January 17, 2025 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.
- Firefly touts activating another instrument on Blue Ghost
This instrument appears to be testing using Earth-orbiting GPS-type satellites for tracking.
- Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander yesterday successfully completed its first orbital maneuver
The press release at the link provides a good summary of the entire mission.
- Chinese pseudo-company Cosmoleap touts video of its testing of its own chopstick launch tower
It would be nice if there was a bit of information about the rocket, of which very little information has been released.
- Space Force removes head of Space Development Agency, the man who has been pushing for constellations of smallsats instead of big expensive single gold-plated satellites
There is an investigation underway, but no information was released about it.
- On this day in 1969 the Soviet Union completed the first docking of two manned Soyuz capsules
The crews then did a spacewalk to transfer crews, as the docking ports had no access tunnel.
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.
- Firefly touts activating another instrument on Blue Ghost
This instrument appears to be testing using Earth-orbiting GPS-type satellites for tracking.
- Ispace’s Resilience lunar lander yesterday successfully completed its first orbital maneuver
The press release at the link provides a good summary of the entire mission.
- Chinese pseudo-company Cosmoleap touts video of its testing of its own chopstick launch tower
It would be nice if there was a bit of information about the rocket, of which very little information has been released.
- Space Force removes head of Space Development Agency, the man who has been pushing for constellations of smallsats instead of big expensive single gold-plated satellites
There is an investigation underway, but no information was released about it.
- On this day in 1969 the Soviet Union completed the first docking of two manned Soyuz capsules
The crews then did a spacewalk to transfer crews, as the docking ports had no access tunnel.
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
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