March 27, 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.
- Chinese pseudo-company Land Space starts manufacturing its stainless steel rocket body
Gee, I wonder where they got the idea to go back to steel?
- NASA official expects problem with Voyager-1 to be resolved
There is no story here, as this bureaucrat is simply repeating what the engineering team has already told us.
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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.
- Chinese pseudo-company Land Space starts manufacturing its stainless steel rocket body
Gee, I wonder where they got the idea to go back to steel?
- NASA official expects problem with Voyager-1 to be resolved
There is no story here, as this bureaucrat is simply repeating what the engineering team has already told us.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five 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:
5. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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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. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.
https://twitter.com/motabhai012/status/1762798316876919121?s=46
Gary-
Good stuff! This is why I appreciate Engineers cuz’ I can barely understand Orbital Mechanics.
There’s another version of that (somewhere) showing the relative motion of our Solar System embedded in the Milky Way.
Tommy Roe –
“Dizzy” (1969) w/ Robin Mary Paris
https://youtu.be/OTebyR-vQA0
(4:06)
Don’t buy food from China. 80% of China’s water is polluted with stuff like toxins, heavy metals, and carcinogens. Livestock drink it and crops are watered with it. Everything is contaminated.
Stop Buying Chinese Garlic [VIDEO]
https://rumble.com/v4ltggr-stop-buying-chinese-garlic.html
(39 seconds)
Boeing whistle-blower John Barnett was apparently murdered by the execs at Boeing, because he was exposing shoddy work by those building Boeing airliners. Don‘t fly on Boeing planes! They are not safe!
“Only a few lunar sites are ideal for certain cutting-edge research—and they’re under threat from mining, satellites and bases, scientists argue”
“The moon hosts several sites of extraordinary scientific importance (SESIs) to astronomy. (…) But because of the far side’s mountainous terrain, scientists say the installation of telescopes is possible at only three sites—and one in particular is rich in helium-3, which space mining companies have identified as a key element in quantum computers and fusion energy. (…) Another scarce resource are the moon’s “cold traps,” located along craters near the north and south poles, where sunlight hasn’t been able to reach for billions of years. Among the universe’s most frigid places, they are the perfect location for infrared telescopes, which are specifically designed to operate at extremely cold temperatures. (…) But these sensitive locations would lose their scientific value if rovers, mining technologies and satellites began operating nearby, researchers say.”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-scientists-are-calling-for-the-moon-to-be-better-protected-from-development-180984026/
I understand the desire to do science on the Moon. But then they intend to monopolize entire parts of it. I wonder whether most of their proposed research could be done with instruments in space, but shielded against terrestrial influences.