November 5, 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.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company proposes another copycat New Shepard suborbital tourist spacecraft
There are a lot of these pseudo-companies popping up in China. Who knows how many are real.
- Cargo Dragon just launched will test using Draco thrusters to reboost ISS
This test will change the station’s telemetry almost not at all, but its goal is to eventually find multiple options for replacing this task presently done by Russian Progresses.
- Twin ESA satellites arrive in India for intergration into PSLV rocket
Launch is presentlhy scheduled for November 29, 2024.
- On this day in 2013 India launches its first interplanetary probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan
It operated in Mars orbit for about eight years.
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.
- Another Chinese pseudo-company proposes another copycat New Shepard suborbital tourist spacecraft
There are a lot of these pseudo-companies popping up in China. Who knows how many are real.
- Cargo Dragon just launched will test using Draco thrusters to reboost ISS
This test will change the station’s telemetry almost not at all, but its goal is to eventually find multiple options for replacing this task presently done by Russian Progresses.
- Twin ESA satellites arrive in India for intergration into PSLV rocket
Launch is presentlhy scheduled for November 29, 2024.
- On this day in 2013 India launches its first interplanetary probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan
It operated in Mars orbit for about eight years.