 Hello citizens of Earth and welcome to tomorrow news. This week we've got a little bit of Starlink, we've got some Mars, we're going to be talking some J-Dubb, also going to be getting down into it with an announcement from ULA's Tori Bruno. We're also going to be talking about a Lunar Viper and your space weather with Dr. Tamethascove. Now before we officially get started, just want to remind you that if you like us here tomorrow and like what we do, don't forget to subscribe to us, like this video, hit the notification bell, share this everywhere that you can, every little bit helps us out. So go for that, make it happen and we'll be happy and I'll give you a high five if we ever meet one day. So let's go ahead and get started with this week's edition of tomorrow news for June 17th, 2020. Hey Ryan, go ahead and take it away. After the launch of Starlink 7, SpaceX released this awesome footage of the deployment of the fairings, which are covering the 60 Starlink satellites, which allowed us to see how tightly packed they all are. Scott Mangley has done a fantastic video on this short clip identifying every piece of detail and every component, well pretty much every component. So if you want more information I would highly recommend you go and check it out after this video of course, even if the fairing itself didn't make it back in one piece. That room we saw also showed us how much space was available from the three small sats from Planet Labs, which rideshared on Starlink 8 with only 58 Starlink satellites and it is estimated that the cost for this launch for Planet Labs would have been a lot cheaper than the cost of say an electron rocket from Rocket Lab. Planet Labs' satellites were released first, leaving time for the Falcon 9 second stage to prepare for the Starlink deployment. Private beta testing for the Starlink network has also begun as SpaceX now have enough coverage to cover most of the United States. Each orbital plane has roughly 22 satellites in them so one launch can cover roughly 3 orbits. Elon has also confirmed that 2022 is still the target date for cargo operations to Mars along with 2024 being the target for crewed launches. These goals can only be met however by the incredible team in Boca Chica. Test tanks for SN7 have been making an appearance while canards have also been arriving. SN7's older sister SN6 has been through stacking as it prepares to follow its older sister SN5 which is heading down to the launch site where it will perform the test we've seen before getting ready for what should hopefully be a 150m hop. We're off to Mars in four years which is absolutely mind boggling so Jared, it's back over to you. Thanks Ryan. 2022 and 2024 as the markers for when the cargo and crew missions for Starship are going to happen on the way to Mars, that's very ambitious but hey if anyone can do it SpaceX can. I mean it was just only a decade ago that they first flew the Falcon 9 and now they've got their own crewed spacecraft Crew Dragon Endeavour at the International Space Station. NASA has announced that the data they've seen so far from Crew Dragon Endeavour on orbit has satisfied enough requirements that they're going to allow it to stay along with Bob and Doug for a long duration and of course for SpaceX the ultimate end game is Mars and the launch window to actually get there for this year is going to open in just about a month and NASA is getting its Perseverance rover and ingenuity Mars helicopter ready to go but it's already had a little bit of a slight delay. Ground equipment used on the Atlas V specifically a crane snagged operations and has pushed back the launch day to no earlier than July 20th. Not to fear though that launch window for Perseverance and the ingenuity helicopter lasts till August 11th so there is still some wiggle room to work with. And as Thaum York once saying no surprises I discuss the possibility of a delay to the James Webb Space Telescope being ready for a launch by the original planned date of March 2021 and yes the delay is now officially official and that's really a big bummer especially because as I mentioned last week this isn't due to any instrumentation or management problems this is due to the COVID-19 pandemic slowing down work that can be done so really it's no fault of anyone and that's just a huge bummer for the team. Did we have some launches this week? We did! Woo! So let's go right ahead and jump into this week's space traffic. Starting in China at 1831 Universal Time on June 10th in long March to see began a climb to space from the Tian Space Center carrying the fourth Hei Yang Ocean observation satellite Hei Yang-1D. Successfully reaching orbit and deployed Hei Yang-1D will study ocean composition temperatures and ship tracking. This Long March 2C has a reinforced and instrumented payload fairing to study re-entry dynamics although no word on reuse for Long March rockets has been said publicly after having flown grid fins on a Long March 2C last year. Well, I don't think anything needs to be said beyond that. Three, two, one. Then head to the other side of the equator where a rocket lab electron on the Don't Stop Me Now mission lifted off at 0512 Universal on June 13th from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. Now Don't Stop Me Now was named after the late Scott Smith, a rocket lab board member who loved the band Queen. Carrying five satellites they were all successfully deployed. Three of the satellites are from the United States National Reconnaissance Office meaning that we don't know when any of the satellites were actually deployed and that those three NRO satellites are small sats and that they're from the NRO and that's all you're gonna find out. The other two small sats are university programs. One for the University of New South Wales at Canberra testing communications and radio technology on orbit. While the other is for Boston University and it will deploy from itself eight smaller sensors to study Aurora generating three-dimensional profiles as it flies through them. An experimental guided re-entry by stage one was performed in continued experiments towards the reuse of electrons first stage. And here are your upcoming launches. It seems that a lot of people have missed the story that has directly come from the United Launch Alliance's CEO Tori Bruno this week. In fact I believe that tomorrow is the only space news group that's actually covering this story. So what specifically is it that we should be very excited about? Well cookies. That's right specifically Mrs. Bruno's favorite cookie recipe complete with no itar restrictions and we'll put a link in the description if you'd like to have a