March 30, 2026 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.
- Vast touts the start of the build-out of the intervior of its Haven-1 single module station
Launch is still targeting the first quarter of ’27.
- Scientists discover large and rare new lunar impact that took place sometime in the late spring of 2024
The Lunar Reconnaissance images show it to be about 750 feet wide with a depth of about 140 feet.
- China releases picture of Curiosity’s lander heat shield and parachute, taken by its Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter
X’s translation mis-translates MRO, which stands for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been monitoring this debris for more than a decade.
- Former Soviet astronaut Sergey Krikalev says the first flight of Russia’s new capsule, dubbed Oryol or PTK-NP, is expected in 2028
If you have faith in this promise I have a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell you cheap.
- Amazon asks FCC approval to test in Northridge, California, “a custom SATCOM user terminal” for its Leo constellation
Jay suggests this could be a test for the Pentagon, based on the military facilities in Northridge.
- On this day in 1982 the Columbia shuttle landed at White Sands, New Mexico
It was only shuttle to land outside of Florida and California.
- Messenger’s first picture taken after achieving orbit around Mercury, 15 years ago today
The picture shows Debussy crater.
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.
- Vast touts the start of the build-out of the intervior of its Haven-1 single module station
Launch is still targeting the first quarter of ’27.
- Scientists discover large and rare new lunar impact that took place sometime in the late spring of 2024
The Lunar Reconnaissance images show it to be about 750 feet wide with a depth of about 140 feet.
- China releases picture of Curiosity’s lander heat shield and parachute, taken by its Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter
X’s translation mis-translates MRO, which stands for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been monitoring this debris for more than a decade.
- Former Soviet astronaut Sergey Krikalev says the first flight of Russia’s new capsule, dubbed Oryol or PTK-NP, is expected in 2028
If you have faith in this promise I have a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell you cheap.
- Amazon asks FCC approval to test in Northridge, California, “a custom SATCOM user terminal” for its Leo constellation
Jay suggests this could be a test for the Pentagon, based on the military facilities in Northridge.
- On this day in 1982 the Columbia shuttle landed at White Sands, New Mexico
It was only shuttle to land outside of Florida and California.
- Messenger’s first picture taken after achieving orbit around Mercury, 15 years ago today
The picture shows Debussy crater.
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