CAPCOM Issue 313 January 2021

GoSpaceWatch Limited — CAPCOM Magazine: Volume 31 Number 3 — January 2021

A Look Back at 2020 SpaceX Starship Development

Meet the Artemis Astronaut Team

Cover Image: Comet NEOWISE by Dave Eagle

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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 27th January Dr David Whitehouse (former BBC Science Reporter): “Space 2069”

Wednesday 3rd February Naomi Rowe-Gurney (PhD Student at the University of Leicester): “Ice Giants and the James Webb Space Telescope”

Wednesday 17th February Howard L.G Parkin BSc. BEd. FRAS, Isle of Man: “Dark Skies Tourism”

Wednesday 3rd March Sharad Bhaskaran (Mission Director, Astrobotic) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA): “Robotic Missions to the Moon to support NASA’s Artemis programme”

Wednesday 17th March Meeting to be arranged

Wednesday 7th April James Blake (PhD Student at the University of Warwick): “The Sticky Issue of Space Debris”

Wednesday 21st April Dr Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester) “The European Space Agency’s JUICE Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moons”

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”

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The members of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station. Pictured from left are NASA astronaut Raja Chari, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn.

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on UK’s New Space Thruster Test Site

Axiom Space to Build First Commercial Space Station

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Comet NEOWISE by Andy McCrae, Northern Ireland. Equipment: Televue NP101 (f5.4) , Canon 60Da ISO 1000, 30Sec - c 1-1.30 11th July 2020

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