— Posters have been added to the store (theorbitalmechanics.com/store)

— There’s still a great space community on our Discord (theorbitalmechanics.com/discord)

I'm going to use some language that David, Dennis, and I have agreed represents our intentions. Please don't, like, take this too far, but we have decided to sunset the main show.

Here's what we're going to do. Next week, on Sunday, July 6th, we're going to get together and we're going to record an episode. We would like to invite anybody who's interested in listening into one of our live recordings to come join us.

We're not sure what we're going to do. We thought about calling this our last episode, but that doesn't feel quite right. I think the three of us have some ideas about what we want the future of this show to look like, even if it's not recording an episode every week. We'll also be able to tell you a bit more about what happened last week.

We would love if you have thought about joining a recording session and haven't, or if you used to and you still kind of want to but you haven't had a good motivation, here's your motivation. Come party with us. (Hopefully it'll be a party.)

But yeah, so that's the news for this week. Next week we expect to put out, you know, a full like hour-long episode like usual, and then we'll... it's not going to look like our normal episodes. It'll be pretty talky. I mean, our episodes are always talky. Even this short episode is pretty talky. But we're, you know, we'll probably talk about the news a little bit, but it's mainly going to be, I don't know, almost like a brainstorming session, maybe. We'll find out.

You're invited and I would love to see, like me personally, I would love to see you. There are a bunch of names scrolling through my head right now. I would love to see everybody on that list. And I'm sure there are plenty of names that I don't know yet. And you know, that's one of the things that I'm most afraid of losing if we're not doing weekly episodes is all the new people I'm not going to get to meet.

Come on by next week, July, Sunday, the 6th. We record at 9 a.m. Pacific, 12 p.m. Eastern. If you aren't already in our discord, you can go to theorbitalmechanics.com/discord, and that'll just redirect you to an invite. Yeah, you got to have a discord account. I'm sorry. But come come join us and say hi.

All right, talk to you guys next week. Bye.

So, we’ve had a personal emergency here on the crew. All three of us are fine, and we will let you know more about what’s happened, but for right now, this week’s episode is delayed. Hopefully it’ll be coming out later this week, but I don’t know. It may take a little while for things to get back to normal, but hopefully not too long. We just need a little bit of time to cope, and then we can figure out what our plans are.

Thank you guys for listening, and you know, I miss y’all.

— Starship Block 2: 0 for 3 (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

— Block 3 Update (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Xodiac flies final time (arstechnica.com)

— China successfully tests vertical-takeoff vertical-landing rocket (cgtn.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

ii May 24, 1962: Fourth flight of Project Mercury (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov)

— Next week (6/10 - 6/16) in 1973: Dos equis

— Neutron update (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— China announces mission to Venus (ieee.org)

Tianhe to be expanded (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 14 May, 1973. Launch of Skylab (historicspacecraft.com) (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Next week (5/20 - 5/26) in 1962: Kickin’ up fireflies.

— Firefly Nozzle Anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Efforts continue to rescue Lunar Trailblazer (spacenews.com)

— ISS avoids space debris (space.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Kosmos 482’s parachutes dangling out? (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— May 10, 1994: Last contact with the Clementine Spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (researchgate.net) (nap.nationalacademies.org) (klabs.org)

— Next week (5/13 - 5/19) in 1973: It’s the final countdown

— Sierra Space impact test (asdnews.com)

— Atmos reentry test of PHOENIX-1 (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Kosmos 482’s deorbit update (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Blue Origin tank failure? (HT ArcadeEngineer: fixupx.com/kerballistic07)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 1 May, 1979: Enterprise rolled out to 39A (nasa.gov)

— Next week (5/6 - 5/12) in 1994: Lost and gone forever, in orbit

— The Riskiest Period of ISS’ Existence (spacenews.com)

— Enginefest

— Latitude (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Pangea Aerospace (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Venus Aerospace (prnewswire.com)

Short & Sweet

— Building destroyed in explosion at Northrop Grumman test site (space.com)

— Seat barter agreement extended through 2027 (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Unc’ Willy: “First flight” is a better term (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— April 24, 1970: Launch of Dong Fang Hong (astronautix.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (4/29 - 5/5) in 1979: Heading out for a three-month stay

— Confirming Isaacman (spacenews.com) (law.cornell.edu) (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org)

— One of the Lunar Terrain Vehicles unveiled (lunaroutpost.com)

Short & Sweet

— New addition to DSN (space.com)

— DOD hires Astroscale (satellitetoday.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Jonathan McDowell retiring (archive.ph)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Apr, 2001. Maiden flight of GSLV Mk. I (a.k.a GSLV-D1) (isro.gov.in) (astronautix.com) (PDF: sci-hub.se)  (planet4589.org)

— Next week (4/22 - 4/28) in 1970: Is the national anthem really 20 days long?

— Two more PAMs (spacenews.com) (sam.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Fram2 launches and lands (arstechnica.com) (space.com)

— SpinLaunch turns to broadband (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Starliner shakeup (spaceflightnow.com)

— From Espen Urkedal: FTS vs VTS

This Week in Spaceflight History

— April 10, 1979: Launch (and early return) of Soyuz 33 (en.wikipedia.org) (blazingbulgaria.wordpress)

— Next week (4/15 - 4/21) in 2001: Stumbling 58 minutes short of the finish orbit

— Security Space (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)

Interview -- Joseph Marlin, Deputy Chief Engineer, Blue Ghost Lunar Program

— linkedin.com/in/josephmarlin

— fireflyspace.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Apr 4, 1983. Launch of STS-6 (americaspace.com)

— Next week (4/8 - 4/14) in 1979: Stumbling a mile before the finish line

— Still sticking with Starliner (spacenews.com) (aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starlab starts new phase (space.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Blaise via email: SRTM gravity gradients

This Week in Spaceflight History

— March 31, 1972: Launch of Kosmos 482 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacereview.com) (leonarddavid.com)

— Next week (4/1 - 4/7) in 1983: Orbital structural test article

— China’s Mars Sample Return open to International Cooperation (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Several Russian sats on the move (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (defence-blog.com)

— X-37B lands after record-breaking mission (arstechnica.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: leaked starship photos: (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com) (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Mar, 1980. Plesetsk launch pad disaster (plesetzk.ru) (russianspaceweb.com) (bbc.co.uk) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Tangent on GRAU indices (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/25 - 3/31) in 1972: Much closer, much easier, but 53 years late

— IM-2 lunar landing (intuitivemachines.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (intuitivemachines.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Voyager turns off further instruments (space.com)

— A Falcon 9 loses a leg (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: ISS too clean (newsbreak.com) (cell.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 15 Mar, 1976. Launch of Lincoln Experimental Satellite 8 and 9 (LES-8 and -9) (skyrocket.de) (wikipedia.org) (ll.mit.edu)

— Next week (3/18 - 3/24) in 1980: Wait nine years until “openness”

— Starship TF7 bounced to pieces (Paywall: aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Two payloads on IM-2 launch suffering problems on-orbit (spacenews.com)

— Space capsule lands in Australia while first rocket readies to launch (spacenews.com) (abc.net.au)

— Xona received contract to develop GPS alternative (insidegnss.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Blue Ghost lunar landing? (Spoiler: it did!) (space.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 26, 1960: Failed launch of MiDAS 1 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nro.gov) (PDF: nro.gov)

— Next week (3/11 - 3/17) in 1976: Two score and nine years ago

— Stoke Space reveals Andromeda 2 (stokespace.com)

Short & Sweet

— Long March 8A completes first flight (spacenews.com)

— Germany provides funds for new launch facility (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Blue Origin Layoffs (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 Feb, 1996. Launch of POLAR satellite (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (eyes.nasa.gov) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Next week (2/25 - 3/3) in 1960: The copper touch

— The most amazing little rocket that will have ever built (spacenews.com) (aas.org) (aas.org) (aas.org) (PDF: hou.usra.edu)

Short & Sweet

— Starbase Update (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Thales Alenia to build an airlock (europeanspaceflight.com)

Vast reschedules Haven-1 (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: ThrustMe pushes into US market (spacenews.com) (thrustme.fr)

— Unc’ Willy: Frustums, and NGLR (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 11 Feb, 2000: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission launched on STS-99 (en.wikipedia.org) (airandspace.si.edu VIA web.archive.org) (PDF: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

— Next week (2/18 - 2/24) in 1996: Goes where it says on the tin.

