Rocket Lab launch delayed
Capitalism in space: Rocket Lab has delayed its first test launch of its Electron rocket because of predicted high winds.
The company has not yet said if they have rescheduled for Tuesday.
This article gives a very detailed overview of the rocket, its engines, and the history of its launch site. It also notes that if successful, the launch will be first orbital flight ever from a commercial company from its own commercial launch site.
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Capitalism in space: Rocket Lab has delayed its first test launch of its Electron rocket because of predicted high winds.
The company has not yet said if they have rescheduled for Tuesday.
This article gives a very detailed overview of the rocket, its engines, and the history of its launch site. It also notes that if successful, the launch will be first orbital flight ever from a commercial company from its own commercial launch site.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Yes, the linked-article does have numerous excellent factoids of interest.
tangentially (and I will look this up– just pondering out loud) -Don’t we have a military rocket in this size range? One of the “standard missile” variants. (?)
“It also notes that if successful, the launch will be first orbital flight ever from a commercial company from its own commercial launch site.”
I’m rooting for them, but I wish they wouldn’t puff themselves up with statements that are factually untrue.
“Don’t we have a military rocket in this size range? One of the ‘standard missile’ variants. (?)”
The Minotaur family has vehicles ranging from suborbital to about 1,735 kg to LEO. The closest would be the Minotaur I, which has a payload of 310 kg to a 740 km sun-synchronous orbit.
Not only the first orbital flight ever from a commercial company from its own commercial launch site, but from a country that does not even have a government space agency.