🇨🇳 #LandSpace is targeting a hop test 🚀 later this month, during which a stainless steel prototype of #Zhuque3’s first stage would lift off to a height of about 100 metres and land back on Earth in a controlled manner.
It will be able to lift #payloads up to 21.3 tonnes to #LEO when expendable, or 18.3 tonnes when the first stage is recovered down range, or 12.5 tonnes when the first stage returns to the #LaunchSite https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3245027/spacex-rival-pioneering-chinese-firm-unveils-big-rocket-design-elements-resembling-starship-and
#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
#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
Malfunctions, communication problems, the failed scientific mission, the investigation over possible contamination – and the positive impact of Israel’s first spacecraft to the moon: Previously unpublished information about "Beresheet" mission
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