August 30, 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.
- Axiom touts the near completion of its space station’s Habitat One pressure vessel
The module is being built by Thales-Alenia in Europe and is targeting a 2026 launch date.
- NASA time-lapse video of the assembly of Europa Clipper, focusing on the installation of its solar panels
How nice. Meanwhile the agency is considering launching this multi-billion spacecraft with transistors that will likely fail quickly in the high radiation environment of Jupiter.
- Space Force: China is not as transparent as it should be about its creation of space junk
The story is focused on the debris left by the break-up of several Long March 6A upper stages. Jay succinctly sums it up: “China does not listen to anyone.”
- Video of the launch of China’s Ceres-1 rocket from an offshore barge
You can view another angle, with heroic background music, here. The rocket was built by the Chinese pseudo-company Galactic Energy, doing its third sea launch.
- Firefly touts the successful ongoing testing of the second stage engine of its Alpha rocket
The engine is dubbed Lightning. This testing will hopefully help overcome the issues the rocket has had with its upper stage on two previous launches.
- The first launch in Russia’s own Starlink constellation likely delayed from 2025 to 2026
As Anthony Zak notes in the tweet, Russian officials are certain of this new date because they have promised “passenger rail/air Internet via sat by 2028. …Good news — Russia still intends to have rail, air service in 2028!”
- On this day forty years ago the space shuttle Discovery was launched on its maiden flight
Discovery right now holds the record as the most reused spacecraft ever, with 39 flights total. Expect that record to be broken within the next five years by a Falcon 9 first stage, and later smashed by Starship.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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.
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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.
- Axiom touts the near completion of its space station’s Habitat One pressure vessel
The module is being built by Thales-Alenia in Europe and is targeting a 2026 launch date.
- NASA time-lapse video of the assembly of Europa Clipper, focusing on the installation of its solar panels
How nice. Meanwhile the agency is considering launching this multi-billion spacecraft with transistors that will likely fail quickly in the high radiation environment of Jupiter.
- Space Force: China is not as transparent as it should be about its creation of space junk
The story is focused on the debris left by the break-up of several Long March 6A upper stages. Jay succinctly sums it up: “China does not listen to anyone.”
- Video of the launch of China’s Ceres-1 rocket from an offshore barge
You can view another angle, with heroic background music, here. The rocket was built by the Chinese pseudo-company Galactic Energy, doing its third sea launch.
- Firefly touts the successful ongoing testing of the second stage engine of its Alpha rocket
The engine is dubbed Lightning. This testing will hopefully help overcome the issues the rocket has had with its upper stage on two previous launches.
- The first launch in Russia’s own Starlink constellation likely delayed from 2025 to 2026
As Anthony Zak notes in the tweet, Russian officials are certain of this new date because they have promised “passenger rail/air Internet via sat by 2028. …Good news — Russia still intends to have rail, air service in 2028!”
- On this day forty years ago the space shuttle Discovery was launched on its maiden flight
Discovery right now holds the record as the most reused spacecraft ever, with 39 flights total. Expect that record to be broken within the next five years by a Falcon 9 first stage, and later smashed by Starship.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five 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:
5. 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. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.
“China does not listen to anyone.”
Why should they? They have historically been The Middle Kingdom; not influencing, nor influenced by, outsiders. Western civilization has devolved into ingrown administrative feudal states within nations, as small groups of people vie to obtain, and hold, power. No one is really paying attention to China; they are too busy fighting each other.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/eerie-sounds-triggered-by-plasma-waves-hitting-earths-magnetic-field-captured-in-new-nasa-sound-clip
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/huge-fireball-sparks-panic-as-it-streaks-over-american-states/ar-AA1pLYY9?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=0ae11d8102b1487fa1110ecabae76765&ei=41
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-discovers-planet-wide-electric-field-around-earth-that-s-shooting-bits-of-our-atmosphere-into-space/ar-AA1pJCaa?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=bf39d8badbc04913b383f0ad154a8a51&ei=73
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/death-doesn-t-exist-and-may-just-be-an-illusion-according-to-quantum-physics/ss-BB1o1lMU?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=be9ab42cb22a4cffb0211022ce0c4cb9&ei=39
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-most-powerful-explosion-ever-observed-in-the-universe-is-continues-to-raise-new-questions-for-astronomers/vi-BB1lEIGF?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=a83b9b6048c9477eadbe606d87b1e549&ei=15
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/dark-matter/the-universe-had-a-secret-life-before-the-big-bang-new-study-hints
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-spots-bizarre-x-shaped-structures-in-earth-s-upper-atmosphere/vi-BB1pCpaq?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=9a1e5e5cf7ef427db7df95412bb1848f&ei=34
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/nasa-captures-giant-swirling-gases-in-the-sky/vi-BB1qGD6D?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=5ebbec2c88c141318096925a5e8a3d53&ei=62
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-scientist-says-humans-were-meant-to-live-so-much-longer-then-the-dinosaurs-ruined-it/ar-AA1l3dqB?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=3a7a30b022ef4a93882062f0dc2d4a3a&ei=16
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/solar-maximum-could-arrive-earlier-than-expected/vi-BB1qM29w?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=1606783034bb4019a1de238a597d326e&ei=31
Col Beausabre: I approved your list of links this first time, because you deserve a warning. A mere list of links is not a discussion, and borders on spam. I have already warned one other commenter about this, and have been repeatedly deleting his comments whenever he sends a list like this.
Two links per comment is acceptable. Three or more will be moderated. Simple lists like this will be deleted. If you want to send links they should be included with commentary and context.
I don’t want to alarm everybody, but a clip of a strange sound coming from starliner’s speakers is making the rounds. I’m sure it’s not possessed or anything like that. Probably just shoddy software, thank goodness.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/starliners-speaker-began-emitting-strange-sonar-noises-on-saturday/
I’m shocked, shocked that a country which drops toxic fueled first stages on its own people doesn’t seem concerned about polluting space.