October 28, 2024 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.
This is late today because I was attending an event at the local Tucson rocket startup Phantom Space. More on that tomorrow.
- China touts the operation of its Quequiao-2 relay satellite orbiting the Moon
The tweet says it has a planned lifespan of eight years.
- Chinese pseudo-company Ispace says it has completed its investigation into the launch failure of its Hyperbola-1 rocket
No details were disclosed. The rocket has failed 4 times out of 7 launches.
- NASA official says that it has found the root cause to the Orion heat shield damage on Artemis-1
According to the tweet, the official also declined to disclose that root cause.
- On this day in 2009 NASA completed a test suborbital launch of its Ares-1-X rocket
Only one in a long list of non-achievements during the never-ending Ares/Constellation-SLS/Artemis program
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.
This is late today because I was attending an event at the local Tucson rocket startup Phantom Space. More on that tomorrow.
- China touts the operation of its Quequiao-2 relay satellite orbiting the Moon
The tweet says it has a planned lifespan of eight years.
- Chinese pseudo-company Ispace says it has completed its investigation into the launch failure of its Hyperbola-1 rocket
No details were disclosed. The rocket has failed 4 times out of 7 launches.
- NASA official says that it has found the root cause to the Orion heat shield damage on Artemis-1
According to the tweet, the official also declined to disclose that root cause.
- On this day in 2009 NASA completed a test suborbital launch of its Ares-1-X rocket
Only one in a long list of non-achievements during the never-ending Ares/Constellation-SLS/Artemis program