November 17, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who trolls Twitter so we don’t have to.
- South Africa signs deal with NASA to build a communications ground station for Artemis Moon missions
The plan is for the dish to become operative in ’25. It remains a puzzle. Shouldn’t the recently upgraded Deep Space Network provide this service?
- First test launch of Russia’s new manned Oryol capsule delayed until ’25
Wanna bet they won’t meet this date either?
- Spacewalk on Tiangong-3 to install handrails and other hardware to facilitate future EVAs
The work was done yesterday, and was the third for the Shenzhou-14 crew.
- China publishes new five-year-plan covering 2021 to 2025, with a chapter outlining its space plans
The link goes to the Chinese language version, with only a small excerpt translated into English.
- Rocket Lab about to roll its Electron rocket to Wallops launchpad
The launch, set for December 7th, will the the company’s first from Wallops.
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
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who trolls Twitter so we don’t have to.
- South Africa signs deal with NASA to build a communications ground station for Artemis Moon missions
The plan is for the dish to become operative in ’25. It remains a puzzle. Shouldn’t the recently upgraded Deep Space Network provide this service?
- First test launch of Russia’s new manned Oryol capsule delayed until ’25
Wanna bet they won’t meet this date either?
- Spacewalk on Tiangong-3 to install handrails and other hardware to facilitate future EVAs
The work was done yesterday, and was the third for the Shenzhou-14 crew.
- China publishes new five-year-plan covering 2021 to 2025, with a chapter outlining its space plans
The link goes to the Chinese language version, with only a small excerpt translated into English.
- Rocket Lab about to roll its Electron rocket to Wallops launchpad
The launch, set for December 7th, will the the company’s first from Wallops.
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
“Shouldn’t the recently upgraded Deep Space Network provide this service?”
Well, this may be part of the new network, with enhanced coverage of southern latitudes as required by the near-rectilinear halo orbits around the Moon. Right now southern coverage is limited to Australia-accessible longitudes. Bet they’ll go for a South America site too.
And SLS work was called ‘go fever:”
https://spaceexplored.com/2022/10/27/spaces-starship-accident/
Not sure how significant it is, but 39B was damaged during Artemis launch.
https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/status/1593392601385914372?s=20&t=XkkIb4zVPE5PZQOulXPSiA
Gary,
Thanks for that information. I remember when LC-39B was damaged by the Ares I-X test launch back in 2009.