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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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!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID 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. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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.
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3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
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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.