Die Bayern hatten nicht so viel Glück und der erste Startversuch der 'Spectrum' von Isar Aerospace im hohen Norden Norwegens endete in einem heftigen Kawumm. Die fast täglich verschobenen Starts der letzten paar Wochen ließen die Spannung steigen. Aber aller Anfang...
Gruß Morn <>< ______________________________________ Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Thomas Sowell
Zitat Die Berlinerin Rabea Rogge ist als erste deutsche Frau ins Weltall gestartet. An Bord einer "Dragon"-Kapsel hob Rogge vom Weltraumbahnhof Cape Canaveral im US-Bundesstaat Florida ab, wie auf Live-Bildern zu sehen war. Der Start erfolgt mit einer Falcon-9-Rakete des Raumfahrtunternehmens SpaceX von Tech-Milliardär Elon Musk.
Das nennt sich dann wohl Double Bind.
PS.
Zitat Jonathan McDowell@planet4589 First Space Force orbit data for Fram-2 out , showing it in a 202 x 413 km x 90.01 deg orbit 6:12 AM · Apr 1, 2025
Space OdJobs@SOdJobs·3h How can we find Crew Dragon Resilience's data on ny2o?
Jonathan McDowell@planet4589·3h Its catalog number is 63427, I don't know when ny2o will have its data
Zitat Chun@satofishi·8h The ride to orbit was much smoother than I had anticipated. Apart from the final minute before SECO, I barely felt any G-forces—it honestly felt like just another flight.
I had imagined it would feel like being in an elevator that suddenly drops, but that sensation never came. If I hadn’t set free Tyler, the polar bear zero-gravity indicator, I might not have realized we were already weightless. I think being tightly strapped into our seat buckets made the transition less noticeable.
The first few hours in microgravity weren’t exactly comfortable. Space motion sickness hit all of us—we felt nauseous and ended up vomiting a couple of times. It felt different from motion sickness in a car or at sea. You could still read on your iPad without making it worse. But even a small sip of water could upset your stomach and trigger vomiting.
Rabea spent some time on the ham radio, making contact with Berlin. No one asked opening the cupola on the first day—we were all focused on managing the motion sickness. We had a movie night watching our own launch and went to sleep a bit earlier than scheduled. We all slept really well.
By the second morning, I felt completely refreshed. The trace of motion sickness is all gone. We had breakfast, took a few X-ray images, and opened the cupola three minutes after midnight UTC—right above the South Pole.
Chronistenpflicht des Erbsenzählers & Strichlistenführers aus Anlaß einer runden Zahl.
Der Start der Starlink-Mission 12-23 von Cape Canaveral heute nacht, 28.4.25 um 04:00 MESZ mit 23 Satelliten an Bord war übrigens der 6400. Weltraumstart insgesamt, seit die Serie am 4. Oktober 1957 mit Sputnik 1 begonnen hat. Es war der 80. Start in diesem Jahr. - Der 482. für SpaceX und die 412. erfolgreiche Landung einer Falcon 9. Die erfolgreichste Baureihe in dieser Hinsicht war die sowjetische Sojus-U, die es zwischen Mai 1973 und Februar 2017 auf isg. 765 Starts gebracht hat (bei 22 Fehlschlägen). Die Falcon 9 hat es seit 2010 auf jetzt 470 Starts gebracht.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Nachtrag/Korrektur zu den obigen Zahlen. In meiner laufenden Durchzählung sind bewußt suborbitale Flüge nicht mitgezählt, die zwar die von Kármán-Grenze in 100 km Höhe überschritten haben, aber keine Umlaufbahn erreicht haben (*). Dabei gibt es zwei Ausnahmen, aus historischen Gründen: wegen ihrer Vorreiterrolle im Mercury-Programm sind die suborbitalen beiden ersten Starts des Mercury-Programms, von Alan Shepard am 5. Mai 1961 und Virgil Grissom am 21. Juli 1961, mit in der Liste enthalten. Der Zähler müßte "eigentlich" also 2 Einträge tiefer stehen.
(* ansonsten müßte ich ein gutes halbes Dutzend Flüge des Raketenflugzeugs X-15 aus den späten 60ern wie auch das Schwerelosigkeits-Gehüpfe von Katy Perry & Co. & das SpaceShip Two von Virgin Galactic mitzählen, die nach niemandes Gefühl "wirkliche" Raumflüge darstellen. Allerdings hat ein Bundestaat (Nebraska, wenn mich meine Erinnerung nicht foppt) die "Grenze zum Weltraum" von 100 km auf 55 Meilen/88 km gesenkt, um eben den X-15-Piloten eine Raumfahrernadel anheften zu können.)
