December 8, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s Twitter stringer.
- Engineers lose contact with ICON satellite on November 25, 2022
Right now the situation does not look hopeful. The satellite was studying the interaction of the Sun with the Earth’s ionosphere, and completed its prime two-year mission a year ago.
- Satellites now ready for December 13th Ariane 5 launch
The launch will put into orbit two communications satellites and a weather satellite (the subject of the tweet above.) With this launch, there will only be two Ariane 5 launches left on Arianespace’s manifest.
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
Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s Twitter stringer.
- Engineers lose contact with ICON satellite on November 25, 2022
Right now the situation does not look hopeful. The satellite was studying the interaction of the Sun with the Earth’s ionosphere, and completed its prime two-year mission a year ago.
- Satellites now ready for December 13th Ariane 5 launch
The launch will put into orbit two communications satellites and a weather satellite (the subject of the tweet above.) With this launch, there will only be two Ariane 5 launches left on Arianespace’s manifest.
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