January 24, 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.
I also want to thank all my readers for their best wishes and prayers. Both Diane and I appreciate it beyond words.
- Sierra Space touts winning a $2.5 million contract to study lunar logistics for a permanent lunar base
Both contracts are to study the same issues.
- The removal last week by the Air Force of Derek Tournear, head of the Space Development Agency, was apparently related to a bid protest by Viasat
It appears something he did — not yet revealed — caused Viasat to protest two contract awards.
- Firefly touts the first images of Earth taken by Blue Ghost
The images are compiled into a very pretty two-second-long movie.
- Chinese pseudo-company Space Pioneer now says its first launch of its Tianlong-3 rocket will occur in May, with five launches to quickly follow before the end of the year
This is the company that had a rocket launch itself during a static fire test in June 2024, causing at least a full year delay in its schedule.
- On this day in 2004 the rover Opportunity landed on Mars
It ended up operating fourteen years, far exceeding its planned 90-day mission.
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.
I also want to thank all my readers for their best wishes and prayers. Both Diane and I appreciate it beyond words.
- Sierra Space touts winning a $2.5 million contract to study lunar logistics for a permanent lunar base
Both contracts are to study the same issues.
- The removal last week by the Air Force of Derek Tournear, head of the Space Development Agency, was apparently related to a bid protest by Viasat
It appears something he did — not yet revealed — caused Viasat to protest two contract awards.
- Firefly touts the first images of Earth taken by Blue Ghost
The images are compiled into a very pretty two-second-long movie.
- Chinese pseudo-company Space Pioneer now says its first launch of its Tianlong-3 rocket will occur in May, with five launches to quickly follow before the end of the year
This is the company that had a rocket launch itself during a static fire test in June 2024, causing at least a full year delay in its schedule.
- On this day in 2004 the rover Opportunity landed on Mars
It ended up operating fourteen years, far exceeding its planned 90-day mission.
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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