February 11, 2026 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Video of Long March 10A first stage landing vertically in the ocean during test launch yesterday
The footage shows the stage landed near the structure of cables that has been designed to catch it. Either it missed, or engineers decided to miss intentionally on this first attempt.
- FCC approves Amazon’s second-generation Leo system, expanding constellation to 7,000+ satellites
This approval suggests the FCC is going to also approve Amazon’s request for a waiver on its original license requirement to get 1,616 satellites launched by July.
- On this day in 2001 ISS’s first laboratory module, Destiny, was installed by the crew of STS-98
The tweet includes a great picture of the entire station taken by that crew as the shuttle was leaving.
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 BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Video of Long March 10A first stage landing vertically in the ocean during test launch yesterday
The footage shows the stage landed near the structure of cables that has been designed to catch it. Either it missed, or engineers decided to miss intentionally on this first attempt.
- FCC approves Amazon’s second-generation Leo system, expanding constellation to 7,000+ satellites
This approval suggests the FCC is going to also approve Amazon’s request for a waiver on its original license requirement to get 1,616 satellites launched by July.
- On this day in 2001 ISS’s first laboratory module, Destiny, was installed by the crew of STS-98
The tweet includes a great picture of the entire station taken by that crew as the shuttle was leaving.
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

