May 10, 2024 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.
- Amazon receives first Kuiper satellite deployment module from Swiss company
As Jay notes, “At first I thought Kuiper/Blue Origin was designing this in-house, but I was wrong. Considering Amazon gave them the contract two years ago speaks about how late they were in development.”
- Powerpoint graphics of manned Moon mission infrastructure from Chinese university
Not much here, other than some basic concept proposals. Jay notes that the graphics include a shuttle-like spaceplane, something that does not at present be in China’s plans.
- Video of static fire test of Chinese pseudo-company’s test hopper
This test was with one engine. A test with nine engines to follow, after which a 5 to 10 kilomether vertical hop test later this year.
- On this day in 1967 Bruce Peterson survived a crash during a test flight of the M2-F2 lifting body
There were several lifting body vehicles that were flown and tested in the later 60s and early 70s. The data was used to help design later vehicles like the shuttle, the X-37B, and Sierra Space’s Tenacity Dream Chaser.
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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.
- Amazon receives first Kuiper satellite deployment module from Swiss company
As Jay notes, “At first I thought Kuiper/Blue Origin was designing this in-house, but I was wrong. Considering Amazon gave them the contract two years ago speaks about how late they were in development.”
- Powerpoint graphics of manned Moon mission infrastructure from Chinese university
Not much here, other than some basic concept proposals. Jay notes that the graphics include a shuttle-like spaceplane, something that does not at present be in China’s plans.
- Video of static fire test of Chinese pseudo-company’s test hopper
This test was with one engine. A test with nine engines to follow, after which a 5 to 10 kilomether vertical hop test later this year.
- On this day in 1967 Bruce Peterson survived a crash during a test flight of the M2-F2 lifting body
There were several lifting body vehicles that were flown and tested in the later 60s and early 70s. The data was used to help design later vehicles like the shuttle, the X-37B, and Sierra Space’s Tenacity Dream Chaser.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID 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. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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Aurora alert! https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental
Obligatory ignore any fear mongering the corporate media is pitching. I don’t watch them anymore, but I assume they’re lying and sensationalizing. Last I checked we had a magnetosphere. Unlike Mars. so we got that going for us.
Northrop M2-F2 crash (1967)
https://youtu.be/JrETaU9wfho
1:08
So “Steve Austin”s real name was Bruce Peterson!
We’re socked in with clouds around here so it probably is a likely aurora night! (I shouldn’t complain since the weather did cooperate for the eclipse).
Tucker Carlson (5/10/24)
Exposing the Dark Side of Amazon
https://youtu.be/CIFSQtDDCj8
23:38