December 15, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Relativity touts its newest rocket engine
After its first and only test launch of its Terran-1 rocket, it went back to the drawing board, shifting to its bigger Terran-R rocket. This tweet is its effort to gain some press, since it will not be launching again for several years.
- Sierra Space: Tenacity has entered its final test campaign
This press release makes a good bookend to NASA’s update today on the flight plan for Tenacity’s first missoin.
- Bezos says “Blue Origin needs to be much faster”.
Yawn. What you say is meaningless at this point. It is what you do that counts, and will be the only thing anyone will pay attention to. However, if my readers wish to listen to him talk, they can watch the entire interview here.
- ISRO head unveils concept for India’s own version of a Falcon 9 rocket
He calls it the NGLV (Next Generation Launch Vehicle). Like all ISRO rockets, the name is horrible and uninspired.
- After ten years in space, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and later renamed NEOWISE will burn up as its orbit likely decays in 2025
A very successful low-cost space telescope that not only surveyed deep space objects but helped fill out the census of near-Earth asteroids.
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.
- Relativity touts its newest rocket engine
After its first and only test launch of its Terran-1 rocket, it went back to the drawing board, shifting to its bigger Terran-R rocket. This tweet is its effort to gain some press, since it will not be launching again for several years.
- Sierra Space: Tenacity has entered its final test campaign
This press release makes a good bookend to NASA’s update today on the flight plan for Tenacity’s first missoin.
- Bezos says “Blue Origin needs to be much faster”.
Yawn. What you say is meaningless at this point. It is what you do that counts, and will be the only thing anyone will pay attention to. However, if my readers wish to listen to him talk, they can watch the entire interview here.
- ISRO head unveils concept for India’s own version of a Falcon 9 rocket
He calls it the NGLV (Next Generation Launch Vehicle). Like all ISRO rockets, the name is horrible and uninspired.
- After ten years in space, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and later renamed NEOWISE will burn up as its orbit likely decays in 2025
A very successful low-cost space telescope that not only surveyed deep space objects but helped fill out the census of near-Earth asteroids.
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.
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regarding Bezos, the all in podcast guys were did an excellent job tearing down the Biden admin for harassing Elon. Then they talk about why it is Biden has it in for him. They say it is 1 part Elon not liking unions. And 2nd part Twitter. But Bezos and Amazon have not only resisted unionization. The Amazon delivery service has decimated the business and income of UPS and the USPS, two very important nationwide union employers. The Amazon delivery workers are not even employees. If Biden was so concerned about unions he would be all against Amazon.
Bezos has played footsie with the left—probably a big contributor to the DNC–so they leave him alone.
News to worry about
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-dry-powder-inhaled-vaccine-platform.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-bodies-overwhelmed-human-rights-laws.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-cameras-crime.html
I thought so
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-twenty-year-california-forests-healthier-thinned.html
Ice off rockets
https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/sprayable-coating-shows-better-strength-in-shedding-ice
For astronauts
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-12-full-day-solar-powered-bidirectional-thermoregulatory-temperatures.html
New way to charge batteries
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-batteries-harnesses-power-indefinite-causal.html
I feel no need to watch this, but I’ll drop this in here, for those who do…
Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
Lex Fridman Podcast (December 14, 2023)
https://youtu.be/DcWqzZ3I2cY
2:11:31
Per this video, the British have finally gotten off the shilling and APROVED a spaceport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL9gPyFBKTs
While the US space effort dies due to politics
An interesting aside
https://greekreporter.com/2023/12/17/alexander-the-greats-tomb-is-located-in-greece-sorbonne-historian-claims/
Early on, Dream Chaser had a lot of looks.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/dream-chaser-for-cev-requirement.4389/page-7#post-600063
Mini-Energiya
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8335-private-company-revives-old-nasa-shuttle-design/
Hybrids were chunked
https://parabolicarc.com/2014/08/19/snc-abandons-hybrid-motors-dream-chaser/
This would be good for Stratolaunch
https://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2006-08/its-rocket-its-plane-itsrocket-plane/?amp
A different dream chaser
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d9DBhbLpsj8
Steve Richter
Musk and Bezos both have resisted unions.
Musk, tho, has twitter and has exposed government manipulation of public discourse, the point of potential abandonment of the 1st Amendment protections by the US Government.
Bezos has the Washington Post, which has been a very supportive mouthpiece for the admin.