March 2, 2026 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who is off on a two week vacation, so no quick links for awhile. 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.
- Video of Iranian ballistic missile being destroyed by American technology in the stratosphere, mid-arc, outside Earth’s atmosphere
It is amazing how effective the U.S. military has suddenly become, simply because it now has good and firm leadership focused on defeating tyrants.
- On this day in 2002, the fourth servicing mission to Hubble was launched
Astronauts installed the Advanced Camera for Surveys, improving its imaging capability 10-fold. The camera is still working, almost a quarter of a century later.
- On this day in 2007, New Horizons captured a 200-mile-high plume erupting on Jupiter’s moon Io
The spacecraft was on its long journey to Pluto, using Jupiter to slingshot it on its way.
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, who is off on a two week vacation, so no quick links for awhile. 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.
- Video of Iranian ballistic missile being destroyed by American technology in the stratosphere, mid-arc, outside Earth’s atmosphere
It is amazing how effective the U.S. military has suddenly become, simply because it now has good and firm leadership focused on defeating tyrants.
- On this day in 2002, the fourth servicing mission to Hubble was launched
Astronauts installed the Advanced Camera for Surveys, improving its imaging capability 10-fold. The camera is still working, almost a quarter of a century later.
- On this day in 2007, New Horizons captured a 200-mile-high plume erupting on Jupiter’s moon Io
The spacecraft was on its long journey to Pluto, using Jupiter to slingshot it on its way.
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
I thought Iran might have had enough material for a single gun style atomic device.
Here’s hoping it is in pieces.
I hope the F-14s Iran had can be repatriated.
If they were struck–I’m going to be sick.
Jeff Wright,
I guess you can go be sick now. The few remaining F-14s in Iranian livery were struck along with pretty much the entirety of the rest of the rag-tag Iranian Air Force – F-4s, F-5s, MiG-29s, etc.
Why would you want these wheezy antiques repatriated? All we could do with them is put them next to all of the other retired F-14s at Davis-Monthan. We have enough superannuated aluminum baking in the desert sun. We don’t need to be importing more from Iran.
Fear of parts falling into their hands is one of the reasons we trashed a lot of ours.
I was just entertaining the thought of there being an eggplane/Rat Fink type cartoon with them smirking as MiGs were being trashed.
“Why would you want these wheezy antiques repatriated? All we could do with them is put them next to all of the other retired F-14s at Davis-Monthan. We have enough superannuated aluminum baking in the desert sun. We don’t need to be importing more from Iran.”
Oh, there are Tomcat lovers on X right now, half-humorously offering to sponsor “good homes” to these jets with generous compensation for any Iranian pilots who might want to seek a new life in the West!
(Presently there are no flyable surviving F-14s in the world outside Iran, or perhaps inside it, either.)
If any DO survive the war, believe me, there would be someone out there who would love to refurb and fly one. Perhaps even Jared Isaacman!
Richard M,
Props for the Jared reference.