March 2022 will be filled with a number of space phenomena and space missions. Photo: Ist
JAKARTA, lightning.com – March 2022 is just around the corner. Like February, there are a number of space phenomenon and a space mission that will be presented in March.
Referring page Space.com. the following are a number of outer space phenomena and exploration missions through the sky that are predicted by a number of countries:
March 1st
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the GOES-T weather satellite for NASA and NOAA. The rocket will lift off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
March 2
The new Moon apparition arrived at 17.34 GMT.
March 3
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a number of Starlink broadband internet satellites from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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.
March 12
The conjunction of Venus and Mars. The two planets will be about 4 degrees apart in the dawn sky. Look for planetary pairs in the constellation Capricornus before sunrise.
March 19
The Rocket Lab Electron rocket 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 Worm Moon, arrives at 0718 GMT.
– Russia’s 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. The rocket will take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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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 landing in the Pacific Ocean.
27-29 March
Mars, Venus and Saturn will form a small triangle in the early morning sky near the waning crescent Moon. Find this trio of planets in the constellation Capricornus before sunrise.
March 31
Axiom Space will launch Ax-1, the first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (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.
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The mission will take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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