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How to Make a Spaceship

Education — The race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflight [Science Books, Space, Books]
Educationest. 2016
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 18 probesavg response 923 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
amazon.com
edge
direct origin
server
Server
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

How to Make a Spaceship's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594206724/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=sl1&tag=qqww-20&linkId=39189a51261c15601a078f5f7acb8964) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Quieteducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Performing Under Pressureeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Predictably Irrationaleducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
52 Small Changes For the Mindeducationsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questionseducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Science of Being Luckyeducationsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Eartheducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Last Days of the Incaseducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:12Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer259redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:53Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer480redirected_offsite
2026-08-10 00:18Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1680redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:52Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1472redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:50Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer335redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:44Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer826redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:28Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1061redirected_offsite
2026-07-14 09:19Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer752redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:23Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1284redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 01:02Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer361redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:59Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer453redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:09Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1430redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:28Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1186redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:34Z200amzn.to → amazon.comServer1342redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · How to Make a Spaceship · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/how-to-make-a-spaceship-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.