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.
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.
- 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.
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
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.