Two lunar probes, the Apollo 11 anniversary, two lunar and three solar eclipses as well as new spaceships for the International space station: 2019 gives space fans a number of heavenly Highlights.
2019 will be a year of the moon. The beginning of China has made it: 3. January landed the probe, Chang’e 4 on the back side of the moon. Never before a Mission, had the erdabgewandte side of the moon to the goal. In the course of the year, the lander and a small Rover will carry out on-site measurements, photos to earth sparks and the composition of the rock to analyze. Aboard the lander, an Instrument of the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, seeking, among other things, for traces of water in the soil.
At the 3. In January, China has sold a land a robot on the far side of the moon
According to China, it also takes India to the moon
Everything goes according to Plan, then India is on December 31. January is the “moon festival”. Chandrayaan-2, the second Indian moon probe, consists of an Orbiter that will orbit the moon and a landing capsule. To land on the front at the edge of the South polar region of the moon, and also a small Rover to expose. India wants to collect with this Mission for more experience with space probes and the structure of the moon to explore.
21. July of the lunar year reaches its climax: the landing of Apollo 11 marks the 50th anniversary of. Time. Half a century ago, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first men to enter the surface of the moon.
Around this anniversary, the space riders look longingly to the moon. Because in December 1972, landed with the astronauts of Apollo 17 last man on the moon. Until a Mesch leaves its traces in the lunar dust, it will still take a good ten years. Probably it will be a Chinese or a Chinese.
Three solar eclipses – a total 2. July
The beginning of a partial solar Eclipse on 5./6. January. It lasts from 23:34 to 3:49 p.m. universal time. A maximum of around 70 per cent of the sun’s disk covered by the moon. You will be able to see in the far East of Russia, in the North of China, Korea, Japan and the North Pacific.
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It is so beautiful again, as in the case of this solar Eclipse in 2017?
The celestial event of the year is the total solar Eclipse on 2. July. In a 10,000 km long, but only 200 kilometers of a narrow strip in the new moon moves completely in front of the sun. For a maximum of four minutes and 38 seconds day turns to night. Particularly impressive people will be able to experience the solar Eclipse in a strip about new Zealand, Chile and Argentina. Partially this Eclipse is to be seen in all of South America and the South Pacific.
Small Planet, big Show: mercury ahead of the sun
A cosmic curiosity, it the 11. November. Then, the innermost and smallest of all the planets, mercury is exactly between the earth and the sun. For five and a half hours, mercury is visible as a small black dot that gradually migrates to the sun.
The transit of Mercury, as the astronomers say, is everywhere to be seen there, where the sun is in the sky. In Europe, Africa and the Indian ocean is, at least, see the first part of the spectacle, in North America and in many Parts of the Pacific, at least the second. In the Atlantic, in South America and in the Antarctic can be fully track how mercury moves across the sun’s disk.
More to mercury: The long journey of BepiColombo
As least 2016, the mercury is again in front of the sun fly
But, in principle, respect the following applies:! Never visible to the naked eye the direction of the sun.In the case of the observation of a solar Eclipse or the transit of Mercury always use suitable protective goggles are necessary in order to follow the spectacle. Normal sun glasses or even welder glasses are not safety glasses!
Private flights to the ISS
2019 could be a year of transition for the US space. So far, SpaceX has supplied NASA the International space station, only with Material. Soon, the private company wants to bring people into space.
The manned Version of the Dragon capsule was introduced five years ago, has been flown but never. An unmanned test flight is planned for the end of January. If the and another security test in the spring, be able to travel in the middle of the year, U.S. astronauts back from the USA to the ISS.
The CST-100 Starliner Boeing could bring in addition to the Dragon capsule of SpaceX is already 2019 astronauts to the ISS.
It would be to track the end of an eight-year-long thirst: Since the Decommission of the Space Shuttle fleet in mid-2011, are people just using Russian Soyuz capsules to the space station. Also, and the Boeing company would like to send in 2019, with his spaceship CST-100 astronaut in orbit, also on behalf of NASA.
X-ray satellite and planet search: Europe’s plans in space
At the end of March to start from Baikonur the Russian satellite spectrum-roentgen-Gamma. On Board the x-ray telescope EROSITA for the Max-Planck-Institute for extraterrestrial physics. The Instrument will map the whole sky in the area of the x-ray radiation, and particularly energy phenomena in the cosmos, the realms explore, such as the vicinity of Black holes.
In mid-October, the European space Agency ESA wants to start their CHEOPS-a satellite, a space telescope to keep the planet looking. With it, astronomers want to investigate the size and density of exoplanets, exactly, to find objects for future search of possible life in space is particularly promising.
It will take some time until the new James Webb space telescope goes on a journey
What we have to do without …
Originally planned for April, the Start of the James Webb space telescope, the NASA and ESA as the successor to the famous Hubble telescope to build, has been moved to 2021.
And the most beautiful shooting star streams, the Perseids from 10. to 14. In August, the Leonids from the 14. to 16. November and the Geminids on 11. to 14. December, unfortunately, all the disturbing moon light. However, a couple of shooting stars per hour are, after all, in the sky. In addition, in 2019 the following applies: The view of the Firmament is always worth it – and it can, at any time, scurry is a wonderful shooting Star across the sky.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!19.000-pounds heavier “Foundation stone”
The first section of the ISS, which took 20 years ago to make his way into space was the Russian cargo and control module, Zarya. It weighed more than 19,000 pounds and was more than 12 meters long. Zarya was given to the United States in order and paid, but by a Russian space company developed and built. International cooperation of childhood!
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Residential community for six
Six people live and work at the same time the ISS on the International space station, while this grid with a speed of over 27,000 km/h through space. All of the 90 minutes, the ISS circles the earth once. The space station is the moon the brightest object in the night sky and can even see with the naked eye.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Expedition 1
This was the first long-duration Crew on the ISS, U.S. Astronaut William Shepherd (center) with his two Russian roommates, Yuri Gidzenko (left) and Sergei Krikalev (right). They moved on 2. November 2000, and remained for 136 days.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Leases of up to one year
On average, the Crews remain five and a half months on the ISS. Two residents, who could bear it no longer: NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly (photo) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. They spent a whole year on the space station.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Multinational
The canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield on the ISS, Christmas 2012. In the past few years, people from 18 countries were aboard the space station. The largest number of members of the Crew came from the USA, followed by Russia. Other countries of origin, among others, Japan, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Brazil and the UK.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!The Bus stops in front of the door
Employees and inventories a meeting about space shuttles or space freighter. Here is Space Shuttle Atlantis docks to the ISS. Atlantis was to 2011. Nowadays, all of the astronauts traveling in the Soyuz capsules in your new home.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Short air grab
More than 210 space walks, it was so far outside of the ISS, the astronauts talk to the ‘EVA’ extra vehicular activity hot. Mike Hopkins was on 24. In December 2013 the ISS from the outside.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Exceptional Furnishings
Several robot arms adorn the space station. This here, Canadarm2, is almost twenty meters long and has seven motorized joints. He can lift a 100,000 kilograms of high – or even an astronaut, such as here in the picture is Stephen Robinson.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Researchers-WG
The Crew members spend about 35 hours every week with their research. The German ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst was the first Time in 2014 on the ISS. At that time, he observed and analyzed the changes of the human body in weightlessness. His second ISS operation began in June 2018. Since October of 2018, he is the first German commander of the space station.
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The ISS is 20: Happy birthday, space station!Nerve-Wracking Statement
Your time is up on the ISS, the astronauts on Soyuz capsules to return to earth. The last piece you put back by parachute. Welcome to the earth!