November 29, 2022 Quick space links
Thanks to BtB’s stringer Jay for digging these up.
- ULA installs engines on Centaur, the Vulcan upper stage
This Centaur will be on Vulcan’s inaugural launch, presently scheduled for next year.
- IAU issues statement complaining about the brightnees of AST Spacemobile’s BlueWalker-3 satellite
Essentially, astronomers are unhappy both about its brightness and its use of radio frequencies. The first could interfere with optical astronomy, the second with radio astronomy.
Once again, the solution is obvious: Stop building ground-based telescopes and build them in space, beyond Earth orbit, so these needed orbiting constellations won’t get in their way.
- South Korean leader pushes for unmanned landing on Moon by ’32, and on Mars by ’45
A decade to launch a lunar lander, eh? Both Israel and the UAE went from concept to launch in less than five years. South Korea should be able to do as well, if not better. If not, then this is really nothing more than a jobs program.
- Engineers continue efforts to communication with IceCube, launched on SLS
The cubesat was designed to go into lunar orbit, but engineers have so far failed to communicate with it since deployment.
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
Thanks to BtB’s stringer Jay for digging these up.
- ULA installs engines on Centaur, the Vulcan upper stage
This Centaur will be on Vulcan’s inaugural launch, presently scheduled for next year.
- IAU issues statement complaining about the brightnees of AST Spacemobile’s BlueWalker-3 satellite
Essentially, astronomers are unhappy both about its brightness and its use of radio frequencies. The first could interfere with optical astronomy, the second with radio astronomy.
Once again, the solution is obvious: Stop building ground-based telescopes and build them in space, beyond Earth orbit, so these needed orbiting constellations won’t get in their way.
- South Korean leader pushes for unmanned landing on Moon by ’32, and on Mars by ’45
A decade to launch a lunar lander, eh? Both Israel and the UAE went from concept to launch in less than five years. South Korea should be able to do as well, if not better. If not, then this is really nothing more than a jobs program.
- Engineers continue efforts to communication with IceCube, launched on SLS
The cubesat was designed to go into lunar orbit, but engineers have so far failed to communicate with it since deployment.
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
“Once again, the solution is obvious: Stop building ground-based telescopes and build them in space, beyond Earth orbit, so these needed orbiting constellations won’t get in their way.”
Better to curse the darkness, than to light one candle.