August 25, 2025 Quick space linksCourtesy 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.
- Amateur astronomer images the just launched X-37B
He also captured a smallsat in the imagery.
- Billboard for new Chinese spaceport at Haiyang touts planned 4 land-based launchpads and 4 semi-floating pads off the coast
This site on China’s northeast coast would give it more launch capacity without having to drop stages on their citizens’ heads.
- NASA reposts the spectacular images of the asteroid Dimorphos after its impact by DART, taken by the Italian LICIACube spacecraft as flew past the asteroid immediately thereafter
The images found that 35.3 million pounds of rubble spewed from the asteroid.
- On this day in 2006, the IAU passed its idiotic new definition of a planet expressly designed to take that designation from Pluto
Almost no planetary scientist agrees with that definition. They generally ignore it.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
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.
- Amateur astronomer images the just launched X-37B
He also captured a smallsat in the imagery.
- Billboard for new Chinese spaceport at Haiyang touts planned 4 land-based launchpads and 4 semi-floating pads off the coast
This site on China’s northeast coast would give it more launch capacity without having to drop stages on their citizens’ heads.
- NASA reposts the spectacular images of the asteroid Dimorphos after its impact by DART, taken by the Italian LICIACube spacecraft as flew past the asteroid immediately thereafter
The images found that 35.3 million pounds of rubble spewed from the asteroid.
- On this day in 2006, the IAU passed its idiotic new definition of a planet expressly designed to take that designation from Pluto
Almost no planetary scientist agrees with that definition. They generally ignore it.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
Starship launch tonight.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-10
Starship scrubbed on account of weather.
Scrubbed again