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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

No Final Words on Both ABL and Virgin Orbit Failures

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Last Monday and Tuesday were bad days in the space industry, as you'll remember.  On Monday , Virgin Orbit's attempt to be th...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

More Hardware Lining Up for Testing at Starbase Boca Chica

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While the Booster 7 / Starship 24 stack has been in place on the Orbital Launch Mount since last week , and was cryo-tested last Friday, it...
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Monday, January 16, 2023

Solar Cycle 25 Progression Update - Jan '23

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I've been posting solar cycle updates for a very long time - a casual look shows one in 2013 and that one refers to a post six months p...
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Sunday, January 15, 2023

Most Spectacular Falcon Heavy Launch So Far

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Yesterday's scheduled launch of the USSF-64 mission was delayed early in the day when preparations apparently got behind.  It was d...
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Saturday, January 14, 2023

Junk Science Again: This Time, Gas Stoves

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There was an attempt to run the news cycle that started early this week with an attack on gas stoves.  It didn't seem to go as w...
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Friday, January 13, 2023

First Vulcan Centaur Built and en Route to Florida

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The first United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur has been loaded into the company's barge "RocketShip" ( pictured here ) a...
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Thursday, January 12, 2023

Small Space News Roundup

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An odd consequence of Virgin Orbit's failure to achieve orbit on Monday is that the mission was expected to be the first orbital...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Business As Usual

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It's getting to be that.  A few days ago, Elon Musk tweeted that for the first time all four launch pads that SpaceX can use had ve...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

ABL Fails on 1st Orbital Launch Attempt

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Tuesday afternoon at 2:27 PM local time (6:27 PM EST), smallsat launcher ABL Space failed in its first attempt to put its RS1 rocket...
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Monday, January 9, 2023

Virgin Orbit Didn't Make It

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For a while this afternoon, a couple of hours actually, I had two YouTube live feeds playing; the LabPadre Rover 2 Camera and Virg...
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Sunday, January 8, 2023

Virgin Orbit is On The Clock for First Mission of '23

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Virgin Orbit has announced that their first mission of '23, "Start Me Up" is scheduled for 2216 UTC on Monday, January...
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Saturday, January 7, 2023

Why Doesn't Anybody Talk About This?

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The Blaze newsletter, one of a few newsletters I get every day (more newsletters than are useful most of the time) had a story that h...
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Friday, January 6, 2023

January 6th - Political Prisoners' Day

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It's one of those things that makes my blood boil.  People in prison, some beaten regularly, all for far more time in prison than s...
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Thursday, January 5, 2023

It Could Be a Good Year for Falcon Heavy Launches

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At the risk of being too optimistic, it's looking like 2023 could be a good year for Falcon Heavy launches .  Let me rush to acknowle...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Interesting Payload on Yesterday's Transporter 6 Mission

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Among the satellites on the Transporter 6 mission yesterday, an interesting payload stood out to me.  CalTech launched a satellite ...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

The US Launch Year Began Today

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As mentioned in Friday night's post, SpaceX started 2023 off this morning at 9:56 AM EST with the new year’s first orbital laun...
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Monday, January 2, 2023

The Top US Launch Companies - Who Are the Other Nine?

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How would you rate the top ten US launch companies?  Ars Technica did this posting right before space reporter and author Eric Berge...
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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Dwelling on a Meme

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Irish posted this meme on Friday and I thought a few words might bring it to life.   A couple of things.   First, this woul...
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