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December 5, 2020 Archives
Saturday, December 5, 2020
CONTINUITY: X-Plane: Starship — Flight Simulator for SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
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16:02
CONTEXT: Forced Landing at Night
Masterful airmanship by an aerobatics champion following engine failure in a single engine light plane results in a night landing on a freeway in Minnesota with no injuries to passengers of the plane or cars.
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15:59
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Hayabusa-2 Asteroid Sample Return Re-entry and Landing
Live stream is scheduled to start at 17:00 UTC on 2020-12-05. And it will start then: the capsule has been released and from now on Prof. Newton is in the driver’s seat.
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14:41
THE HAPPENING WORLD: New Cargo Dragon Ready for Launch to the International Space Station
There are 50-50 odds of acceptable weather at the Kennedy Space Center for launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon capsule at 11:39am EST (1639 GMT) Saturday.
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) December 4, 2020
There is a high risk of poor conditions for landing of the Falcon 9 booster offshore.https://t.co/FAMaoqlOTP pic.twitter.com/NR0TX9EdW4
Launch is scheduled for 2020-12-05 at 16:39 UTC. Probability of acceptable weather is 50%. This will be the first flight of the new model Cargo Dragon, based upon the Crew Dragon design.
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12:17
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spots Chang'e 5 on the Moon
Look at that: China's Chang'e-5 lander on the Moon, seen by NASA's LRO satellite in lunar orbit. https://t.co/Kwc5AvXV1o pic.twitter.com/nX3VB2z4un
— Corey S. Powell (@coreyspowell) December 5, 2020
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