Andererseits: nach den beiden Starts in der vergangenen Nacht - die erste reguläre Tranche von Amazons "Kuiper"-Konstellation (27 Satelliten von isg. 3276 geplanten, nach zwei Probestücken 2023) von Cape Canaveral mit einer Atlas V von United Launch Alliance von Cape Canaveral um 01:01 (MESZ) und der Starlink-Mission 12-10 von der Startrampe 39A 6 km weiter südlich im Kennedy Space Center um 04:24 steht auch in der "bereinigten" Liste der Stand bei 6400.
Zitat The Project Kuiper constellation will eventually consist of more than 3,200 satellites in low Earth orbit. Like SpaceX’s Starlink, Amazon wants to have a large constellation to provide low latency internet for commercial customers, both civilian and governmental.
According to stipulations from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Amazon said it will begin customer service once the first 578 satellites are launched and operational.
The 3,236 satellites will be spread across 98 orbital planes at 590 km, 610 km and 630 km in altitude. For comparison, the International Space Station orbits between 370-460 km in altitude.
Beyond the Atlas 5 rockets it purchased, Amazon also bought 38 launches on ULA’s Vulcan rocket as well as a combined 33 launches on Arianespace’s Ariane 6, Blue Origin’s New Glenn and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets.
PS. Nachtrag zur obigen Liste, Nr. 3 - der "Biomass"-Satellit der ESA an Bord einer Vega-C von Kourou um 11:15 MESZ. PPS. Nachtrag 2: 15:37 MESZ der Mission FTLA006 Message durch Firefly Aerospace von Vandenberg für Lockheed Martin. Betreiber wie Transportunternehmen halten sich in Bezug auf die Nutzlast überaus bedeckt und beschränken sich auf: "First of up to 25 launches of Low Earth Orbit technology demonstration satellites to be built and operated by Lockheed Martin." Die ersten 15 Starts stehen bis 2029 fest paraphiert auf dem Agenda; Nr 16-25 sind noch Verhandlungsbasis.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat Firefly Aerospace@Firefly_Space Alpha FLTA006 update: Initial indications showed Alpha's upper stage reached 320 km in altitude. However, upon further assessment, the team learned the upper stage did not reach orbital velocity, and the stage and payload have now safely impacted the Pacific Ocean in a cleared zone north of Antarctica.
Zitat April 29, 2025, 8 am PDT: Following a nominal liftoff of Firefly’s Alpha rocket, there was a mishap during first stage separation for the FLTA006 mission that impacted the Stage 2 Lightning engine nozzle. We are working with our Lockheed Martin customer, the Space Force, and FAA to conduct a thorough investigation and determine the root cause. As more information is available, we will be providing updates here.
Zitat Alpha lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday at 9:37 a.m. EDT (1337 GMT; 6:37 a.m. local California time) through dense fog. The rocket's second stage appeared to tumble after separating from its booster, but seemed to right itself shortly afterward. However, it appears the second-stage vehicle may have lost its nozzle.
Zitat Firefly’s rocket suffers one of the strangest launch failures we’ve ever seen
Everything appeared to go well with the rocket's first-stage booster, powered by four kerosene-fueled Reaver engines, as the launcher ascended through fog and arced on a southerly trajectory over the Pacific Ocean. The booster stage jettisoned from Alpha's upper stage two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, and that's when things went awry.
A bright cloud of white vapor appeared high in the sky, indicating an explosion, or something close to it. A moment later, the upper stage's single Lightning engine ignited for a six-minute burn to accelerate into orbit.
A ground-based infrared camera caught a glimpse of debris in the wake of the upper stage, and then Firefly's live video stream switched to a camera onboard the rocket. The rear-facing view showed the Lightning engine stripped of its exhaust nozzle but still firing. Shards of debris were visible behind the rocket, but the video did not show any sign of the discarded first stage booster, which was expected to fall into the Pacific south of Vandenberg.
Another update from Firefly early Tuesday afternoon confirmed the launch failed. The company said the rocket "experienced a mishap between stage separation and second stage ignition that led to the loss of the Lightning engine nozzle extension, substantially reducing the engine’s thrust."
