December 29, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- India’s first launch in 2024 will take place while it is still 2023 in the western hemisphere
The launch is with India’s smaller PSLV rocket. I will assign this launch to 2024, which if successful will put India on top for a short while.
- During Falcon Heavy launch a two-second clip showed the X-37B being deployed
The video does not show much, as all we can see is one end of the spacecraft as it moves away, with one wing sticking up in the background. It does appear however that some experiments have been placed outside the cargo bay.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- India’s first launch in 2024 will take place while it is still 2023 in the western hemisphere
The launch is with India’s smaller PSLV rocket. I will assign this launch to 2024, which if successful will put India on top for a short while.
- During Falcon Heavy launch a two-second clip showed the X-37B being deployed
The video does not show much, as all we can see is one end of the spacecraft as it moves away, with one wing sticking up in the background. It does appear however that some experiments have been placed outside the cargo bay.
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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I wonder if SpaceX will get gigged for showing the payload on the Falcon Heavy launch, however briefly, in the live stream?
Unless this was Operational Deception play by US Space Force?
I’m sure the Space Force is not happy with that, there was not supposed to be any upper stage footage shown. HOW unhappy we may or may not ever find out.
Musk planning update.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1740775393580245232?s=46
The war zone had links to this tweet (now “X”’s ??): and a Boeing YouTube
Falcon Heavy transits the moon – cool picture
https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1740541251454460360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1740541251454460360%7Ctwgr%5Ec70b59ce3feaf44878827e20274a4e37e4f79eb7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedrive.com%2Fthe-war-zone%2Fthis-appears-to-be-our-first-look-at-an-x-37b-in-space
YouTube showing some aft packaging on a prior flight at ~ 0:30. Not sure of the mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-rNiyhYO2A&t=34s