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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Weekly Small Space News Story Roundup 6

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AKA it's such a slow news period that Space.com is running a story on a Marvel movie trailer that was just released.  And anot...
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Monday, April 10, 2023

Starship Ready to Fly - Waiting on FAA

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This weekend, SpaceX conducted a final flight readiness review for the first orbital flight of Starship and Super Heavy booster .  ...
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Sunday, April 9, 2023

About That Centaur Engine Anomaly

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Back on March 31st in one of my small story roundups , I relayed that ULA CEO Tory Bruno had Tweeted that the Vulcan's upper ...
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Happy Easter!

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To my reader friends and those who drop by on occasion.  I know the modern thing is to refer to this as Resurrection Sunday - it's the ...
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Saturday, April 8, 2023

One Year From Today, April 8th

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One year from today, the next great American solar eclipse will cover a long stretch of the CONUS, from south Texas up through New Engl...
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Friday, April 7, 2023

Probably the Weirdest Email of My Life

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This afternoon, I got what must have been the weirdest email of my life. Certainly of this blog's life.  It was from Blogger itself...
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Thursday, April 6, 2023

SpaceX Says No Starship Launch Next Week

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It seems that Monday's post asking the question of whether we're within a week of Starship's first orbital test was a bit prema...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023

A Fix for Observing the Ignore-o-Sphere

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There's an area of the atmosphere that's almost impossible to observe regularly.  At roughly 20 to 60 miles, it's too high for b...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

And... Virgin Orbit Declares Bankruptcy

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Not that "it's over" in some final sense just yet, but Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy on Monday April 3rd, shortly ...
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Monday, April 3, 2023

Are We Within a Week of Starship's Orbital Test?

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As recently as 10 days ago , there were reports that the first orbital test of Starship was looking to be late this month.  To be mor...
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Sunday, April 2, 2023

Triple Header

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I spent some time relearning something about this blog's history over this weekend.  On Friday, I thought I had done one or two Apr...
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Saturday, April 1, 2023

Man Indicted for Selling “Ground” to EE Freshmen

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Georgia State police today announced the arrest of a suspect with a long record of arrests for fraud, scams and cons.  The suspect's na...
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Friday, March 31, 2023

Weekly Small Space News Story Roundup 5

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As always, a handful of stories that caught my eye but I don't have a page worth to say about them.  Rocket Lab resumes booster re...
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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Virgin Orbit Ending Operations

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Last Friday , there was a story that Virgin Orbit may have had an investor step in and rescue the company.  Today , the story is that...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Starliner Slipping Into Summer

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Not even a week ago , I reported that Starliner's Crew Flight Test was slipping out at least a month, saying:  Space.com is reporting ...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

The Lunar Probe With the Funniest Name is in Trouble

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I'm referring to the Lunar Flashlight, a cubesat launched in December by SpaceX , on the same mission as the ispace Hakuto-R M1 car...
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Monday, March 27, 2023

Blue Origin Issues Failure Analysis on September Launch

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A little over six months since the failure of Blue Origin's NS-23 New Shepard mission, the company has released the detailed fail...
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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Resurrection Weekend

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No, not that resurrection.  That resurrection weekend is still two weeks away.  This was about as far from that as one can get.  Bac...
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Saturday, March 25, 2023

A Mild Rant: Not Everything is a Carrington Event

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Larry Lambert over Virtual Mirage , one of the more eclectic minds you'll come across in the blogosphere, led us to a post on Ameri...
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