February 24, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- China plans to add a 6 port docking hub module to Tiangong-3
Such a hub can only be the precursor to many more modules and expansion.
- China’s dedicated commercial launch facility for its pseudo-companies to have first launch in 2024
While these pseudo-companies remain owned and supervised by the government, they and their employees do not necessarily have full top secret clearance. Building a separate launchpad keeps them quarantined away from things the Chicoms would rather keep secret.
- Test capsule to be used for Gaganyaan launch abort tests delivered to ISRO
The capsule is unpressurized, but has “many systems in place.” It will allow ISRO to test the launch abort systems to be used during the later manned Gaganyaan mission. Two abort tests are planned for later this year.
- Thailand announces space program, including a lunar probe to launch in ’27
The program described at the link calls for an Earth observation satellite to be launched in 2027, followed by the Moon probe in ’27. Later Earth satellites will launch in ’29 and ’30, with an undescribed deep space mission targeting ’31.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- China plans to add a 6 port docking hub module to Tiangong-3
Such a hub can only be the precursor to many more modules and expansion.
- China’s dedicated commercial launch facility for its pseudo-companies to have first launch in 2024
While these pseudo-companies remain owned and supervised by the government, they and their employees do not necessarily have full top secret clearance. Building a separate launchpad keeps them quarantined away from things the Chicoms would rather keep secret.
- Test capsule to be used for Gaganyaan launch abort tests delivered to ISRO
The capsule is unpressurized, but has “many systems in place.” It will allow ISRO to test the launch abort systems to be used during the later manned Gaganyaan mission. Two abort tests are planned for later this year.
- Thailand announces space program, including a lunar probe to launch in ’27
The program described at the link calls for an Earth observation satellite to be launched in 2027, followed by the Moon probe in ’27. Later Earth satellites will launch in ’29 and ’30, with an undescribed deep space mission targeting ’31.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows 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. 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. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally 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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On the COVID front
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/us/politics/china-lab-leak-coronavirus-pandemic.html
China needs to build orbiting cites for temporary (150 years) habitation while the damage from their continued manufacture and use of freon demolishes the ozone layer.
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Huh?
Freon destroying ozone is a myth. (Matter cannot be created or destroyed… only changing its form)
Freon (chlorine fluorine carbon) is a very large and heavy molecule. About five times heavier than air (oxygen or nitrogen molecule). It’s also very stable and will not break apart unless heated in excess of 2000°. (that’s why it’s used in asthma inhalers)
Freon ends up sinking into the soil or in the ocean where it is used to map the deep ocean currents. Very unlikely to reach the meteor sphere (without the aid of a volcanic eruption) where the temperatures are high enough to break it apart so that free chlorine can descend back into the stratosphere to react with ozone… Much more likely that chlorine would find a hydrogen atoms and form hydrochloric acid and return to Earth as acid rain. (volcanoes will send “free chlorine” from saltwater high into the stratosphere… But the Earth has many sources of chlorine more abundant then Freon. If you could extract all the salt (sodium chloride) in the ocean, for example, you could create a new continent the size of Europe. The sun also throws chlorine at us in solar flares)
It’s impossible to destroy the ozone layer. As long as there is “oxygen” in the atmosphere, and “sunlight” for ionization, there will be ozone!
It’s created during the daytime to the maximum amount about 10 ppm before ozone reacts with ozone as fast it’s it is being created to form O2 again. (it is very reactive)
Ozone levels drop to about 3 ppm during the night then reforms again in the morning. (The sky, as seen from the space station, glows green at night as the Ozone reacts with nitrous oxide and other free elements until a balance is reached)
Science toys
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-3d-printed-molecular-students-nucleobase-pairing.html
Cloudy filters on sats and space news
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-mystery-cloudy-filters-satellites.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-method-enables-effective-free-space-optical.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-flat-pancake-sized-metalens-images-lunar.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-eyeglasses-prescription-christiaan-huygens-years.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-astronomers-metal-rich-galaxy-early-universe.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ai-highly-accurate-star-birthplaces.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-unistellar-citizen-science-network-seti.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-baby-star-black-hole-middle.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-major-collaboration-reveals-insights-binary.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-resurrected-supernova-link.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-supernova-year-rare-view-entirety.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-galactic-explosion-astrophysicists-insight-cosmos.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-rare-quasar-triplet-massive-universe.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-behavior-nearby-blazar.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-illuminating-science-black-holes-gamma-ray.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-insights-ancient-asteroid.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-worlds-quantitative-spectroscopy.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-spiral-pattern-clue-high-mass-stars.html
Animals can be quite resistant:
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-surviving-brutal-lessons-dogs-chernobyl.html
The spider-silk atlas
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-molecular-atlas-spider-silk-production.html
Tech news
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-humans-ai.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-machine-stabilizes-mechanical-friction-conditions.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-framework-nanoscopic-insulation-enables-components.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-method-enables-effective-free-space-optical.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-metasurface-enables-multichannel-terahertz-transmission.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-antenna-paradigm-waveform-selective-metasurfaces.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-theoretical-cooling-particles-laser-fields.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-boundaries-submicroscopic.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-molecules.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-material-key-quantum-issue.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-strong-microwave-magnetic-fields-efficient.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-shape-shifting-cadmium-nuclei.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-radar-autonomous-cars-fog.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-efficient-disinfection-silver-sulfide-quantum.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-purification-method-protein-drugs-cheaper.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-hydrogen-boron-fusion-magnetically-confined-plasma.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-physicists-exotic-phenomena-recipe.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-phononic-skyrmions-based-hybrid-elastic.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-technology-enables.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ethylene-single-atom-catalytic-electroreduction-co2.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-scientists-high-sensitivity-strain-temperature-dual-mode-sensor.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-3d-snapshots-nanoparticles.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-superconductivity-layer.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-simple-techniques-quantify-li-plating.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-extreme-fast-charging-capability-lithium-ion-batteries.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-destroying-superconductivity-kagome-metal.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-ai-based-tool-ddos.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-augmented-reality-headset-enables-users.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-uncover-technique.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-wavefront-telescopes-biological-tissue.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-capturing-nanoplastics.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-corralling-ions-viability-generation-solar.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-electrical-phase-skyrmions.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-quark-gluon-plasma-production-energy.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-methods-chemicals-atmosphere-aerosol-particles.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-machine-catalysts-decarbonization-technology-months.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-scientist-x-ray-reconstruction-method.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ice-cold-electron-ultra-compact-x-ray-lasers.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-simple-inexpensive-approach-fabricating-carbon.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-curvature-biomaterials-inhibits-bone-cells.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-edible-electronics-seaweed-skin-health.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-future-uncover-physical-limitation-haptic.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-cobalt-recycled-method-requiring-energy.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-experimental-quantum-overlapping-tomography.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-low-cost-microphones-track-infectious-disease.html
