Eric Berger has the latest on the ongoing wasteful programmatic disaster.
Meanwhile, a French auditor says that Ariane 6 is "too conventional" to compete with SpaceX. I've been saying for years that it will be obsolete before it flies.
It is the partner nations own damn fault. CNES proposed a reusable LOX/Methane fly-back first stage launcher over a decade ago.
But the French defense industry was more interested in keeping the solid rocket technology base up to date and the Germans were more interested in spending as little R&D money as possible.
Heck they designed an expander cycle upper stage engine and it has been languishing for over a decade on a shelf somewhere because they could not be assed to fund an upper stage that used it.
Yes. The Euros fundamentally misread the tea leaves, imagining that the future would simply be a slightly modified version of the past and then-present. Fundamentally misreading the lea leaves has been more than amply demonstrated to be one of Europe's core incompetencies this past century or so. In their defense I suppose one should allow for the fact that they were also assuming NASA would successfully continue its decades-long practice of keeping the entrepreneurial hoi polloi out of the space arena in any consequential way.
If we want to talk about more disaster programs. The Angara is still being funded at the same time as the Soyuz 5 will be developed. From what I heard the delays for the Angara were because the Russian government slowed the funding for Angara down to a trickle. Supposedly they have since increased funds for it. But AFAIK the only Angara launch site is at Plesetsk. Bonkers.
Once Soyuz 5 is developed, what will be the point in having Angara? Soyuz 5 is rumored to use 2 MN engines i.e. the RD-193.
Then there is the Chinese space program where they have built their equatorial launch site but still have issues with the heavy launcher LM-5 and supposedly some had some issues with the engines.
The Russians are fading fast. Arch-fabulist-in-chief Dmitri Rogozin says Russia will launch 45 times this year. Right. It's already the second week of February, Russia has launched nothing yet in 2019 and has only two launches scheduled in each of Feb. and Mar. – half of which are Euro-Soyuzes for OneWeb deployment out of Kourou. At this rate, Russia will be doing well to match last year's launch total, never mind more than doubling same. Rogozin will probably be gone before year's end, assuming Putin can find someone else dumb enough to take the Roscosmos job.
Angara, Soyuz 5 and the notional Russian super-heavy (SLS-ski) all seem to be slipping rightward at roughly one year per year and show no real evidence of any traction being gained. The same is true of an all-Russian LEO station, the new manned capsule and the notional Russian lunar program.
The Chinese are, for the moment anyway, on firmer fiscal ground but haven't exactly had everything going their way in the last couple years. The Chang'e-3 and -4 missions have been impressive, but Long March 5 is on the critical path from here on out and its future is indeterminate as of now. Another six month slip recently announced does not inspire confidence that CASC has its hands fully around the Long March 5's problems yet.
One of the things Trump said during his SOTU speech was about going back to space in American rockets. He did not say "NASA rockets".
This is probably wishful thinking on my part, but it makes me wonder if he's thinking of cutting SLS.
BTW, even if SLS isn't cut, I'm wondering if SpaceX's BFS (or Starship, or whatever they've named it this week) will reach orbit before SLS, because there is no way, no how, SLS flies in 2020, and I don't think 2021 is possible either. My guess is late 2023 at the earliest.
I'm pretty much with you on this. SLS has been noteworthy for being damned with faint praise by the Trump administration. Bridenstine seems to mention it only when asked. He makes all the usual noises on such occasions, but one senses that he's waiting for SH-Starship to fly to orbit almost as eagerly as Elon Musk. That event would provide adequate political cover to cancel SLS and Orion – especially should it occur before SLS's first launch.
Trump and Bridenstine are both looking for the biggest big things they can get anent space during the remainder of Trump's first term. I think both now see that SLS isn't going to be on that list. If Musk can get a Starship into orbit and back down again in one piece early enough in 2020, Trump and Bridenstine will have their Big Thing in Space for re-election year and Musk and Trump's early-days falling out over climate change will be shoved forcibly into the background – especially if U.S. government checks for Starship missions are promptly forthcoming.
Anent the date of the notional SLS first launch, I'm with you that any date in 2020 is unmakeable and even 2021 is looking increasingly iffy. Not sure I'd go so far as to say 2023 myself, but, if my above speculations come to actually pass, it will be a moot point anyway as SLS will, in consequence, never fly at all.


