February 15, 2024 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.
This will be Jay’s last quick space links post until March 11th, as he is off to the Solomon Islands as part of a ham radio DX expedition. For those other hams who want to try to make contact with him during this expedition, the call sign is H40WA.
Note too that posting has been light today because of software issue that prevents me from uploading images. I hope it will be fixed momentarily.
- Intuitive Machines Odysseus lunar lander is in good shape on its way to the Moon
Arrival is now in seven days.
- Launch by India of its GSLV rocket carrying Insat satellite two days away
Launch time will be on February 17, 2023 at 4:04 am (Pacific).
- Europe’s Euclid orbiting space telescope now operational and is beginning its survey of billions of galaxies
Astronomers hope the data will help solve the mystery of both dark energy and dark matter.
- On this date in 1990, Voyager-1 looked back and took a picture of Earth as seen from the outer edge of the solar system
Environmentalists dubbed this “The pale blue dot image.”
- On this date in 1973 Pioneer 10 became the first human spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt
It would fly past Jupiter in December 1973, and operate until 1997 on its journey outward beyond the solar system.
- On this date in 1564 Galileo Galilei was born
He invented the telescope, discovered the Galilean moons of Jupiter, and proved that Copernicus was right, the Sun is the center of the solar system.
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. 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.
This will be Jay’s last quick space links post until March 11th, as he is off to the Solomon Islands as part of a ham radio DX expedition. For those other hams who want to try to make contact with him during this expedition, the call sign is H40WA.
Note too that posting has been light today because of software issue that prevents me from uploading images. I hope it will be fixed momentarily.
- Intuitive Machines Odysseus lunar lander is in good shape on its way to the Moon
Arrival is now in seven days.
- Launch by India of its GSLV rocket carrying Insat satellite two days away
Launch time will be on February 17, 2023 at 4:04 am (Pacific).
- Europe’s Euclid orbiting space telescope now operational and is beginning its survey of billions of galaxies
Astronomers hope the data will help solve the mystery of both dark energy and dark matter.
- On this date in 1990, Voyager-1 looked back and took a picture of Earth as seen from the outer edge of the solar system
Environmentalists dubbed this “The pale blue dot image.”
- On this date in 1973 Pioneer 10 became the first human spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt
It would fly past Jupiter in December 1973, and operate until 1997 on its journey outward beyond the solar system.
- On this date in 1564 Galileo Galilei was born
He invented the telescope, discovered the Galilean moons of Jupiter, and proved that Copernicus was right, the Sun is the center of the solar system.
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
“He invented the telescope,”
Galileo didn’t invent the telescope, but he was the first to point one at the sky (or at least the first to record what he saw).
I remember seeing the Pale Blue Dot image when it was first released. That was such a mind-blowing change. Someday I hoped to look back at Earth that way myself. Alas, the space industry did not advance as I had hoped. Perhaps someday someone will look out at Earth from that great distance and wonder what it moust have felt like to be stuck on a mote suspended in a sunbeam.
Joe – “Alas, the space industry did not advance as I had hoped.”
You got that right.. Just this morning having a “Where’s my flying car?!” moment myself!
Anti-matter again…a new process to make make 20 grams per year?
https://www.sciencealert.com/antimatter-could-unlock-a-radical-new-future-of-interstellar-travel