September 6, 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.
- Watch the unmanned landing of Starliner at White Sands
The landing is scheduled for 12:03 am (Eastern) tonight.
- Astra confirms that two of its new satellite engines have test fired successfully in orbit
The company has had serious financial troubles, and has thus pulled back from building and launching rockets to simply making small engines and thrusters for satellites.
- Webb spectroscopic data suggests a nearby exoplanet with a mass 2.31 times greater than Earth’s has a sulfur-rich atmosphere
The star it orbits is M-dwarf about 35 light years away, and has a solar system of four known exoplanets, so far.
- Computer modeling suggests some debris from DART impact of asteroid Dimorphos could reach Earth
The models suggest some debris could reach both Earth and Mars in about thirteen years, producing the first man-made meteor shower. The debris poses no threat however.
- Slingshot Aerospace data suggests an Atlas-5 upper stage launched in 2018 has broken up in orbit
The orbit is highly elliptical, and it is unclear at this moment if the debris cloud poses a threat to any other satellites
Readers!
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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.
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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.
- Watch the unmanned landing of Starliner at White Sands
The landing is scheduled for 12:03 am (Eastern) tonight.
- Astra confirms that two of its new satellite engines have test fired successfully in orbit
The company has had serious financial troubles, and has thus pulled back from building and launching rockets to simply making small engines and thrusters for satellites.
- Webb spectroscopic data suggests a nearby exoplanet with a mass 2.31 times greater than Earth’s has a sulfur-rich atmosphere
The star it orbits is M-dwarf about 35 light years away, and has a solar system of four known exoplanets, so far.
- Computer modeling suggests some debris from DART impact of asteroid Dimorphos could reach Earth
The models suggest some debris could reach both Earth and Mars in about thirteen years, producing the first man-made meteor shower. The debris poses no threat however.
- Slingshot Aerospace data suggests an Atlas-5 upper stage launched in 2018 has broken up in orbit
The orbit is highly elliptical, and it is unclear at this moment if the debris cloud poses a threat to any other satellites
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows 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. 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. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally 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.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four 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 or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
Patrick Bet-David Podcast (9/5/24)
Randall Carlson
https://youtu.be/RP8K8IH1l_k
(2:06:41)
“Alan Dershowitz Announces His Departure From The Democrat Party”
Zev Brenner (9-5-24)
https://youtu.be/Ono3fnkVjPo
(6:51)
Film vs digital
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2t-lEoN2HM
Jeff–
Good video!
I’ll just toss this out here:
Q: Why do these (various) parents-of-school-shooters get arrested (for dubious made-up crimes) but the Trump assassin parents are free to walk around. (Not advocating they be persecuted, it’s just very, very, curious.)