September 19, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of stringer Jay, who trolls Twitter so I don’t have to.
- Four liquid nitrogen tanks on their way by barge to SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility
- First flight of Sierra Space’s Tenacity Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft now targeting the summer of ’23
As this spacecraft is launching on ULA’s Vulcan rocket, this launch date is entirely dependent on when Vulcan finally gets off the ground. According to various sources, this could be either the second or third Vulcan launch. However, right now that rocket still does not have the required two BE-4 engines that Blue Origin is building for it, and so the date of that first launch remains very uncertain.
- Rocket Lab’s next launch scheduled for October 5, 2022
- ULA Delta Heavy launch of National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite scheduled for September 24, 2022
This will be the final Delta launch from Vandenberg Space Force base. ULA plans its future Vandenberg launches to use the Vulcan rocket instead.
- Next Tianzhou cargo spacecraft to Tiangong-3 station will also carry a ham radio cubesat for later deployment from station
For more information about that cubesat, go here.
- UAE’s deal with China calls for its second Rashid lunar rover to fly on China’s Chang’e-7, scheduled now for 2026
The first Rashid rover is scheduled to launch in November, 2022, on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of Ispace’s private commercial lunar lander mission. Clearly, UAE officials are spreading their business around in order to guarantee the best results.
- China and Argentina sign agreement to work together on space projects
No details were provided but the image at the link is of a radio dish, suggesting this agreement firms up Argentina’s willingness to allow China to install space communications dishes there.
- Turkey signs deal with Axiom to fly Turkish astronaut to space
The deal does not say whether that Turkish astronaut will fly to ISS, or to Axiom’s own station. No date for the flight was set. This however is the fourth foreign nation that Axiom has signed, after Italy, Hungary, and the UAE. For Turkey it is the second manned contract, having also signed on with Sierra Space to launch an astronaut to its planned Orbital Reef station.
- Italian cubesat flying in formation with DART and designed to observe its asteroid impact, completes 1st of three course corrections
DART’s impact is scheduled for September 26th.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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 stringer Jay, who trolls Twitter so I don’t have to.
- Four liquid nitrogen tanks on their way by barge to SpaceX’s Boca Chica facility
- First flight of Sierra Space’s Tenacity Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft now targeting the summer of ’23
- Rocket Lab’s next launch scheduled for October 5, 2022
- ULA Delta Heavy launch of National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite scheduled for September 24, 2022
- Next Tianzhou cargo spacecraft to Tiangong-3 station will also carry a ham radio cubesat for later deployment from station
- UAE’s deal with China calls for its second Rashid lunar rover to fly on China’s Chang’e-7, scheduled now for 2026
- China and Argentina sign agreement to work together on space projects
- Turkey signs deal with Axiom to fly Turkish astronaut to space
- Italian cubesat flying in formation with DART and designed to observe its asteroid impact, completes 1st of three course corrections
As this spacecraft is launching on ULA’s Vulcan rocket, this launch date is entirely dependent on when Vulcan finally gets off the ground. According to various sources, this could be either the second or third Vulcan launch. However, right now that rocket still does not have the required two BE-4 engines that Blue Origin is building for it, and so the date of that first launch remains very uncertain.
This will be the final Delta launch from Vandenberg Space Force base. ULA plans its future Vandenberg launches to use the Vulcan rocket instead.
For more information about that cubesat, go here.
The first Rashid rover is scheduled to launch in November, 2022, on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of Ispace’s private commercial lunar lander mission. Clearly, UAE officials are spreading their business around in order to guarantee the best results.
No details were provided but the image at the link is of a radio dish, suggesting this agreement firms up Argentina’s willingness to allow China to install space communications dishes there.
The deal does not say whether that Turkish astronaut will fly to ISS, or to Axiom’s own station. No date for the flight was set. This however is the fourth foreign nation that Axiom has signed, after Italy, Hungary, and the UAE. For Turkey it is the second manned contract, having also signed on with Sierra Space to launch an astronaut to its planned Orbital Reef station.
DART’s impact is scheduled for September 26th.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
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