March 6, 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.
- Astroforge releases a detailed debrief of its Odin mission failure once in space
It seems their engineers have gained a great deal of experience that can be applied to future missions, whether with Astroforge or elsewhere.
- The shipping container transporting the next Cygnus freighter to its launch site has been damaged
It is presently unknown whether the capsule was unharmed. NASA is putting more ISS cargo on the next SpaceX Dragon, just in case.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
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. 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.
- Astroforge releases a detailed debrief of its Odin mission failure once in space
It seems their engineers have gained a great deal of experience that can be applied to future missions, whether with Astroforge or elsewhere.
- The shipping container transporting the next Cygnus freighter to its launch site has been damaged
It is presently unknown whether the capsule was unharmed. NASA is putting more ISS cargo on the next SpaceX Dragon, just in case.
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. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. 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
“AI reveals new way to strengthen titanium alloys and speed up manufacturing”
The findings, published in the journal Additive Manufacturing, focus on Ti-6Al-4V, a widely used titanium alloy known for its high strength and low weight.
“Nanoscale tweaks help alloy withstand high-speed impacts”
In a conventional metal or alloy, dislocations can travel several dozen microns without any barriers. But in nanocrystalline copper-tantalum, the dislocations could barely move more than a few nanometers, which are 1,000 times smaller than a micron, before they were stopped in their tracks. Embrittlement was effectively suppressed.
Other finds:
Chemists at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, have now closed this gap: A team led by boron expert Professor Holger Braunschweig has succeeded for the first time in synthesizing a molecule with a boron-carbon triple bond, a so-called boryne, which exists as an orange solid at room temperature.
The scientists characterized the new molecule and also carried out initial reactivity studies. They present the results in the journal Nature Synthesis.
In a study published in Materials Today, a research team led by Prof. Qing Guangyan from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) designed and fabricated a high-strength, reconfigurable, and mechanochromic cellulose photonic hydrogel.
The seething nuclear chaos that is Azathoth
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-physicists-capture-elusive-plasma-instability.html