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#OrbitalATK #SpaceX | #IridiumNext –construction and testing… the Iridium 81’s

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Under construction also testing currently at the moment in a car – Aircraft manufacturing type line is the construction of eighty one Iridium Next Satellites in Orbital ATK‘s Gilbert Arizona Satellite Manufacturing facility… As Orbital ATK is under contract from Thales Alenia Space to manufacture eighty one satellites to replacing its aging Constellation Satellites in which it was launched from a series of SpaceX falcon nines reusable carrier rocket booster that launched from its Vandenberg air force base also another location from the Iconic NASA’s launch complex 39A, in which launched the Saturn five Apollo mission to the moon, then converted to the STS-Space Transportation System-Space Shuttle mission..

Iridium Next Constellation is built from very ground up like assembly of building from a ground up of an aircraft or a car… in which the satellites are designed for LEO- Low Earth Orbit in with back up, also spare parts…. As with the LEO- Low Earth Orbit of 780 Kilometers above earth to allow shorter transmission paths also with given stronger signal gains of a LEO with a lower Latency, shorter registration time than having a GEO- Geo Stationary Orbit..  With the numerous clusters of the Iridium Next network in LEO, it’ll will minimized the empty spots therefore increasing the area coverage of continuing communications with overlapping communication coverage spots to minimizes dropped connections and various types of communications….  As the network is in LEO travelling in orbit at 27360 Km/hour it cover more communications requirements in each orbit takes 100 minutes ….

The Next launch of the IridiumNext cluster of ten satellites per launch is targeted for Ninth October 2017 with SpaceX Falcon Nine at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California at 0537 Pacific Date time Californian morning..

#iPhonePhotography |春天滿月- An Almost Spring #FullMoon- 5th September 2017- before a thunderstorm rainy week…

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On a 5th September 2017- Tuesday on a soon to be in cloudy thunderstorm next day in Auckland New Zealand…. In which the on that night the moon was nearly almost a full moon with a Waxing Gibbous of ninety nine percent, in which on today it’s Wednesday cloudy with an early morning lightning –thunderstorm that thundered over the Manukau Harbour..

As it was clouding over, there were some interesting small pockets of windows of observations as seeing the one percent of the terminator that veiling the moon, in which most of the distinctive details are washing with the abundances of light, even though with the full moon there’s a slight terminator edging on the circumference of the moon…

The crowd that Tuesday night at the Auckland Observatory-Stardome got to see the nearly full moon along with Wintery Spring Planet still following the constellation Scorpio with a small opening in between the clouds… as to with the the Planet Jupiter in the bodice of the constellation Virgo falls earlier in the night.

As the clouds came blanketing through like in a Gothic silent movie scene, some through misty layers in creating an organic light filter to slightly reduced the light intensity without an aid of an actual moon filter, in which sometimes it helps sometimes it doesn’t… among with the filtered moonlight you could see the interesting details of the mares or larger seas..

#iPhonePhotography | 冬月- the wintery August crescent #moon – on a clear mild winter’s starry night – A Gallery

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As keyboarding, writing also uploading this post, on a 27th August 2017 Sunday – Auckland, New Zealand Night it was a stormy windy wintery gale night in which during the weekend it was progressively cloudy into the night…..As during the weekend of Saturday also its previous days and nights the weather was extremely generous, progressively unveiling of the terminator from the New Moon.. It was pretty much an eventfully August Month with the Partial lunar eclipse, also the with the Solar Eclipse that transited from the top Corner of the West Coast to the Lower Corners East Coast off the United States.. With impressive live on so many layers on social…

The Earth Light helps the Her, Luna to smile back at you in all directions..
Few days from the New Moon, in which previously it was a Solar Eclipse that ran across the west to east coast of the United States..
Some times when you look at the circumference, it like looking at the edge of a wedding dress silhouettes….
One Crater can houses filled with many cities within..
The crescent moon Luna resembles a wedding dress with cratered embroidery lacy textures with a a mare silk satin lining…
A distance shoot of Mare Crisium with it’s cratered lacy embroidery…..
As the Earth Shadow moves with the Terminator unveiling, Luna Smiles more with her wedding dress on..

