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The rocket nose cone for Rocket Lab’s mission to launch two BlackSky satellites is emblazoned with a mission patch that features Seattle’s Space Needle on the right side. (Rocket Lab via Twitter)

What could be more fitting than to put Seattle’s Space Needle on the patch for an actual space mission?

Even though this particular mission is due to be launched half a world away, there’s more than one Seattle connection to the Rocket Lab mission that’s due for liftoff as early as April 1.

The payloads for the launch from Rocket Lab’s base on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula are two satellites built by a Seattle-area manufacturer, LeoStella, for BlackSky’s Earth-observing constellation. LeoStella is a joint venture co-owned by Thales Alenia Space, a French-Italian venture; and BlackSky, which is based in the Washington, D.C., area but has a Seattle office.

Most significantly, preparations for the launch were handled by Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc., which specializes in making the arrangements for putting small satellites like BlackSky’s spacecraft into orbit.

On the patch for the mission, whimsically dubbed “Without Mission a Beat,” the Space Needle rises to the right of Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle.

“It’s a great patch, no?” Jodi Sorensen, Spaceflight Inc.’s vice president of marketing, said in a tweet. “The Needle’s a nod to @SpaceflightInc, and we love it!”

In a parallel nod to BlackSky, the Washington Monument is also on the patch.

CollectSpace’s Robert Pearlman, who keeps close track of news angles involving space artifacts and memorabilia, said this could well be the first time Seattle’s iconic monument has been featured on a space mission patch, “unless the Space Needle appeared on a payload patch.”

“A quick search didn’t bring up any other examples,” he said in a tweet.

“Without Mission a Beat” will mark the 25th launch for Rocket Lab, which became a publicly traded company last August thanks to a blank-check merger. BlackSky, which was once Spaceflight Inc.’s sister company, also went public last year.

The launch would boost BlackSky’s constellation to 14 satellites, marking one more step toward the company’s goal of having a full complement of 30 satellites in low Earth orbit. The company is already delivering a steady flow of satellite photos, including imagery documenting the effects of the war in Ukraine.

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The patch for “Without Mission a Beat” is likely to show up in Rocket Lab’s online store after liftoff.
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It's a great patch, no? The Needle's a nod to @SpaceflightInc, and we love it!
— Jodi Sorensen (@jodisorensen) March 24, 2022

Eileen Brophy

January 23, 2022 7:51pm

The UK government admits that vaccines have damaged the natural immune system of those who have been vaccinated twice The UK government has admitted that once you have received a double vaccination, you can never again acquire full natural immunity to Covid variants, or possibly any other virus. So let's see how the "real" pandemic starts now! In its "COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report" for week 42, the UK Department of Health admits on page 23 that "N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who become infected after two doses of vaccination". It goes on to say that this drop in antibodies is essentially permanent. What does this mean? We know that vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission of the virus (indeed, the report elsewhere shows that vaccinated adults are now much more likely to become infected than the unvaccinated).
The British now find that the vaccine interferes with the body's ability to produce antibodies after infection, not only against the spike protein but also against other parts of the virus. In particular, vaccinated people do not appear to form antibodies against the nucleocapsid protein, the virus envelope, which is a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people. In the long term, the vaccinated are much more susceptible to any mutations in the spike protein, even if they have already been infected and cured once or more times. The unvaccinated, on the other hand, will gain long-lasting, if not permanent, immunity to all strains of the putative virus after being naturally infected with it even once. Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1027511/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-42.pdf The first insurance companies are pushing back because a huge wave of claims is coming.
Anthony Fauci confirms that PCR test cannot detect live virus. Anthony Fauci confirms that neither the antigen test nor the PCR test can tell us whether someone is contagious or not!!!! This invalidates the whole rationale of the so-called pandemic. The PCR-test was the only indication of a pandemic. Without PCR-TEST there is no pandemic For all press workers, doctors, lawyers, prosecutors, etc. THIS is the final key, the ultimate proof that all measures must be lifted immediately PLEASE Share!!!!

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January 18, 2022 7:00am

Acid-Damaged Game Boy Restored

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