Spaceflight News

-- 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)

-- Next week (9/3 - 9/9) in 1988: Shouldn’t have had that last cup of coffee

Spaceflight News

-- 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

Spaceflight News

-- 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

Spaceflight News

— Starship prep, Falcon repairs (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceexplored.com)

Short & Sweet

— Intelsat loses control of satellite (satellitetoday.com)

— Starship HLS demo will keep it simple (spacenews.com)

— Starliner CFT delay (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Sept 3, 2002: Discovery of Earth-orbiting asteroid J002E3 (en.wikipedia.org) (adsabs.harvard.edu) (spaceref.com)  (PDF: ibiblio.org)

— Next week (9/6 - 9/12) in 1982: Second of three outcomes: shot before leaving Independence, successfully forded the river, died of dysentery.

Spaceflight News

— Artemis III landing site candidates released (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

— Artemis I rolled out August 16 (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Russian spacewalk cut short (nasaspaceflight.com) (cnet.com)

Short & Sweet

— Northrop Grumman to start astronaut training program (northropgrumman.com)

— Starship gets commercial satellite customer (spacenews.com)

— Spaceplane buddies (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Correction Burns

— Masten bankruptcy bids… whole or piecemeal? (spacenews.com)

— Espen Urkedal via email: SLS FTS batteries?

Interview - Chris Carella, Benchmark Space Systems and Mahadevan Krishnan, AASC

— benchmarkspacesystems.com

— aasc.space

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 29th August 2001, Maiden launch of H-IIA (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: mhi.com) 

— Two payloads were onboard: VEP-2 and LRE (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com)

— Next week (8/30 - 9/5) in 2002. That’s no moon. That’s some of Huntington Beach’s finest work.

Spaceflight News

— Artemis I lookahead (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starlink hits bad weather (spacenews.com)

— Antares gets a domestic upgrade (spacenews.com) (space.com)

— SSLV falls short (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: a bid for Masten Space’s assets (parabolicarc.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  21 Aug, 1993. Communication with Mars Observer lost (en.wikipedia.org) (web.archive.org) (msss.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF: spacese.spacegrant.org)

— Next week (8/23 - 8/29) in 2001: When east meets west, it’s a good thing.

Spaceflight News

— Rocket 3 is dead, long live Rocket 4 (astra.com) (spacenews.com) (astra.com)

Short & Sweet

— Russian Satellite might be Snooping In Orbit (space.com)

— Russia remains on Station (spacenews.com)

— Possible Secret Chinese spaceplane (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Real Engineering visited Spin Launch (HT Espen: youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Aug 14, 1959. Explorer 6 takes first image from Earth orbit (twitter.com/NASAhistory) (nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Next week (8/16 - 8/22) in 1993: Missing top

Spaceflight News

— Helicopters join Mars Sample Return (cnet.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Eutelsat/OneWeb merger (spacenews.com)

— Masten Space Files for Bankruptcy (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/jeff_foust)

— OSIRIS-REx shows asteroids surfaces age quickly (nasaspaceflight.com)

— SLS for Artemis, SLS for commercial launches (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: a pair of reentries

— CZ-5B (twitter.com/W0lverineupdate) (vxtwitter.com/KadekDwiArista) (twitter.com/Drizzle78878087)

— Dragon (twitter.com/MarcusHouse)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— August 2, 1993: Titan IV loss of vehicle on ascent (en.wikipedia.org) (thespacereview.com) (spaceline.org)

— Pratt and Whitney had a list of known problems with grain restrictor (PDF: gobluechase.files.wordpress.com)

— Next week (8/9 - 8/15) in 1959. Partial power picture.

Spaceflight News

— Wentian launched (nasaspaceflight.com)

— An array of new research facilities is onboard (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)

— CZ-5B may experience an uncontrolled reentry (twitter.com/TheSpaceGal)

Short & Sweet

— Impulse and Relativity announce joint mission to Mars (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Nancy Grace has a ride to space (spacenews.com)

— First private company to launch from French Guiana (isaraerospace.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Gopal via Discord: BE-4 reuse plans (discordapp.com) (twitter.com)

— Unc' Willy via Discord: Titan II bwooop (discordapp.com) (youtu.be)

Interview – R. Matt Villarreal, Founder and CEO of Infinite Composites

— infinitecomposites.com

— twitter.com/infinite_c_t

— twitter.com/mattvillarreal 

— linkedin.com/company/infinite-composites 

— linkedin.com/in/rmattvillarreal

— instagram.com/infinitecomposites

— facebook.com/infinitecomposites

This Week in Spaceflight History

— July 28 1961: NASA invitation to bids for Apollo prime contract (astronautix.com) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ia800308.us.archive.org VIA archive.org)

— Ep 220 featured the LEM contract (thanks The Greek!) (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— Next week (8/2 - 8/8) in 1993: Space is dangerous, and another word for space is gap.

