November 7, 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.
- Blue Origin gets permit for its New Glenn launchpad deluge system at Cape Canaveral [pdf]
The permit is effective through 2029. From Jay: “I hope it is not potable water! Oh the humanity!” I hate to tell him but it is potable water, according to the permit.
- Nice map showing who is launching where at Cape Canaveral [jpg]
It is a screen capture taken from a NASASpaceflight.com forum.
- ISRO is proposing India’s own manned lunar space station
Launch date 2040. I do not think this project has as yet been approved by the Indian government. I suspect that approval will largely depend on the launch success of India’s Earth-orbit station to be completed by 2030.
- NASA officials are today providing an update on Artemis program
Expect news to show up by tomorrow.
- Fifteen years ago today the Cassini Saturn orbiter photographed the elongated shadow of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, on Saturn itself
A really cool image.
Posting today will continue to be light. I am wearing bandaging on one wrist that makes typing very slow and extremely difficult. All will go back to normal tomorrow.
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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.
- Blue Origin gets permit for its New Glenn launchpad deluge system at Cape Canaveral [pdf]
The permit is effective through 2029. From Jay: “I hope it is not potable water! Oh the humanity!” I hate to tell him but it is potable water, according to the permit.
- Nice map showing who is launching where at Cape Canaveral [jpg]
It is a screen capture taken from a NASASpaceflight.com forum.
- ISRO is proposing India’s own manned lunar space station
Launch date 2040. I do not think this project has as yet been approved by the Indian government. I suspect that approval will largely depend on the launch success of India’s Earth-orbit station to be completed by 2030.
- NASA officials are today providing an update on Artemis program
Expect news to show up by tomorrow.
- Fifteen years ago today the Cassini Saturn orbiter photographed the elongated shadow of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, on Saturn itself
A really cool image.
Posting today will continue to be light. I am wearing bandaging on one wrist that makes typing very slow and extremely difficult. All will go back to normal tomorrow.
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
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That deluge system permit for BO is interesting to note, since they’d been using it already for their recent static fires even without that permit. Where is all the online screaming about that and the public notice that they’re getting fined, playing fast and loose with the rules, and need to be gotten under control?
Get well quickly, Bob!
The moon shadow is remarkable.
Great pic.