— Blue Ghost M1 (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (fireflyspace.com) (gsfc.nasa.gov) (baas.aas.org) (hou.usra.edu) 

Short & Sweet

— Starliner investigation nears completion (spacenews.com)

— AstroForge announces first target (space.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: IRNSS-1K launch failure (thehindu.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb. 6, 1995: STS-63 approaches within 11 meters of Mir (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (thespaceabove.us)

— Next week (2/11 - 2/17) in 2000: Tail-first and burning fast

— NICER repair on EVA 91 (nasaspaceflight.com) (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (science.nasa.gov) (svs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— ESA to vote on future of Space Rider spacecraft (europeanspaceflight.com)

— China hops higher, maybe (spacenews.com) (bilibili.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: New Shepard’s lunar gravity mission (spacenews.com)

— Hydraq via email: CH4 hydrodynamics in Starship

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Feb, 1994: The launch of STS-60 (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nss.org)

Next week (2/4 - 2/10) in 1995: Hey, it’s me again. I’m outside.

— Starship FT-7 (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (bsky.app/profile/derekdotspace.bsky.social) (space.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— ISRO successfully docks in space (spacenews.com)

— RFA granted license for vertical launch from UK (europeanspaceflight.com) 

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: New Glenn First Flight (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— DarthMooMoo: Varda launched on F9, not Electron (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 22 Jan 1997: Space debris hits a person for the first and only time on record. (HT SciKyle: en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: deepblue.lib.umich.edu) (PDF: apps.dtic.mil) (foxnews.com)

— Next week (1/28 - 2/3) in 1994: Call before you come over

Spaceflight News

— Mars Sample Return redesign (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— China tests mission extension tech on-orbit (spacenews.com)

— X-37B’s latest mission passes one-year in space (space.com)

— Pale Blue Propulsion (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Eaton/Pallisades fire relief for JPL workers (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (securelb.imodules.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Jan. 17, 2005: US-China Orbital Debris Event (space.com) (PPT: celestrak.org) (spaceref.com) (PDF: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov)

— Next week (1/21 - 1/27) in 1997: A tap on the shoulder

— Starship TF-7 (spacenews.com) (ringwatchers.com) (spacex.com) (twitter.com)

Short & Sweet

— India launches space docking demo mission (nasaspaceflight.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (isro.gov.in)

— Launches gaining frequency (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 10 Jan, 1968: Surveyor 7 lands on the moon (nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Next week (1/14 - 1/20) in 2005: Was that the Aurora Australis?

— K2 Space wins contract (spaceinsider.tech) (spacenews.com) (addtheegg.com)

Short & Sweet

— Contracts awarded for NASA’s Near Space Network (spacenews.com)

— Record breaking spacewalk set by Shenzhou-19 crew (spacenews.com)

— Crew-10 delayed (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 Jan, 1959. Launch of Luna 1, first spacecraft to reach the Moon (en.wikipedia.org) (smithsonianmag.com) (mentallandscape.com) (smithsonianmag.com)

— Next week (1/7 - 1/13) in 1968: Highlander - there can be only one (of seven)

— Orion’s heat shield (americaspace.com) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Tests of Russian Orbital Station core module announced (interfax.com)

— Ingenuity’s Crash Investigation (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Joel Rogers via email: Young and Crippen didn’t fly on Enterprise.

This Week in Spaceflight History

— December 17, 2012: Grasshopper makes its first real hop (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (1/1 - 1/6) in 1959: To the moon! Uh... to the Sun!

— Swirl-dominated chambers (payloadspace.com) (https://www.sierraspace.com) (Pic, from researchgate.net) (PDF: nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— So long Sutherland Spaceport (satellitetoday.com)

Further delays to Artemis program announced (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Dec, 1970. Launch of Uhuru (nasa.gov) (PDF: jhuapl.edu)

— Next week (12/17 - 12/23) in 2012: Ride ‘em, cowboy

— Epsilon can’t stop exploding (space.com) (youtu.be) (PDF: jaxa.jp)

— A Dragonfly on a Falcon Heavy (satellitetoday.com)

Short & Sweet

— Old spaceport, newish rocket (europeanspaceflight.com)

— New rocket, new spaceport (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: New Glenn on the pad (space.com) (blueorigin.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Dec, 2003: Shuttle Training Aircraft loses part of an engine (iasa.com.au VIA web.archive.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (simpleflying.com)

— Next week (12/10 - 12/16) in 1970: Equatorial eyes

— Global grasshoppers

— Russia’s hopper (arstechnica.com)

— EU’s hopper (europeanspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Omani spaceport looks to launch next month (www.thenationalnews.com)

— China tests inflatable spacecraft on orbit (news.cgtn.com) (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starship Test Flight Six (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) 

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Progress contamination (russianspaceweb.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— November 28, 1983: Launch of STS-9, Columbia (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)  (americaspace.com)

— Next week (12/3 - 12/9) in 2003: You’ve heard of the space banana, but what about the Banana River dunk?

— Zvezda leak disagreement (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

— NGR is in the building! (spacenews.com)

— Bye bye ABL (from launch anyway) (arstechnica.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 Nov, 1970. Launch of Kosmos 379 (astronautix.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) 

— Next week (11/26 - 12/2) in 1983: And then there were six

— CRS-2 extended (spacenews.com) (sam.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Gilmour ups and Bowen downs (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— LignoSat to be deployed from ISS (popsci.com) (nanosats.eu)

— Long March 9: Starship (arstechnica)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: LEO safety study (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Nov, 1981: The launch of STS-2 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)

— Next week (11/19 - 11/25) in 1970: LELO: Low-Earth “Lunar” Orbit

— Shenzhou-19 reaches Tiangong (spaceflightnow.com)

— Mirror platform for Tiangong (news.cgtn.com) (youtube.com)

— Low-cost Tiangong cargo S/C (spacenews.com)

— “Kinetica-2 [selected] as top launcher choice” (twitter.com/cas_space)

— Crewed moon rover (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/YuqiiQian)

Short & Sweet

— Artemis heat shield chunks (spacenews.com)

— Liquid water on Mars (nature.com VIA nasaspaceflight.com) (news.berkeley.edu)

— California startup develops ABEP system (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— November 8, 2004: First launch of a Soyuz 2 carrier rocket (en.wikipedia.org) (v2rockethistory.com)

— Next week (11/12 - 11/18) in 1981: 40% of the mission, 90% of the objectives.

— Starship Flight 5 Review “Leaked” (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (spacenews.com) (HT DennisO: x.com/StarshipGazer)

Short & Sweet

— Crew-8 post-landing medical issue (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Companies to bring commercial launch to Ireland (europeanspaceflight.com)

— ACS-3’s a little crooked (space.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Mars Sample Revision (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Aerojet 260 solid rocket test (en.wikipedia.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Nov, 1994. Launch of STS-66 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nss.org) (youtu.be)

— Next week (11/5 - 11/11) in 2004: A blind bowling ball

Spaceflight News

— Intelsat 33e loses power and blows up (spacenews.com) (x.com/S4S_SDA) (reddit.com)

Short & Sweet

— Sirius Space hot fire (europeanspaceflight.com)

— A Firefly to launch a Jackal (satellitetoday.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Ross Peterson: Super Heavy’s reentry heating

— Taylor S Marks: ISS graveyard orbit (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  27 Oct, 1992. Launch of the Znamya 2 solar power antenna (en.wikipedia.org) (thespacereview.com) (qsl.net) (skypub.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (10/29 - 11/4) in 1994: holding the weight of LEO on your shoulders

— Worries about ISS making a splash (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (space.com)

Short & Sweet

— X-37B to perform aerobraking maneuver (defenseone.com)

— Rocket Lab wins Mars Sample Return concept award (spacenews.com)

— Vast unveils details on Haven-1 (payloadspace.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Starship Flight Test 5 (youtu.be) (nasaspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— October 17, 1974: Founding of OTRAG (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) (bernd-leitenberger.de)

— Next week (10/22 - 10/28) in 1992: To shreds, you say!

