October 4, 2022 Quick space links
- Northrop Grumman names next Cygnus cargo freighter after Sally Ride
The launch is presently scheduled for November 6, 2022.
- China to develop nine new rocket engines by 2028
The first on the list is their attempt to copy or beat SpaceX’s Raptor-2 engine. I wonder if their academic spies in the U.S. have managed to steal some juicy engineering data.
- Astronauts growing rice and tomatoes on Tiangong-3 space station
Too early to say if these experiments are a success, but they follow many similar planet experiments on the Salyut stations, Mir, and ISS.
- Iran completes suborbital rocket test launch
According to the state-run press, the rocket, dubbed Saman, tested an “orbital transmission system and … its capability to change the orbit of satellites in near-space conditions.”
- Viasat sells off part of its company to pay debts
Company officials try to paint a rosy picture, but the future does not look good for this established geosynchronous satellite company.
- OneWeb satellites installed on GSLV rocket for October launch
Though OneWeb signed first with SpaceX to replace the Russians launch services, it appears the company wants to launch first with India.
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 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
- Northrop Grumman names next Cygnus cargo freighter after Sally Ride
The launch is presently scheduled for November 6, 2022.
- China to develop nine new rocket engines by 2028
The first on the list is their attempt to copy or beat SpaceX’s Raptor-2 engine. I wonder if their academic spies in the U.S. have managed to steal some juicy engineering data.
- Astronauts growing rice and tomatoes on Tiangong-3 space station
Too early to say if these experiments are a success, but they follow many similar planet experiments on the Salyut stations, Mir, and ISS.
- Iran completes suborbital rocket test launch
According to the state-run press, the rocket, dubbed Saman, tested an “orbital transmission system and … its capability to change the orbit of satellites in near-space conditions.”
- Viasat sells off part of its company to pay debts
Company officials try to paint a rosy picture, but the future does not look good for this established geosynchronous satellite company.
- OneWeb satellites installed on GSLV rocket for October launch
Though OneWeb signed first with SpaceX to replace the Russians launch services, it appears the company wants to launch first with India.
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 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
“China to develop nine new rocket engines by 2028”
There are infrequent times that I think China steals things from us because the rest of us steal from everyone else, them too.
Then I remember that China is older than most all the ages of the current world’s countries combined.
What a role model.
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For one astronaut’s take on Sally Ride, read “Riding Rockets” by Mike Mullane. A hell of a good book about the real “right stuff”. Safe to say he would prefer a spacecraft named after Judith Resnick.