May 28, 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.
- Rocket Lab acquires Geost, a payload provider for the military
The company continues to diversify across the entire commercial space landscape.
- Sierra Space wins NASA contract to study using its LIFE inflatable modules on the Moon
The modules were originally conceived to fly on Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef commercial space station. NASA now wants to see if they can be adapted for planetary colonies.
- Starship in orbit yesterday, as photographed from Namibia in Africa
As noted at the link, a substantial tail had already formed as the spacecraft dropped into the atmosphere uncontrolled.
- This week in 2012 the first SpaceX cargo Dragon was berthed at ISS
And at that moment capitalism, freedom, and competition took over.
- On this day in 2002 NASA announced that Mars Odyssey had discovered enormous amounts of near surface ice on Mars
And yet, almost a quarter of a century later news organizations (excluding Behind the Black) still think Mars lacks water and is nothing but a dry desert.
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.
- Rocket Lab acquires Geost, a payload provider for the military
The company continues to diversify across the entire commercial space landscape.
- Sierra Space wins NASA contract to study using its LIFE inflatable modules on the Moon
The modules were originally conceived to fly on Blue Origin’s Orbital Reef commercial space station. NASA now wants to see if they can be adapted for planetary colonies.
- Starship in orbit yesterday, as photographed from Namibia in Africa
As noted at the link, a substantial tail had already formed as the spacecraft dropped into the atmosphere uncontrolled.
- This week in 2012 the first SpaceX cargo Dragon was berthed at ISS
And at that moment capitalism, freedom, and competition took over.
- On this day in 2002 NASA announced that Mars Odyssey had discovered enormous amounts of near surface ice on Mars
And yet, almost a quarter of a century later news organizations (excluding Behind the Black) still think Mars lacks water and is nothing but a dry desert.