefing
  - JSC (Public and Media Channels)3 p.m. -
  STS-122 Post-Flight Readiness Review Briefing -
  HQ (Public and Media Channels)January 31,
  Thursday1115 a.m. - NASA Aeronautics Technical
  Seminar on "Synthetic and Enhanced Vision Systems
  and Equivalent Visual Operations" - HQ (Education
  Channel)4 p.m. - ISS Automated Transfer Vehicle
  Preflight Briefing - JSC (Public and Media
  Channels)

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NASA TV, Continued

• January 22, continued
• 2 p.m. - Interviews with STS-122 Pilot Alan
  Poindexter and Mission Specialist Leland Melvin -
  HQ (Public and Media Channels)4 p.m. -
  Interviews with STS-122 Commander Steve Frick and
  European Space Agency Astronaut Léopold Eyharts -
  HQ (Public and Media Channels)6 p.m. -
  Interviews with STS-122 Mission Specialists Rex
  Walheim and Stanley Love - HQ (Public and Media
  Channels)8 p.m. - Interview with European Space
  Agency Astronaut Hans Schlegel - HQ (Public and
  Media Channels

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Upcoming Launch Schedule

• January 30 A Dnepr booster to launch the THEOS
  Earth-watching satellite for Thailand from
  Russia's Dombarovksy-based launch site.
• NET Feb 7 NASA's space shuttle Atlantis to
  launch NASA's STS-122 mission to deliver the
  European Columbus laboratory to the International
  Space Station in a flight to begin at the Kennedy
  Space Center in Florida. 247 p.m. EST (1947
  GMT).
• February 5 A Russian Soyuz rocket to launch the
  Russian-built Progress 28 cargo ship toward the
  International Space Station from Baikonur
  Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. 80250 a.m. EST
  (130250 GMT)

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Popular Space
Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space
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Space Image of the Week