August 23, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay:
- Reaction Engines pitches the reusable hypersonic vehicle it is building for the RAF
- Tory Bruno talking about ULA, Vulcan, and the status of the BE-4 rocket engine
The interview is about an hour long, and has lots of interesting stuff. At 26 minutes he discusses the company’s work to recover the engines on the Vulcan rocket. Key takeaways: They will allow the engine to land in the ocean, on a inflatable raft, and they will be testing this raft on their next Atlas-5 launch in November.
At 31 minutes he discusses the status of the BE-4 engine, which sums up in two words, “Almost done.” We shall see. At 49 minutes he talks how Vulcan is designed to evolve and upgrade over time.
- ESA issues request for bids for beginning work on its own heavy lift rocket.
The graphic of this rocket looks very similar to a Starship/Superheavy, with fewer first stage engines.
- Relativity successfully completes static fire test of first stage of its Terran-1 rocket
Next engineers will stack the whole rocket and do a full dress rehearsal countdown in preparation for the first launch, which the company hopes to do before the end of the year.
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:
- Reaction Engines pitches the reusable hypersonic vehicle it is building for the RAF
- Tory Bruno talking about ULA, Vulcan, and the status of the BE-4 rocket engine
- ESA issues request for bids for beginning work on its own heavy lift rocket.
- Relativity successfully completes static fire test of first stage of its Terran-1 rocket
The interview is about an hour long, and has lots of interesting stuff. At 26 minutes he discusses the company’s work to recover the engines on the Vulcan rocket. Key takeaways: They will allow the engine to land in the ocean, on a inflatable raft, and they will be testing this raft on their next Atlas-5 launch in November.
At 31 minutes he discusses the status of the BE-4 engine, which sums up in two words, “Almost done.” We shall see. At 49 minutes he talks how Vulcan is designed to evolve and upgrade over time.
The graphic of this rocket looks very similar to a Starship/Superheavy, with fewer first stage engines.
Next engineers will stack the whole rocket and do a full dress rehearsal countdown in preparation for the first launch, which the company hopes to do before the end of the year.
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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