-- Vulcan anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/dwisecinema) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Voyager 2 turns off science instrument (inverse.com)

-- Super bright Qianfan satellites (spacenews.com)

-- NASA reduces rate of ISS leak (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- Unc’ Willy: Crossfield’s employer (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 8 Oct, 2012: The launch of CRS-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasaspaceflight.com)

-- Next week (10/15 - 10/21) in 1974: The original SpaceX

-- VIPER opinions (spacenews.com) (sam.gov) 

Short & Sweet

-- Chinese lunar spacesuit revealed (cgtn.com) (space.com)

-- Upper stage anomaly grounds Falcon 9 (space.com) (spacenews.com)

-- MaiaSpace moves in (spacenews)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 2 Oct, 1921. Birth of Scott Crossfield (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: govinfo.gov) (magazine.washington.edu)

-- Next week (10/8 - 10/14) in 2012: A boxy box delivery

-- ISRO rising (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Iran successfully launches research satellite (almayadeen.net)

-- Ariane 6 software fix (spacenews.com)

-- Yutu 2 turns six (space.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Sirius Space will launch from Australia (europeanspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- Launch of Shenzhou 7 (神舟七号) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nescacademy.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

-- Next week (10/1 - 10/7) in 1921: Flying with Michael Burnham

-- Landspace lands (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

-- New Glenn to attempt landing (HT Chris Radcliff: https://twitter.com/davill)

-- Chang’e-6 extended mission (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Polaris Dawn spacewalk (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 22 Sep, 2006. Launch of Hinode (日の出) (nasa.gov)  (eoportal.org) (esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org)

-- Next week (9/24 - 9/30) in 2008: And then there were three

-- BepiColombo insertion delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (esa.int)

Short & Sweet

-- EscaPADE DelAYED (spacenews.com)

-- Starliner Returned (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

-- Vega’s final launch (satellitetoday.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Blue Origin’s new drone ship (HT DennisO: https://x.com/_mgde_) (space.com)

-- Haragopal: Europa Clipper’s flying on Falcon Heavy, not New Glenn (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 10 Sept, 2009: The launch of HTV-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (humans-in-space.jaxa.jp) (PDF: nasa.gov)

-- Next week (9/17 - 9/23) in 2006: Flying to where the Sun never rises

-- B1062 lost (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Intuitive Machines selected for lunar South Pole mission (spacenews.com)

-- Stoke Space wins contract to prototype cargo delivery (satellitetoday.com) (stokespace.com)

-- Starliner wob wob (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Europa Clipper (planetary.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 6 Sept, 1988: The troublesome landing of Soyuz TM-5 (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

-- Starliner crew to return on Dragon (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

-- EscaPADE arrives in Florida (spacenews.com)

-- SLS gets bumped up a block (spacenews)

-- RFA first stage lost in test-firing anomaly (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (youtu.be)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 27 Aug, 1985. Launch of STS-51-I (PDF: nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (wikiarchives.space) (en.wikipedia.org)

-- First polar-orbiting crewed mission announced (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

-- New solid rocket game in town (breakingdefense.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Spaceport Rundown (flyingmag.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (cnbc.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From Espen Urkedal via email: Raptor 3 is not as incomplete as it looks (twitter.com/gwynne_shotwell)

Interview -- Rocket Lab’s Cristophe Mandy and Sarah Blyde

-- There’s also a brief appearance by Lane Cook, Senior Program Manager

-- Thank you so much to the Rocket Lab team for making their time and facility available to us!

-- rocketlabusa.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 24 Aug, 1958: The failed launch of Explorer 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)

-- Next week (8/27 - 9/2) in 1985: Big Astronaut, Little Astronaut

-- Megadebris? (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (slingshot.space)

Short & Sweet

-- NEOWISE ends operations (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

-- Starliner still stuck at Station (spaceflightnow)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From Upcoming Spaceflight Events:

-- JUICE Earth flyby #1 on Aug 19/20 (esa.int)

-- Online FAA meeting RE: Starship launch cadence on Aug 20 (faa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- August 15, 1969: Creation of ISRO (en.wikipedia.org) (britannica.com)

-- Next week (8/20 - 8/26) in 1958: Catching a second wind

-- ADRAS-J rendezvous (HT Zach: twitter.com/CRD2_JAXA) (astroscale.com) (PDF: astroscale.com VIA astroscale.com)

Short & Sweet

-- POLARIS spaceplane startup back on track (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- Dawn does docking (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: JWST looks at Epsilon Indi A (nasaspaceflight.com)

-- Ryan R: TEA-TEB is a pre-mixed fluid (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 10 Aug, 1992. Launch of the first major oceanographic research satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon (en.wikipedia.org) (jpl.nasa.gov) (eoportal.org) (aviso.altimetry.fr)

-- T/P data is used in this sea level rise dashboard (climate.nasa.gov)

-- Next week (8/13 - 8/19) in 1969: This agency is ro-bust

-- Falcon 9 Return to Flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

-- ABL Static fire failure (spacenews.com)

-- Starliner Debugging (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- The RAX bug was caused by differing clocks (youtube.com)

Interview -- Martin Frederick, Northrop Grumman Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs

-- linkedin.com

-- Further reading:

-- JWST (northropgrumman.com)

-- TRMM (gpm.nasa.gov) (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- July 31, 1992: Launch of Atlantis on STS-46 (en.wikipedia.org)  (americaspace.com)

-- EURECA was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-57 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

-- TSS-1 was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-75 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

-- Next week (8/6 - 8/12) in 1992: The zeroth argonaut.

-- NASA nixes VIPER (spacenews.com) (newscientist.com)

European Short & Sweet

-- Ariane 6 may carry crew (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- Europe announces RAMSES mission to Apophis (arstechnica.com) (esa.int)

-- Themis gets delayed (europeanspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 29 Jul, 1999. Deep Space 1, NASA’s first S/C with ion propulsion, flies by asteroid 9969 Braille (en.wikipedia.org)

-- We interviewed DS-1’s chief mission engineer and deputy mission manager Marc Rayman in Episode 75 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

-- Ron Garret discussed the RAX bug in his talk The Remote Agent Experiment (youtube.com)

-- Next week (7/30 - 8/5) in 1992: We’ll hang on to this one, and come back for that one later

-- Falcon 9 Failure (spacenews.com)  (spaceflightnow.com)

-- Ariane 6 anomaly (europeanspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

-- Hyperbola-1 mishap (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Europa Clipper faces last-minute obstacle (space.com)

-- Dawn gets green light for spaceplane tests (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 17 July, 1977. First launch of a complete TKS spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (nasa.gov)

-- Next week (7/23 - 7/29) in 1999: Is that a grid of dots on that asteroid?

-- Luch (Olymp) 2 “caught” snooping (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (thespacereview.com)

Short & Sweet

-- The Poles make it to space! (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- ISRO announces major size increase to Indian space station (x.com/ISROSpaceflight)

Interview --  MSI-DFAT

-- We talked to:

-- Alex Carrella, VP Strategy & Growth

-- Bradley Hope, Business Manager

-- Max Myers, Systems Engineer/Lead Rigger

-- Before DFAT (and RFAT), we had feet. (youtube.com)

-- msidfat.com

-- linktr.ee/msidfat

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- July 12, 2001. Launch of Artemis GEO satellite (en.wikipedia.org) (esa.int) (PDF: esa.int)

-- Next week (7/16 - 7/22) in 1977: One month now, 312 months later

-- The Vulcan train is leaving the station (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Starliner’s extended-er ISS stay (spacenews.com)

-- A not-so-static test fire (spacenews.com)

-- Resurs P1 breaks up (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: (americaspace.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 8 July, 1994. Launch of STS-65 (en.wikipedia.org)

-- Next week (7/9 - 7/15) in 2001: Spiraling into control

-- Long March 10 hot firing (spacenews.com) (weixin.qq.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Latest taikonaut class selected (space.com)

Short & Sweet

-- ESA gets involved in Vega C’s transfer (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- Ariane 6 gets dressed (spacenews.com)

-- Starliner’s extended ISS stay (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- Next week (7/1 - 7/8) in 1994: From rocket to lab

-- Starliner OFT (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)

-- Suni Williams gave a tour on orbit (HT Dennis O: youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Chinese space plane proximity ops (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)

-- NASA selects companies to explore Mars Sample Return methods (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

-- VOYAGER’S BACK!!! (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: ISS replicates War of the Worlds radio drama (space.com) (twitter.com/airplaneian)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 24 Jun, 1982. Soyuz T-6 carries Jean-Loup Chrétien, the first Frenchman, to Salyut 7 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de)

-- Next week (6/25 - 7/1) in 1983: Six seconds calls for vodka

-- Starship Test Flight 4 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (spacey.space/@spmttracker)

Short & Sweet

-- Vast plans for ESA (spacenews)

-- Chang’e-6 has its moon rocks (spacenews) (spacenews.com)

-- Hubble Hobble (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- RIP Bill Anders (apnews.com)

-- Traches: Relativity and Novas (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 11 June, 2008. Launch of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov)

-- Next week (6/18 - 6/24) in 1982: First wolf in space?

