October 6, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Sierra Space hires former SpaceX executive
His job is “Chief Information Officer,” which sounds like pr.
- China’s X-37B knockoff has now been in orbit for two months
Apparently the concept art at the link is wrong, as it does not show the knock-off’s twin tails, like the X-37B
- ISRO’s commercial arm, NSIL, to launch 36 OneWeb satellites on GSLV-MK3 rocket second half of October 2022
This will be NSIL’s first commercial launch of India’s GSLV-MK3 rocket, its largest. It will also be the first in OneWeb’s effort to replace the Russia Soyuz-2. SpaceX had signed the first contract with OneWeb after the Ukraine War started, but apparently OneWeb wants to fly first on India’s rocket.
- Second Long March 6A rocket delivered to launch site
This rocket is designed to only need two weeks to prep for flight, so the launch could happen this month.
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Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Sierra Space hires former SpaceX executive
His job is “Chief Information Officer,” which sounds like pr.
- China’s X-37B knockoff has now been in orbit for two months
Apparently the concept art at the link is wrong, as it does not show the knock-off’s twin tails, like the X-37B
- ISRO’s commercial arm, NSIL, to launch 36 OneWeb satellites on GSLV-MK3 rocket second half of October 2022
This will be NSIL’s first commercial launch of India’s GSLV-MK3 rocket, its largest. It will also be the first in OneWeb’s effort to replace the Russia Soyuz-2. SpaceX had signed the first contract with OneWeb after the Ukraine War started, but apparently OneWeb wants to fly first on India’s rocket.
- Second Long March 6A rocket delivered to launch site
This rocket is designed to only need two weeks to prep for flight, so the launch could happen this month.
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.
Re: Sierra Space hires former SpaceX executive. “CIO”s are typically more responsible for a corporation’s information technology (IT) strategy than its public relations. Don’t know about this guy, but he was recently (post-SpaceX) involved in “SAAS” (Software As A Service) which is a pretty hard-core IT line of business.
The Moon came quickly?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-giant-impact-moon-rapidly-scientists.html
The trouble with Venus
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-venus-people.html
Shock-darkening
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-potential-source-shock-darkened-meteorites.html
Uranian tilt
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-explanation-uranus-odd-tilt-angle.html
The 51 minute orbit
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-astronomers-cataclysmic-pair-stars-shortest.html
Laughing gas in space
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-gas-space-life.html
ET?
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-world-alien-civilization.html
Cosmic rays
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cosmic-ray-protons-reveal-spectral.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-yeast-dna-space-astronauts-cosmic.html
Using light to control magnetics at the small scale
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-magnetic-fields-nanoscale.html
Computer training—good for games?
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-technique-enables-on-device-quarter-megabyte.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-algorithms-four-legged-robots-wild.html
Memory material
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-kind-shape-memory-material.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-everyday-materials-memories-erased.html
Machine vision breakthrough
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-machine-vision-breakthrough-device-millions.html
24/7 solar
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-solar-harvesting-potential-power.html
New silk
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-re-spun-silkworm-silk-stronger-spider.html
Diesel to hydrogen
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-retrofits-diesel-hydrogen.html
CO2 to products
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-on-site-reactors-carbon-dioxide-valuable.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-machine-materials-discovery.html
“Click chemistry”
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-click-chemistry-nobel-winning-science-world.html
New membrane for desalination
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-salt-equation.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-artificial-enzyme-efficiently.html
de-icing
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-coating-aims-aircraft-de-icing.html
Whitest paint now ready for vehicles
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-world-whitest-thinner-ideal-vehicles.html
beam shaper
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-fabricate-tiny-multi-component-shaper-optical.html
Molten salt news
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-molten-salt-corrosive-effect.html
New med finds
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-molecular-chiral-pool-medicinal-chemists.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-team-breakthrough-production-acclaimed-cancer-treating.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-far-ultraviolet-bacteria-viruses-efficiently-humans.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-dna-analysis-subtypes-heart-disease.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-optical-biosensing-toy-microscope-surface.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-discovery-redirects-efforts-treatment-liver.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cell-sentinel-neutralizes-hepatitis.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-microelectrode-array-precise-2d-spinal.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-chemo-mechanical-oscillations-mimic-protocell-behavior.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-specialized-smart-soft-contact-lenses.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-petting-dogs-engages-social-brain.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-scientists-dual-function-messenger-rna.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nanoprinting-electrodes-customized-treatments-neurological.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-decreased-proteins-amyloid-plaques-tied.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-human-brain.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-one-stop-shop-brain-imaging.html Brain atlas
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-reveals-brain-mechanisms-covid-delirium.html COVID BRAIN
We were told Omega-3 didn’t work
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-links-omega-3s-brain-cognition-midlife.html
The A.I. chip
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-chip-ideal-ai.html
Ugh
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-ai-laser-roaches.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-human-embryos-cancer-fuse.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-microbes-cavities-superorganisms-teeth.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-cancer-cluster-alabama-town.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-powerful-computer-modeling-approach-cell-simulations.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-viruses-knowledge-metagenomics-technologies.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-mouse-embryo-stem-cells-mammalian.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-coronavirus-formation-successfully.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-harpoon-tails-predatory-mosquito-larvae.html
Greens at it again
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-uk-climate-protesters-undeterred-govt.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-fairest-tax-carbon-air.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-opinion-gas-york-state.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-gas-wells-deer-migration.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-redefines-conversations-scarcity.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-widespread-pipe-technique-nanoplastics-atmosphere.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-analysis-shipping-emissions-reveals-air.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-wetland-ecologist.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-onshore-algae-farms-breadbasket-global.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-spanking-discipline-intimate-partner-violence.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-glass-microspheres-arctic-sea-ice.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-chemicals-deer-fish-hunters-tourism.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-tiny-amount-oil-seabirds-feathers.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-heat-loving-bacteria-antarctic-volcano-tackle.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-written-women.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-women-antarctica-assault-legacy-exclusion.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-power-unstable-grids.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-ransomware-algorithm-power-blackouts.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-indigenous-defenders-illegal-roads-survival.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-latest-fashion-trend-consumers.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-evidence-carnivores.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-video-footage-orcas-white-sharks.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-years-complex-climate-history-previously.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-climate-simulation-realistic-artificial-intelligence.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-sustainable-concrete-emissions.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-extinct-wood-eating-cockroach-rediscovered-years.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-humanity-ozone-hole-climate.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-online-streaming-banking-urged-carbon.html
better beer
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-microbiologists-beer.html
Pot-breathalyser
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-high-chemists-marijuana.html
On human nature
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-explanation-consciousness.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-do-you-act-before-think.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-college-student-fomo-illicit-behavior.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-numerical-human.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-mysterious-denisovans.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-social-media-linked-depression-personality.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-gender-legal-response-domestic-violence.html new book
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-speaker-specific-acoustics.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-russian-invasion-ukraine-historic-artworks.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-medieval-manuscripts-feature-doodles-reveal.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-war-disturbs-nature-permanently.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-struggling-friends-adult-older.html
Don’t listen to critics
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-conspiracy-theories-flourish-youtube.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nobel-physics-winner-topple-quantum.html
Moneyball
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-algorithms-sports-teams-accuracy.html
Who, me?
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-seemingly-endless-storage-fingertips-digital.html
Little bit of overkill.
I don’t like looking at the political stuff—but someone has to.
For example:
https://campfirecolorado.com/news/colorado-town-installing-robots-to-track-citizens-via-license-plates/
These and the Greens have to be watched.