March 20, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any commegnts or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- First two boosters for first Ariane-6 launch are assembled and ready to fly
These are I think the side boosters, and both still need to be integrated with the core stage. Launch is targeting a June-July timeframe.
- SpaceX releases video of a test of its emergency escape system for its second manned launchpad at Cape Canaveral
That is one wild ride!
- Video of Queqiao-2’s 4.2 meter antenna unfolding shortly after deployment by rocket
Whatever one thinks of China’s government, the technology here is impressive.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any commegnts or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- First two boosters for first Ariane-6 launch are assembled and ready to fly
These are I think the side boosters, and both still need to be integrated with the core stage. Launch is targeting a June-July timeframe.
- SpaceX releases video of a test of its emergency escape system for its second manned launchpad at Cape Canaveral
That is one wild ride!
- Video of Queqiao-2’s 4.2 meter antenna unfolding shortly after deployment by rocket
Whatever one thinks of China’s government, the technology here is impressive.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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And apparently Gwynne Shotwell, second in command, feels so strongly about safety that she made sure to take a ride down the super fun/cool slide. :) Gotta be some perks to being the boss.
“James Burke demonstrates Apollo Saturn emergency Escape.”
https://youtu.be/pLiAwSKkm6k
2:14
Possibly some pie-in-the-sky work in China:
https://newatlas.com/space/china-railgun-spacecraft-orbit/
Rail-gun, no.
Maglifter sled-maybe.