September 19, 2025 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.
- Starcloud and Mission Space forge partnership to integrate Starcloud’s “orbital data centers” with Mission Space’s weather data, using AI
More AI, and a press release that makes it almost incomprehensible what these companies plan to do.
- Stoke Space touts installation of its flame diverter at its launchpad in Florida
Water suppression tests are next.
- The Parker Solar Probe completes its 25th Sun close flyby
This fly-by matched the records of two previous close approaches, getting within 3.8 million miles of the Sun at a speed of 430,000 miles per hour.
- On this day in 1977, Voyager 1 took the first image of both Earth and Moon, in a single frame
It was taken from 7.25 million miles away, two weeks after launch as the spacecraft headed out into the solar system.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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. 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.
- Starcloud and Mission Space forge partnership to integrate Starcloud’s “orbital data centers” with Mission Space’s weather data, using AI
More AI, and a press release that makes it almost incomprehensible what these companies plan to do.
- Stoke Space touts installation of its flame diverter at its launchpad in Florida
Water suppression tests are next.
- The Parker Solar Probe completes its 25th Sun close flyby
This fly-by matched the records of two previous close approaches, getting within 3.8 million miles of the Sun at a speed of 430,000 miles per hour.
- On this day in 1977, Voyager 1 took the first image of both Earth and Moon, in a single frame
It was taken from 7.25 million miles away, two weeks after launch as the spacecraft headed out into the solar system.
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 print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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