July 3, 2024 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.
- The stock value of South Korean rocket startup Innospace tumbles on first day of public trading
The company has done one suborbital test launch in Brazil, and hopes to do an orbital test launch in the first half of 2025.
- Radar images of two asteroids during close fly-by of Earth
One zipped past on June 27th at a distance of 4.1 million miles, and the second on June 29th at a distance of 184,000 miles.
- New drone video looking down at Tianlong-3’s unplanned launch during static fire test
The footage suggests an engine explosion might have broken the clamps holding the stage in place.
- On this day in 1989 Voyager-2 sent back an image of Neptune and its moon Triton
It was still 47 million miles from Neptune, with the closest approach of 3,000 miles to occur in two months, on August 25, 1989.
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. 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.
- The stock value of South Korean rocket startup Innospace tumbles on first day of public trading
The company has done one suborbital test launch in Brazil, and hopes to do an orbital test launch in the first half of 2025.
- Radar images of two asteroids during close fly-by of Earth
One zipped past on June 27th at a distance of 4.1 million miles, and the second on June 29th at a distance of 184,000 miles.
- New drone video looking down at Tianlong-3’s unplanned launch during static fire test
The footage suggests an engine explosion might have broken the clamps holding the stage in place.
- On this day in 1989 Voyager-2 sent back an image of Neptune and its moon Triton
It was still 47 million miles from Neptune, with the closest approach of 3,000 miles to occur in two months, on August 25, 1989.
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
More delays for Artemis.
https://spacenews.com/nasa-assessment-suggests-potential-additional-delays-for-artemis-3-lunar-lander/
Tourists capture dazzling photos from Falcon 9 launch.
https://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2024/07/astounding-science-non-fiction-space-x.html?m=1
184,000 miles and no gloom and doom from the press.