December 10, 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.
- Chinese pseudo-company Space Epoch successfully completes 20-second static fire test of its stainless steel Yuanxingzhe-1 rocket
It uses methane-fuel engines, and intends to land the first stage vertically after launch.
- China’s Long March 5B to launch the first 10 satellites in the Chinese SatNet megaconstellation
According to tweet, the core stage will not reach orbit, which means it will drop into the ocean instead of crashing uncontrolled somewhere else on Earth.
- Vast touts video showing the shield design it is using on its Haven-1 space module
The video shows a test where the shield blocked 6mm projectile moving at 6.5 kilometers per second.
- On this day in 1999 Europe’s XMM space telescope was launched
The article outlines some of the space telescope’s discoveries in the past 25 years.
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.
- Chinese pseudo-company Space Epoch successfully completes 20-second static fire test of its stainless steel Yuanxingzhe-1 rocket
It uses methane-fuel engines, and intends to land the first stage vertically after launch.
- China’s Long March 5B to launch the first 10 satellites in the Chinese SatNet megaconstellation
According to tweet, the core stage will not reach orbit, which means it will drop into the ocean instead of crashing uncontrolled somewhere else on Earth.
- Vast touts video showing the shield design it is using on its Haven-1 space module
The video shows a test where the shield blocked 6mm projectile moving at 6.5 kilometers per second.
- On this day in 1999 Europe’s XMM space telescope was launched
The article outlines some of the space telescope’s discoveries in the past 25 years.
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
Interesting, the vessel used to recover the Gaganyaan capsule is the INS Jalashwa (Sanskrit/Hindi: Hippopotamus) is an amphibious transport dock, formerly the USS Trenton,
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
“Montag Watches His Own Death on TV”
https://youtu.be/boBYhbT_WH4
(1:37)
“They can’t keep the viewers waiting much longer, the Show must go on…”