October 11, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s stringer.
- Astra wins engine contract with Maxar
These are small orbital thrusters used on satellites. Whether this deal will save the stock remains unclear.
- Virgin Orbit about to fly its airplane and rocket to Cornwall for launch
The company says the flight across the Atlantic will occur this week. When the launch will occur still depends on the UK government’s approval of permits.
- Pseudo Chinese company DeepBlue tests rocket engine
The company also claimed the test attempted to simulate engine firings needed for a first stage landing.
- Upcoming schedule of launches to Tiangong-3
Mengtian on a Long March 5B on October 31st, Tianzhou-5 freighter on a Long March 7 on November 6th, and the next manned mission on Shenzhou-15 on a Long March 2F on November 26th.
- Russia claims it used lazer to take out several Starlink satellites
We have had no confirmation.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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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Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s stringer.
- Astra wins engine contract with Maxar
These are small orbital thrusters used on satellites. Whether this deal will save the stock remains unclear.
- Virgin Orbit about to fly its airplane and rocket to Cornwall for launch
The company says the flight across the Atlantic will occur this week. When the launch will occur still depends on the UK government’s approval of permits.
- Pseudo Chinese company DeepBlue tests rocket engine
The company also claimed the test attempted to simulate engine firings needed for a first stage landing.
- Upcoming schedule of launches to Tiangong-3
Mengtian on a Long March 5B on October 31st, Tianzhou-5 freighter on a Long March 7 on November 6th, and the next manned mission on Shenzhou-15 on a Long March 2F on November 26th.
- Russia claims it used lazer to take out several Starlink satellites
We have had no confirmation.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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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A Generic:
Born two years before Sputnik, lived through Mercry, Gmni, Apllo, Skylb, (Mr/Salyt), Shttl, etc.
So happy to have survived life long enough to witness the 2nd iteration of access to space, space resources, the solar system writ large.
What worries me is that we’ll drag our political, bureaucratic, opportunistic carpetbaggers into space as if they anymore matter.
Truly free people won’t need to be followed by grifters.
They’ll come. And be spaced.
“Leave the kids alone!”
In space, there is no Earth law.
It will be ‘Wild Space’ law, at first, second, third..
The first Mars inhabitants, and their offspring, will be the next presumed protected class of First Nation’s indigenous peoples.
Quite possibly whites.
What a mind f.
This is a big one, guys!
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-heat-proof-chaotic-carbides-revolutionize-aerospace.html
The new materials are hard enough to stir molten steel and can withstand temperatures above 7,000 degrees Fahrenheit—about the same temperatures found just a few hundred miles above the surface of the sun. Coupled with their newly discovered plasmonic abilities, the carbides could achieve improved communications and thermal regulation in technologies including satellites and hypersonic aircraft.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-thermoformable-ceramics-frontier-materials.html
In orbit structures
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-options-automated-in-orbit-large.html
Seeing how spacecraft die
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-spacecraft-dies.html
Moonbase
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-moon-humanity-offsite-backup.html
Dark energy camera
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-spectacular-photos-dark-energy-camera.html
new fabrics
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-advanced-fabric-cool-wearer.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-graphene-circuits-flexible-wearable-electronics.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-interactive-mouthguard-electronic-devices.html
micro-impactors
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-mars-sample-spacecraft-micrometeorites-requires.html
Maxwell explained
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-complex-maxwell-stress-tensor-theorem.html
Now they say Eureka moments don’t happen
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-eureka-moments-science-myth-ebook.html
On the lookout–check this out
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-twitter-news-greater-visibility-liberal.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-social-media-polarizes-politics.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-americans-supreme-court-plummets.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-sexual-gender-minorities-assigned-male.html
How Greens hurt
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-india-enormous-solar-meant-poor.html
That’s exactly what happened to one of the world’s largest solar installations, India’s Pavagada solar park. The park was meant to offer cheap clean power, avoiding 70 million tons of carbon dioxide per year and give an economic boost for a poor area. Our new podcast and research found, sadly, that didn’t all happen. Larger landowners profited, while poorer villagers lost access to agricultural land.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-energy-tax-germany-yellow-vest.html
Climate narcs
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-uk-told-behaviour-climate.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-affect-businesses-companies-shareholders.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-delta-mit-impact-airplane-contrails.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-first-of-its-kind-database-tracks-agricultural-phosphorus.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tool-clouds-climate.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-future.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-daily-precipitation-intensity-harder.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-big-firms-disclose-climate-riskbut.html
Here’s a goof
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-approach-identification-natural-gas-emitters.html
But a big break isn’t so bad?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nord-stream-leaked-methane-atmospheric.html
We are cleaning the garbage patch
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-explores-potential-mechanical-devices-ocean.html
Global warming? don’t cry wolf
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-futures-shouldnt-extremes.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ozone-hole-year.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cold-ocean-current-buffers-galpagos.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-unravel-millet-genotype-microbiota-interaction.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-genetics-sustainable-aquaculture-results-years.html
on Mines
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-critical-metals-renewable-energy-products.html
on hydrogen
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-hydrogen-easily-copper-titanium-catalysts.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-holistic-evolution-photocatalyst-surface-sites.html
The oxygen within?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-oxygen-cells.html
As reported in PNAS, investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) recently developed a technology that allows them to engineer cells to make oxygen on demand in response to an added chemical.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-abiotic-pathway-formation-oxygen.html
Sulfur dioxide was broken up.
