April 3, 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.
- CURIE two cubesat mission will launch on Ariane 6’s first flight
CURIE is a student-built probe and is part of a cubesat initiative funded partly by NASA.
- Video from North Korea of a test launch of what it claims is a “mid-to long-range solid-fuel, hypersonic missile”
The explosive burst at launch makes me wonder if the solid-fuel wasn’t evenly installed. North Korea’s claims about this missile are also unsubstantiated.
- On this day in 1984 the first Indian flew in space, on a Soyuz heading to the Salyut-7 space station
When this crew arrived, the Soviets for the first time had two crews of three on a space station.
- Rocket Factory Augsburg touts completion of five engines for installation on its RFA-1 rocket
It hopes to launch sometime this year from the Saxavord spaceport in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, assuming the UK’s bureaucracy finally issues launch permits.
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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.
- CURIE two cubesat mission will launch on Ariane 6’s first flight
CURIE is a student-built probe and is part of a cubesat initiative funded partly by NASA.
- Video from North Korea of a test launch of what it claims is a “mid-to long-range solid-fuel, hypersonic missile”
The explosive burst at launch makes me wonder if the solid-fuel wasn’t evenly installed. North Korea’s claims about this missile are also unsubstantiated.
- On this day in 1984 the first Indian flew in space, on a Soyuz heading to the Salyut-7 space station
When this crew arrived, the Soviets for the first time had two crews of three on a space station.
- Rocket Factory Augsburg touts completion of five engines for installation on its RFA-1 rocket
It hopes to launch sometime this year from the Saxavord spaceport in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, assuming the UK’s bureaucracy finally issues launch permits.
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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Re the NK launch: it looks good to me. The initial flash is from the ejection charge that blows (ejects) the rocket out of the launch/transport tube. Then once it is up in the air, you get the big flash as the motor ignites, and off it goes.
I suspect many of the little parts you see flying away are the shims that center the rocket in the launch tube.
Speaking of ULA, they’re in kind of a tough spot: Dream Chaser won’t be ready until September at earliest, and maybe not until 2025. But ULA doesn’t want to wait any longer than September to fly that second flight, because they need it for NSSL certification, So what will they do? Is Tory Bruno willing to launch it with only a mass simulator?
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/vulcans-second-launch-likely-to-be-delayed-until-at-least-september/
I wonder if Bezos will let Tory go so as to buy more baubles for Bubbles.
Mr. Zimmerman, you are mistaken. Please correct that. This looks like a successful launch: ejection from the tube and then ignition of the first stage at altitude. This is the Russian method. Btw, it has become known that Russia has handed North Korea state-of-the-art intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, which are even equipped with decoys. That means North Korea has now become invulnerable to a U.S. threat unless it accepts a nuclear counterattack that would wipe out major U.S. population centers.
Are you saying that Russia has unaccounted for nuclear weapons that should have been revealed years ago according to our treaties with them?
Are you saying that they would lie to us?
I do not believe it. Putin is the most honest man in all of Russia. I hope he never finds out the USA has a few Nazis in our jails.