August 21, 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.
- Blue Origin celebrates completion of full-duration static fire test of its BE-7 engine
The engine is for the company’s proposed lunar landers. I can’t help noticing how complex it is compared to SpaceX’s more recent engines.
- For the first time, two rockets are visible at the same time at China’s coastal Wenchang spaceport
The tweet says that the rockets are “Long March 7A in transfer and the Long March 12 in integration.”
- Relativity touts the advantages it sees from its use of 3D printing
The company still hasn’t successfully flown a rocket, but without doubt, its 3D printing operation gives it an asset it can sell for billions.
- ISRO details the mass and launch vehicle for each of the planned modules of its space station
All will fly on its largest rocket, using two different configuations. The image suggests it is following the simple design concepts first used by the Soviets and since copied by the Chinese.
- On this day in 1977, Voyager-2 was launched
It flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus before leaving the solar system. Also, two years earlier on this same day Viking 1 was launched to Mars.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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.
- Blue Origin celebrates completion of full-duration static fire test of its BE-7 engine
The engine is for the company’s proposed lunar landers. I can’t help noticing how complex it is compared to SpaceX’s more recent engines.
- For the first time, two rockets are visible at the same time at China’s coastal Wenchang spaceport
The tweet says that the rockets are “Long March 7A in transfer and the Long March 12 in integration.”
- Relativity touts the advantages it sees from its use of 3D printing
The company still hasn’t successfully flown a rocket, but without doubt, its 3D printing operation gives it an asset it can sell for billions.
- ISRO details the mass and launch vehicle for each of the planned modules of its space station
All will fly on its largest rocket, using two different configuations. The image suggests it is following the simple design concepts first used by the Soviets and since copied by the Chinese.
- On this day in 1977, Voyager-2 was launched
It flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus before leaving the solar system. Also, two years earlier on this same day Viking 1 was launched to Mars.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
Wow. To Blue Origin: Video, or it didn’t happen…
The Voyager launches were so long ago, seemingly. I saw the PBS documentary on the probes, and it was a wonderful retrospective complete with music of the day and other pop culture moments, like, “Message From Space: Send more Chuck Berry!” I had entirely forgotten that the ‘Challenger’ blew up the day the Uranus pictures came back from deep space. Alas…
Voyager-2 still has not left the solar system. Still has some ways to go. Our solar system extends to about 10,000 A.U. That is past the Ort cloud.
“For the first time, two rockets are visible at the same time at China’s coastal Wenchang spaceport”
*Yaaaaawn* Call me when you have two rockets landing at the same time.
The Indians seem to be making good progress at overtaking the Russians. Kudos.
Thing is; engineering wise; why do you even want to have a BE-7? Liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen engines have the most complex starting requirements. If your life depended on it, then wouldn’t you want either a pressure fed hypergolic like in the Apollo Lunar Module or you would want an engine that was ubiquitous across thousands of production uses before it is your only way to land or take off?