September 30, 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.
- Axiom signs deal to establish an astronaut training program with the Maldives
The deal also includes working with the Maldives’s space agency on other space-related projects.
- Honda and Astrobotic sign deal to work together in creating a power system for lunar bases
Astrobotic is developing a solar array system. Honda will add its regenerative fuel cell for power storage.
- ISRO announces it is now targeting early 2027 for the first manned Gaganyaan mission
The only change here is that ISRO wants to launch early in the year.
- Sierra Space touts completion of critical design review for its missile tracking satellites for military’s Space Development Agency
It will now begin production of the eighteen satellites.
- Rocket Lab wins another ten- launch contract from Synspective
Synspective has now bought a total of 21 launches from Rocket Lab, making it the rocket company’s biggest customer.
- On this day in 2004, Mike Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne to an altitude of 64 miles
This was the second of three flights, which won SpaceShipOne the X-Prize.
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.
- Axiom signs deal to establish an astronaut training program with the Maldives
The deal also includes working with the Maldives’s space agency on other space-related projects.
- Honda and Astrobotic sign deal to work together in creating a power system for lunar bases
Astrobotic is developing a solar array system. Honda will add its regenerative fuel cell for power storage.
- ISRO announces it is now targeting early 2027 for the first manned Gaganyaan mission
The only change here is that ISRO wants to launch early in the year.
- Sierra Space touts completion of critical design review for its missile tracking satellites for military’s Space Development Agency
It will now begin production of the eighteen satellites.
- Rocket Lab wins another ten- launch contract from Synspective
Synspective has now bought a total of 21 launches from Rocket Lab, making it the rocket company’s biggest customer.
- On this day in 2004, Mike Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne to an altitude of 64 miles
This was the second of three flights, which won SpaceShipOne the X-Prize.
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