Watching Astra’s next launch attempt tonight
UPDATE: Launch scrubbed. They will try again tomorrow.
Capitalism in space: Astra is now targeting 12 midnight (Eastern) tonight for its next and fourth attempt to reach orbit with its new rocket.
I have embedded the company’s live stream, provided by NASASpaceflight LLC and Astra Space Inc., below the fold.
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
UPDATE: Launch scrubbed. They will try again tomorrow.
Capitalism in space: Astra is now targeting 12 midnight (Eastern) tonight for its next and fourth attempt to reach orbit with its new rocket.
I have embedded the company’s live stream, provided by NASASpaceflight LLC and Astra Space Inc., below the fold.
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
What happens to all of these little launch vehicles if SpaceX can (at least potentially) reduce the launch price to $ 300 / kg? Nobody is offering such a single rocket – let’s say with a payload of 200 kg – for $ 60,000. Not even for $ 600,000.
The military might want an ultra low cubesat spy asset during hostilities…launched via container…minimal plume.
Jeff Wright:
The refueling procedure with liquid oxygen is very cumbersome for a military application, where a reaction time or a few hours is important. In this case I would prefer deployable rockets with storable or even solid propellants at any time. There are also low-signature solid rocket propellants.
I tried watching it last night but there were delays and I went to bed. Found out this morning the launch was scrubbed and they will try again tonight at 9pm Pacific.