September 22, 2022 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay, who trolls Tweeter so I don’t have to.
- Want a NASA rocket engine once intended for SLS? GSA has seven for sale!
The engine is the J-2X, a supposed upgrade of the Saturn-5’s J-2 upper stage engines. GSA is selling the components for seven, the auctions to be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Its proposed rocket family will look very familiar to those familiar with SpaceX.
FAST is essentially a larger version of the now-shuttered Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. It is hard to say if it is being used to its full potential at this time, as China right now doesn’t have that many qualified radio astronomers. This is why for a long while it tried to get foreigners to run it, unsuccessfully. With time, however, this will change.
It also appears they plan to fly it past both Venus and some asteroids on its way to the outer solar system.
It is is Chinese, so it would be nice if one of my readers who can read Chinese provides some explanation.
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, who trolls Tweeter so I don’t have to.
- Want a NASA rocket engine once intended for SLS? GSA has seven for sale!
The engine is the J-2X, a supposed upgrade of the Saturn-5’s J-2 upper stage engines. GSA is selling the components for seven, the auctions to be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Its proposed rocket family will look very familiar to those familiar with SpaceX.
FAST is essentially a larger version of the now-shuttered Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. It is hard to say if it is being used to its full potential at this time, as China right now doesn’t have that many qualified radio astronomers. This is why for a long while it tried to get foreigners to run it, unsuccessfully. With time, however, this will change.
It also appears they plan to fly it past both Venus and some asteroids on its way to the outer solar system.
It is is Chinese, so it would be nice if one of my readers who can read Chinese provides some explanation.
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
I was just speaking to someone who’s company seriously considered a bid on that J-2X. There were actually 8 lots, all of which represented various bits and pieces to make just one single engine. I have to wonder why they broke it up into 8 lots none of which would have been very useful alone. Some arcane rule I’m sure…
David, you say “There were actually 8 lots, all of which represented various bits and pieces to make just one single engine”.
As I read that it sounds like you are saying that each lot contains all the parts required to build one engine. I am curious as to why you feel that is strange. Or have I misunderstood you?
Because the Soviet economy was so green
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-expansion-capitalism-deterioration-human-welfare.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-home-ownership-happiness.html
And yet:
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-children-hands-on-financial-responsibility.html
Personhood for ponds—
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-spain-grants-personhood-status-threatened.html
Wakanda forever
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-evolution-martial-art-capoeira.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-african-ubuntu-deepen.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-white-consumers-discrimination-businesses.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-team-fairer-diversifies-results.html
Civics down
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-americans-civics-knowledge-amendment.html
Watch what your kids watch
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-tv-child-cognitive.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-outdated-beliefs-children.html
Prep
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-priorities-food-security-extreme-events.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-discuss-equity-storm-response.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-dinosaurs-survived-co2-extremely-high.html
Toxic—whatever
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-toxic-masculinity-fromand-term.html
Funny
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-eyes-self-driving-cars-accidents.html
Study crime
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-convenience-store-robberies-dynamics-workplace-violence.html
Religion fails
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-youre-faith-religious-ways-cope.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-moral-illusions-behavior.html
Except when it doesn’t
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-power-pulpit-mortality-black-men.html
Don’t question us
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-republican-politicians-increasingly-news-social.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-neoliberals-receptive-political.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-conspiracy-theories-dangerous-people.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-conspiracy-theories-dangerous-dont-affect.html
Just let us handful run everything
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-universities-ideas-people-academia.html
Hope?
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-partisan-animosity-analysis-previous.html
Trust us
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-science-doesnt.html
I think not
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-scientific-facts-history-full-revolutions.html
Climate “denialists”
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-mind-skeptic-mental-gymnastics-climate.html
Climate is settled?
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-coastal-cities-faster-sea.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-climate-clouded-scientific-biases.html ohh.
Time to question Greens after all
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-anti-environmental-favor-economic-growth.html
Green narcs
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-artificial-intelligence-pests-trail-cams.html
plastic narcs
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-plastic-bottle-bag-recycled-material.html
fishing narcs
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-mobile-app-real-fishing-vessels.html
fuel narcs
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-global-database-fossil-fuels.html
Eat up and shut up
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-insects-good-planet-europeans.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-health-groups-fossil-fuel-non-proliferation.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-coal-huge-health-benefitsbut-environmental.html
Attack on aviation
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-aviation-industry-overhaul-response-climate.html
Playing God
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-advance-crispr-technology-replicate-human.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-global-affects-astronomical.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-scientists-mosquitoes-malaria.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-method-scientists-molecules-lysosomes-mice.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-advance-efforts-tailor-drug-delivery.html
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-discovery-cancer-chemotherapy-resistance-solution.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-genetically-yeast-yields-intense-aromas.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-atom-natural-killer-cell-story.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-fertilizers-global-emissions.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-namibian-cheetahs-india-years-local.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-hair-roots-urban-farming-growth.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-scientists-machine-approach-world-food.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-pollution.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-fossil-fuel-reserves-tn-tonnes.html
Not the best option?
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-biofuel-mandate-worst-option-emissions.html
We knew this already
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-bullying-exploitation-day-hospitality.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-emotional-labor-employee-burnout.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-effects-honest-dishonest-gossip.html
Tech news
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-chemical-additives-stability-high-density-lithium-ion.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-cobalt-free-cathode-lithium-ion-batteries.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-fundamental-optical-materials.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-tiny-soft-robot-tinier-bits.html
Space travelers–take note
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-undergrad-publishes-theory-immune-dysfunction.html
History
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-anglo-saxon-migration-insights-genetics.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-israeli-opium-residue-year-old-pottery.html
Holocaust studies
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-theory-women-menstruating-nazi-death.html
Evolutionary quandary
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-three-dimensional-fossil-algae-million-years.html
We are golem
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-life-micaceous-clay.html