Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1637 followers · 1526 posts · Server techhub.social
#SpinLaunch is conducting a feasibility study to determine if two areas off the #Eyre Highway 🇦🇺 could be used as a #LaunchSite for its #orbital accelerator. The #LaunchSystem stands more than 50 metres tall and can reach speeds of 8,000km per hour. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/space-catapault-plan-for-wa-southern-goldfields/102772284
Picture : "From the #Earth to the #Moon" 📆 1868 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon%27_by_Henri_de_Montaut_45.jpg
#Spinlaunch #eyre #launchsite #orbital #launchsystem #earth #moon
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1357 followers · 997 posts · Server techhub.social@sciguyspace 📆 May 1, 2023 #Starship - On the flight, Flight termination system, Hardening the #LaunchSite, Expectations for the next flight https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/elon-musk-provides-detailed-review-of-starships-first-launch-and-whats-next
Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
876 followers · 399 posts · Server techhub.social#Beresheet
"The #ceremony of installing the disk containing the #LunarLibrary in the #spacecraft was a #publicity stunt. Delivering the spacecraft to the #LaunchSite was also a #show for the #media – from the transport to Ben Gurion #Airport with the completely #unnecessary #police escort, to its loading onto the cargo plane ✈️.
It seems that the #debate over whether #tardigrades can #survive on the #moon has reached well beyond the #space buffs’ circles https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/online/sciencepanorama/what-happened-beresheet
#beresheet #ceremony #lunarlibrary #spacecraft #publicity #launchsite #show #media #airport #unnecessary #Police #debate #tardigrades #survive #moon #space #spacecompany #spaceil #marketing