January 14, 2025 Quick space linksCourtesy 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.
- Leftist media makes hay because Quantas had to reschedule flights to South Africa due to potential Starship landings in Indian Ocean
The link goes to The Guardian, but Reuters picked this up as well. There is no story here, but these leftists are trying to gin it up to damage SpaceX and Musk. So what Quantas might have to reschedule a flight or two once every several months? This isn’t an unreasonable burden. In fact, I wonder why the airline didn’t simple re-route the flights to avoid the splashdown zone.
- Axiom touts its progress in 2024 and expected achievements in 2025 in building its space station
Nothing new, merely pr to convince us all is well. It could be. We shall see.
- Today in 2004 the European probe Huygens landed softly on Saturn’s moon Titan
The probe obtained some great data, but the real achievement was the landing itself. For Europe’s engineers it was a stellar accomplishment.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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.
- Leftist media makes hay because Quantas had to reschedule flights to South Africa due to potential Starship landings in Indian Ocean
The link goes to The Guardian, but Reuters picked this up as well. There is no story here, but these leftists are trying to gin it up to damage SpaceX and Musk. So what Quantas might have to reschedule a flight or two once every several months? This isn’t an unreasonable burden. In fact, I wonder why the airline didn’t simple re-route the flights to avoid the splashdown zone.
- Axiom touts its progress in 2024 and expected achievements in 2025 in building its space station
Nothing new, merely pr to convince us all is well. It could be. We shall see.
- Today in 2004 the European probe Huygens landed softly on Saturn’s moon Titan
The probe obtained some great data, but the real achievement was the landing itself. For Europe’s engineers it was a stellar accomplishment.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
I was once asked to change altitude because the 747 with the shuttle on top was passing under us. Awesome day watching that combination of birds cruise by. Giving way for that was an honor and a privilege.
”So what Quantas might have to reschedule a flight or two once every several months?”
It’s not once every several months. It’s every single day for five inconsistent hours a day.
”I wonder why the airline didn’t simple re-route the flights to avoid the splashdown zone.”
The splashdown zone is 300 miles wide and 6,000 miles long, extending from southwest of Africa around the tip and across the Indian Ocean to just southwest of Indonesia. Avoiding it would add thousands of miles and many hours to each trip, all of it over open ocean.
”This isn’t an unreasonable burden.”
Yes it is. SpaceX has essentially drawn a line across the Indian Ocean that is illegal for ships and planes to cross. I’m surprised they haven’t gotten pushback before this.
“Yes it is. SpaceX has essentially drawn a line across the Indian Ocean that is illegal for ships and planes to cross. I’m surprised they haven’t gotten pushback before this.”
Perhaps it hasn’t because people at Quantas know this will be a *re-entry* event, in a Flight Test program that will have few or no repetitions after this flight??? The continuing flights are scheduled to be orbital.
The simple fact is that the Grauniad and its fellows on the Left will piss in Elon’s soup at any opportunity to make their subscribers in Britain happy. Their university crowd is quite as lacking in intellectual diversity as ours, and just as desirous of displacing the land-holding old rulers of Britain with degree-holders as are our university denizens. Those who devalue the university degree system as much as Musk does will always be their target.