Whatever the case, it's an interesting mode of failure. Maybe it's not as bizarre as Astra's sideways launch in 2021, something every rocket geek should know about. Also, there's the time Astra's upper stage launched itself through a half-open payload fairing in 2022. United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket lost a nozzle from one of its solid rocket boosters on a test flight last year, but the launch vehicle persevered and continued its climb into orbit.
The third flight of SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket failed in 2008 when its first stage collided with its upper stage moments after separation. An investigation determined residual thrust after shutdown of the first-stage engine pushed the booster into the bottom of Falcon 1's upper stage, so SpaceX lengthened the time between main engine cutoff and staging. SpaceX's next flight was successful, making Falcon 1 the first privately developed liquid-fueled rocket to reach orbit.
The only time a rocket's first stage has exploded after separation, at least in recent memory, was in 2023, when a North Korean booster blew up before it fell into the sea. The explosion did not damage the rocket's upper stage, which continued into orbit on North Korea's only successful satellite launch in nearly a decade. The incident fueled speculation that North Korea intentionally destroyed the booster to prevent South Korea or the United States from recovering it for inspections.
Zitat StarbaseTX@StarbaseTX It’s official: Starbase is now an incorporated city in Texas. With local governance in place, we are excited to continue building the best city for our community. 12:33 AM · May 21, 2025
Starlink-Start 11-16 von Vandenberg, 18. Start von Booster B1075, das Aufsetzen auf der "Of Course I Still Love You" um 00:40 MESZ ist die 450. Landung einer Falcon 9. Damit sind bislang mehr als 8700 Starlink-Satelliten gestartet worden.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat In an abrupt about-face on Saturday, President Donald Trump pulled the nomination of his pick for the next person to lead NASA. His nomination was days away from a vote in front of the full U.S. Senate.
The withdrawal of Jared Isaacman, an entrepreneur and commercial astronaut, came less than a day after NASA published its proposed budget, which fleshes out the deep cuts forecast in the “skinny budget” previously released.
Semafor was the first to report the ouster of Isaacman, which was then confirmed by the White House.
“The Administrator of NASA will help lead humanity into space and execute President Trump’s bold mission of planting the American flag on the planet Mars,” Liz Huston, a spokesperson for the White House, said in a statement. “It’s essential that the next leader of NASA is in complete alignment with President Trump’s America First agenda and a replacement will be announced directly by President Trump soon.”
Isaacman was nominated to be the NASA Administrator in early December 2024 and received a stamp of approval from the Senate’s Commerce Committee in late April.
Fußnote des Fliegenbeinzählers. Der Start der Starlink-Mission 12-13 von Cape Canaveral um 06:30 MESZ war der insgesamt 500. Start einer Rakete der Falcon-Familie: 5 F1, 11 Falcon Heavy und jetzt 484 Falcon 9.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Zitat SpaceX launch of private Ax-4 astronauts postponed indefinitely due to leaky ISS module
The SpaceX launch of four private astronauts has been delayed again.
The Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) had been scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast on Wednesday morning (June 11), but a propellant leak in the booster nixed that plan.
And now, another leak — this one in Ax-4's destination — has further postponed the liftoff.
Cosmonauts recently detected a "new pressure signature" in the Zvezda service module, part of the Russian segment of the ISS, NASA officials announced in an update today (June 12).
This development isn't exactly a shock; this area first sprang a leak back in 2019, and cosmonauts have been dealing with it ever since, as the recent spot check shows.
The cosmonauts "sealed some additional areas of interest and measured the current leak rate," NASA officials wrote in the update. "Following this effort, the segment now is holding pressure."
“The crew aboard the International Space Station is safely conducting normal operations," NASA spokesperson Cheryl Warner said in an emailed statement. "We’re assessing this latest update and will provide additional information as available.”
Etwas tangential, gewissermaßen audiatur et altera pars.
Zitat French startup tests a novel rocket engine. While Europe's large government-backed rocket initiatives face delays, the continent's space industry startups are moving forward on their own. One of these companies, a French startup named Alpha Impulsion, recently completed a short test-firing of an autophage rocket engine, European Spaceflight reports. These aren't your normal rocket engines that burn conventional kerosene, methane, or hydrogen fuel. An autophage engine literally consumes itself as it burns, using heat from the combustion process to melt its plastic fuselage and feed the molten plastic into the combustion chamber in a controlled manner. Alpha Impulsion called the May 27 ground firing a successful test of the "largest autophage rocket engine in the world."
