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.
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
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.
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
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.