June 15, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Vast selects Impulse Space to provide the propulsion system for its first space station, dubbed Haven-1
This station is the one that Vast has hired SpaceX to launch as a single module.
- Bankers: ULA, Ball Aerospace, and Boeing’s space portfolio are being shopped around for sale
Unless you could get a really good price for their assets, right now I wonder why anyone would want ULA or Boeing, as neither seems well positioned to compete in the present space market, now or even in the near future.
- Video of today’s launch of China’s Long March 2D rocket
The panels falling from the rocket are not a mistake but intended. Used for insulation while on the launchpad, they are abandoned when no longer needed to save weight.
- Malaysian professor at Chinese university claims NASA agreed to use China’S Queqiao lunar communications satellites on its Artemis moon missions
Since there is a law on the books forbidding NASA or any government agency from working with China, this claim is almost certainly bogus. It is more likely China’s attempt to lobby an end to that law.
- Kuiper official urges governments to regulate the methods used by satellite makers to maneuver their satellites
I like Jay’s comment: “How many satellites does Kuiper have again? Zero. Damn arm-chair satellite companies!” The timing of this statement, a day after the WEF issued its proposed government guidelines for de-orbiting satellites, suggests Amazon supports that effort, but has a different approach as to how those rules should be implemented.
In other words, Amazon wants to dictate how others build their satellites. Or make it illegal for them to do so as they wish. Seems a great plan for eliminating one’s competition.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Vast selects Impulse Space to provide the propulsion system for its first space station, dubbed Haven-1
This station is the one that Vast has hired SpaceX to launch as a single module.
- Bankers: ULA, Ball Aerospace, and Boeing’s space portfolio are being shopped around for sale
Unless you could get a really good price for their assets, right now I wonder why anyone would want ULA or Boeing, as neither seems well positioned to compete in the present space market, now or even in the near future.
- Video of today’s launch of China’s Long March 2D rocket
The panels falling from the rocket are not a mistake but intended. Used for insulation while on the launchpad, they are abandoned when no longer needed to save weight.
- Malaysian professor at Chinese university claims NASA agreed to use China’S Queqiao lunar communications satellites on its Artemis moon missions
Since there is a law on the books forbidding NASA or any government agency from working with China, this claim is almost certainly bogus. It is more likely China’s attempt to lobby an end to that law.
- Kuiper official urges governments to regulate the methods used by satellite makers to maneuver their satellites
I like Jay’s comment: “How many satellites does Kuiper have again? Zero. Damn arm-chair satellite companies!” The timing of this statement, a day after the WEF issued its proposed government guidelines for de-orbiting satellites, suggests Amazon supports that effort, but has a different approach as to how those rules should be implemented.
In other words, Amazon wants to dictate how others build their satellites. Or make it illegal for them to do so as they wish. Seems a great plan for eliminating one’s competition.
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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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Sometime companies are bought for the regularity permissions they already have. Not sure if that would help any of the new space companies or even spacex. Maybe ULA can pull some strings with the FAA.
Life is a messy process. And some folks you meet are not worth the effort to navigate their messiness because avoidance is simpler.
Sometimes just watching them die is for the better.
I am sure most here have heard of this already but just in case.
https://time.com/6287589/tesla-ev-charging-business-model/
Musk accidentally makes a 5 billion dollar a year business.
Well that didn’t take long. I remember Robert predicting when Trump formed Space Force that it would become just one more layer of bureaucracy.
“Space Force general admits she lets ‘anti-LGBTQ+ laws’ impact hiring decisions — resulting in ‘less qualified’ personnel”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/deanna-burt-space-force-lgbtq
James Street
Remember that she was speaking at a PRIDE event.
She did not quote any specific laws. Which would all be state laws against hiring, which do not exist.
She said that the laws stopped her from hiring hundreds of eligible lbgtq people into her command. Sounds a bit fishy. But then again Virginia must not have any lgbtq people in it at all because of those laws.
I do not believe it.