March 10, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Vulcan rolls out to its launchpad for the first time
The payloads and (it appears) the upper stage is not yet stacked. The plan is to do some propellant loading tests.
- Next to last Delta Heavy to be launched spotted inside the SLC-37B mobile service tower at Cape Kennedy
The launch had been planned for the first quarter of this year, but no launch date as yet has been set.
- A quick video tour of the PLD Space launchpad under construction in Spain
According to the company’s webpage, the rocket, dubbed Miura-1, is suborbital and will be recovered for resuse by parachute after splashing down in the ocean.
- Chinese pseudo-company Laser-Starcom, a startup of space laser communication, “raises 10s of millions of Chinese Yuan in round A”
- Hughes Network unveils its next geosynchronous communications satellite, Jupiter 3
They hope to launch in the second quarter of 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
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 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.
- Vulcan rolls out to its launchpad for the first time
The payloads and (it appears) the upper stage is not yet stacked. The plan is to do some propellant loading tests.
- Next to last Delta Heavy to be launched spotted inside the SLC-37B mobile service tower at Cape Kennedy
The launch had been planned for the first quarter of this year, but no launch date as yet has been set.
- A quick video tour of the PLD Space launchpad under construction in Spain
According to the company’s webpage, the rocket, dubbed Miura-1, is suborbital and will be recovered for resuse by parachute after splashing down in the ocean.
- Chinese pseudo-company Laser-Starcom, a startup of space laser communication, “raises 10s of millions of Chinese Yuan in round A”
- Hughes Network unveils its next geosynchronous communications satellite, Jupiter 3
They hope to launch in the second quarter of 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy.
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 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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