April 16, 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.
- Starliner now intergrated with Atlas-5 rocket
All continues to proceed to a May 6, 2024 launch.
- Chinese pseudo-company Deep Blue touts static fire test of its Nebula-1 test vehicle with 3 Thunder-R1 kerolox engines
Next will be a static fire test with nine engines, followed next year by hop tests and first orbital flight. Jay adds a side note: “All the pseudo-companies are showing off their engines with test footage. Are they feeling left out from the space symposium? Is it a deadline among all the pseudo-companies to show their progress to the party?” That last point could very well be true.
- ISRO has developed a carbon-carbon nozzle for use on its PSLV rocket
It says the nozzle is 67% lighter than the alloy nozzles presently used.
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. 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.
- Starliner now intergrated with Atlas-5 rocket
All continues to proceed to a May 6, 2024 launch.
- Chinese pseudo-company Deep Blue touts static fire test of its Nebula-1 test vehicle with 3 Thunder-R1 kerolox engines
Next will be a static fire test with nine engines, followed next year by hop tests and first orbital flight. Jay adds a side note: “All the pseudo-companies are showing off their engines with test footage. Are they feeling left out from the space symposium? Is it a deadline among all the pseudo-companies to show their progress to the party?” That last point could very well be true.
- ISRO has developed a carbon-carbon nozzle for use on its PSLV rocket
It says the nozzle is 67% lighter than the alloy nozzles presently used.
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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