August 15, 2022 Quick space links
From Jay, BtB’s stringer:
- Chinese pseudo-company AAEngine reveals its resuable first stage engine
As Jay notes, it looks like an obvious knockoff of SpaceX’s Merlin engine.
- SLS to roll out to the launchpad beginning tomorrow
- Army hands over satellite operations to Space Force
The army however will continue to build instruments and payloads for satellites, as well as continue to maintain its 1st Space Brigade, which monitors satellite data and health during military deployments.
- Virgin Orbit reduces its launch prediction for ’22, while saying it will garner more revenue
- Chinese pseudo company SpaceTai claims it will launch its new rocket by ’24
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From Jay, BtB’s stringer:
- Chinese pseudo-company AAEngine reveals its resuable first stage engine
- SLS to roll out to the launchpad beginning tomorrow
- Army hands over satellite operations to Space Force
- Virgin Orbit reduces its launch prediction for ’22, while saying it will garner more revenue
- Chinese pseudo company SpaceTai claims it will launch its new rocket by ’24
As Jay notes, it looks like an obvious knockoff of SpaceX’s Merlin engine.
The army however will continue to build instruments and payloads for satellites, as well as continue to maintain its 1st Space Brigade, which monitors satellite data and health during military deployments.
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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