October 8, 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.
- New computer models suggest Ceres has an icy crust and was once covered with muddy ocean
Everyone say after me: “The uncertainty of science!”
- Graphic showing all rockets developed by India’s space agency ISRO, past, present, and future
This will be more exciting when the list shows rockets from private Indian companies.
- ISRO building third launchpad at its Sriharikota spaceport
This is in addition to a second completely different spaceport being developed further south.
- ULA’s CEO touts video of release of fairings during last week’s Vulcan launch
All I kept thinking is ULA is throwing those away, while SpaceX has been recovering and reusing its fairings now for years.
- China completes main antenna installation of new 40 meter radio telescope in Shigatse, Tibet
It appears this antenna is to increase China’s ability to detect things in orbit, though this is not certain.
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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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
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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.
- New computer models suggest Ceres has an icy crust and was once covered with muddy ocean
Everyone say after me: “The uncertainty of science!”
- Graphic showing all rockets developed by India’s space agency ISRO, past, present, and future
This will be more exciting when the list shows rockets from private Indian companies.
- ISRO building third launchpad at its Sriharikota spaceport
This is in addition to a second completely different spaceport being developed further south.
- ULA’s CEO touts video of release of fairings during last week’s Vulcan launch
All I kept thinking is ULA is throwing those away, while SpaceX has been recovering and reusing its fairings now for years.
- China completes main antenna installation of new 40 meter radio telescope in Shigatse, Tibet
It appears this antenna is to increase China’s ability to detect things in orbit, though this is not certain.
The support of my readers through the years has given 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. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to 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.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are five 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:
5. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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FTS charges installed on ship 30
https://twitter.com/StarshipGazer/status/1844030056856961316
regarding flooding due to rainfall ( in Asheville, after Helene ), are civil engineers able to identify locations in the river system where the water backed up? Then do civil construction work to enable the water to drain at an increased rate?
Tibet is unavailable for comment.
Steve-
My g-father was a Civil Engineer, but I just play one on the internet.
->Too much water all at once over a wide area. It doesn’t back-up as such, just all at once.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is tasked, in part, with flood-control as part of their electrification projects.
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/landscapes/files/2016/04/TVA-Service-Area-Map.jpg