In this experiment, total protein extracts from several bacterial sources are compared. The unique patterns of protein bands, obtained by SDS vertical polyacrylamide electrophoresis, can be used to identify various bacterial strains.
Kit includes: instructions, bacterial cultures and reagents, LyphoProteins™, Lysozyme, buffers, Protein InstaStain®, practice gel loading solution, protein sample buffer, unknown proteins ready for electrophoresis, ReadyPour™ Agar, nutrient broth.
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I love guest bloggers. Thanks to modern technology, I can communicate with people from 300 miles away and partake with them in Fitbit challenges and Fresh Start Programs to clean up our homes, offices, and ourselves.
Once lovely group in Buffalo, NY has been so much fun. I recently blogged about them as I survived the Fresh Start Challenge.
Been there and not doing that again. You should not either, so here is Diane's recipe.
Note: you can use the vegetables you like. I wouldn't recommend tomatoes as they tend to make the bites soggy.
Bake for 30 minutes then remove from pan and let cool. Once completely cool, add them to Ziploc bags. Reheat in microwave for 1 ½ minutes. Serve with hot sauce, salsa, or guacamole.
Thank you, Diane! These are super easy and for all of us 5:30 am spinners and pumpers, perfect for some protein to get the body moving. Don't get excited. I am not giving up my Death Wish Coffee yet!
next post: Nothing says love like flourless chocolate cake!


TELEDYNE PDS Cutter supports visualization and monitoring of the vertical position of the suction tubes. It also shows information about the progress such as the absolute position of the dredge head position in relation to the digital terrain model (DTM) and design model. Dredged areas are shown in various views, which are updated as soon as new data is available. Multiple monitors with independent layouts are tailored to the needs of the dredge operator and helmsman. A color-coded DTM highlights the high and low spots. The DTM is updated real time, registering the progress of the dredging work. The updated real time models supported are depth, differential, and production models. The updates follow the shape of the cutter head. The update is immediately visible in the top, side and 3D views. 3D design models allow definition of highly complex designs. Concentration, flow, vacuum, and pressure data can be displayed.


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THE HARDY BOYS Graphic novel Volume 1 - "The Ocean of Osyria"
Collected from the first three Hardy Boys comics, here's the complete saga of Frank and Joe's adventure in the war-torn Middle Eastern land of Osyria! After rescuing Jackpot, a kidnapped prize-winning racehorse, Frank and Joe are stunned to return to Bayport and discover that the Department of International Security has arrested their best friend, Chet Morton, for stealing a priceless art treasure! The Hardy Boys decide the only way to clear the friend is to journey to the Middle East and find the Ocean of Osyria themselves. Plus: a preview of "Identity Theft", their next adventure. By Scott Lobdell & Lea Hernandez.

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PETERSBURG - The 5th annual VirginiaFIRST Robot Rumble has relocated this year to Virginia State University in Petersburg.
The Rumble has been a wildly popular attraction for families at the State Fair of Virginia since its inception, but budget cuts caused the downsizing of the Commonwealth Building. "We're disappointed not to be at the fair this year," said Dee Tomczak, assistant director of VirginiaFIRST. "It's been our home, and we will miss it; but we are excited to have found a very enthusiastic partner in Virginia State. Everyone that we have worked with at the university has been just wonderful."
Virginia State recently opened its new School of Engineering, Science and Technology. Tours of the new facility and faculty demonstrations, as well as FRC workshops and an FTC exhibit, will provide a busy day for participants and visitors.
Bring the family for a day of fun and learn more about the FRC and FTC programs. The rumble will be held in the Daniel Gymnasium on the campus of Virginia State University, and there is room for up to 24 teams. There is plenty of parking at the adjacent stadium, and the rumble is free and open to the public.


