Nanoracks signs deal to be first customer for Canadian spaceport
Capitalism in space: Nanoracks announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with Maritime Launch Services, the Canadian company managing a proposed spaceport in Nova Scotia as well as the launch services of a Ukrainian-built rocket, the Cyclone-4M.
The company and spaceport are targeting 2023 for launch.
Spaceport Nova Scotia is being operated a little differently than most of the new commercial spaceports. Instead of offering its facilities to all rocket companies, its manager, Maritime, has partnered with the two Ukrainian companies, Yuzhnoye and Yuzhmash, that build the Cyclone-4M. They then offer the spaceport and rocket, as a unit, directly to satellite companies like Nanoracks.
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Capitalism in space: Nanoracks announced yesterday that it has signed a deal with Maritime Launch Services, the Canadian company managing a proposed spaceport in Nova Scotia as well as the launch services of a Ukrainian-built rocket, the Cyclone-4M.
The company and spaceport are targeting 2023 for launch.
Spaceport Nova Scotia is being operated a little differently than most of the new commercial spaceports. Instead of offering its facilities to all rocket companies, its manager, Maritime, has partnered with the two Ukrainian companies, Yuzhnoye and Yuzhmash, that build the Cyclone-4M. They then offer the spaceport and rocket, as a unit, directly to satellite companies like Nanoracks.
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 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
The higher latitude means higher inclination orbits, of course. However, that said, they will have a nice choice of headings free from islands downrange, vs. “threading the needle” required by some Florida launches.
Interesting.
What happens when Joe takes the Swiss deposit and the 20th Century New Red Army makes the Ukraine the Next Warm Water Port Extended Complex……..
Russia massing troops on Ukraine border
“i24 News,” November 14, 2021
https://youtu.be/CKKPhTZAFkY
5:17
Wayne, that video shows up as restricted/blocked for me.
George C–
it (still) shows up ok for me.
Do a search for the exact title, which is “Ukraine: ‘Russia has 100,000 troops near our border'” But before you do that– clear your browser cache.
bottom line– the russians have been massing troops & hardware near the Ukraine border for a solid 6+ months. In the past 3-4 weeks they stepped up heavy rail shipments of tanks and support equipment.
Cyclone wears civilian clothes. In its fatigues, it was the SS-9 Scarp (R-36) “City Buster”….The first FOBS lobber. It a red Titan II.
The similar SS-18 became Dnepr.
The RS-28 Sarmat is their biggest liquid ICBM designed from the start for multiple payloads.
The Zenit-like Soyuz 5 (Don? Sunkar?) would have been better. Soyuz 5 is an all Russian version of the Ukrainian Zenit. But they never made the four-nozzle RD-170 engines. Cut it in half, and you have the Atlas RD-180 which we did get blueprints to and could manufacture IIRC.