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August
Aug. 31: India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C39) will launch the IRNSS 1H navigation satellite, the eighth spacecraft in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, India at 9:29 a.m. EDT (1329 GMT).
September
Sept. 1: NASA TV will air the Expedition 52/53 Change of Command Ceremony at the International Space Station at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT). Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin will hand over ISS Command to NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik.
Sept. 2: Three crewmembers will leave the International Space Station and return to Earth. NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer will climb into the Soyuz space capsule with Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin at about 2:40 p.m. EDT (1840 GMT). The Soyuz will undock at 5:58 p.m. EDT (2158 GMT) and land near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan at 9:22 p.m. EDT (0122 GMT).
Sept. 5:Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket to launch the Intelsat 37e and BSAT 4a communications satellites.
Sept. 6: The full moon of September will occur on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 3:03 a.m. EDT (0803 GMT). September’s full moon is known as the Full Harvest Moon.
Sept. 6: A Chinese Long March 2D rocket will launch the Venezuelan Remote Sensing Satellite, VRSS 2 from Jiuquan, China.
Sept. 7: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the U.S. military’s X-37B, a spaceplane also called the Orbital Test Vehicle, on the program’s fifth mission (OTV-5).
Sept. 9: An International Launch Services Proton rocket will launch the Amazonas 5 communications satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Sept. 12: Expedition 53/54 crewmembers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will launch atop a Russian Soyuz rocket on a mission to the International Space Station at 5:17 p.m. EDT (2117 GMT).
Sept. 14: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NROL-42) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Sept. 15: NASA’s Cassini orbiter will plunge into Saturn, ending a nearly 20-year mission.
Sept. 17-22: European Planetary Science Congress 2017 (Riga, Latvia)
Sept. 21: A Eurockot Rockot launch vehicle with the Sentinel-5 Precursor Earth observation satellite will launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.
Sept. 27: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the SES-11/EchoStar 105 hybrid communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Sept. 28: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NROL-52) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Sept. 28: An International Launch Services Proton rocket will deploy the AsiaSat-9 communications satellite into orbit following a launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:50 p.m. EDT (1850 GMT).
October
Oct. 4: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:06 a.m. EDT (13 GMT).
Oct. 5: The full moon of October occurs on Thursday, Oct. 5 at 2:40 p.m. EDT (1940 GMT). It is also known as the Full Hunter’s Moon.
Oct. 8: The Draconid meteor shower will peak on Sunday, Oct. 8. Draconid meteors will appear Oct. 6-10 and are best viewed in the early evening hours.
Oct. 12: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the 68th Progress cargo delivery mission to theInternational Space Station.
Oct. 15: Occultation of Regulus – The brightest star in the constellation Leo will be covered by a crescent moon in the early morning of Sunday, Oct. 15. The occultation will be visible from the United States and the Caribbean.
Oct. 17: An Orbital ATK Minotaur-C rocket will launch six SkySat Earth observation satellites for Google/Skybox Imaging from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Oct. 19: Uranus will be at opposition in its closest approach to Earth, and the planet’s face will be fully illuminated by the sun. This the best time to observe Uranus, though a telescope is required to do so.
Oct. 21-22: The Orionid meteor shower peaks on the night of Friday, Oct. 20 and the early morning of Saturday, Oct. 21. Orionid meteors will be visible from Oct. 2 to Nov. 7.
Oct. 26: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a crewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station with members of the Expedition 54/55 crew: Scott Tingle of NASA, Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
November
Nov. 1: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Dragon CRS-13 spacecraft on a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Nov. 4: The full moon of November will occur on Saturday, Nov. 4 at 12:23 a.m. EDT (0523 GMT). It is also known as the Full Beaver Moon.
Nov. 4-5: The Taurid meteor shower will peak on the night of Saturday, Nov. 4 and the early morning of Sunday, Nov. 5. Taurid meteors will be visible from Sep. 7 to Dec. 10. This is a minor meteor shower with 5-10 meteors per hour, and light from the full moon may obstruct the view during the meteor shower’s peak.
Nov. 5: Occultation of Aldebaran. For the second time this year, the moon crosses in front of the bright star Aldebaran on Nov. 5. This time the waning gibbous moon will be nearly full. The occultation will be visible from most of North America in the early evening. [Watch the Moon Play ‘Peekaboo’ with Bright Star Aldebaran]
Nov. 7: An Arianespace Vega rocket will launch with the MN35-13 Earth observation satellite for the government of Morocco from Kourou, French Guiana at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT on Nov. 8).