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art June 19, 2020
It's Funeral Time for Colonial Monuments
By Trupti Rami
Nicholas Galanin, Shadow on the land, an excavation and bush burial, 2020. Art: Nicholas Galanin
There is a much-hated statue of Captain James Cook, the 18th-century British Royal Navy captain who landed in what is now Australia (and later met his end in what is today Hawaii), in Sydney's Hyde Park, and artist Nicholas Galanin has dug it a grave. For the artist's new work, Shadow on the land, an excavation and bush burial (2020), made for the 2020 Biennale of Sydney, Galanin excavated the shadow cast by the statue. As he wrote in his artists statement: "By creating a hole large enough to bury the statue, the work's excavation (along with its title) suggests the burial of the Cook monument itself, along with the burial of destructive governance and treatment of Indigenous land, Indigenous people and Indigenous knowledge."
Galanin, who is Tlingit-Unangax̂ and lives and works in Sitka, Alaska, connected with Aboriginal artists and community members in Sydney while doing research for the Biennale last year. "We share similar colonial struggles with racism, erasure, and other disparities implemented and upheld by colonial governments," he told Vulture via email. "The conversation surrounding monuments and statues which today often represents one-sided history of mainly white men responsible for genocide, rape, slave trade, etc., has been ongoing amongst our communitites." Shadow on the land can be applied to almost every major colonial statue on Indigenous or Aboriginal lands, he said, and sits right in with larger social movements happening across the world.
Earlier this week, two Cook statues in Sydney were reportedly defaced, including one in Hyde Park, which was spray-painted with "sovereignty never ceded" and "no pride in genocide." The calls for removal and protests around these monuments are not only about sculptural representation in the public community. "It is about acknowledging and changing social norms that normalize violence towards BIPOC while 'honoring' these figures who historically committed such acts," Galanin said.
For Shadow on the land, Galanin told Vulture that he originally intended to excavate the on-site shadow of the monument in Hyde Park. "This became impossible with the local municipality," he said. "I'd say that worked out though, to me, it is best showing this work without the statue, demonstrating a future where we can listen to our communities affected by continued colonial violence."
Shadow on the land, an excavation and bush burial (detail). Art: Nicholas Galanin. Photographed by Jessica Maurer..
Galanin's work often centers on erasure. In 2019, he was one of eight artists who pulled his work from the 2019 Whitney Biennial until Warren B. Kanders, a then-museum board member and owner of Safariland, which manufactures tear-gas canisters that have been used against protesters around the world, resigned. "The Whitney, like so many other institutions of its kind, has historically continued the long American tradition of erasure by way of a lack of Indigenous artists represented in exhibitions and collections," he wrote in an essay about the experience. His decision to protest and subsequently remain in the exhibition was about fighting erasure.
This year marks the 250th anniversary of Cook's voyage to and "discovery" of Australia. "Historically speaking, anthropology and archaeology has been a mechanism and tool to uphold ideas of white supremacy," he said in a video interview about the work. In using archaeology as an art medium, Galanin is contradicting that definition of discovery.
Still, there's more work to be done. "Yes, remove these markers of white supremacy, act on and change all forms of violence aimed unproportionally at our communities," he said. "Don't just change the Redskins name, contribute economically to the same communities these corporations or institutions have historically oppressed. We are living through one of the most important civil rights movements of our time, how will your children see your actions lived out today?"
Shadow on the land is open on Cockatoo Island through September 6.
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The Digital Art History Lab Committee, created to report on the proceedings of the symposium "Art History in Digital Dimensions," which was held at the University of Maryland and The Phillips Collection last fall (October 2016) with support from The Getty Foundation and The Samuel H.
As part of its partnership with the Phillips Collection, the University of Maryland offers the University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Book Prize, which supports the publication of a first book by an emerging scholar.
Raino Isto recently penned his first post for ArtMargins Online, an online journal devoted to Eastern European contemporary art, where he has been named one of the journal's resident bloggers.
Recent graduates of the Ph.D. program in Art History and Archaeology, Matthew Lincoln and Abram Fox, were published recently in British Art Studies.


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