Jonathan McDowell

British astronomer · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Born 1960 · age 66

Jonathan Christopher McDowell is a British-American astronomer and astrophysicist who worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics's Chandra X-ray Center. McDowell is the author and editor of Jonathan's Space Report, an e-mail-distributed newsletter documenting satellite launches.

Jonathan McDowell is read about 15 times a day, in 5 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 26 July 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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2020Alexandre Ananoff PrizeAwardFellow of the American Astronomical SocietyAward2019Sir Arthur Clarke AwardAward1985Fellow of the Royal Astronomical SocietyAward1960Born6 July 1960