+
LBREPORT.com LIVE Video Of Today's History-Making Space X (Elon Musk) Launch of Four Astronauts To Int'l Space Station AND (Weather Permitting) YOU Can Personally See The Space Station As Its Orbits Will Pass Above LB/So Cal On Nov. 18 And 19
LBReport.com
News / Advisory
LBREPORT.com LIVE Video Of Today's History-Making Space X (Elon Musk) Launch of Four Astronauts To Int'l Space Station AND (Weather Permitting) YOU Can Personally See The Space Station As Its Orbits Will Pass Above LB/So Cal On Nov. 18 And 19
LBREPORT.com publisher Bill Pearl was the only LB reporter aboard the Zero Gravity Oct. 25 weightless flight from LB Airport)
=-
If LBREPORT.com didn't tell you, who would?
No one in LBREPORT.com's ownership, reporting or editorial decision-making has ties to development interests, advocacy groups or other special interests; or is seeking or receiving benefits of City development-related decisions; or holds a City Hall appointive position; or has contributed sums to political campaigns for Long Beach incumbents or challengers. LBREPORT.com isn't part of an out of town corporate cluster and no one its ownership, editorial or publishing decisionmaking has been part of the governing board of any City government body or other entity on whose policies we report.
LBREPORT.com is reader and advertiser supported. Support independent news in LB similar to the way people support NPR and PBS stations. We're not non-profit so it's not tax deductible but $49.95 (less than an annual dollar a week) helps keep us online.
(November 15, 2020, 11:30 a.m.) -- Later today, LBREPORT.com plans LIVE coverage of Space X's history-making launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station. LBREPORT.com's LIVE video will begin at 12:15 p.m. today (Nov. 15) with launch scheduled for 4:27 p.m. PST, postponed from a Saturday weather delayed launch.
As of this morning all systems were "go" BUT weather conditions were described as only "50% favorable."
AND LBREPORT.com also alerts our readers (as we routinely do) to opportunities to see the International Space Station (weather permitting) as two of its upcoming orbits will take it above Long Beach and southern CA -- hopefully with the new Space X astronauts safely aboard -- at late afternoon-early evening November 18 and 19 (details below.)
Today's scheduled Space X launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will carry Space X's Crew Dragon capsule with four Crew-1 members strapped inside: Mission Commander/NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins; NASA astronaut/Pilot Victor Glover plus NASA Astronaut Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
Photo shows astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, second from left, Michael Hopkins, second from right, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
And, regardless of whether today's Space X launch takes place, LB residents will have an opportunity to personally see the International Space Station as two of its upcoming orbits will take it above Long Beach and southern CA in the coning days (details below.).
[Scroll down for further.]
Based on its orbits, the Nov. 19 pass-by may be the slightly brighter and the longer of the two viewing opportunities.
For November 18, HeavensAbove.com says the Int'l Space Station should become visible in the SW sky at 6:21:06 p.m. PST, will rise to a height of 66 degrees in the NW sky at 6:24:26 p.m. and will disappear about 14 seconds later in the NNW sky at about 6:24:40.
Caveat: The 6:24:40 disappearing time may be a HeavensAbove typo; it's inconsistent with a roughly 6:27:40 disppearing time on HeavensAbove's own ground track predicted disappearance time in the graphic below.) ("The highlighted circle is the region where the satellite is at least 10° above your horizon. The size of the circle depends on the height of the satellite.")
Image source: HeavensAbove.com
The next day, Nov. 19, HeavensAbove says there'll be a viewing opportunity that begins at 5:33:39 p.m. in the SW sky, rises to a height of 62 degrees in the SE at 5:36:58 p.m. and then disappears in the NE sky at 5:39:28 p.m.
Image source: HeavensAbove.com
Sponsor
Sponsor
Sponsor
Sponsor
Sponsor
Support really independent news in Long Beach. No one in LBREPORT.com's ownership, reporting or editorial decision-making has ties to development interests, advocacy groups or other special interests; or is seeking or receiving benefits of City development-related decisions; or holds a City Hall appointive position; or has contributed sums to political campaigns for Long Beach incumbents or challengers. LBREPORT.com isn't part of an out of town corporate cluster and no one its ownership, editorial or publishing decisionmaking has been part of the governing board of any City government body or other entity on whose policies we report. LBREPORT.com is reader and advertiser supported. You can help keep really independent news in LB similar to the way people support NPR and PBS stations. We're not non-profit so it's not tax deductible but $49.95 (less than an annual dollar a week) helps keep us online.
LBREPORT.com publisher Bill Pearl was the only LB reporter aboard the Zero Gravity Oct. 25 weightless flight from LB Airport)
