November 7, 2025 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.
- South Korean rocket startup Innospace to attempt its first launch on November 22, 2025 from Brazil
The rocket, dubbed HANBIT-Nano, will deploy five smallsats if it reaches orbit.
- A detailed review of New Zealand’s failed MethaneSAT climate satellite
The bottom line: Bad decisions in development were made based not quality but on politics, resulting in a faulty spacecraft. This was further compounded by the project’s lack on honesty and transparency.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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. 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.
- South Korean rocket startup Innospace to attempt its first launch on November 22, 2025 from Brazil
The rocket, dubbed HANBIT-Nano, will deploy five smallsats if it reaches orbit.
- A detailed review of New Zealand’s failed MethaneSAT climate satellite
The bottom line: Bad decisions in development were made based not quality but on politics, resulting in a faulty spacecraft. This was further compounded by the project’s lack on honesty and transparency.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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
MethaneSAT
“”project’s lack on honesty and transparency.””
What a Surprise!
An entire satellite dedicated to “proving” the Globull Warming, Globull Cooling, Climate Change, Climate Crisis Hoax.
New Zealand partnering with The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).
When will the EDF and all the other Climate Charlatans start “studying” the amount of water vapor? Never.
Only the evil hydrocarbons that fuel freedom are to be studied, controlled and limited.
30% of the earth is covered in clouds on average. +/- 10%
(have you ever seen a picture of the earth without clouds?)
H4O2 blocks and reflects a larger window of the energy spectrum than any other atmospheric substance but they don’t count it because it’s part of the hydrosphere.
Carbon makes up 10% of the natural elements in earths crust.
All life on this planet is carbon-based. To hate all carbon life is to be a member of a death cult.
The emperor knows he has no clothes, he is a pervert. Unfortunately he also has a large army with guns daring somebody to say something…
Ronaldus Magnus asked (and answered): “When will the EDF and all the other Climate Charlatans start ‘studying’ the amount of water vapor? Never.”
What is most interesting to me, with this question and its obvious answer, is that the popular, favored climate models — the ones that are still used despite having been proved wrong — make the assumption that it is not the CO2 itself that is the major source of global warming (or climate change/climate disruption/the coming ice age/whatever) but that the very slight warming caused by CO2 results in an increase in water vapor in the atmosphere, and that water vapor causes much more warming than caused by the CO2. The CO2 is measured, but measuring H2O is more difficult.
CO2 is somewhat more evenly distributed throughout the atmosphere, but because H2O precipitates out in various areas at various times, the water content of the air is very different around the world and generally changes daily or hourly.
The attempt to add methane (CH4) into the equation is also difficult, as it chemically reacts over time, turning into lesser greenhouse gasses. Did I say add it to the equation? That is wrong. They were not intending to add it to the failed climate models or any other models. They only wanted to add it to the discussion that is based upon those failed models. When the reality varied from the models, the climate community changed the datasets that represent the reality — fudged the datasets! — changing them in order to make it appear that the data look more like the favored, yet failed, models — to make it look like the models match reality better than they do. They changed the record of the reality in order to rationalize their failed models and to make their version of the discussion seem reasonable.
How does all this relate to the essay on how poorly they managed MethaneSAT?
From the Essay:
and:
The entire premise of the purpose of the satellite was flawed. It was not intended to do basic research into methane in the atmosphere so that this chemical could be related to the effects of the other chemicals, but it was intended to place blame on two or so industries for global warming (or whatever today’s politically correct term may be).
But, we are told to follow The Science. The Science is the political branch of science* (science does not need a political branch). Science (not The Science**) neither leads us nor presents us with a path to follow. Science does not determine morals, ethics, good from bad, or what actions to do and what actions to avoid. Those are the realm of philosophy and politics, which are responsible for discussing and determining our principles and doctrines for our ethics and morals.
Bogus models. Bogus The Science. Bogus discussions. Bogus research satellites. Bogus dataset handling. Bogus war on our “carbon footprint.”
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* The activity of the systematic study of the world and universe through observation and experiment.
Science only shows the state of the universe. It does not direct us what way to change or improve the world around us. It provides no morals, ethics, values, principles, standards, or ideals. It does not tell us what is right or wrong, beneficial or harmful, virtuous or evil, good or bad, excellent or diabolical. These are the purviews of philosophy (or religion), and from these we derive politics (power over others) in order to create rules, regulations, and laws (red tape) that assure a civilized society that follows its own set of doctrines, based upon its morals, ethics, etc.
** The Science is the use, or abuse, of science to rationalize political decisions. Desires are brought to The Science, and science is asked to justify them. If it cannot, science is ignored.
“Follow The Science.”
Atmospheric speed chart
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A36169
Spaceplane art…papers
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/french-tsto-studies-of-the-60s.4096/page-2#post-534505