January 27, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s stringer. Sorry this is posted late, but Diane and I were celebrating our wedding anniversary hiking and then going to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner.
- Progress to launch February 9th to ISS
The replacement Soyuz follows ten days later.
- SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell dropped in at ESA’s Brussels conference this week
From the reporter: “Surely nothing more than idle curiosity.”
- Chinese satellite company with links in Luxembourg sanctioned by U.S. for providing Ukraine imagery to Russia
Utterly meaningless, as the company’s operations are almost all in China, it launches on Chinese rockets, and most important it is a Chinese pseudo-company, fundamentally supervised by the Chinese government. They certainly are not going to care about U.S. sanctions.
- Short animation of Venus’ atmosphere
No information is provided about the source of this imagery, so for all we know, it is entirely fabricated.
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Courtesy of Jay, BtB’s stringer. Sorry this is posted late, but Diane and I were celebrating our wedding anniversary hiking and then going to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner.
- Progress to launch February 9th to ISS
The replacement Soyuz follows ten days later.
- SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell dropped in at ESA’s Brussels conference this week
From the reporter: “Surely nothing more than idle curiosity.”
- Chinese satellite company with links in Luxembourg sanctioned by U.S. for providing Ukraine imagery to Russia
Utterly meaningless, as the company’s operations are almost all in China, it launches on Chinese rockets, and most important it is a Chinese pseudo-company, fundamentally supervised by the Chinese government. They certainly are not going to care about U.S. sanctions.
- Short animation of Venus’ atmosphere
No information is provided about the source of this imagery, so for all we know, it is entirely fabricated.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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ah, wedding anniversary!
Good deal.
Alanis Morissette
“Head Over Feet”
https://youtu.be/4iuO49jbovg
4:33
Gwynne Shotwell pops up at the ESA conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLn_His9Yw
Euro Fudd can only dream of killing the rabbit…
Jeff Bezos is the 2023 winner of the Commercial Space Business and Finance Award “for his outstanding contributions towards enabling commercial access to space”.
And Bezos is going to send an all-women crew “to space” on the next Blue Origin New Shepard rocket! Well, my family sent an all-women crew to Costco only a few days ago!
Diane..
The Most Patience per Pound……
WOMAN ? around……
Congrats ??
TO Both !
Regardless of my personal feelings about Boeing, I really hope that the first crewed Starliner mission goes off without any problems. We need access to space, and that means having multiple providers of such.
It cannot be competition if it’s Elon Everything.
The Venus footage makes it look like the boiling planet it is.
There is a ESA animation, https://sci.esa.int/web/venus-express/-/48116-animation-of-planet-venus, that allows playback speed adjustment, and shows markedly less activity in the middle latitudes than the Twitter offering. ESA does not give the source for the images comprising the animation, but I would guess from the Cassini – Huygens flyby.
I know this info is elementary to most of the folks on this site. I spotted a few oddities in it. Just interesting that someone has attempted to portray a Martian Weather Report.
https://twitter.com/BGR/status/1618798540003725314?s=20&t=98Lc0zAeAXnuOdPY_IS-0Q
“Weather tonight: dark…partly light by morning”
“The Hippy-dippy Atomic Rover”
https://imgflip.com/i/77tyzv
No better reason to post late. Happy anniversary, you lovebirds!