ANTRICAL — This space calendar contains a number of timelines and key events that will take place in March 2022. Launch dates are compiled from NASA, ESA, Roscosmos and others. The schedule can change at any time according to the current situation, including due to tensions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
March Schedule:
– March 1st
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The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket will launch the GOES-T weather satellite for NASA and NOAA. It will lift off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, during the two-hour launch window that opens at 4:38 p.m. Eastern time (EST) (4.38 BST).
– March 2
The moon rises at 12:34 p.m. EST (12:34 EST).
– March 3
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch multiple internet satellites broadband Starlink from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:42 a.m. EST (12:42 BST).
– March 4
The Arianespace Soyuz rocket will launch 36 internet satellites for OneWeb. The mission, called OneWeb 14, will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:41 p.m. EST (5.41 BST).
– March 12
The conjunction of Venus and Mars. The two planets will be about 4 degrees apart in the dawn sky.
– March 19
Rocket Lab Electron will launch NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation (CAPSTONE) mission to the moon from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.
– March 18
March’s full moon, known as the Moon of Worms, rises at 3:18 a.m. EDT (14.18 BST).
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch a manned Soyuz MS-21 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov. It will take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:55 a.m. EDT (22.55 BST).
– March 20
The spring equinox. Today marks the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere and the first day of autumn in the southern hemisphere.
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket will launch on the first test flight of an unmanned Orion crew capsule for the mission known as Artemis 1. The Orion spacecraft will orbit the moon before returning to Earth for a Pacific Ocean landing.
– March 27-29
Mars, Venus and Saturn will form a small triangle in the early morning sky near the waning crescent moon.
– March 30
Axiom Space will launch Ax-1, the first private astronaut mission to the ISS. A crew of four will fly to the space station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and will remain in orbit for eight days. The mission will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 2:46 p.m. EDT (1.46 WIB).
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