October 30, 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.
- Vast touts the completion of pressure and load acceptance testing of the primary structure of its Haven-1 station
 The launch date of spring 2026 appears more and more likely.
- Honda releases video of its successful June test flight of its grasshopper rocket prototype
 The video indicates a number of the company’s space goals, but nothing very specific.
- Video of the rendezvous and capture of JAXA’s HTV-X1 freighter to ISS
 It’s three hours long. Go to 2:53 minutes to see the docking.
- There are rumors of a shake-up in China’s space operations which is going to delay all launches of its pseudo-companies
 Supposedly a new department is being formed to run everything, and that some launches will delayed while this is being done. It also suggests that the pseudo-independence of these fake private companies will now become even more obvious.
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.
- Vast touts the completion of pressure and load acceptance testing of the primary structure of its Haven-1 station
 The launch date of spring 2026 appears more and more likely.
- Honda releases video of its successful June test flight of its grasshopper rocket prototype
 The video indicates a number of the company’s space goals, but nothing very specific.
- Video of the rendezvous and capture of JAXA’s HTV-X1 freighter to ISS
 It’s three hours long. Go to 2:53 minutes to see the docking.
- There are rumors of a shake-up in China’s space operations which is going to delay all launches of its pseudo-companies
 Supposedly a new department is being formed to run everything, and that some launches will delayed while this is being done. It also suggests that the pseudo-independence of these fake private companies will now become even more obvious.
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


Talk about SPACS making a return
https://spacenews.com/interest-rate-cut-further-fuels-space-investor-optimism-amid-talk-of-returning-spacs/
How does one say “Roscosmos” in Chinese?
Two other good pieces of news today:
1) The Haven Demo has been confirmed to be scheduled for launch this Saturday night on the Bandwagon 4 mission.
2) The second New Glenn is vertical on pad 36 at CCSFS in preparation for its launch of Escapade. Expect a static fire to occur shortly.
To Calvin,
The answer is “Dear occupant”
Interesting find via magnetics
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-strong-magnetic-field-duality-materials.html
The New Glenn static fire was successful.