October 31, 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.
- Goldstone antenna touts its part in detecting Voyager-1’s signal, suddenly coming from a frequency not used in more than four decades
Truly something to tout, as this is amazing engineering detective work.
- Next launch of Mitsubishi’s H3 rocket for JAXA is now scheduled for November 2, 2024
The rocket will place a Japanese military communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit, the first time it has done so.
- The pseudo-commercial division of a Chinese space agency now aims to market itself to the international launch market
The pseudo-company is CAS Space, and its rocket is Kinetica-1 (which has launched four times so far). It also has its not-yet-flown Kinetica-2 rocket.
How it hopes to garner any business having any links to American aerospace technology I have no idea. There are many strict laws and State Department ITAR regulations prohibiting any American business from working in or with China.
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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.
- Goldstone antenna touts its part in detecting Voyager-1’s signal, suddenly coming from a frequency not used in more than four decades
Truly something to tout, as this is amazing engineering detective work.
- Next launch of Mitsubishi’s H3 rocket for JAXA is now scheduled for November 2, 2024
The rocket will place a Japanese military communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit, the first time it has done so.
- The pseudo-commercial division of a Chinese space agency now aims to market itself to the international launch market
The pseudo-company is CAS Space, and its rocket is Kinetica-1 (which has launched four times so far). It also has its not-yet-flown Kinetica-2 rocket.How it hopes to garner any business having any links to American aerospace technology I have no idea. There are many strict laws and State Department ITAR regulations prohibiting any American business from working in or with China.
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.
Multi mode propulsion
https://www.universetoday.com/169090/multimode-propulsion-could-revolutionize-how-we-launch-things-to-space/