December 2, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s intrepid stringer, trolling Tweeter so we don’t have to.
- ULA CEO Tori Bruno claims Blue Origin is building one BE-4 engine per week
You need to scroll down and read the thread, from the bottom up, to reach this conclusion. Whether Bruno is right remains unknown. Nothing Blue Origin has done so far suggests they are yet capable of this.
- Russian private company S7 negotiates with government to finalize transfer of its ownership of Sea Launch
Putin and his stooges have been pressuring S7 for years to gain control of Sea Launch, essentially bankrupting this private operation with fees and taxes.
- Russia’s Sphere broadband satellite constellation gets international regulatory approval
Whether this 600 satellite constellation eventually launches remains unknown, due to the Ukraine War sanctions that prevent Russia from obtaining financing and many necessary components.
- JAXA notes delivery in October ’22 of the propulsion system for its upgraded HTV-X1 cargo freighter to the assembly factory
The second image at the link shows the propulsion system attached to an earlier version of the HTV, with solar panels attached to the spacecraft walls rather than as fold-out solar panels as planned for the HTV-X1.
- Shenzhou-14, with three astronauts, is now scheduled to return on December 4, 2022
This second tweet shows the primary and backup landing zones.
- South Korea awards contract Hanwha Aerospace $212 million contract to build three Nuri rockets
It appears the government wants to transfer production from the South Korean space agency, KARI, to this private company, though it also appears the government is not ceding ownership to the private company.
- Major management organization at Astra
According to CEO Chris Kemp, the reorganization has four engineering and manufacturing managers reporting directly to him, reducing a layer of management. Of the four managers involved, two once worked at Blue Origin, one at SpaceX, and one at Google.
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 or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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.
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"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 Jay, BtB’s intrepid stringer, trolling Tweeter so we don’t have to.
- ULA CEO Tori Bruno claims Blue Origin is building one BE-4 engine per week
You need to scroll down and read the thread, from the bottom up, to reach this conclusion. Whether Bruno is right remains unknown. Nothing Blue Origin has done so far suggests they are yet capable of this.
- Russian private company S7 negotiates with government to finalize transfer of its ownership of Sea Launch
Putin and his stooges have been pressuring S7 for years to gain control of Sea Launch, essentially bankrupting this private operation with fees and taxes.
- Russia’s Sphere broadband satellite constellation gets international regulatory approval
Whether this 600 satellite constellation eventually launches remains unknown, due to the Ukraine War sanctions that prevent Russia from obtaining financing and many necessary components.
- JAXA notes delivery in October ’22 of the propulsion system for its upgraded HTV-X1 cargo freighter to the assembly factory
The second image at the link shows the propulsion system attached to an earlier version of the HTV, with solar panels attached to the spacecraft walls rather than as fold-out solar panels as planned for the HTV-X1.
- Shenzhou-14, with three astronauts, is now scheduled to return on December 4, 2022
This second tweet shows the primary and backup landing zones.
- South Korea awards contract Hanwha Aerospace $212 million contract to build three Nuri rockets
It appears the government wants to transfer production from the South Korean space agency, KARI, to this private company, though it also appears the government is not ceding ownership to the private company.
- Major management organization at Astra
According to CEO Chris Kemp, the reorganization has four engineering and manufacturing managers reporting directly to him, reducing a layer of management. Of the four managers involved, two once worked at Blue Origin, one at SpaceX, and one at Google.
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 or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
Did I read the thing wrong on the BE-4? I read a test firing a week but not building one per week.
john hare: I noted that you had to scroll down and read the tread. In response to questions Bruno suggests this.
There does not appear to be a link on the JAXA article.
siriusactuary: Sorry about that. Link now added.
Reading the times on the replies, it appears that the question was asked 2 December and answer was to a different question on 1 December. Not normally reading Twitter, perhaps I misunderstood the comment method there.
john hare: I admit to my own willful ignorance of Twitter and its ways. However, at the link that Jay provided, when I posted, if you scrolled down to the most recent previous tweets in the thread, Bruno was asked was Blue Origin producing an engine a week and he responded yes. Jay himself interpreted it that way, saying so when he sent me the link.
It is possible that by the time you looked, Twitter had moved on, and this exchange was no longer visible. I unfortunately am not the one to ask. I will ask Jay to clarify.
John Hare,
Mr.Bruno’s comment was implying that they, B.O., were building one BE-4 a week since they were testing a BE-4 every week. The B.O. factory in Kent, is not producing an engine a week. A lot of people on other forums were also commenting on that post.
And a Raptor engine bites the dust:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcemrVqT8U0&feature=emb_logo
Jay and John hare,
It will be a couple of years or so before Blue Origin will need to build fifty engines each year, but I would not be surprised that these early engines are continuing to undergo extensive testing before delivery.