Watching the progressively the moon as it sits in the Constellation Virgo the Virgin among with the Gaseous Planet Jupiter in her Bodice of her dress..  currently a throughout the week from the moon in unveiling its terminator veil towards the Waxing Gibbous progression,  in which having that  crescent you can see the slight Shadow depth indentations of the craters in which, in which seeing a softer Sun and  Earth light that’s been lighted on the moon…

One Mare crisium featured with times frozen Luna mantle layering features..

In which you can see the curvature Luna Circumferences silhouettes of edge like looking at the edge of the lacy cratered A-line wedding dress with a slight background light, in which without the harshness of the full moon that could wash out all that detailing..  Among that detailing is that you can see the Luna Surface contours like silk crested fabric lining of that wedding dress under that cratered lacy embroidery texturing…

#iPhonePhotography | 冬天木星 Winter #Jupiter on very clear surprising late August 2017 starry night sky……

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On 25th August 2017 – Auckland New Zealand, in which was a very mild surprising clear night sky in which you could view straight at the heart of the Home Galaxy – The Milky Way which sits in between the Constellation tail of Scorpio also the body of the Archer Centaur Sagittarius….  In which that night you can see the heart of the Milky Way, in which you could see the pave set array of diamond starry night in which resemble the back of an elegant evening dress trail with embroidered diamantes…….

During that night, slightly frosty cold, but favourable mildlying towards the spring in the upcoming few weeks in which settling down earlier is The Gaseous Planet Jupiter situated in the Bodice of the Constellation Virgo the Virgin… In which accompanying that space is the Moon Luna, in crescent in which was previously was transiting with the solar eclipse across from the top corner of the West Coast to lower corner of the United States.. in which was shared on so many levels on Socials…

As Jupiter settled earlier, The Galilean moons was presently orbiting was coming around in from transiting to occultation behind was the moons Io, Europa, in which is relativity quite very cute when you progressive watch throughout the whole night as four main Jupiter Galilean moons Io, Europa, Castillo also Ganymede.. Comes around from Occultation behind towards Transiting with multiple eclipses on the Jupiter Atmosphere… in which with a larger magnification you could see the Jupiter’s moon shadow trailing with eclipses…

#iPhonePhotography | 冬季土星 winter #Saturn – late August 2017- on a mild frosty clear night……..

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On a frosty mild remarkable clear night on 24th August 2017 Auckland, New Zealand, the Planet Jupiter is settling down early progressively as each week edges towards further into spring into September into the summery season.. in which the only Gaseous planet that’s still promenade in the night sky is the Planet Saturn in which sits in between the constellation below Scorpio also the Sagittarius….  As the August progresses into September, the moon relatively has moved into New moon in which there was a Solar Eclipse that transiting from the top of West Coast of the United States towards the Lower corner of the East Coast, Florida.. in which reoccurred every hundred years..

In which that Solar Eclipse, transiting was seen, on many levels, one on many socials, also as seen from the International Space Station, watching the moon’s umbra transiting, shadowing its path across the United States.. Along with other various live stream ways of watching the Solar Eclipse, but the important thing though is don’t look through the telescope at the sun, you’ll go permanently blind with your eyes naked… Without a strong filters that’s covering up the telescope, like an alpha or a metal glass solar filter…

One of many interesting things that night is the Cassini rings in which, through a large mirror telescope is the various divisions of layers or rings of various sizes of rocks and ice with different hues of greys and tan sandy tanned browns that’s forms the ballerinas tutu skirt that dances around the gaseous planet Saturn when you look from This Planet Earth at an average of one hour ago at an average of one billion kilometers…..