August 14, 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.
- Satellite builder Terran Orbital removes Rivada from its list of future revenue
This appears to be a bookeeping maneuver, but suggests that Rivada may be having problems, which is a big deal because its contract with Terran Orbital is for $2.4 billion to build 300 satellites.
- Proposed Nova Scotia spaceport Maritime Launch Services signs deal with unnamed rocket company
This is one of those press releases about nothing. Maritime’s spaceport is years behind schedule. The release includes really no information, and appears to have been issued merely to counter another proposed Canadian spaceport, Nordspace, that recently released its own press release about nothing.
- Chinese pseudo-company CAS Space touts 320 second static fire test of an engine for its Kinetic-2 Falcon 9 copycat rocket
The goal is to do the first test launch in 2025.
- On this day in 2007 the Hubble Space Telescope capture a rare edge on view of Uranus and its rings
“Astronomers on Earth can only see the rings’ edge every 42 years due to the planet’s 84 year orbit.”
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.
- Satellite builder Terran Orbital removes Rivada from its list of future revenue
This appears to be a bookeeping maneuver, but suggests that Rivada may be having problems, which is a big deal because its contract with Terran Orbital is for $2.4 billion to build 300 satellites.
- Proposed Nova Scotia spaceport Maritime Launch Services signs deal with unnamed rocket company
This is one of those press releases about nothing. Maritime’s spaceport is years behind schedule. The release includes really no information, and appears to have been issued merely to counter another proposed Canadian spaceport, Nordspace, that recently released its own press release about nothing.
- Chinese pseudo-company CAS Space touts 320 second static fire test of an engine for its Kinetic-2 Falcon 9 copycat rocket
The goal is to do the first test launch in 2025.
- On this day in 2007 the Hubble Space Telescope capture a rare edge on view of Uranus and its rings
“Astronomers on Earth can only see the rings’ edge every 42 years due to the planet’s 84 year orbit.”