Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Tue Dec 04 2018 06:12:03 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 December 4 [2] Rocket Launch between Mountains Image Credit & Copyright: Yudong Jiang [3] Explanation: What's happening between those mountains? A rocket is being launched to space [4] . Specifically, a Long March 3B [5] Carrier Rocket was launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center [6] in Sichuan Province [7] in China [8] about two week ago. The rocket [9] lifted two navigation [10] satellites [11] to about 2,000 kilometers above [12] the Earth's surface, well above the orbit of the International Space Station [13] , but well below the orbit of geostationary [14] satellites. China's Chang'e 3 mission [15] that landed the robotic Yutu rover [16] on the Moon was launched from Xichang in 2013. The featured image was taken about 10 kilometers from the launch site and is actually a composite of nine exposures, including a separate background image. Tomorrow's picture: sky highlights ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [17] | Archive [18] | Submissions [19] | Index [20] | Search [21] | Calendar [22] | RSS [23] | Education [24] | About APOD [25] | Discuss [26] | > [27] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [28] (MTU [29] ) & Jerry Bonnell [30] (UMCP [31] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [32] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [33] A service of: ASD [34] at NASA [35] / GSFC [36] & Michigan Tech. U. [37] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1812/RocketLaunch_Jiang_4199.jpg [3] mailto: 30946978 @at@ qq .dot. com [4] ap170122.html [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March_3B [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xichang_Satellite_Launch_Center [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China [9] https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/11/ chinese-long-march-3b-launches-beidou4243-satellites/ [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeiDou_Navigation_Satellite_System [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BeiDou_satellites [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Earth_orbit [13] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_orbit [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3 [16] ap131216.html [17] ap181203.html [18] archivepix.html [19] lib/apsubmit2015.html [20] lib/aptree.html [21] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [22] calendar/allyears.html [23] /apod.rss [24] lib/edlinks.html [25] lib/about_apod.html [26] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=181204 [27] ap181205.html [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [29] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [30] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [31] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [32] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [33] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [34] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [35] https://www.nasa.gov/ [36] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [37] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .