May 7, 2025 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.
- Long video reviewing Boeing’s Starliner capsule history
I have not watched it. Jay says it provides a good and detailed overview, but nothing new.
- European Space Agency (ESA) touts proposals for its proposed “reusable tugs” for “low-cost missions to Mars”
So far this appears mostly governmental fantasy, as the project has not yet gotten budget approval from the ESA.
- Space junk removal startup ClearSpace completes ground-testing of technology for removing defunct satellites from orbit
Now they need to actually fly it.
- Video describing the history of the many astronauts who got stuck in space longer than planned
From cosmonauts to astronauts, the Starliner crew’s experience has hardly been unique.
- On this day in 1992 the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first mission
Endeavour was the fifth shuttle, and was built to replace Challenger after it was destroyed in the 1986 launch failure.
- Ten years ago today SpaceX completed its first launchpad abort test of Dragon
The success made possible the first manned flights using the capsule.
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.
- Long video reviewing Boeing’s Starliner capsule history
I have not watched it. Jay says it provides a good and detailed overview, but nothing new.
- European Space Agency (ESA) touts proposals for its proposed “reusable tugs” for “low-cost missions to Mars”
So far this appears mostly governmental fantasy, as the project has not yet gotten budget approval from the ESA.
- Space junk removal startup ClearSpace completes ground-testing of technology for removing defunct satellites from orbit
Now they need to actually fly it.
- Video describing the history of the many astronauts who got stuck in space longer than planned
From cosmonauts to astronauts, the Starliner crew’s experience has hardly been unique.
- On this day in 1992 the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first mission
Endeavour was the fifth shuttle, and was built to replace Challenger after it was destroyed in the 1986 launch failure.
- Ten years ago today SpaceX completed its first launchpad abort test of Dragon
The success made possible the first manned flights using the capsule.