November 22, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Damage to mobile launcher from SLS launch
More damage can be seen here. NASA apparently considers this damage no big deal, other than demonstrating how powerful SLS is.
- Blue Origin touts cooperative agreement with Space Force.
The deal is a first step toward becoming a launch provider for the Space Force. As Jay noted to me, “Wait, how many rockets does Blue Origin have again? How many have made it to orbit? How is that BE-4 going?”
- Next Shenzhou manned capsule on Long March 2F rolled to launchpad
Launch is scheduled for November 29th, and will facilitate the first on-station crew rotation on Tiangong-3.
- Chinese pseudo-company Orienspace says it will launch its solid rocket Gravitation-1 three times by early ’24
It also says it had ten more launches planned through ’25.
- Chinese pseudo-company Ispace lays off half its workforce
This reduction follows a failed rocket launch in May, the third in four attempts.
- ISRO preparing PSLV rocket for November 26th launch
The launch will place one Earth observation satellite and eight smallsats in orbit.
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.
- Damage to mobile launcher from SLS launch
More damage can be seen here. NASA apparently considers this damage no big deal, other than demonstrating how powerful SLS is.
- Blue Origin touts cooperative agreement with Space Force.
The deal is a first step toward becoming a launch provider for the Space Force. As Jay noted to me, “Wait, how many rockets does Blue Origin have again? How many have made it to orbit? How is that BE-4 going?”
- Next Shenzhou manned capsule on Long March 2F rolled to launchpad
Launch is scheduled for November 29th, and will facilitate the first on-station crew rotation on Tiangong-3.
- Chinese pseudo-company Orienspace says it will launch its solid rocket Gravitation-1 three times by early ’24
It also says it had ten more launches planned through ’25.
- Chinese pseudo-company Ispace lays off half its workforce
This reduction follows a failed rocket launch in May, the third in four attempts.
- ISRO preparing PSLV rocket for November 26th launch
The launch will place one Earth observation satellite and eight smallsats in orbit.
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
As to the SLS launch pad damage, it’s not like the repair teams will be operating under a tight deadline. I’m sure the pad will be in Bristol shape sterling when the next ship arrives.
Also some damage at SuperHeavy’s recent static test-mostly chain link fencing. I have seen images where such fences stop lava flows, yet gas-flow topples them.