December 4, 2023 Quick space links
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Boeing touts the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first ISS module, Unity
Ah, those were the days, when Boeing could actually build something that works.
- Today in 1965 a Titan rocket launched Frank Borman and Jim Lovell on the planned two-week long Gemini 7 mission
The mission proved humans could live in space long enough to go to and from the Moon. As the astronauts both explained to me, it was like being locked in a compact car for two weeks, the windows closed and the wheel tied down so that all you could do was go in circles.
- Russians were forced to dock a Progress manually on December 2nd because of problems with Kurs automatic system
The real questions are this: What exactly was the problem, and what is being done to fix it?
- Chinese pseudo-company CAS Space releases new images of its proposed family of rockets
As noted at the tweet, all look identical to various SpaceX rockets. Let me add that these designs are nothing more than engineering by powerpoint, and at this moment represent nothing but fantasies.
- Indian engineers have brought the Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module back into Earth orbit, from the Moon
This achievement is way cool. They used multiple gravity assists over two months to shift the module’s lunar orbit so that crossed back into the Earth’s sphere of influence and thus return back to Earth.
Courtesy of BtB’s stringer Jay.
- Boeing touts the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first ISS module, Unity
Ah, those were the days, when Boeing could actually build something that works.
- Today in 1965 a Titan rocket launched Frank Borman and Jim Lovell on the planned two-week long Gemini 7 mission
The mission proved humans could live in space long enough to go to and from the Moon. As the astronauts both explained to me, it was like being locked in a compact car for two weeks, the windows closed and the wheel tied down so that all you could do was go in circles.
- Russians were forced to dock a Progress manually on December 2nd because of problems with Kurs automatic system
The real questions are this: What exactly was the problem, and what is being done to fix it?
- Chinese pseudo-company CAS Space releases new images of its proposed family of rockets
As noted at the tweet, all look identical to various SpaceX rockets. Let me add that these designs are nothing more than engineering by powerpoint, and at this moment represent nothing but fantasies.
- Indian engineers have brought the Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module back into Earth orbit, from the Moon
This achievement is way cool. They used multiple gravity assists over two months to shift the module’s lunar orbit so that crossed back into the Earth’s sphere of influence and thus return back to Earth.
