March 24, 2025 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.
- Summary of Chinese rockets which plan to have maiden flights in 2025
Lists ten new rockets. I am willing to bet that half will not fly this year, and a good percentage will never fly. The successes however will be important, since some include reusability.
- On this day in 1965 Ranger 9 successfully crashed on the Moon, as planned
Link includes a video made up of the photos taken as the spacecraft descended.
- Hubble image showing the impact clouds on Jupiter from Comet Shoemaker-Levy’s collision in 1994
Fortunately the impact occurred after Hubble’s eyesight was fixed.
- Ten years ago today the Mars rover Opportunity exceeded 26.2 miles, the length of a marathon
It is still a record for any rover, but expect both Curiosity and Perseverance to eventually break it.
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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.
- Summary of Chinese rockets which plan to have maiden flights in 2025
Lists ten new rockets. I am willing to bet that half will not fly this year, and a good percentage will never fly. The successes however will be important, since some include reusability.
- On this day in 1965 Ranger 9 successfully crashed on the Moon, as planned
Link includes a video made up of the photos taken as the spacecraft descended.
- Hubble image showing the impact clouds on Jupiter from Comet Shoemaker-Levy’s collision in 1994
Fortunately the impact occurred after Hubble’s eyesight was fixed.
- Ten years ago today the Mars rover Opportunity exceeded 26.2 miles, the length of a marathon
It is still a record for any rover, but expect both Curiosity and Perseverance to eventually break it.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID 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. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
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.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
video with factoids–
Ranger 9 Impacts Moon
NASA/JPL
https://youtu.be/kgyCZakeH_U
1:21
“Dwarf Planets??”
Just imagine if the Hussein/Kamala Regime had replaced the Hussein/Biden Regime. Anyone stating, typing, or re-tweeting anything with ‘dwarf’ would have been sent to a re-education camp, and forced to only watch MSNBC.