-- ThinkSubOrbital (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (sbir.gov) (sbir.gov)

Short & Sweet

-- Starliner scrub (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Indian startup Agnikul Notches launches first flight (payloadspace.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro:

-- Chang’e 6 landing (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Dear Moon canceled (spacenews.com)

-- Deathkin via discord.com: Centaur’s not a workhorse

-- Heads up for a recurrent nova! (planetary.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 8 June in 1959: Regulus Missile Mail (HT SciKyle: postalmuseum.si.edu)

-- Next week (6/11 - 6/17) in 2008: A salty Italian

-- More Starliner Delays (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: https://arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

-- U.S. accuses Russia of launching countersat weapon (spacenews.com) (payloadspace.com) 

-- Redwire wins award for European lunar lander’s robot arm (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Bepi-Colombo power failure (esa.int)

-- Ryan R: Technology Connections talked about heterodyne radios (youtube.com VIA discord.com)

Interview --  Justin Fiaschetti, CEO and Co-Founder of Inversion

-- twitter.com/InversionSpace

-- inversionspace.com

-- linkedin.com

-- linkedin.com 

This Week in Spaceflight History

--  2 Jun, 2003. Launch of Mars Express (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (universetoday.com)

-- Next week (6/4 - 6/10) in 1959: A short-term version of the above

-- NASA Joins Rosalind Franklin Team (spacenews.com)

-- Unknown Russian sat launched (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Georgia scraps Spaceport Camden (actionnewsjax.com)

-- Starliner leaks Helium (spacenews)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 27 May, 1999: The launch of STS-96 (nasa.gov) (nss.org) (eoportal.org) (nasa.gov) (youtu.be)

-- Next week (5/28 - 6/3) in 2003: The last opportunity that was this good was 60,000 years ago

— Chang’e-6 mission underway (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nature.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starliner delayed (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)

— Long March 6C makes first flight (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com)

— Neutron debut slips into 2025 (payloadspace.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Zubrin opinion piece on MSR (spacenews.com)

Interview -- Adam Higginbotham

— Preorder Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space (simonandschuster.com)

— adamhigginbotham.com

— twitter.com/HigginbothamA

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 14 May, 2009: Launch of Herschel Space Observatory (en.wikipedia.org) (cosmos.esa.int) (planetary.org) 

— Next week (5/21 - 5/27) in 1999: Putting schoolchildren to work

— Artemis I Lessons (spacenews.com) (PDF: oig.nasa.gov VIA oig.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Thunder from down under (abc.net.au) (abc.net.au) (southernlaunch.space)

— JAXA’s SLIM survives third lunar night (japantimes.co.jp)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— May 9, 1963: Launch of West Ford 2 (PDF: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov VIA orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci-hub.se) (stuffin.space)

— Next week (5/14 - 5/20) in 2009: The first space telescope

— Voyager is communicative! (blogs.nasa.gov)

— ESA debris removal mission finds a new target (satellitetoday.com)

Short & Sweet

— China releases a lunar landing update (spacenews)

— TESS enters safe mode… again (nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Dennis O: SOFIA clarifications (discord.com) (youtube.com)

— VAXheadroom shot SOFIA some footage in 2012 (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Interview -- Jeff Williams, CEO/CTO Exum Instruments

— Jeff co-authored a paper that is a good primer on spectroscopy and Massbox (spectroscopyonline.com)

— exuminstruments.com 

— linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-williams-372118128  

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 9 Apr, 1999: Titan IVB (402) takes DSP-19 (USA 142) to GEO (astronautix.com) (klabs.org)

— 30 Apr, 1999. Titan IVB (401) takes Milstar-3 (USA 143) to GEO (washingtonpost.com) (PDF: direct.mit.edu VIA direct.mit.edu)

— Next week (5/7 - 5/13) in 1963: Not a good day for trypanophobics

— Lunar buggy selection (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov VIA sam.gov) (twitter.com/DubnHG1) (nikkei.com)

Short & Sweet

— Dragonfly mission officially confirmed (nasa.gov)

— Mars Sample Revamp (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Unc Willy: Cape launch complexes (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 26 Apr, 2007. First flight of SOFIA (en.wikipedia.org) (747sp.com) (HT Colin: youtube.com)

— Next week (4/30 - 5/6) in 1999: Taped too tightly

— Last Delta IV heavy (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ulalaunch.com) (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

— Relativity Space wins contract (spacenews)

— Japan secures a moon landing (spacenews)

— Max Space Modules (spacenews)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Csaba via Discord: SOIR means "evening" in French, pretty clever pun (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 19 Apr, 1975. Launch of Aryabhata satellite (lowyinstitute.org) (ursc.gov.in) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (4/23 - 4/29) in 2007: Looking at stars through a wall

— Broken records and Starship’s near future (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— New Shepard Plans Crewed Flight (spacenews.com)

— Lunar Rover Mk 2 (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  April 11, 2006: Arrival of Venus Express at Venus (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int VIA sci.esa.int)

— Next week (4/16 - 4/22) in 1975: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000

— Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com)

— Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu)

Short & Sweet

— A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com)

— A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 6 Apr, 1965: Launch of Intelsat I, the first commercial satellite in GEO (en.wikipedia.org) (boeing.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (4/9 - 4/15) in 2006: The mission that went to hell in 5 months

— Starship IFT-3 (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Euclid spacecraft addresses ice-buildup on optics (asdnews.com)

— Ariane 6 coming together (esa.int)

— Soyuz aborts at the pad (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: launch escape slide (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 17 Mar, 2002. Launch of GRACE spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (esa.int) (skyrocket.de) (nasa.gov)

— Next week (4/2 - 4/8) in 1965: Catching GEO worms

— The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (hachettebookgroup.com)

— facebook.com/AZAstrobiology

— threads.net/@azastrobiology

— instagram.com/azastrobiology

— Thanks to Grand Central Publishing (twitter.com/GrandCentralPub) (instagram.com/grandcentralpub)

— Stoke Space focusing on first stage (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Tianhe’s solar arrays patched (space.com)

— Stratolaunch tests Talon (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starship Flight 3 on its way (spacenews.com) (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 16 Mar, 1966. Recovery of Veterok and Ugolyok, who to this day hold the record for longest canine spaceflight (Kosmos 110) (en.wikipedia.org) (ru.wikipedia.org) (veterok-ugolyok.gmik.ru) (astronaut.ru)

— Next week (3/19 - 3/25) in 2017: Dry, wet, and lumpy

— Last big IM-1 update (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/jeff_foust)

Short & Sweet

— Orion has hatch problems (spacenews.com)

— ISRO plans for Mars helicopter (indiatoday.in)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Varda landing footage (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 8 Mar, 2001. Launch of STS-102 (nss.org) (aiaa.org)

— Next week (3/12 - 3/18) in 1966: A 154 day mission, but only for the passengers

— IM-1 landing follow-up (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— ISRO completes human-rating of engine (isro.gov.in)

— Software error responsible for Firefly’s off-nominal payload delivery (fireflyspace.com) (space.com)

— Varda’s capsule returns (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Espen via email: IM-1’s fuel loading

 This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 March 1965: Atlas Centaur AC-5 explosion (en.wikipedia.org) (science.nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Next week (3/5 - 3/11) in 2001: The first ten-person spaceflight

— IM-1 launch (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: intuitivemachines.com)

Short & Sweet

— H3 completes first successful launch (spacenews.com)

— Voyager 1 still struggles to communicate (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— February 21 2008, Interception and destruction of USA-193 (thespacereview.com) (PDF: unoosa.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/27 - 3/4) in 1965: Technically, that was highly elliptical

— Dream Chaser readies for first flight (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Viasat-3 pushes forward (spacenews.com)

— Lessons from Artemis 1 (spacenews.com)

— X-37B’s orbit speculation (arstechnica.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— 2002 VE68 was officially named Zoozve! (alex-foster.com) (radiolab.org) (radiolab.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 15 February, 1996: Failed launch of Intelsat 708 (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (thespacereview.com) (thespacereview.com) (smithsonianmag.com) (HT Dennis O: web.archive.org)

— Next week (2/20 - 2/26) in 2008: And it’s picked off at the 380,000 yard line!

