April 9, 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.
Note also that your host today is under the weather, so no culture/political column. I’m posting the quick links early also so I can hit the sack.
- Vast’s Haven-1 announces its Haven-1 commercial space station will use Starlink for internet communications
Vast hopes to launch this first station module by August 2025, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Two manned missions are supposedly already scheduled to follow.
- Video of Angara launch abort early today
The abort was caused by “a center core oxidizer tank pressurization system anomaly,” according to Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov. You can hear some sound burst at T-2:43, but there is nothing visible, so the sound could simply be some expected venting. They are going to try again tomorrow.
- Astrobotic’s own mini-rover, CubeRover, is now going to fly on the company’s Griffin lunar lander
To me, this suggests they have unsold payload space. They might as well fly this rover to demonstrate its capabilities.
- On this day 55 years ago NASA introduced the seven astronauts it had selected for its Mercury manned space program
They were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter.
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.
Note also that your host today is under the weather, so no culture/political column. I’m posting the quick links early also so I can hit the sack.
- Vast’s Haven-1 announces its Haven-1 commercial space station will use Starlink for internet communications
Vast hopes to launch this first station module by August 2025, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Two manned missions are supposedly already scheduled to follow.
- Video of Angara launch abort early today
The abort was caused by “a center core oxidizer tank pressurization system anomaly,” according to Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov. You can hear some sound burst at T-2:43, but there is nothing visible, so the sound could simply be some expected venting. They are going to try again tomorrow.
- Astrobotic’s own mini-rover, CubeRover, is now going to fly on the company’s Griffin lunar lander
To me, this suggests they have unsold payload space. They might as well fly this rover to demonstrate its capabilities.
- On this day 55 years ago NASA introduced the seven astronauts it had selected for its Mercury manned space program
They were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter.