Weeeeeeee! JAXA's new #H3 launch vehicle shoots into the sky! Everything seems to be going well so far. The rocket is at 690km (higher than the International Space Station), moving at 4km/s.
Also, can we all admire the beauty of Japan's Tanegashima Space Center launch site?
🚀 Le retour en vol du nouveau lanceur #H3 de la JAXA est prévu le 15 février 2024. Contrairement au premier lancement où un satellite (coûteux) d’observation #Alos3 avait été perdu, les charges utiles seront 2 cubesats et une barre de métal de 2,6 tonnes
Can anyone recommend a good, and preferably relatively recent, textbook or anthology on the #PhilosophyOfAI? Ideally this should include discussion of ethical issues and be suitable for undergraduate study. Thanks! 🙏
In addition to the loss of main optical camera on ALOS-3 (combining 0.8 m resolution with wide image swath of 70 km, few has tried it out AFAIK), apparently Japanese MoD has a prototype IR sensor on board that would have paved way for a Japanese early warning satellite. Oops…
There’s huge pressure looming on the H3 team now, especially given costly payload lost right off the bat. It’s not like the other new debuting rocket tomorrow where mere passing Max-Q “would be a big inflection point” for Relativity Space’s Terran-1. Not to mention Starship…
Looks like JAXA & gov.’s rationale of putting an $280m major Earth observation mission on a (in @NASA_LSP’s terms) “uncertified” launch vehicle is getting a lot of backlashes, even ex-astronaut Soichi Noguchi is questioning it now:
Intel announces Thunderbolt 5 with double the bandwidth (40 Gbps to 80 Gbps) (www.macworld.com)