August 16, 2022 Quick space links
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Some quickie stories worth noting, most provided by stringer Jay:
- Michael Tzukran, astrophotographer from the University of Tel Aviv, takes great ground-based picture of Tiangong-3 in orbit
That picture, cropped to post here, is to the right.
- Assembly begins on Europa Clipper
Launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy is scheduled for 2024.
- Air Force awards SpaceX $1.9 million contract for Starlink services in Europe and Africa
- Electron’s next launch in September will be its 30th overall
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Click to see full image.
Some quickie stories worth noting, most provided by stringer Jay:
- Michael Tzukran, astrophotographer from the University of Tel Aviv, takes great ground-based picture of Tiangong-3 in orbit
- Assembly begins on Europa Clipper
- Air Force awards SpaceX $1.9 million contract for Starlink services in Europe and Africa
- Electron’s next launch in September will be its 30th overall
That picture, cropped to post here, is to the right.
Launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy is scheduled for 2024.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows 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. 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. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally 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.
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
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
Back when, we’d point a Polaroid Land Camera to the sky and hoped for a streak.
You’re stuff is insane.
(Psst: I have to oversell your stuff to make up for my own prior decade’s inadequacies, as if I was owning “it” at the time, too..)
Blowing smoke, it’s all I have.
Great photo!
Don’t get cocky.
That is an excellent image from a ground-based station. Assume professional equipment, but would like to know. The Twitter feed doesn’t give equipment info.
Hi Blair,
Here is some information in English about his setup here. Cool picture of the ISS.
This is his website, but most of the site is in Hebrew.