So, why hasn't this been done before? ... The concept of a self-consuming rocket engine sounds like an idea that's so crazy it just might work. But the idea remained conceptual from when it was first patented in 1938 until an autophage engine was fired in a controlled manner for the first time in 2018. The autophage design offers several advantages, including its relative simplicity compared to the complex plumbing of liquid and hybrid rockets. But there are serious challenges associated with autophage engines, including how to feed molten fuel into the combustion chamber and how to scale it up to be large enough to fly on a viable rocket. (submitted by trimeta and EllPeaTea)
Zitat Toulouse-based startup Alpha Impulsion has completed a short test firing of an autophage rocket engine. The company plans to use the novel propulsion system to power its 25-metre Grenat rocket.
The Alpha Impulsion autophage engine features a solid fuel tube with a liquid oxidiser sealed in its core. Two pistons push the tube into the combustion chamber where a catalyst converts the oxidiser into hot gas. This gas then reacts with the solid fuel, generating thrust. Put simply, the engine consumes its own structure as it burns.
Autophage rocket engines differ from solid fuel motors in that combustion can be controlled, and no heavy casing is left behind as dead weight. They also stand apart from hybrid engines, as there is no need for complex plumbing, a fixed casing for the solid fuel, or a separate oxidiser tank, as the oxidiser is stored within the fuel structure itself.
Despite offering advantages over solid and hybrid propulsion systems, developing and operating an autophage engine presents several challenges. These include maintaining stable and efficient combustion while feeding both solid and liquid elements into the combustion chamber, sufficiently sealing the liquid oxidiser within the solid-fuel tube, and, in larger engines, integrating a piston system powerful enough to generate the force required to push the tube into the combustion chamber.
In late May, Alpha Impulsion conducted a six-day test campaign at Agen Airport in the south of France. On 27 May, the company carried out a 17-second static fire test of what it described as the “largest autophage rocket engine in the world.”
According to a press release published by the company following the test, all of its technical goals were achieved. These included stable ignition and controlled combustion, as well as confirmation that the structure remained intact under operational pressure. The test also validated the tightness of the engine’s dynamic seals and confirmed the correct functioning of the oxidiser filling procedure.
“We have demonstrated that it is possible to develop an alternative and innovative technology capable of significantly reducing the cost of space access,” said Marius Celette, CEO and cofounder of Alpha Impulsion. “This test sends a strong message: Europe can be a leading player in the race for space innovation.”
Alpha Impulsion initially plans to use its autophage engine technology in a satellite propulsion system called Opal. The company aims to complete an initial development test of the system in late 2025, followed by a qualification campaign in 2026. The technology will then be scaled up for use aboard the Grenat rocket, which is designed to deliver payloads of up to 1,000 kilograms to low Earth orbit. The inaugural flight of Grenat is expected to take place in 2028.
Der Kleine Chronist schlägt vor, das erste flugfähige Modell dieses selbstverzehrenden Modells, das getestet wird, "Henrietta" zu nennen. So heißt in Jules Vernes Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours von 1873 das Dampfschiff, dessen Aufbauten und Decks Phileas Fogg und Passepartout bei der Überfahrt von New York nach Liverpool verhiezen, um den Ankunftstermin einhalten zu können.
PS. Stichwort "termin reißen." Aus dem gleichen Bericht auf Ars Technica:
Zitat Another year, another delay for Themis. The European Space Agency’s Themis program has suffered another setback, with the inaugural flight of its reusable booster demonstrator now all but certain to slip to 2026, European Spaceflight reports. It has been nearly six years since the European Space Agency kicked off the Themis program to develop and mature key technologies for future reusable rocket stages. Themis is analogous to SpaceX's Grasshopper reusable rocket prototype tested more than a decade ago, with progressively higher hop tests to demonstrate vertical takeoff and vertical landing techniques. When the program started, an initial hop test of the first Themis demonstrator was expected to take place in 2022.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Angesichts des 50. Starlink-Starts von Florida vor 20 Minuten ein wenig Wiedervorlage und ein paar Zahlen zur Erinnerung.
