January 23, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Weather looks good for Rocket Lab’s first launch from Wallops tomorrow
The launch window is between 6 and 8 pm Eastern.
- ESA head admits it has no plans to fly astronauts to China’s Tiangong-3 space station
He indicated the reasons are both “political” and “budgetary”, which suggests he does not want to threaten his financially beneficial partnership with the U.S. by doing anything with China.
- Video touting China’s lunar Chang’e-6’s sample return mission in ’24 and Chang’e 7’s hopper to south pole in ’26
The video is in Chinese.
- 2022 was a profitable year for space insurance companies, the third in a row
Jay notes this interesting detail from article: “Many LEO operators including SpaceX are choosing to forgo insuring satellites, not least because the size of their constellations gives them built-in redundancy. The estimated lifetimes of satellites in LEO are also far shorter than their cousins in GEO.”
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 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.
- Weather looks good for Rocket Lab’s first launch from Wallops tomorrow
The launch window is between 6 and 8 pm Eastern.
- ESA head admits it has no plans to fly astronauts to China’s Tiangong-3 space station
He indicated the reasons are both “political” and “budgetary”, which suggests he does not want to threaten his financially beneficial partnership with the U.S. by doing anything with China.
- Video touting China’s lunar Chang’e-6’s sample return mission in ’24 and Chang’e 7’s hopper to south pole in ’26
The video is in Chinese.
- 2022 was a profitable year for space insurance companies, the third in a row
Jay notes this interesting detail from article: “Many LEO operators including SpaceX are choosing to forgo insuring satellites, not least because the size of their constellations gives them built-in redundancy. The estimated lifetimes of satellites in LEO are also far shorter than their cousins in GEO.”
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 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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