June 23, 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.
- Sweden and the U.S. sign deal allowing American companies to launch from Esrange
The deal removes state department restrictions designed to prevent the theft of U.S. technology by hostile foreign powers.
- Chinese pseudo-company AZSpace apparently renamed a spacecraft from DEAR-4 to DEAR-5 because the word “four” in Chinese sounds like the word “death”
That’s the theory at least.
- Arianespace official says it must increase the launch cadence of Ariane-6
He also admits just getting to 10 per year will be difficult.
- On this day in 1960 the first U.S. radar reconnaissance satellite was launched
Its classified name was Grab-1. At the time its public name was Solrad-1, with the government only telling the public about its solar research instruments.
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.
- Sweden and the U.S. sign deal allowing American companies to launch from Esrange
The deal removes state department restrictions designed to prevent the theft of U.S. technology by hostile foreign powers.
- Chinese pseudo-company AZSpace apparently renamed a spacecraft from DEAR-4 to DEAR-5 because the word “four” in Chinese sounds like the word “death”
That’s the theory at least.
- Arianespace official says it must increase the launch cadence of Ariane-6
He also admits just getting to 10 per year will be difficult.
- On this day in 1960 the first U.S. radar reconnaissance satellite was launched
Its classified name was Grab-1. At the time its public name was Solrad-1, with the government only telling the public about its solar research instruments.