Zitat „Kretschmann fordert Milliarden für die Raumfahrt“ 5.6.2025 16:50 Der Grüne und Ministerpräsident von Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, kann nicht verknusen, dass Elon Musk die Raumfahrt dominiert und fordert deshalb in Berlin Milliarden für die Raumfahrt, um sich zu entmusken. Was macht der, wenn er herausfindet, dass Raketen Verbrenner sind und es noch keine elektrischen Raketen gibt?
Mission Stats - Space Industry (2025): 50th Orbital launch from Florida 77th Orbital launch from U.S. soil 85th Orbital launch from a U.S. company
130 launch attempts US 85 China 33 Russia 6 Europe 2 Japan 1
Launch failures: India 2 Germany 1
Wohlgemerkt: es handelt sich hier um Starts im Rahmen des regulklären Betriebs, weshalb die drei Fehlschläge mit dem Starship, das sich noch in der Entwicklungs- und Probephase befindet, hier nicht mitgezählt sind.
"Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande." - Voltaire
Mainstreammedien (v.a. in den USA & im UK; unsere sind ja nur noch Echokammern):
Zitat Reich und high Elon Musk soll laut Medienbericht in größerem Stil Drogen nehmen Der reichste Mann der Welt konsumiert offenbar Ketamin, Magic Mushrooms und Acid. Das berichtet das »Wall Street Journal« und beruft sich auf das »besorgte Umfeld« des Unternehmers. 08.01.2024, 08.24 Uhr
Tierärzte verwenden das Schmerzmittel Ketamin, um Pferde vor medizinischen Eingriffen zu betäuben. Der amerikanische Unternehmer Elon Musk ist deutlich kleiner als ein Pferd und soweit bekannt ist, bereitet er sich aktuell auch nicht auf eine Operation oder Ähnliches vor. Dennoch führt Musk sich angeblich gern und regelmäßig Ketamin zu. Der reichste Mensch der Welt, der unter anderem Anteile an den Unternehmen X (früher Twitter) und Tesla hält, gehört folglich auch zu den higheren Menschen der Welt. Das berichtet das »Wall Street Journal«. Demnach hat Musks Drogenkonsum inzwischen ein Ausmaß erreicht, das den Menschen um ihn herum Sorgen bereitet.
Dabei geht es nicht allein um Musks Gesundheitszustand, sondern auch um seine Zurechnungsfähigkeit als Geschäftsmann. So schreibt das »Wall Street Journal«, dass die ehemalige Tesla-Chefin Linda Johnson Rice »so frustriert« von Musks »volatilem Verhalten und seinem Drogenkonsum« gewesen sei, dass sie 2019 bewusst auf eine Fortsetzung ihrer Führungskarriere bei Tesla verzichtet habe.
Grundsätzlich ist Musks Interesse an Drogen kein Geheimnis. Er hat bereits öffentlich Marihuana geraucht; und Ketamin nimmt er, nach eigenen Angaben, weil ihm ein Arzt dies verschrieben habe. Tatsächlich wird Ketamin seit Jahren zur Heilung psychischer Erkrankungen eingesetzt.
Sondern auch, weil Musks Raumfahrtunternehmen »Space X« mit dem amerikanischen Staat kooperiert, was den Konsum illegaler Drogen des Space X-Gründers besonders problematisch machen dürfte.
Zitat 13:47 BST, 17 June 2025 | Updated: 21:06 BST, 17 June 2025
Elon Musk has reportedly tested negative for fentanyl, ketamine, and a slew of other substances, according to new lab results shared amid swirling rumors of drug abuse.
Musk shared a photo of results on X early this morning with the caption 'lol,’ just weeks after a bombshell report claimed the billionaire was hooked on ketamine, psychedelics and stimulants throughout his time in the White House.
The image appears to show he tested negative for 22 substances, including benzodiazepines, amphetamines, ecstasy, cocaine, ketamine, opioids, cannabis and fentanyl on June 11, just days after his extraordinary war of words with President Donald Trump, who called Elon a ' big-time drug addict.’
According to the screenshot, the urine test was performed at Fastest Labs of South Austin in Texas on June 11.
He also previously claimed to have been prescribed the powerful anesthetic ketamine for depression.
The results come weeks after a bombshell New York Times report claiming Musk was taking so much ketamine that is had begun affecting his bladder, which could include pain and control issues.
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