Comments on: January 2, 2023 Quick space links https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439148 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:42:27 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439148 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.

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439138 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:12:44 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439138 In reply to Cluebat.

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.

]]> By: Cluebat https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439136 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:19:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439136 They should never have goaded Musk with that trampoline joke.
Now the joke’s on them.

]]> By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439135 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:10:25 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439135 Minor edit in Proba-3 headline: “designed to observe”

]]> By: Jay https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439131 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:05:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439131 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.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439124 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:57:49 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439124 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….

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439051 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 02:12:36 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439051 In reply to FM.

FM: No, the title is correct. this is a report for what happened in 2023.

]]> By: FM https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439045 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:18:42 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439045 2024 not 3 in post title

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439044 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:35:21 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439044 In reply to BillB.

BillB: Fixed. Thank you.

]]> By: BillB https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/january-2-2023-quick-space-links/#comment-1439042 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:21:15 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=101619#comment-1439042 On Europe’s Proba-3 satellite, it should be “dual” not “duel”. That is unless they are shooting at each other.

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