Canopic jars were used by ancient Egyptians to house the organs of the deceased for use in the afterlife. This jar was blessed at a Shinto shrine in Japan and “recognized as a container for Lawrence’s soul,” according to the museum.
Enoch holds this canopic jar sculpture with a bust of astronaut Robert Henry Lawrence Jr
the SSO-A/Enoch/elysium mission is followed by InSight and CRS 16 on December 4 (Osiris Rex reaches Bennu) followed by the final Iridium phoenix.
InSight's landing site is Elysium Planitia, a flat, smooth plain selected not for its surface features, but for safety considerations. InSight's purpose is to study the interior of Mars, not the surface. Thus, in the selection of a landing site, what's on the surface mattered less on this mission than for previous rover missions focused on the geology.
Planitia is Latin for a flat surface, geometric plane or flatness or a plain. Elysium is from the ancient Greek name for an afterlife paradise, usually referred to in English as the Elysian Fields.
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/timeline/prelaunch/landing-site-selection/
Paradise lost: How California's deadliest wildfire unfolded - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/17/us/california-fires-wrap/index.html
SpaceX could begin testing its Mars rocket in Texas by late 2018, early ...
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-mars-rocket-test-texas-late-2018/
https://www.news-journal.com/news/business/work-picks-up-in-south-texas-for-spacex-launch-projects/article_084583f0-e447-11e8-8295-f727afb11e72.html
STARGATE
UTRGV - The Spacecraft Tracking and Astronomical Research into Giga-hertz Astrophysical Transient Emission (STARGATE)
https://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_c3fd447a-24ad-11e3-8c0e-0019bb30f31a.html
Well now it certainly will be interesting if F9 Iridium 8/DM-1, Voyager 2, and the Texas Stargate all line up for the same time frame.
On February 1, 2012 SpaceX announced that it had completed the development of a new, more powerful version of a storable-propellant rocket engine, this one called SuperDraco. This high-thrust hypergolic engine—about 200 times larger than the Draco RCS thruster hypergolic engine—offers deep throttling ability,[6] and just like the Draco thruster, was designed to provide multiple restart capability and use the same shared hypergolic propellants as Draco. Its primary purpose was to be for SpaceX's LAS (launch abort system) on the Dragon spacecraft. According to a NASA press release, the engine has a transient from ignition to full thrust of 100 ms. During launch abort, eight SuperDracos were expected to fire for 5 seconds at full thrust. The development of the engine was partially funded by NASA's CCDev 2 program. Name: Draco comes from the Greek drakōn for dragon. Draco (constellation) is a constellation (the Dragon) in the polar region of the Northern Hemisphere near Cepheus and Ursa Major
Elon Musk readies Starship for interplanetary trip
https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-readies-starship-for-interplanetary-trip/
https://www.universetoday.com/140539/spacex-gives-more-details-on-how-their-starlink-internet-service-will-work-less-satellites-lower-orbit-shorter-transmission-times-shorter-lifespans/
Starlink big update news and Starship announced this November is another strong connection with the current spacex launch pattern/cycle...
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