— CLPS’ second try (spacenews.com)

— Collins completes Crew Capability Assessment (prnewswire.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Queqiao-2 readies for launch (cgtn.com)

— First metal 3D printer in space reaches ISS (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Orbit raising raising questions (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 9 Feb, 2000. First launch of a Fregat upper stage (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/13 - 2/19) in 1996: First failure

— Ingenuity Down (HT deltaV: twitter.com/AndySaunders_1) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov)

— Slim Upside-Down (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)(global.jaxa.jp)

Short & Sweet

— Redwire to provide elements of Blue Origin’s space tug (spacenews.com)

— Two companies test reusable booster prototypes (space.com) (HT: Sam twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)

— ESA astronaut operates Earth-bound robots while on orbit (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Shuttle’s hatch lock (HT: deltaV, arstechnica.com) (spaceref.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 3, 1994: First launch of the H-II rocket (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/6 - 2/12) in 2000: First kleptoparasite in space

— SLIM landing attempt (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (PDF: global.jaxa.jp)

Short & Sweet

— EUS heads to qualification (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Ingenuity contact lost during flight 72, regained (mars.nasa.gov) (npr.org)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Peregrine Reentry (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 Jan, 1986. Voyager 2’s closest approach to Uranus (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (PDF: sci-hub.se)

— Next week (1/30 - 2/5) in 1994: What comes between 1 and A?

— Peregrine Failure (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/astrobotic)

Short & Sweet

— Lay-offs at JPL (spacenews)

— Starship’s second flight failure explained (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Early demo of a starship game, complete with engineering section (starshipsimulator.co.uk)

— Espen via email: F9 landing legs in episode 440

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 19 Jan, 1965. Launch of Gemini-Titan 2 (en.wikipedia.org) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov)

— Next week (1/23 - 1/29) in 1986: Cheaper by the almost dozen

— NIAC 2024 Phase One (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— India launches X-ray space observatory (spaceflightnow.com)

— Space station stories (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 January, 1997: Launch of Atlantis on STS-81 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (freshairarchive.org)

— Next week (1/16 - 1/22) in 1965: The there of “there and back again”

— B1058 lost at sea (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/johnkrausphotos) (youtube.com) (ventusky.com) (twitter.com/edwards345) (spaceexplored.com)

— Firefly malfunction (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— China completes launch pad at first commercial spaceport (cgtn.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Jan, 1999: The launch of Deep Space 2 (gsfc.nasa.gov) (wiley.com) (jpl.nasa.gov)

— Next week (1/9 - 1/15) in 1997: Merry belated Christmas. I got you a fan.

— China launches spaceplane for third time (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (youtube.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— Refractory Starship (nasaspaceflight.com)

— iSpace hops again (spacenews.com)

— Voyager 1 suffers communication anomaly (space.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 19 Dec, 1976. The launch of the first KH-11 Kennen/Keyhole satellite (en.wikipedia.org) (space.skyrocket.de) (npr.org)

— Two weeks from now (1/2 - 1/8) in 1999: Secondary failures

— Vega propellant tank mishap  (arstechnica.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (eoportal.org) (PDF: arianespace.com)

— AVUM 4th stage (“upper stage”) (Pic: eoportal.org)

— Transporter-9 satellite deployment malfunction (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Iran successfully launches bio-capsule (payloadspace.com)

— Chinese methalox rocket progress continues (cgtn.com)

— Stratolaunch tests hypersonic vehicle (thedrive.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Dec, 2012: NIAC releases Space Debris Elimination (SpaDE) Phase 1 report (nasa.gov)

— Next week (12/19 - 12/25) in 1976. Achievement unlocked

— Starship Shtuff (payloadspace.com) (americaspace.com) (twitter.com/ThePrimalDino)

Short & Sweet

— JAXA cyber attacked (payloadspace.com)

— U.S. watchdog agency finds Artemis III in 2025 unlikely (gao.gov) (spacenews.com)

— Gyroscope glitch halts Hubble operations (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  Dec 7, 1966: Launch of ATS-1, the first experimental geostationary satellite (en.wikipedia.org) (youtu.be) (science.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (12/12 - 12/18) in 2012: Digging up debris

— Starliner Crewed Flight Test stays on schedule (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Looking Towards the End of ISS (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)

— Orion still on track (spacenews.com)

— Ariane 6 hot firing test (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Danielle Rose has some neat space art (drose.studio) (spacey.space)

— Jared Owen covers ISS construction (HT Lee youtu.be VIA discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 3 Dec, 2015. Launch of LISA Pathfinder (esa.int) (youtu.be) (nasa.gov) (spaceflight101.com) (PDF: esmats.eu)

— Next week (12/5 - 12/11) in 1966: It helped make Our World possible

— Starship Flight 2 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (twitter.com/thejackbeyer) (twitter.com/planet4589)

— Posted after recording: a quick analysis of Starships acceleration curves (twitter.com/Space_Josiah)

Short & Sweet

— SaxaVord struggles to pay contractors (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Sierra Space layoffs (cnbc.com)

— Mars Helicopter completes back-to-back flights (twitter.com/nasajpl)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 27 Nov, 1963: Launch of the first hydrolox rocket to orbit (en.wikipedia.org) (spacelaunchreport.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (11/28 - 12/4) in 2015: Every journey of millions of kilometers starts with a couple meters.

— Rocket Lab Failure Analysis (spacenews.com) (space.com) (rocketlabusa.com) (PDF: q4cdn.com VIA en.wikipedia.org)

Short & Sweet

— Astra’s financial future (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— X-37B readies for first launch on Falcon Heavy (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Dinkinesh adds a moon (planetary.org)

Interview -- Jake Teufert CTO and Chris Carella CCO, Benchmark Space Systems

— We last talked to Chris Carella in episode 373 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— benchmarkspacesystems.com

— linkedin.com/company/benchmark-space-systems 

— linkedin.com/in/jake-teufert-86b375133/ 

— linkedin.com/in/christopher-carella-innovate/

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Nov 15, 1988: The first and only launch of Buran (en.wikipedia.org) (buran.ru) (buran.ru) (buran-energia.com)

— Next week (11/21 - 11/27) in 1962: Clouds before Aurora

— Lucy flies past Dinkinesh and also Dinkinesh (nasa.gov) (lucy.swri.edu) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov VIA ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied Lucy’s thrusters (l3harris.com) (PDF: amazonaws.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starship aims for mid-November launch (nasaspaceflight.com)

— i-Space hops (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Nov, 1995. Launch of STS-74, second Shuttle-Mir docking (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (PDF: spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com) (youtu.be) (nss.org) (wikiarchives.space)

— Next week (11/14 - 11/20) in 1988: The cold wind blew but once.

— ABL Dusts Itself Off (spacenews.com) (harryohanley.substack.com)

Short & Sweet

— NASA struggles to open asteroid sample container (space.com)

— Rocket Lab to return (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Blue Origin’s latest Blue Moon mockup (spacenews.com)

— Canopée to ferry Ariane 6 (fosstodon.org/@AkaSci)

— You can register to send your name with Europa Clipper (europa.nasa.gov)

— Mike Stewart’s core rope memory reader (finally) debuted on CuriousMarc’s channel (youtube.com)

— Aaron Sawdey: Crew Dragon engine inventory  (discord.com):

Interview -- Daniel Faber, CEO and Adam Harris, CCO of Orbit Fab

— Further reading

— Furphy on ISS (issnationallab.org)

— Analysis of a potential Orbit Fab shuttle/depot architecture (researchgate.net)

— orbitfab.com

— linkedin.com/in/adam-harris-363414a6

— linkedin.com/in/danielfaber

— linkedin.com/company/orbitfab

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 4 Nov, 2011: The end of Mars-500 (space.com) (wikipedia.org) (bbc.com)

— Next week (11/7 - 11/13) in 1995: Mission extension… of 4.7 m

— Gaganyaan in-flight abort test (youtube.com) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (HT: Jatan’s Space PDF: gov.in) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM)

— Pad abort test (https://www.youtube.com)

— Future human Indian Space ambitions (gov.in) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— PLD Test Launch (spacenews.com)

— Two Vega payloads fail to deploy (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Shuttle astronaut mass allotments (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— October 28, 2009: Launch of the Ares I-X (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Next week (10/31 - 11/6) in 2011: Warning: removing this sticker will void your experiment.

