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.
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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.
Now available in hardback and paperback as well as ebook!
From the press release: In this ground-breaking new history of early America, historian Robert Zimmerman not only exposes the lie behind The New York Times 1619 Project that falsely claims slavery is central to the history of the United States, he also provides profound lessons about the nature of human societies, lessons important for Americans today as well as for all future settlers on Mars and elsewhere in space.
Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space, is a riveting page-turning story that documents how slavery slowly became pervasive in the southern British colonies of North America, colonies founded by a people and culture that not only did not allow slavery but in every way were hostile to the practice.
Conscious Choice does more however. In telling the tragic history of the Virginia colony and the rise of slavery there, Zimmerman lays out the proper path for creating healthy societies in places like the Moon and Mars.
“Zimmerman’s ground-breaking history provides every future generation the basic framework for establishing new societies on other worlds. We would be wise to heed what he says.” —Robert Zubrin, founder of founder of the Mars Society.
All editions are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all book vendors, with the ebook priced at $5.99 before discount. The ebook can also be purchased direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit, in which case you don't support the big tech companies and I get a bigger cut much sooner.
Autographed printed copies are also available at discount directly from me (hardback $24.95; paperback $14.95; Shipping cost for either: $5.00). Just email me at zimmerman @ nasw dot org.
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.