May 20, 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.
- Starfish’s second Otter Pup tug will attempt this summer its first docking using the company’s docking technology
The demo mission is aimed at attracting business for either de-orbiting defunct satellites or servicing them.
- SaxaVord touts its spaceport to NATO officials
The tour also showed off Rocket Factory Augsberg’s launchpad.
- Blue Origin shows off “an illustration” of its fuel tanker needed for its Blue Moon manned lunar lander
My heart be still. Blue Origin drew a picture! And it only took two years, since it won the contract!
- Blue Origin officials claim the company will do an unmanned lunar landing demo mission later this year
No one believes this claim, and if you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you cheap.
- Relativity touts the ongoing construction of its facilities at Cape Canaveral
It does appear that things are finally moving for this company, after what appeared to be a four year pause that was coincidentally timed with the increased red tape during the Biden administration.
- China invites India to join its International Lunar Research Station project
The offer is just for PR purposes. It will be a shock if India accepts, considering its hostile relations generally with China. Furthermore, the Chinese alliance includes Pakistan, which is also not a friend to India.
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.
- Starfish’s second Otter Pup tug will attempt this summer its first docking using the company’s docking technology
The demo mission is aimed at attracting business for either de-orbiting defunct satellites or servicing them.
- SaxaVord touts its spaceport to NATO officials
The tour also showed off Rocket Factory Augsberg’s launchpad.
- Blue Origin shows off “an illustration” of its fuel tanker needed for its Blue Moon manned lunar lander
My heart be still. Blue Origin drew a picture! And it only took two years, since it won the contract!
- Blue Origin officials claim the company will do an unmanned lunar landing demo mission later this year
No one believes this claim, and if you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you cheap.
- Relativity touts the ongoing construction of its facilities at Cape Canaveral
It does appear that things are finally moving for this company, after what appeared to be a four year pause that was coincidentally timed with the increased red tape during the Biden administration.
- China invites India to join its International Lunar Research Station project
The offer is just for PR purposes. It will be a shock if India accepts, considering its hostile relations generally with China. Furthermore, the Chinese alliance includes Pakistan, which is also not a friend to India.
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
So, the BO depot gonna have ACES?
Or is hydrogen boil-off a feature so as to have America pay for constant refueling flights for NG like the EELV crowd wanted in place of SD-HLLVs.
China finds what they claim is a new “bug” in Tiangong.
https://www.sciencealert.com/unknown-species-of-bacteria-discovered-in-chinas-space-station
The PRC – Plague Reservoir of Creation
Oh, great…