— Psyche launch and mission preview (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (scitechdaily.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (microdevices.jpl.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Spacewalk canceled due to Nauka leak (space.com)

— QueSST to fly in 2024 (nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 21 Oct, 2007. Soyuz TMA-10’s ballistic reentry (ruspace.blogspot.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (PDF: sma.nasa.gov)

— Next week (10/24 - 10/30) in 2009: Nominal tumble

— Tiangong’s expansion (hindustantimes.com) (cnn.com)

— Northrop Grumman joins Starlab team (nasa.gov)

— Orbital Reef may be abandoned (cnbc.com)

Short & Sweet

— Luna-25 failure “analysis” (spacenews.com)

— Stoke Space gets more funding (spacenews)

Interview -- Ben Reed, CTO Quantum Space

— quantumspace.us 

— linkedin.com/company/quantumspace-us/ 

— linkedin.com/in/ben-b-reed/ 

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 11 Oct, 2000: STS-92, the100th shuttle mission (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov) (nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (10/17 - 10/23) in 2007: Face forward

— Electron suffers upper stage failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Stoke Space hops (spacenews.com)

— Sierra Space does a burst test (spacenews)

— China plans for lunar sample return (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— A big thanks to Unc’willy, Fonji, Chris S in particular for helping Ben track down and fix an issue with our Discord bot

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  29 September, 2004: Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne (en.wikipedia.org) (sma.nasa.gov) (erikmadaus.medium.com) (airbum.com)

— Next week (10/10 - 10/16) in 2000: Four forbidden cough drops

— Dawn Aerospace discusses future plans (parabolicarc.com)

Short & Sweet

— Artemis-II gets its engines (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Firefly launches Victus Nox (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Stoke Space test fires (twitter.com/stoke_space)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 22 Sep, 1981. Colombia spills NTO before STS-2 (16streets.com) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)

— Next week (9/26 - 10/2) in 2004: Victory roll

— Aditya-L1 studyin’ the Sun (space.com) (eoportal.org) (PDF: iiap.res.in)

Short & Sweet

— Starship stands corrected (spacenews.com)

— MaiaSpace tests cryogenic second stage (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Apollo LOX tanks (twitter.com/DrPhiltill)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 15 Sept, 2017: End of the Cassini mission (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: lpi.usra.edu) (PDF: engineering.purdue.edu)

— Next week (9/19 - 9/25) in 1981: Big F*@&ing Red Spill

— OSIRIS-REx prep (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— New Frontiers competition delayed (spacenews.com)

— Ariane 6 hot-fire test delayed (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Otter Pup detumbled! (payloadspace.com) (twitter.com/StarfishSpace)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 9 Sept, 2006: The launch of STS-115 Atlantis (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Next week (9/12 - 9/18) in 2017: Son devoured

Spaceflight News

— Chandrayaan-3 landing (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (isro.gov.in) (indianexpress.com VIA 12ft.io)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Starship Booster 9 static fire (with deluge) (twitter.com/SpaceX)

Interview -- IEEE Senior Member David Witkowski

— Further reading: Public Wifi Blueprint (PDF: pages.nist.gov)

— twitter.com/w6dtw

— okusolutions.com 

— linkedin.com/company/okusolutions 

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 30 Aug, 1984. Launch of STS-41D (space.nss.org)

— Next week (9/5 - 9/11) in 2006: Icicle and pebble

— Luna-25 (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com/katlinegrey) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (Paywall: russianspaceweb.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starship booster coronation (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)

— Intuitive Machines has a launch date (spacenews.com)

— Russia explores reusable first-stage (aviationweek.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Benjamin W. via email: Juno’s angular velocity

— Luis Mamakos via email: Can you desaturate momentum wheels with the spacecraft?

— From the intro: Shuttle hatch (HT Mike Stewart PDF: ibiblio.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 25 Aug, 2003: Launch of Spitzer Space Telescope (en.wikipedia.org) (spitzer.caltech.edu) (PDF: irsa.ipac.caltech.edu) (PDF: irsa.ipac.caltech.edu) (spaceflightnow.com)

— Dr. Lee Bennet’s talked to us about Spitzer (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— Next week (8/29 - 9/4) in 1984: Icicle

— Lunar Flashlight failure (spacenews.com) (PDF: mstl.atl.calpoly.edu VIA web.archive.org) (PDF: ssdl.gatech.edu) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu)

Short & Sweet

— Boeing aiming for six Starliner flights to ISS (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— NASA test-fires Mars Ascent Vehicle’s motor (space.com)

— To Artemis three or not to three (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 16 August, 1960: Joseph Kittinger made the final Project Excelsior jump (en.wikipedia.org) (nationalmuseum.af.mil) (stratocat.com.ar)

— Next week (8/22 - 8/28) in 2003: Telly McTelescopeface

— Astra Layoffs (spacenews.com) (cnbc.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starship Activities (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Cygnus gets an upgrade (spacenews.com)

— Airbus and Voyager announce commercial space station plans (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 11 and 12 Aug, 1962: The launches of Vostok 3 and 4 (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com)

— Next week (8/15 - 8/21) in 1960: That last step is a doozy

— 2023 Tipping Point selections (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (PDF: nasaprs.com)

— Blue Origin’s Blue Alchemist separates regolith into several important base materials (blueorigin.com)

— We talked to Kyla Edison about sintering regolith (theorbitalmechanics.com)

Short & Sweet

— HALO’s added cost (spacenews.com)

— Sierra Space builds a better engine (spacenews.com)

— Contact with Voyager 2 lost, thought to be temporary (arstechnica.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 5 Aug, 2011. Launch of Juno (en.wikipedia.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu)

— Next week (8/8 - 8/14) in 1962: The Gemini before Gemini

— A Commercial Space Station Source Selection (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (PDF: sam.gov) (news.northropgrumman.com) (sierraspace.com) (specialaerospaceservices.com) (vastspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— Recently arrived GEO satellites in trouble (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (arstechnica.com)

— China develops plan to land humans on Moon before decade’s end (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Aaron Sawdey: Centaur tank fix (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 29 July, 2014. Launch of ATV-5 George Lemaitre, the last ATV (danielmarin.naukas.com) (danielmarin.naukas.com) (esa.int) (blogs.esa.int)

— LIRIS (Laser InfraRed Imaging Sensors) (esa.int)

— Debris avoidance (blogs.esa.int)

— The shallow reentry that wasn’t (issfd.org) (blogs.esa.int)

— Next week (8/1 - 8/7) in 2011: Dim Sun

Vulcan Centaur delays (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet           

— China begins constructing VLEO constellation (spacewatch.global)

— LandSpace wins the race (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Janus canceled (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— An NSF tour of Astra’s rocket factory (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Jul, 2011. Launch of Spektr-R radio telescope (russianspaceweb.com) (wiki)

— Zenit-3M/Fregat-SB (SB - “сбрасываемые баки” or “drop tanks”) (space.skyrocket.de)

Next week (7/25 - 7/31) in 2014: He was born in Belgium, and then again in Italy.

— Au revoir, Ariane 5 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (Payload User’s Guide PDF: arianespace.com)

— Two solids provide ~90% of Ariane 5’s thrust (esa.int)

— ESA plans to lean on SpaceX launches (spacenews.com)

— New test facility for Ariane 6 was built in 2019 (esa.int)

Short & Sweet

— Varda completes pharmaceutical manufacturing test on-orbit (arstechnica.com)

— Lockheed Martin completes burst test of expandable habitat (spaceref.com)

— Starlink interferes with radio astronomy (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 20 Jul, 2017: Sale of Apollo 11 bag for $1.8m (collectspace.com) (collectspace.com) (kansascity.com) (sothebys.com)

— Next week (7/18 - 7/24) in 2011. Radio parasol.

