Worldwide Space Schedule June 21'

Via Space.com

June 1: Conjunction of the moon and Jupiter. Just one day before reaching last-quarter phase, the waning gibbous moon will swing about 5 degrees to the south of Jupiter in the dawn sky.

June 2: Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will take a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station, starting at 1:20 a.m. EDT (0520 GMT). 

June 3: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Dragon cargo resupply mission (CRS-22) to the International Space Station. It will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 1:29 p.m. EDT (1729 GMT). 

June 5: SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT). 

June 10: The new moon arrives at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 GMT).

June 10: An annular solar eclipse, also known as a "ring of fire" eclipse, will be visible from parts of Russia, Greenland and northern Canada. Skywatchers in Northern Asia, Europe and the United States will see a partial eclipse.

June 10: A Chinese Long March 2F rocket will launch the Shenzhou 12 spacecraft with multiple Chinese astronauts on the first crewed mission to the Chinese space station. It will lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.

June 13: Conjunction of the moon and Mars. The waxing crescent moon will swing about 3 degrees to the south of Mars in the evening sky.

June 15: A U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman Minotaur 1 rocket will launch a classified spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office in a mission called NROL-111. It will lift off from Pad 0B at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. 

June 16: NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet will take a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install a new solar array. The spacewalk will begin at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). 

June 17: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will the U.S. Space Force's fifth third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System (GPS 3 SV05). It will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, in a three-hour launch window that opens at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT). 

June 20: The solstice arrives at 11:16 p.m. EDT (0316 June 21 GMT), marking the first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of winter in the Southern Hemisphere. 

June 20: NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet will take their second 6.5-hour spacewalk together this month to install another new solar array outside the International Space Station. The spacewalk will begin at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). 

June 23: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will launch the STP-3 rideshare mission for the U.S. Space Force. It will lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. 

June 24: The full moon of June, known as the Full Strawberry Moon, arrives at 2:40 p.m. EDT (1940 GMT).

June 27: The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-15 cargo spacecraft, which arrived at the International Space Station in February, will depart the orbiting laboratory and begin its descent to Earth, safely burn up in our planet's atmosphere along the way. Astronauts using the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm will release the spacecraft to send it on its way at approximately 10:50 a.m. EDT (1450 GMT). 

June 27: Conjunction of the moon and Saturn. The waning gibbous moon will swing about 4 degrees to the south of Saturn in the dawn sky. 

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June 28: Conjunction of the moon and Jupiter. The waning gibbous moon will swing about 4 degrees to the south of Jupiter in the dawn sky.

June 30: A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the Progress 78P cargo resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

Also scheduled to launch in June (from Spaceflight Now):

  • SpaceX will use a Falcon 9 rocket to launch the SXM-8 satellite for SiriusXM. It will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Transporter 2 rideshare mission with several small satellites for commercial and government customers. It will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. 
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