May 13, 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.
- Op-Ed advocates giving the UN more power over everyone in space
Jay says it best, “No. Not only no, but hell no.” Sadly, I fear that the globalists running things will get what they want.
- ISRO tweets some proposed details about its next Mars mission
A relay communications satellite will launch first. The lander will use a sky crane like Curiosity and Perseverance, and might include a helicopter. Targeting a 2031 launch.
- Four-hour video on the work of ISRO’s Space Applications Centre
Have no idea if this is worth watching. Jay writes it describes “what ISRO has accomplished and all the future programs they want to do.”
- On this day in 1982 the first crew to U.S.S.R.’s Salyut-7 station launched
The two astronauts would set a then record of 211 days in space.
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 the past two weeks has the 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 refuses 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.
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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.
- Op-Ed advocates giving the UN more power over everyone in space
Jay says it best, “No. Not only no, but hell no.” Sadly, I fear that the globalists running things will get what they want.
- ISRO tweets some proposed details about its next Mars mission
A relay communications satellite will launch first. The lander will use a sky crane like Curiosity and Perseverance, and might include a helicopter. Targeting a 2031 launch.
- Four-hour video on the work of ISRO’s Space Applications Centre
Have no idea if this is worth watching. Jay writes it describes “what ISRO has accomplished and all the future programs they want to do.”
- On this day in 1982 the first crew to U.S.S.R.’s Salyut-7 station launched
The two astronauts would set a then record of 211 days in space.
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 the past two weeks has the 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 refuses 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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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. And if you buy the books through the ebookit links, I get a larger cut and I get it sooner.
GOES-East seems to be working. Thank goodness, it’s my favorite satellite.
A little off topic but it is the 13th and the previously announced NET date for the Atlas V / Starliner launch date (17 May) in rapidly approaching. But I can find no word on the status of the Centaur LOX relief valve replacement.
I wonder how it is going?
Communications at work have been going in and out the last two days. GPS intermittent but only making life miserable for the surveyors. (no drones crashed)
Unfortunately, I didn’t see any northern lights because I am in the middle of the city, but some of my coworkers have spectacular pictures. (Internet is full of them)
So much solar gases to be seen as far south as Utah must’ve added a considerable amount of mass to our atmosphere. I wish I had a way to check The CO2 levels before the storm then after. The last time we had 2 CME‘s hit earth at the same time (referred to as a super storm) carbon dioxide levels reached 400 ppm for the first time… not in Hawaii, but in the Arctic!!!
(don’t tell the people who hate all living things that a lot of our CO2 comes from the sun… they will try to do something about it)