Today’s Twitter links
Today I am beginning a new mid-day feature on Behind the Black, thanks to the effort of reader Jay, who has recently been acting as a stringer by sending me new stories he finds on Twitter. I don’t do Twitter, so his help has been very much appreciated.
Most of these Twitter stories however do not merit a full post. Most are usually just interesting images, or PR updates from companies and space agencies announcing future events. Up to now I check them out, and then file them away. I decided we might as well post them each day, all at once, in a single post. Jay has agreed to gladly help make this happen.
So, let’s begin:
It is unknown how much information China will release much about this launch. Stay tuned.
I will only believe Blue Origin has delivered a flightworthy engine to ULA when ULA actually begins installing that engine on a Vulcan rocket. Until then, I view everything Blue Origin posts on Twitter on this subject to be nothing more than empty air.
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
Today I am beginning a new mid-day feature on Behind the Black, thanks to the effort of reader Jay, who has recently been acting as a stringer by sending me new stories he finds on Twitter. I don’t do Twitter, so his help has been very much appreciated.
Most of these Twitter stories however do not merit a full post. Most are usually just interesting images, or PR updates from companies and space agencies announcing future events. Up to now I check them out, and then file them away. I decided we might as well post them each day, all at once, in a single post. Jay has agreed to gladly help make this happen.
So, let’s begin:
It is unknown how much information China will release much about this launch. Stay tuned.
I will only believe Blue Origin has delivered a flightworthy engine to ULA when ULA actually begins installing that engine on a Vulcan rocket. Until then, I view everything Blue Origin posts on Twitter on this subject to be nothing more than empty air.
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 think I might only believe Blue Origin has delivered a flightworthy engine to ULA when a Vulcan rocket reaches MECO with no issues. Yes, space is hard, but this has been a very long and painful development process. If everything they do is run like this, Blue Origin is going to have a tough row to hoe if they want to be a preeminent space company.
Twitter is a censoring tech tyrant, a cesspool of bot fueled woke intolerance. No traffic should be sent there, no matter how small. There are alternatives, link to them. Unlike this site, twitter monetizes traffic.
That BE4 looks very busy. If that’s really a flight article, not a test article, then apparently the Blue engineers very much do not believe in Musk’s “the best part is no part” mantra. Even assuming half or two-thirds of that plumbing and wiring is test harness, it’s still more complex than Raptor 1, and massively more complex than Raptor 2.
Why does the tweet call the engine FE1?
FE1 = Flight Engine #1.
Skunk Bucket wrote: “If everything they do is run like this, Blue Origin is going to have a tough row to hoe if they want to be a preeminent space company.”
It has been about a year since Bezos left Amazon to turn around Blue Origin. It is generally believed that it can take 18 months for a new person to turn around a company, so we should know by the end of the year whether or not he has been successful.
It would be nice for Blue Origin to be a competitor for SpaceX, but there are a couple of other companies vying for that privilege.
Nozzle cryptids…I see the zipper like from Gimlin Patterson :-P