Nov. 10: A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket will launch the first spacecraft in the Joint Polar Satellite System, NOAA’s next-generation series of polar-orbiting weather observatories.
Nov. 10: An Orbital ATK Antares rocket will launch the Cygnus cargo spacecraft (OA-8) to the International Space Station from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Nov. 13: A spectacular conjunction of Venus and Jupiter will be visible in the evening sky. The two bright planets will be extremely close, appearing only 0.3 degrees apart. Look for this impressive pairing in the Eastern sky just before sunrise.
Nov. 14: An air-launched Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket will send NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite into orbit from Kwajalein, Marshall Islands.
Nov. 17-18: The Leonid meteor shower peaks between Thursday, Nov. 17 and Friday, Nov. 18. But Leonid meteors will be visible in the sky throughout the month of November.
Nov. 17: An Orbital ATK Antares rocket will launch a Cygnus cargo spacecraft (OA-9) to the International Space Station from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Also slated to launch in November (from Spaceflight Now):
- SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon Heavy rocket for its first demonstration flight from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- A Chinese Long March 5 rocket will launch the Chang’e 5 mission to return samples from the moon.
- A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket will launch NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite to measure ice sheet elevation and ice sheet thickness changes linked to climate change, along with measurements of Earth’s vegetation biomass.
December
Dec. 3: The full moon of December, also known as the Full Cold Moon, occurs at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1547 GMT) on Monday, Dec. 3. This will also be the only “supermoon” of 2017.
Dec. 5-7: SpaceCom 2017 (Space Commerce Conference and Exposition) in Houston, Texas.
Dec. 13-14: The Geminid meteor shower peaks on the night of Wednesday, Dec. 13 and the early morning hours of Thursday, Dec. 14. Geminid meteors will be visible Dec. 7-16.
Dec. 13: A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket will launch a classified spacecraft payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Dec. 21-22: The Ursid meteor shower peaks on the night of Thursday, Dec. 21 and the early morning hours of Friday, Dec. 22. Ursid meteors will appear in the sky Dec. 17-25.
Dec. 27: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch three new crewmembers to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Also slated to launch in December (from Spaceflight Now):
- Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 rocket to launch four Galileo full operational capability satellites for Europe’s Galileo navigation constellation from the Guiana Space Center.
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Bangabandhu 1 communications satellite for the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.
2018
Jan. 18: An Atlas 5 rocket provided by the United Launch Alliance will launch the U.S. military’s fourth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous satellite (SBIRS GEO 4) for missile early-warning detection.
Jan. 20: An Arianespace Vega rocket (VV11) will launch with the ADM-Aeolus satellite for the European Space Agency from Kourou, French Guiana.
Feb. 9: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the 69th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station.
Also slated to launch in February (from Spaceflight Now):
- SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida for an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station.
March 1: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch GOES-S, the second next-generation geostationary weather satellite for NASA and NOAA, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:01 a.m. EST (1001 GMT).
March 9: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the crewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with members of the next Expedition crew (54S).
March 20: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Also slated to launch in March (from Spaceflight Now):
- A Eurockot Rockot vehicle will launch with the Sentinel 3B Earth observation satellite for the European Space Agency and the European Commission from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia.
- An Orbital ATK Antares rocket will launch the 10th Cygnus cargo freighter on the ninth operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station (OA-9).
- A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station under the auspices of NASA’s commercial crew program.
April 15: A Russian government Soyuz rocket will launch the 70th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
April 18: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch the AFSPC 11 mission for the U.S. Air Force from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
April 27: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the crewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with members of the next Expedition crew (55S).
April 30: A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the U.S. Air Force’s Space Test Program-2 mission with a cluster of military and scientific research satellites.
May 5: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch NASA’s InSight Mars lander from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 7:10 a.m. EDT (1110 GMT).
June 27: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the 70th Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
July 31: A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket will launch NASA’s Parker Solar Probe from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:07 a.m. EDT (1407 GMT).
Also slated for 2018:
- Boeing anticipates its first uncrewed test flight of the CST-100 Starliner will take place in June 2018, followed by a crewed test flight in August 2018.
- China’s Tiangong-1 space lab will fall to Earth by April 2018.
- The U.S. military will launch its fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite aboard an Atlas 5 rocket provided by the United Launch Alliance. It will launch from pad SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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