— Mars oxygen and helicopter sighting (space.com) (HT Stygarfield: nasa.gov) 

— Vega C delayed after engine test failure (europeanspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Virgin Galactic completes first fully commercial flight (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Euclid telescope prepares for launch (spacenews.com)

— Dream Chaser prepares for launch (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Unc’ Willy: L2 is closer than the sun, and CMB was discovered in 1964 (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  July 7, 2003: The launch of MER-B (Opportunity) aboard the Delta II Heavy (en.wikipedia.org) (mars.nasa.gov) (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— ULA has an excellent payload guide for Delta II (ula.bsshost.me)

— Next week (7/18 - 7/24) in 2017: Do you ever feel like a sample bag/drifting through the wind, wanting to sue again?

— Starship hot staging and engine firing  (spacenews.com)  (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/AshleyKillip)

— Earlier description of separation flip (teslarati.com)

Short & Sweet

— Prometheus test fire (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Anti-ASAT antipathy (spacenews)

— Launcher’s second OTV fails on orbit (spacenews.com) (geekwire.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 30 Jun, 2001. Launch of Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) (en.wikipedia.org) (wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov) (wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov)

— Next week (7/4 - 7/10) in 2003: The mass hasn’t changed, but now it’s too heavy

— iROSA campaign complete, looking to next campaign (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— ESA reserve astronaut to fly on Axiom flight (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Impulse to supply propulsion for commercial space station (vastspace.com)

— Rocket Lab goes suborbital (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  26 Jun, 1971: The third N1 test flight (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com)

— Next week (6/27 - 7/3) in 2001: [audio clue]

— Luna-25/Luna-Glob delayed (space.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com)

Short & Sweet

— Firefly and York both make acquisitions (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Egypt to build space-monitoring station (africanews.space)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 15th June, 1971: Launch of KH-9 Hexagon (en.wikipedia.org) (aiaa.zoom.us) (space.com)

— Next week (6/20 - 6/26) in 1971: Tunguska 2.0

— Starliner Woes (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

— We tracked down some info on P-213 and P-213LW fiberglass tapes. (PDF: hansford.hk) (PDF: nitto.com) (spacematdb.com)

Short & Sweet

— UAE gives details on asteroid mission (spacewatch.global)

— Commercial deep-space radar (spacenews.com) (satellitetoday.com)

— North Korean launch failure (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— VAXHeadroom: Soyuz roll rate (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 8 June, 2007. Launch of STS-117 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (nss.org) (spaceflightnow.com) (spacecraftearth.com)

— Next week (6/13 - 6/19) in 1971: A six-sided system

— HAKUTO-R failure analysis (HT deltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (ispace-inc.com) (spacenews.com)

— Apollo software modeled terrain to avoid this exact issue (PDF HT Mike: ibiblio.org)

Short & Sweet

— Virgin Orbit assets sold off (spacenews.com)

— ESA folds out a new heat shield (HT Andrew Z: esa.int) (newatlas.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 1 Jun, 1970: Launch of Soyuz 9 (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (chessgames.com) (astronautix.com)

— Next week (6/6 - 6/12) in 2007: Chonky boi

— Blue Origin wins HLS contract (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (PDF: sam.gov VIA nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— CAPSTONE tests its navigation technology (nasa.gov)

— End of Lunar Flashlight (spacenews.com)

— Core of Roman Space Telescope completed (spaceref.com VIA 12ft.io)

This Week in Spaceflight History 

— 23 May, 2016: Suborbital testflight of ISRO’s Reusable Launch Vehicle (vssc.gov.in) (delhidefencereview.com) (delhidefencereview.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (aerospace-technology.com)

— Next week (5/30 - 6/5) in 1970: King to G8

— China’s spaceplane makes maneuvers (spacenews.com)

— Kosmos-2562 makes maneuvers as well (twitter.com/planet4589) (russianspaceweb.com)

Short & Sweet

— Plutonium Depletion (spacenews.com)

— ULA prepares for more tests (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Vast and SpaceX shoot for first commercial space station (HT Andy Z.: techcrunch.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 16 May, 2011. Launch of STS-134 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nasaspaceflight.com) (lidarmag.com)

— Next week (5/23 - 5/29) in 2016: Hex, one of five

— Evolution Space becomes 9th private U.S. company to reach space (twitter.com/evolutionspace_) (parabolicarc.com)

— UP Aerospace rocket rapidly RUDs (gizmodo.com) (youtube.com)

— Incredible footage of payload separation was captured in 2015 (HT Stygarfield: reddit.com) (nasa.gov)

— Swedish rocket lands in Norway (reuters.com)

Short & Sweet

— Dragonfly faces proposed 20% budget cut (spacenews.com)

— New prospects for New Horizons (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Espen via email: Starship engine data loss, AFTS activation time

— Andy Z via email: Starship separation flip

— Anderson via DM: Sea launch vs pad reconstruction (HT VaxHeadroom: twitter.com/RyanHansenSpace)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 13 May, 1998. AsiaSat-3’s lunar flyby (en.wikipedia.org)  (patents.google.com) (carlkop.home.xs4all.nl) (novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru VIA web.archive.org)

— The DM-2M failure was caused by a duct failure between the gas generator and pump turbine (ilslaunch.com)

— Next week (5/16 - 5/22) in 2011: Pass the baton

— Starship update (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (americaspace.com)

— We missed the point of the skydiving pebble story (discord.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— H3 failure analysis (twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin) (PDF: mext.go.jp)

Short & Sweet

— Hakuto-R likely in free-fall before loss of signal (HT Sam: twitter.com/ea4gpz) (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— China’s space agency sets up lunar base organization (spacenews.com)

— Astrobotic books a second Falcon Heavy (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Bob via email: Starship abort capability (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Launch of LCS-1 (Lincoln Calibration Sphere) (en.wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com) (ieeexplore.ieee.org) (youtube.com)

— Next week (5/9 - 5/15) in 1998: Around the elbow to get to the nose

— Starship, destroyer of concrete (youtube.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/landru79) (HT Iain from MaxQ: twitter.com/unrocket) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Launch tower footage (HT Astro: reddit.com/r/space)

— Liftoff footage (note debris impacting water) (twitter.com/SpaceX)

— High speed footage from Tim Dodd x Consider Cosmos (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut)

— Aborted launch attempt at the beginning of the week (spacenews.com)

— Listener Sam spotted eight engines out, not six (discord.com)

— Leaked (?) final frame before termination (discord.com)

— NWS spotted the launch (twitter.com/NWSBrownsville)

— “Aspiring” to have no diverter as of 2020 (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— NSF forums user speaks about the loss of pad experts (HT Sam: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

— Canaveral Starship infrastructure also lacks flame diverter (twitter.com/Cosmic_Andrew1)

Short & Sweet

— Swedish astronaut may fly on Axiom mission to ISS (spacenews.com)

— Rocket Lab to reuse flown engine (satellitetoday.com) (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Unc’ Willy: A skydiver encounters a rock, and Apollo 12 helps out (planetary.org)

— Andrew Z: Lifting body footage

— M2-F1 (youtube.com)

— M2-F2 (youtube.com)

— M2-F2, M2-F3, HL-10 (youtube.com)

— X-24A (youtube.com)

— X-24B (youtube.com)

— Bonus: Soviet mini spaceplane Spiral MiG-105 (youtube.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Apr 28, 1985. The day before the launch of STS-51-B (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com) (wikiarchives.space)

— An experiment transport bag was on auction (historical.ha.com)

— Next week (5/2 - 5/8) in 1965: 2 score and 18 years and still going

— SpaceX cuts costs (spacenews.com)

— Starship launch license (spacenews.com)

— Relativity pivots away from Terran-1 (spacenews.com) (techcrunch.com) (relativityspace.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: JUICE launch successful (nasaspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 20 Apr, 2004: The launch of Gravity Probe-B (en.wikipedia.org) (web.archive.org) (einstein.stanford.edu) (dontpanicgeocast.com)

— Next week (4/25 - 5/1) in 1985. Shuttle spelunkin’.

