January 17, 2025 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Firefly touts activating another instrument on Blue Ghost
This instrument appears to be testing using Earth-orbiting GPS-type satellites for tracking.
- Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander yesterday successfully completed its first orbital maneuver
The press release at the link provides a good summary of the entire mission.
- Chinese pseudo-company Cosmoleap touts video of its testing of its own chopstick launch tower
It would be nice if there was a bit of information about the rocket, of which very little information has been released.
- Space Force removes head of Space Development Agency, the man who has been pushing for constellations of smallsats instead of big expensive single gold-plated satellites
There is an investigation underway, but no information was released about it.
- On this day in 1969 the Soviet Union completed the first docking of two manned Soyuz capsules
The crews then did a spacewalk to transfer crews, as the docking ports had no access tunnel.
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Firefly touts activating another instrument on Blue Ghost
This instrument appears to be testing using Earth-orbiting GPS-type satellites for tracking.
- Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander yesterday successfully completed its first orbital maneuver
The press release at the link provides a good summary of the entire mission.
- Chinese pseudo-company Cosmoleap touts video of its testing of its own chopstick launch tower
It would be nice if there was a bit of information about the rocket, of which very little information has been released.
- Space Force removes head of Space Development Agency, the man who has been pushing for constellations of smallsats instead of big expensive single gold-plated satellites
There is an investigation underway, but no information was released about it.
- On this day in 1969 the Soviet Union completed the first docking of two manned Soyuz capsules
The crews then did a spacewalk to transfer crews, as the docking ports had no access tunnel.