July 28, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Rocket lab touts its next launch, the 40th overall
Presently scheduled for July 30th (New Zealand time), or 10 pm (Pacific) on July 29, 2023.
- ISRO touts it next launch, a PSLV rocket carrying seven satellites
Presently scheduled for July 30th (in India), or 6 pm (Pacific) on July 29th. This will be first time India will have launched twice in a month since it panicked and shut down over the Wuhan flu.
- Europe’s Space Rider reusable unmanned capsule gets okay to enter next phase of development
The spacecraft is designed as a variation of Boeing’s X-37B. It will fly in orbit for two months and return to Earth for reuse.
- Russia’s first methane-fuel rocket with a reusable first stage, dubbed AmurSPG, is now targeting a 2028-2030 launch
This announcement actually reveals a delay in the program, from a 2026 planned launch. Want to bet it won’t launch in this decade at all?
- The first stage of Relativity’s Terran-1 orbital rocket successfully completes static fire test of all nine engines
The company hopes to begin launches by 2026.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Rocket lab touts its next launch, the 40th overall
Presently scheduled for July 30th (New Zealand time), or 10 pm (Pacific) on July 29, 2023.
- ISRO touts it next launch, a PSLV rocket carrying seven satellites
Presently scheduled for July 30th (in India), or 6 pm (Pacific) on July 29th. This will be first time India will have launched twice in a month since it panicked and shut down over the Wuhan flu.
- Europe’s Space Rider reusable unmanned capsule gets okay to enter next phase of development
The spacecraft is designed as a variation of Boeing’s X-37B. It will fly in orbit for two months and return to Earth for reuse.
- Russia’s first methane-fuel rocket with a reusable first stage, dubbed AmurSPG, is now targeting a 2028-2030 launch
This announcement actually reveals a delay in the program, from a 2026 planned launch. Want to bet it won’t launch in this decade at all?
- The first stage of Relativity’s Terran-1 orbital rocket successfully completes static fire test of all nine engines
The company hopes to begin launches by 2026.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the 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. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
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3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
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You wrote about Maggie DeJong’s lawsuit against Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville last April but I did not find more recent discussion.. The lawsuit was settled a few days ago and came out a victory for DeJong and her attorneys from the alliance defending freedom..
“SIUE officials must pay $80,000 and take free speech class to settle lawsuit”. The university also has to revise their policies..
It is not clear, but most likely the $80,000 will come from taxpayers but otherwise a good victory..
https://adflegal.org/press-release/siue-professors-undergo-first-amendment-training-officials-revise-policies-part?sourcecode=10024747
Bob Wilson: I today put that story in my queue for posting next week. And yes, I searched but could not find out who was paying $80,000. More info to come.
Space Rider…an ASSET/PRIME production
From Gun Jesus over at Forgotten Weapons
JAPANESE HOLDOUTS ON MARS
https://www.forgottenweapons.com/vintage-saturday-japanese-holdouts-on-mars/