Crazy–but there are tech implications here
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-super-fast-insect-urination-powered-physics.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-young-snapping-shrimps-tiny-claws.html
perhaps this can clean Ohio
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-catalyst-purifies-herbicide-tainted-hydrogen.html
They just tell us to shut up:
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ai-generated-arguments-minds-controversial-hot-button.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-social-media-solar-geoengineering-conspiracy.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-earth-boundaries-justice.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-americans-receptive-counter-partisan-messages-previously.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-social-media-platforms-accuracy.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-students-ate-meat-years-negative.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-survey-based-abstinence-reboot-interventions-result.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-human-feces-urine-motherlode-health.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-toilet-paper-unexpected-source-pfas.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-city-traffic-machine.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-potential-zika-virus-combat-prostate.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-weight-responsibility-biomass-livestock-dwarfs.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-keto-vegan-popular-diets-fourfold.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-animal-antibodies-ward-diseases.html
History of the grape
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-history-grape-domestication-genome-sequencing.html
Mechanical weeding
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mechanical-weeding-ecosystem-functions-profit.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-crops-solar-farms-yields-efficiency.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-millet-sorghum-cultivation-aridity-linked.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-strawberries-bland-pesticides-blame.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-bacterial-diversity-soils.html
Evolution/history
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-tempo-evolution-species.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-fish-evolved.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-good-genes-bad-sexual-conflict.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-exploring-birds.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-toothed-whales-food-deep-vocal.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-weird-world-aussie-bees-species.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-woodcocks-brightest-white-feathers.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-bronze-age-contents-reveal-history.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-evolution-shiitake-mushrooms.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-fruit-fly-gut-reproduction-fructose.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-piecing-scotland-religious-shards-glass.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-steel-europe-years.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-rare-insect-arkansas-walmart-historic.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-mysterious-behavior-whales-ancient-manuscripts.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-pets-leaking.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-nazi-years-nobel-prize-literature.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-rare-wildlife-north-korea-dmz.html
Medicine
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-device-cancer-cells-invasive-expensive.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-aspirin-ovarian-cancer-higher-genetic.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-cerium-mineral-biomedical.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-chemically-nanosheets-biomedical-applications.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-p-aeruginosa-bacteria-molecule-paralyzes.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-seizures-minutes-onset-patients-temporal.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-machine-people-rett-syndrome.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-generate-neurons-brain.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-ai-paradigm-shift-brain-injury.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-uncover-gene-heart-disease.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-ultrasound-device-calms-nerves-kidney.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-blood-stem-cells-lab.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-cell-therapy-bones-tendons.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-brain-oscillations-memory.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-hiv-reservoirs-earlier.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-role-socioeconomics-south-african-hiv.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-small-molecule-natural-killer-cells.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-inflammatory-cells-chemo-brain.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-ai-cancer-patient-survival-doctor.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-degrading-proteins-alzheimer-undruggable-diseases.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-bacteria-invade-brain.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-social-deficits-seizures-autism-genetic.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-bacteria-fluids.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-gym-on-a-chip-worms-parkinson-treatments.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-reveal-oxygen-tissues-door-class.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mechanism-ancient-pathway-immune-response.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-unravel-mechanisms-articular-cartilage-injury.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-unique-alcohol-death.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-unveils-epigenetic-traffic-gene.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-specialized-garbage-disposal-cell-implicated.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-gut-microbes-muscles.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-crocodiles-deadly-infections.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-genome-uncover-full-3d-p53.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-chemical-imaging-efficacy-therapy-individual.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-fishing-proteins-scientists-optical-tweezer.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-mechanism-dna-segregation-cell-division.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-previously-unknown-mechanism-precision-rna.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-patients-positive-covid-recovery.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-protein-based-nanoparticles-neutralize-sars-cov2-virus.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-sensitive-rapid-at-home-covid-.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-lung-covid.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-team-heart-failure-treatment-cell.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-vasculogenic-fibroblast-piece-blood-vessels.html
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-coral-friendly-sunscreen-shown-uv-options.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-scientists-death-nerve-cells-common.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-patients-high-cardiovascular-disease-statin.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-newly-catheter-material-common-infections.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-free-hand-real-time-needle-guidance-prostate.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-02-3d-bioprinting-human-body-soft.html
superacid
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-superacid.html
Crowd control
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-lane-hidden-chaotic-crowds.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-approach-robot-crowded-environments.html
Gumshoe
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-criminals-footwear.html
Secret of the pyramids
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-egypt-unveils-hidden-corridor-giza.html