— Centaur explosion (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)  (twitter.com/torybruno)

— The test stand can be seen in 3D on Google Maps (google.com)

Short & Sweet

— Artemis II crew announced (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Dawn Aerospace completes successful spaceplane test flight (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)

— ISRO completes successful spaceplane test flight (isro.gov.in)

— Bathwater By Any Other Name... (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— April 16, 2016. Berthing of BEAM to ISS (en.wikipedia.org) (eoportal.org) (nasa.gov) (PDF: ttu-ir.tdl.org)

— Next week (4/18 - 4/24) in 2004: Four crystal balls

— Exploring Mars Together (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Seized assets in Kazakhstan threatens Soyuz-5 program (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Virgin Orbit Layoffs (spacenews.com) (qz.com)

— Rosotics announces large-scale 3D printer (spacenews.com) (newatlas.com) (rosotics.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Tiangong has trash too (twitter.com/cnspaceflight)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 5 April, 1963: A Pontiac Catalina tows M2-F1 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org) (projecthabu.com) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (4/11 - 4/17) in 2016: Storage on Orbit

— Relativity’s Terran-1 fails to reach orbit (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/thetimellis) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Private South Korean company launches suborbital rocket from Brazil (spacenews.com)

— NS-23 anomaly identified (parabolicarc.com)

— SWOT, key climate science satellite, instrument back online (space.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Aaron: toroidal aerospikes (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 31 March, 1993. Launch of Progress M-17 from Baikonur (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: hq.nasa.gov)

— Next week (4/4 - 4/10) in 1963: Tub in tow

— Stoke Space prepares for hopper landing trial (HT Andrew Z: twitter.com/stoke_space)  (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— NASA announces $1B deorbit tug for ISS (spacenews.com)

— Virgin Orbit’s operational pause (spacenews.com)

— Axiom reveals the Artemis EVA suit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— March 24, 2006: The first launch of Falcon 1 (space.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/28 - 4/3) in 1993. Low-power mode.

— VV22 investigation (HT Sam: esa.int) (spacenews.com) (arianespace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— IBEX mission overcomes computer glitch (space.com)

— ISS dodges a satellite (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: H3’s first flight results (nasaspaceflight.com)

Data Relay: STS-400

— STS-400 (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Two gap fillers removed during EVA on STS-114 (spaceflightnow.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 14 March 1986: Giotto flies past 1P/Halley. (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Thanks to Peter for suggesting this topic (twitter.com/PeterMcMally)

— Next week (3/21 - 3/27) in 2006: It’s fine. It’s in what we call a “storage orbit”

— TROPICS-1 mishap investigation (HT Mike Stewart: astra.com)

Short & Sweet

— HST impacted by satellite trails (nature.com)

— China’s secret spacewalk (spacenews.com)

Interview -- D. Geoff Carter, PE

— RollAide.com

— artemis-space.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Mar 9, 2008: The launch of the first ATV: Jules Verne (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: esa.int) (PDF: esa.int)

— Next week (3/14 - 3/20) in 1986: Slap a renaissance painter.

— Starship’s near future (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

Short & Sweet

— NASA planning for first Gateway logistics mission (spacenews.com)

— Beetlesat successfully deploys expandable antenna on orbit (spaceref.com) (beetlesat.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— March 2, 1995, Launch of STS-67, Endeavour (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceline.org) (astronautix.com)

— Next week (3/7 - 3/13) in 2008: 20 million leagues above the sea (level)

— Soyuz MS-22 leak images (HT deltaV: russianspaceweb.com VIA twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) 

— Eric Berger posted a comparison to a confirmed MMOD strike (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)

— Katya Pavlushchenko posted photos of orange stains on other Progresses (twitter.com/katlinegrey)

— Uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 delayed (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/katlinegrey)

— LauncherOne failure (virginorbit.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— H3 rocket aborts at pad (spacenews.com)

— Plans for Starship comes back to shore (spacenews.com)

— Blue Origin wins ESCAPADE contract (space.com)

— Launcher’s orbital transfer vehicle fails on orbit (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Nate Perkins via email: RS-25 certification (youtube.com)

— Biarki Weeks: ORCASat summary video (youtube.com VIA: discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 Feb, 2009. Loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (justice.gov) (llis.nasa.gov)

— Next week (2/28 - 3/6) in 1995: Everyone get off the phone. I need to log into space.

— Kosmos-2499 breakup (russianspaceweb.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (space.com)

— Superheavy static fire (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT Ryan R: twitter.com/elonmusk) (spacenews.com) (HT Alex: youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Progress MS-21 leak (twitter.com/katlinegrey) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Spaceport Camden saga continues (independent.co.uk)

— Kuiper gets conditional approval (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 20, 1986: Launch of DOS-7, the Mir core module (russianspaceweb.com) (youtube.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (2/21 - 2/27) in 2009: Nothing some Wite-Out/Tipp-Ex can’t fix.

— SSLV launch failure investigation completed (spacenews.com) (​isro.gov.in)

— VTM separation was captured on video, but payload deployment is only seen as a timestamp on a status display. (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— NASA confident in A1 software (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Peregrine has a new destination (spacenews.com)

— Perseverance completes sample depot on Mars (​​cnet.com)

— See also: The Milky Way as seen from Mars (reddit.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 11, 2015: Launch of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (spaceflight101.com) (PDF: esa.int)

— Next week (2/14 - 2/20) in 1986. More computers, more beds 😴

— NASA Tests a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (nasa.gov) (PDF: mdpi.com) (Scott Manley: youtube.com) (ntrs.nasa.gov)

— JAXA tested an RDRE in 2021 (futurism.com)

— China tested a CDRE January 2023 (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)

Short & Sweet

— Starship WDR (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)

— Lucy mission gets new target (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)

— JunoCam suffers significant anomaly during flyby (nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: NASA/DARPA NTP Collaboration (nasa.gov)

— Chris Hofmann: Ascent communications

This Week in Spaceflight History

— January 31, 1971. Launch of Apollo 14 (en.wikipedia.org) (hq.nasa.gov)

— Next week (2/7 - 2/13) in 2015: Penguin Paratrooper

— ABL failure analysis (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)

Short & Sweet

— NASA scales back ISS scientist program (spacenews.com)

— JUICE is ready for Jupiter (spacenews.com)

— Lucy’s Loose Limb (spacenews.com) (HT Brown Pau: blogs.nasa.gov)

— ClearSpace raises funds for its first mission (spacenews)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Vulcan delivered to the Cape (twitter.com/SpaceFlorida)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Jan 24, 1985: Launch of STS-51-C (en.wikipedia.org) (satelliteobservation.net)

— Next week (1/31 - 2/6) in 1971: I re-read the specs, let’s give it another shot.

— Soyuz MS-22 rescue (spacenews.com) (russianspaceweb.com)

— Virgin Orbit failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (virginorbit.com)

— Virgin Galactic recently restructured their leadership (spacenews.com)

— Virgin Orbit is suffering financial woes (arstechnica.com)

— ABL RS1 failure (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT Sam: twitter.com/ablspacesystems) (HT Sam: twitter.com/shaggrugg) (twitter.com/Harry__Stranger)

Short & Sweet

— Soyuz-OneWeb hostage negotiations underway (russianspaceweb.com)

— JWST Killing It (spacenews.com) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust)

— Starship approaches a launch date? (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— January 22, 1968: Launch of Apollo 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ibiblio.org)

— Destin of Smarter Every Day interviewed a U.S. Space and Rocket Center Docent and Apollo engineer (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

— LEM study guides are a great resource for finding answers to systems questions. (ibiblio.org) (ibiblio.org)

— Next week (1/24 - 1/30) in 1985. From Lunar Orion to Listening Orion.

— LunaH-Map struggles to enter lunar orbit (spacewatch.global) (PDF: static1.squarespace.com VIA busek.com) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu)

— Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) enters lunar orbit (space.com)

— Hakuto-R M1 successfully completes second maneuver (spaceref.com) (ispace-inc.com VIA hobbyspace.com)

— Chandrayaan-3 fully integrated (indiatoday.in) (indiatimes.com)

Short & Sweet

— China to expand Wenchang spaceport (spacenews.com)

— Impulse Space has a mission (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Dennis is reading Dragonfly by Bryan Burrough (bryanburrough.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 14 Jan, 2009: Russian thruster firing shakes the ISS (spacenews.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nbcnews.com) (youtube.com)

— Next week (1/17 - 1/23) in 1968: Fire in the hole

— MS-22 coolant leak (arstechnic