Our Online meetings normally take place on a Wednesday evening at 7:30 pm UK time unless otherwise stated. Meetings use the Zoom.us video conferencing application. Cost is £3.00 per participant and tickets are sold through Eventbrite. Visit the website at www.gospacewatch.co.uk for more information and to buy tickets. Although real life (face-to-face) meetings at a public venue will take place sometime in the future, we still intend to run online meetings alongside those real life meetings.
Wednesday 5th May
Dr Hannah Sargeant FRAS (Open University): “Mining the Moon”
Wednesday 26th May
Robin Hague (Head of Launch, Skyrora): “From Scotland to Space”
Wednesday 2nd June
Stephen Eisele (Vice President, Virgin Orbit, California. USA)
Virgin Orbit
Wednesday 23rd June
Ben Evans (Author): “An Experimental Flying Machine“
Wednesday 7th July
Igor Bobek, from Croatia “The Mars Society”
Wednesday 21st July
Andy Briggs, Astronomer (Spain) “How to Photograph a Black Hole”
Wednesday 4th August
Andy McGarry
Wednesday 18th August
John Thatcher “The James Webb Space Telescope and the MIRI instrument”
Wednesday 1st September
Martin Lunn: “A Ramble Through the Solar System”
The cargo version of the SNC Dream chaser space plane is depicted in orbit in this artists impression.
STOP PRESS*** Sierra Nevada Corporation says it will transition its Space Systems division into an independent company, Sierra Space, to better capture the growth it projects for technologies like its Dream Chaser spaceplane.
Source: Jeff Foust @jeff_foust (SpaceNews.com)
*Please do not attempt to photograph an ISS solar transit without correct solar filtration*
Image left: Transit Finder Details 22nd March 2021
Image below: Widefield version of the 22nd March ISS Lunar Transit using DSLR. Clearly showing the path of ISS between the constellations of Orion and Taurus.
By Ben Evans
