May 26, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- The flight path taken by Hakuto-R1 as it entered Atlas Crater to attempt its lunar landing
According to the investigation, the software problem occurred as it flew over the north rim of the crater, causing later altitude data to be measured inaccurately.
- Ispace says Hakuto-R1 mission was insured
The link refers to “liability insurance”, which usually covers injury to yourself and others. It is unclear if Ispace’s insurance covered property loss.
- Blue Origin expanding its Alabama rocket facility for the third time
The local city council approved the sale of almost fifteen acres to the company. No word however if this means rockets and engines will actually finally appear from the factory.
- China touts the upgrades on its next six manned Shenzhou capsules
The upgrades apparently include more parts made domestically plus an upgraded control panel.
- Juice team completes full deployment of spacecraft, declaring it in “full flight configuration”
This last deployment involved the opening and positioning of several sensors on the spacecraft’s boom
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- The flight path taken by Hakuto-R1 as it entered Atlas Crater to attempt its lunar landing
According to the investigation, the software problem occurred as it flew over the north rim of the crater, causing later altitude data to be measured inaccurately.
- Ispace says Hakuto-R1 mission was insured
The link refers to “liability insurance”, which usually covers injury to yourself and others. It is unclear if Ispace’s insurance covered property loss.
- Blue Origin expanding its Alabama rocket facility for the third time
The local city council approved the sale of almost fifteen acres to the company. No word however if this means rockets and engines will actually finally appear from the factory.
- China touts the upgrades on its next six manned Shenzhou capsules
The upgrades apparently include more parts made domestically plus an upgraded control panel.
- Juice team completes full deployment of spacecraft, declaring it in “full flight configuration”
This last deployment involved the opening and positioning of several sensors on the spacecraft’s boom
Readers!
Every February I run a fund-raising drive during my birthday month. This year I celebrate my 72nd birthday, and hope and plan to continue writing and posting on Behind the Black for as long as I am able.
I hope my readers will support this effort. As I did in my November fund-raising drive, I am offering autographed copies of my books for large donations. Donate $250 and you can have a choice of the hardback of either Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8 or Conscious Choice: The origins of slavery in America and why it matters today and for our future in outer space. Donate $200 and you can get an autographed paperback copy of either.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. 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
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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.
“Kamikaze Marketing: Why One Corporation After Another Is Falling on Its Woke Sword”
https://discernreport.com/kamikaze-marketing-why-one-corporation-after-another-is-falling-on-its-woke-sword/
This article gave an interesting explanation as to why company after company (Disney, Target, Anheuser-Busch…) keep doing woke advertising that causes them to lose billions of dollars.
Part of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) policies are CEI scores (Corporate Equality Index) where a company scores points for how woke they are on the CEI Index. A company will get 25 points if they have “Equal health coverage for transgender individuals without exclusion for medically necessary care” and 15 points if they have “LGBTQ employee recruitment efforts with demonstrated reach of LGBTQ+ applicants”.
Investment companies like BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Bank are the top shareholders of most American publicly-traded corporations. They are driving this woke agenda and their approval or disapproval can make a company succeed or fail. “So investor money is more important than consumer money.” These woke power brokers investing are more important than consumers buying.
(Note, this only makes sense if you’re insane so I may have gotten some of the facts wrong)
The lander’s sensor accurately measured the change in altitude. The software judged the accurate data as erroneous and disregarded it. It kept descending as if it were just above the surface instead of 5 km high. Ran out of fuel.
Famous last words. Let’s go take a look over there.
“ispace chief technology officer Ryo Ujiie noted that this fatal discrepancy came from a last minute decision to move the robot’s target landing site from a flat plain on the Moon called Lacus Somniorum to the Atlas
Ujiie told reporters on May 26 that the change in destination was prompted by the fact that the crater was considered more scientifically interesting than the plains, which can be more easily examined by telescope.
Asked if the vehicle might have landed at the original site, Ujiie said that “it is very hypothetical, [but] yes, we might have had a chance to successfully land on the Moon.”