REGIONAL NEWS
04 Oct 2019 – Jim Bridenstein visit to the University of North Dakota in September featured on Space.com
04 Oct 2019 – Michelle Brekke (Boeing CST) serves as Grand Marshall of University of Minnesota homecoming
07 Oct 2019 – Bennett Bartel (Carthage College) featured by WiSGC
08 Oct 2019 – Saskatchewan engineer Doug Campbell ends 6 days underwater
08 Oct 2019 – Nobel Prize in Physics awarded jointly to Manitoba-born James Peebles OM, the originator of modern physical cosmology, elucidating topics like the Cosmic Microwave Background, the kinematics of galaxies, and the expansion of the universe, and to Swiss astrophysicists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, for the discovery of exoplanet 51 Pegasi b in October 1995, using the ELODIE spectrograph on the 1.93m telescope at the Haute-Provence Observatory.
09 Oct 2019 – Breanna Keith (Bemidji State) featured by MnSGC
09 Oct 2019 – University of Minnesota’s SmallSat program (SOCRATES, EXACT) featured by MnSGC
SOCRATES will orbit on 2 Nov 2019 with Cygnus NG-12
ORBITAL EVENTS
04 Oct 2019 1850 – Taiyuan CZ-4C launch
Gaofen-10 Earth observation satellite
06 Oct 2019 – EVA214 – P6 battery swap
08 Oct 2019 1017 – Baikonur Proton-M launch:
Northrop Grumman MEV-1 on-orbit service drone,
Eutelsat 5 West B commsat
FURTHER NEWS
04 Oct 2019 – Blue Origin will not fly passengers until 2020
07 Oct 2019 ~ 20 new moons of Saturn announced
10 Oct 2019 – Bridenstein-Musk summit: Crew Dragon DM-2 postponed to Q1 2020