I want to get CO2 off Venus. Maybe one day take CS (tear gas) and turn it into silicon dioxide (sand) that weighs the same per molecule?
Direct air capture
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-optimal-core-shell-mofs-air-capture.html
Water-lovers
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-door-class-slippery-water-loving-surfaces.html
Water battery?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-electricity-high-salt.html
Battery breakthrough
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-battery-tech-breakthrough-paves-mass.html
Worms for space!
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tiny-worm-trauma-patients-long-distance.html
In space assembly–the E-walker
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-robot-revolutionize-space.html
Draw circuits
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-automatic-machine-paper-based-metamaterials.html
Print cells
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-3d-cells-cell-function.html
your own leaf?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-insights-photosynthesis.html
Use to get nuclear fuel
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-photochemistry-plutonium-uranium.html
New materials
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-polymer-recycled-real-magnetic-appeal.html
“The iron also allows the material to be heated very rapidly with microwaves. This enables curing into a desired solid shape within seconds.”
Morpher
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-physicists-probe-astonishing-morphing-properties.html
“It was almost as if the material had morphed from rubber into metal.”
How we hear
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-scientists-mechanism.html
Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have revealed, for the first time and in near-atomic detail, the structure of the key part of the inner ear responsible for hearing.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-turtles-large-ears-unexpectedly-labyrinth.html
Don’t vote mad
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-affects-decision-making.html
Bad fat to good
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-drug-discovery-method-naturally-metabolite.html
Diabetic bug
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-microbial-diabetes.html
Consumption
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-reveal-protein-mechanism-tuberculosis.html
synthcells
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-synthetic-cells-1.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-insect-pest-multiple-genes.html
exo-man
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-exoskeleton-real-world.html
whole organs transparent
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-simple-rapid-robust-method-mouse.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-rapid-livestock-parasite.html
Exo-worlds
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-heaviest-element-exoplanet-atmosphere.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-red-massive-stars-supernova.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-black-hole-jets-neighboring-galaxy.html
Flood detection
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-seismic-reveals-potential.html
Vax news-COVID news
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-social-behavior-clusters-vaccine-hesitancy.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-covid-conditions.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-results-large-scale-covid.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-workout-covid-symptom.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-preprint-covid-peer-review.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-landscape-molecular-contacts-sars-cov-human.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-insight-omicron.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-colonoscopy-screening-colorectal-cancer-previously-assumed.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-heights-largest-genome.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-small-molecule-drug-reverses-neural-effects.html concussion pill?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-compound-mrsa-superbug.html
Lockdowns HURT
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-lockdowns-impeded-pandemic-babies-social.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scores-lowest-years-pandemic.html
Bear down
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-early-self-regulation-boosts-children-success.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-elementary-high-school-students.html
Oh, the pain!
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-unexpected-properties-pain.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-physicists-revisit-sexist-senior-scientist.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-fmri-explores-impact-power-attitudes.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-decolonizing-south-africa-learning-teaching-approach.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tools-sex-labor-trafficking.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-beliefs-political-affiliations-racial-inequalities.html
your tax dollars at work
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-response-humans-theory-people.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-brain-cells-dish-pong-real.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-horrible-bosses-algorithm-office.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-games-key-ecological.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-impressionist-insight-complicated-history-breastfeeding.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-effect-sexual-appeal-advertising-aggression.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-media-messages-humanize-outgroups-dont.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-migration-morality-politics.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-daily-movie-theater-ticket-sales.html
Here it comes, park fans
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-late-endangered-species.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-animals-national-affected-people.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-greener-trucking-benefit-disadvantaged-californians.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-empathizing-opposition-politically-persuasive.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-ethics-guidance-science-journals-aims.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-entire-planet-ecosystems.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-global-hotspots-soil-poorly.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-salton-sea-toxic.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-unprecedented-insects.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-geoscientists-technique-reveals-health-coral.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-voters-chemicals.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-farmland-recover-air-quality.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-insect-larvae-contribute-microplastic-pollution.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-deforestation-tree-dwelling-primates-ground.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-international-collaboration-auroras-reveal-factor.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-future-marine-biodiversity-global.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-one-party-monopolies-dominate-politics-american.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-skills-misrepresent-poor-inner-city-children.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-creative-peak-early-careers.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-veterans-workplace-unwelcome-hero-worship.html
look out
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-military-law-key-convincing-members.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-sensors-mobile-vibrations-eavesdrop-remotely.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-ai-driven-thermal-reveals-smartphone-passwords.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-personal-anonymous-cell-machine.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-medical-privacy-forensic-samples.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-team-digital-cameras-machine-neurological.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-online-fandom-state-censorship.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-mathematical-formula-tackles-complex-moral.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-electronic-gaming-trigger-potentially-lethal.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-fully-heard.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-bandits-banks-crimes-longer.html
Human nature
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-aging-gold-standard-whisky.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-blue-fibers-teeth-ancient-mayans.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-prominent-easier-published.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-johannesburg-traders-abuse-city-world.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-links-iq-horse.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-metoo-space-potential-sexual-assault.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-children-blunt-truths-opposed-lying.html