go at making them as they actually sound incredibly delicious like a molasses cinnamon ginger cookie. Corl of mercy I think I just drooled a little bit saying that. Now I'm gonna have a go at making those cookies because they sound really really good. If you have a go at making those cookies let us know here at tomorrow maybe we'll feature that in our next news episode whenever you may get that into us and maybe we'll get the whole tomorrow crew together again when we can and make those cookies together. Now to talk a little bit about this week's space weather that we've got coming up and a sun that's starting to get out of its slumber of a solar minimum. Here's Dr. Tamatha scope. Space weather this week is beginning to get a bit fun as we switch to our front side sun. You can see region 2765 as it begins to rotate to the sun's west limb. Now this region has not been all that active but there has been a lot of other stuff going on in other places. As a matter of fact on the 12th you can see in the northern hemisphere this little puff of almost smoke with a little donut hole center in there. That actually was an earth directed solar storm. It's a stealthy solar storm and then just a few hours later we end up getting yet another one off of the sun's west limb. It was a prominent eruption and that launched yet another solar storm. So on the front side of the sun just within a day or so we had two solar storms launched one which is earth directed. Now we also have a finger like coronal hole that's going to be rotating into the earth strike zone and it's going to be sending us some fast solar wind on the heels of that stealthy solar storm that's already on its way and we could get some aurora easily at high latitudes and possibly down into mid latitudes for just a little bit. And now as we switch to our far side sun this is stereo A and it's looking at the sun pretty much from the side. You can see up around the 12th to the 13th there's another in the northern hemisphere another puff of smoke. Oh my goodness this one launched sandwiched between the other two. I showed you on the front side of the sun. So we have three solar storms that have been launched by the sun. It's beginning to feel like solar cycle 25 is coming alive and now we also have two bright regions in the northern hemisphere that are beginning to rotate into stereo's view. These regions are not flare active but they will rotate into earth view here in the next couple days and the fact that they're going to boost that solar flux is good for emergency radio operators but the fact that they're flare quiet means that's good for space traffic. Now switching to our coronagraphs this is from stereo's view and what we've done is we've blocked out the sun so that we can see those solar storms in the solar atmosphere as they lift off. Now you can see on the 12th you can see that first solar storm being launched going earth side now that was the stealthy solar storm that launched then right behind it look at this big one that's launched on the far side oh my goodness and then yet another wispy one on the front side so it's almost as if we're back to our good old sun it is definitely waking up when we see three solar storms launched within literally hours of one another and it's a nice sign that solar cycle 25 is definitely begun. For more details on this week's space weather including when that stealthy solar storm might hit earth and how it could affect you come check out my channel or see me at space weatherwoman.com. NASA's commercial cargo and commercial crew program are the gold standard for public private partnerships between NASA and aerospace companies so it's no surprise that something like the commercial lunar payload services program is a near carbon copy that started back in 2018 it's already starting to get results and a recent one is something worth happily hissing about. NASA has selected Astrobotic to deliver the volatiles investigating polar exploration rover to the lunar south pole sometime in late 2023 and how much does it cost to land a 450 kilogram lunar rover well an ice cold 199.5 million dollars. What's so cool about this to me is the way clips works meaning that NASA is buying the services of Astrobotic to use their larger lander design the griffin which has a payload capacity of 475 kilograms. Now Viper weighs about 450 kilograms that means that there's still about 25 kilograms for Astrobotic to potentially sell if NASA is okay with that. How cool would it be if you were able to get a university 25 kilograms of payload for your students to send instruments or something that they build in their engineering or physics labs on campus to the moon that would be very very cool and also Astrobotic themselves could probably claim that 25 kilograms as long as NASA is okay with it and there's a lot you could probably do with 25 kilograms on the moon that seems like a bit of fun that you could have. Astrobotic says that they'll be working to land Viper to within 100 meters of its target and the southern pole of the moon is not at all noted for having terrain that would be easy to land in. This is going to be a pretty exciting mission with a commercial lander and a NASA payload sniffing out an important piece of the sustainability puzzle in situ and don't forget the first clips mission could fly as early as next year 2021 with Astrobotic flying a payload of NASA instruments on their smaller Paragon lander and intuitive machines letting their Nova Sea lander have a go at its own landing as well. It's worth noting that Astrobotic and intuitive machines are actually bending metal and burning engines so this isn't some far-off pipe dream that'll pay dividends by the 2030s. 2021 is a real viable target and holy smokes that is something really worth getting super excited over. For those who may be interested in knowing more on Tomorrow Space Orbit 12.22 we interviewed Astrobotic CEO John Thornton where quite a lot of this about returning to the moon and NASA's clips program came up for discussion. If you're more interested I highly recommend you head back and give that previous Tomorrow Space episode a watch. And to wrap up this week's episode of Tomorrow News I just want to thank all of you who help make the shows of tomorrow possible. We really can't do this without you and each and every one of you who does so you are amazing and it is super appreciated. Now if you would like to contribute to the shows of tomorrow you can head on over to youtube.com slash tmro slash join to do so and check out all the great rewards that we have available for you at the different levels of support. 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