January 16, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who returns after his work took him away from us last week.
- Sierra Space releases video of test-to-failure of its full scale inflatible space station module
The module will be used on the Orbital Reef station the company is building in partnership with Blue Origin.
- Chinese engineers complete final launch rehearsal for launch of its next Tianzhou cargo freighter to Tiangong-3 station
The launch is presently scheduled for January 17, 2024 at 3:27 am (Eastern). It will use a fast 3-hour rendezvous and docking plan for the first time.
- Australian activists protest proposed commercial spaceport
They claim rockets pose a threat to wildlife, even though we now have almost three-quarters of a century of evidence that they do exactly the opposite, help wildlife. Just shows us that leftists are proudly ignorant, and are irrationally against everything.
- Voyager Space and Airbus finalize their partnership to build private the Starlab space station
The partnership also includes Northrop Grumman, and is one of three private stations being built in partnership with NASA.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who returns after his work took him away from us last week.
- Sierra Space releases video of test-to-failure of its full scale inflatible space station module
The module will be used on the Orbital Reef station the company is building in partnership with Blue Origin.
- Chinese engineers complete final launch rehearsal for launch of its next Tianzhou cargo freighter to Tiangong-3 station
The launch is presently scheduled for January 17, 2024 at 3:27 am (Eastern). It will use a fast 3-hour rendezvous and docking plan for the first time.
- Australian activists protest proposed commercial spaceport
They claim rockets pose a threat to wildlife, even though we now have almost three-quarters of a century of evidence that they do exactly the opposite, help wildlife. Just shows us that leftists are proudly ignorant, and are irrationally against everything.
- Voyager Space and Airbus finalize their partnership to build private the Starlab space station
The partnership also includes Northrop Grumman, and is one of three private stations being built in partnership with NASA.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID 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. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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c/o Robert Zimmerman
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Cortaro, AZ 85652
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I think this is legit. Searched the site and couldn’t find a reference.
A galaxy with no visible stars.
https://www.space.com/dark-primordial-galaxy-no-stars-green-bank-observatory
The FAA is getting serious about improving their quality.
“FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities”
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/faas-diversity-push-includes-focus-hiring-people-severe-intellectual-psychiatric-disabilities