Japan launches HTV cargo ship to ISS
Japan today successfully launched to ISS the last of its first generation HTV cargo ships.
This was the ninth such cargo ship launched by Japan. The mission was also the last launch of Mitsubishi’s H-2B rocket, Japan’s most powerful. It is being replaced with the H-3 rocket, which they hope to fly for the first time before the end of this year. They also hope that the H3 will be cheaper to operate, and will allow Mitsubishi to garner some commercial business with it, something they failed entirely to do with the H-2B.
This was also Japan’s second launch in 2020, which means they remain outside the leaders in the 2020 launch race:
8 China
6 SpaceX
6 Russia
3 ULA
The U.S. continues to lead China 11 to 8 in the national rankings.
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Japan today successfully launched to ISS the last of its first generation HTV cargo ships.
This was the ninth such cargo ship launched by Japan. The mission was also the last launch of Mitsubishi’s H-2B rocket, Japan’s most powerful. It is being replaced with the H-3 rocket, which they hope to fly for the first time before the end of this year. They also hope that the H3 will be cheaper to operate, and will allow Mitsubishi to garner some commercial business with it, something they failed entirely to do with the H-2B.
This was also Japan’s second launch in 2020, which means they remain outside the leaders in the 2020 launch race:
8 China
6 SpaceX
6 Russia
3 ULA
The U.S. continues to lead China 11 to 8 in the national rankings.
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
I heard that this Cygnys will conduct another zero gravity fire test onboard as it has left the ISS.
This guy mentions a recent paper (Precipitation Modification by Ionization” by Harrison+. It models theoretically how ionization of the atmosphere by nuclear tests increases rainfall. They only use data from the UK to also find an empirical correlation with rainfall. It opens for the possibility to ionize the atmosphere in order to control cloudiness to “fight global warming” and droughts.
This is the theory behind how the Solar minimum could cause global cooling. Less Solar (sunspot) activity means a weaker Solar magnetic field. This means less protection of Earth’s atmosphere against cosmic rays that ionizes the atmosphere, causing more cloud formation and a cooler climate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj4IVClW4sQ