November 5, 2024 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company proposes another copycat New Shepard suborbital tourist spacecraft
There are a lot of these pseudo-companies popping up in China. Who knows how many are real.
- Cargo Dragon just launched will test using Draco thrusters to reboost ISS
This test will change the station’s telemetry almost not at all, but its goal is to eventually find multiple options for replacing this task presently done by Russian Progresses.
- Twin ESA satellites arrive in India for intergration into PSLV rocket
Launch is presentlhy scheduled for November 29, 2024.
- On this day in 2013 India launches its first interplanetary probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan
It operated in Mars orbit for about eight years.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the 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. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay. This post is also an open thread. I welcome my readers to post any comments or additional links relating to any space issues, even if unrelated to the links below.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company proposes another copycat New Shepard suborbital tourist spacecraft
There are a lot of these pseudo-companies popping up in China. Who knows how many are real.
- Cargo Dragon just launched will test using Draco thrusters to reboost ISS
This test will change the station’s telemetry almost not at all, but its goal is to eventually find multiple options for replacing this task presently done by Russian Progresses.
- Twin ESA satellites arrive in India for intergration into PSLV rocket
Launch is presentlhy scheduled for November 29, 2024.
- On this day in 2013 India launches its first interplanetary probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan
It operated in Mars orbit for about eight years.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the 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. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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
Behind The Black
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.
India launches an interplanetary “problem”?
Michael: Oy. Fixed. Thank you.
Man, the humidity must have dropped last night! Looked this morning and a half-bottle of Makers had just evaporated!
I am shocked that Trump won. Thought there was a lacking of enthusiasm during the last few weeks of the campaign. Even now with Trump reported as the victor, does not seem to be much excitement. Really hope that Elon stays away from Washington. Cutting government spending means actual people lose their jobs and the benefits they rely on. Not the job for an industrialist.
How Trump Won The Amish Vote in Pennsylvania
https://youtu.be/eNbDbaF9Hvc
8:01