January 2, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- A look at Europe’s Proba-3 dual science satellites, designed to observed the atmosphere of the Sun
The two satellites will work in tandem, simulating an eclipse with one satellite blocking the Sun’s light so the second can observe that atmosphere, called the corona. The launch is set for September ’24.
- First Angara launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in March will carry no payload
This will be Angara’s third test launch, all lacking a payload, suggesting Russia now has rocket capacity that exceeds its payload capacity. It certainly no longer has any western satellite customers.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- A look at Europe’s Proba-3 dual science satellites, designed to observed the atmosphere of the Sun
The two satellites will work in tandem, simulating an eclipse with one satellite blocking the Sun’s light so the second can observe that atmosphere, called the corona. The launch is set for September ’24.
- First Angara launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in March will carry no payload
This will be Angara’s third test launch, all lacking a payload, suggesting Russia now has rocket capacity that exceeds its payload capacity. It certainly no longer has any western satellite customers.
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
On Europe’s Proba-3 satellite, it should be “dual” not “duel”. That is unless they are shooting at each other.
BillB: Fixed. Thank you.
2024 not 3 in post title
FM: No, the title is correct. this is a report for what happened in 2023.
First Angara launch from Russia’s Vostochny spaceport in March will carry no payload
Have they considered launching a sports car?
Vostochny managers surely have a few to spare….
Richard M.,
Just what we need, a Lada in orbit. It will break down in orbit and the debris will be worse than an ASAT test.
Minor edit in Proba-3 headline: “designed to observe”
They should never have goaded Musk with that trampoline joke.
Now the joke’s on them.
Cluebat: The former head of Roscosmos who made that trampoline joke, Dimitry Rogozin, has already gotten his comeuppance. His incompetence, which caused Russia to lose all of its entire commercial customers and more than a billion dollars in revenues, was why he was fired and exiled to be an administrator within the occupied regions of the Ukraine, where he was subsequently injured in an attack by local Ukrainian partisans.
Just what we need, a Lada in orbit. It will break down in orbit and the debris will be worse than an ASAT test.
I doubt that your best-heeled Russian managers are skimming construction funds to buy Ladas! But I think we need to insist that the Russians put it into a heliocentric orbit, just to be safe.