December 29, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- SpaceX applies to build five new mega-gateway ground stations for its upgraded Starlink satellites
Soon thereafter, SpaceX applied for an additional eighteen. All 23 will be in the U.S., thus significantly enhancing access to its Starlink constellation for American customers. It also appears the company is building at least one gateway in the United Kingdom.
- Rocket Lab’s second launch out of Wallops is already being prepped
The first Wallops launch was delayed until January due to red tape. The company now plans back-to-back Wallops launches. It also plans to continue a launch pace of one launch per month for 2023.
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 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.
- SpaceX applies to build five new mega-gateway ground stations for its upgraded Starlink satellites
Soon thereafter, SpaceX applied for an additional eighteen. All 23 will be in the U.S., thus significantly enhancing access to its Starlink constellation for American customers. It also appears the company is building at least one gateway in the United Kingdom.
- Rocket Lab’s second launch out of Wallops is already being prepped
The first Wallops launch was delayed until January due to red tape. The company now plans back-to-back Wallops launches. It also plans to continue a launch pace of one launch per month for 2023.
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 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
If you have data centers near those mega-gateways then you might want to buy bandwidth on the local dark fiber the article mentions and then on the Starlink to replicate data between your centers spread out over the US, and to Europe.
I was a little miffed that NASA paperwork held up RL. The monthly launch streak was broken. But then, this is a government operation.
George C.,
There are already Starlink centers right next to server farms and data centers here in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve done many commissionings at these data centers and what attracts them here is the cheap hydro power. Grant County Washington is where Grand Coulee Dam is, the weather is mild, low tectonic activity, and it is a little over an hour away from an airport. Lots of data centers- search engines, bit-coin miners, and online sellers. Grant County PUD laid fiber to the whole county and everyone has a 1 Gig connection for $35.
The same deal over at The Dalles in Oregon, most of the data centers are near the Army Corp of Engineers Dam or over where there use to be an aluminum plant. Not only is there the dam at The Dalles, but that is the place where a lot of the generation from the other dams up the Columbia and Snake Rivers flow to the transmission lines, plus there is the DC intertie that starts there and goes down to southern California.
Another one bites the dust
“Vladimir Putin’s proclaimed “rocket man” became the fourth top Russian official to die under mysterious circumstances in the past seven days, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Vladimir Nesterov, 74, pioneered the “world’s best” Angara rocket for Russia. He also formerly served as general director of the Khrunichev Center, a state research and production space center created to help Putin facilitate the nation’s first successful manned mission to the moon.”
I wonder when the nomenklatura will act to remove the Number One menace to their health