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.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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.
- 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.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
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.