Spaceflight News

— ABL static fire (spacenews.com)

— Rocket Factory Augsburg static fire (rfa.space)

— Superheavy FOOMPF (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)

— Post-fire images/video show apparent sheet metal blow-outs (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight)

— New, possibly replacement, engines arrived at the pad (twitter.com/NicAnsuini)

— Going forward, SPX won’t be doing simultaneous spin-starts (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Ariane 6 ground support equipment (esa.int) (spacedaily.com)

Short & Sweet

— New robotic arm for ISS (spacenews.com)

— Rogozin moves on (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (meduza.io)

— CAPSTONE completes second TCM (advancedspace.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Dennis: Parmitano’s leak was caused by tap water (youtube.com)

— From the intro: JWST beauty shots (flickr.com) (PDF HT MMC: stsci.edu) (HT MMC: youtube.com/jwstobserver)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 July, 1992. Launch of the Geotail spacecraft (PDF: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com VIA ​​wiley.com) (jaxa.jp) (eoportal.org)

— The unusual HEO orbit used is viewable on SatelliteXplorer (HT SciKyle: geoxc-apps.bd.esri.com)

— Next week (7/26 - 8/1) in 1961: Twelve Prime

Spaceflight News

— CAPSTONE’s gone. And now it’s back! (space.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (satellitetoday.com)

— AS published a Ballistic Lunar Transfer cheat-sheet (PDF: amazonaws.com VIA advancedspace.com)

— TCM-1C may not be necessary (nasa.gov) (advancedspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— Minotaur II explodes (thehill.com) (noozhawk.com)

— X-37B beats own record on orbit (space.com)

— Starship 24 readies for flight (interestingengineering.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX) (twitter.com/SpaceX)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 16th July, 2013: Luca Parmitano’s leaky suit on EVA-23 (PDF: nasa.gov) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— The water separator drum holes were blocked with mineral deposits (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Airlock Cooling Loop Recovery ion beds were implicated (PDF: ttu-ir.tdl.org)

— EMU was developed with on-orbit rescue in mind. (PDF: nescacademy.nasa.gov)

— Next week (7/19 - 7/25) in 1992: Electro-coccyx.

Spaceflight News

— CAPSTONE (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (advancedspace.com) 

— Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) (advancedspace.com) (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (PDF: mstl.atl.calpoly.edu)

Short & Sweet

— Aerospace firm to build launch complex in Maine (bangordailynews.com)

— Perseverance wind sensor damaged (space.com)

— Two out of two xEVAS ain’t bad! (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 5 Jul, 1966. Launch of AS-203 (en.wikipedia.org) (drewexmachina.com) (youtube.com) (hq.nasa.gov)

— Next week (7/12 - 7/18) in 2013: No alarms and no surprises, except the one

Spaceflight News

— SLS WDR FIFI (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)

— SRB Hydraulic Power Unit hot fire test was completed successfully (PDF p107: klabs.org) (twitter.com/cbs_spacenews)

Short & Sweet

— Psyche launch delayed to 2023 (spacenews.com)

— Atoms for Space (space.com)

— Starlink interference from 5G (engadget.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Bill Baobab via email: Occultation techniques

— 90 Antiope was “richly” imaged using a multiple observer technique (PDF HT Bill: hal.archives-ouvertes.fr VIA hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)

— Lucy targets - occultation maps (swri.edu)

— 2022-03-27 Polymele occultation (swri.edu)

— From the intro: Cygnus reboosts (blogs.nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 28 June, 1979. Progress 7 brings first deployable telescope, KRT-10, to Salyut 6 (stackexchange.com) (ru.wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com) (spacefacts.de)

— Next week (7/5 - 7/11) in 1966: If a rocket explodes, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Spaceflight News

-- 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?

Spaceflight News

— Lucy in the news with updates (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starliner gets its first crew (spacenews.com)

— ISS performs debris avoidance maneuver (nasa.gov)

— Markusic steps down as CEO of Firefly (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Perseverance sees something shiny (planetary.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— June 27, 1982: Launch of Columbia, STS-4 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de) 

— This was one of the Scotchguard flights (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (twitter.com/DrPhiltill)

— Ejection seats were installed (and enabled) for only a handful of early Shuttle flights (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Neither SRB was recovered (core.ac.uk) (aero-news.net)

— Science payload included MLR (ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Next week (6/28 - 7/4) in 1979: Really big eye-in-the-sky.

Spaceflight News

— Cargo Dragon leak (cnet.com) (space.com)

— Ingenuity’s woes (cnet.com) (mars.nasa.gov) (PDF: arc.nasa.gov)

— Martian winter is dustier due to heat gradients (HT Csaba: space.com)

Breaking Madness

— Astra TROPICS-1 failure (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet

— Korean startup targets launch from Brazil later this year (smallsatnews.com)

— NASA to launch from Australia (phys.org)

— JWST struck by micrometeoroids (space.com) (HT Colin: (theverge.com) (HT DeltaV: blogs.nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Spinlaunch’s sabot (twitter.com/djsnm)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 16 Jun, 1961: The Final Fleming Committee Report submitted (hq.nasa.gov) (hq.nasa.gov) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Saturn C-3 and Nova were the main options at this point (wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (6/21 - 6/27) in 1982: Enjoy the extra leg room while it lasts!

Spaceflight News

— xEVAS selection (nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (theverge.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Helicopter Hunkering (spacenews.com) (jpl.nasa.gov)

— Shenzhou-14 has arrived (spacenews.com)

— Release date for JWST’s first full-color images announced (cnet.com)

— OMG SLS WDR ASAP (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Almaz clusterbomb (russianspaceweb.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— June 13, 2012: Launch of NuSTAR X-ray observatory (caltech.edu) (caltech.edu) (youtube.com) (PDF: sci-hub.se) (PDF: authors.library.caltech.edu) (PDF: axion-wimp2012.desy.de) (patents.google.com)

— Next week (6/14 - 6/20) in 1961: C3PO is not a no-go.

Spaceflight News

— Psyche launch (sike!) (space.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet

— Airbus wins contract to build LISA (airbus.com)

— China prepares for next crewed launch (spacenews.com) (cnet.com)

— Starliner, Present and Future (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

Interview – Kineo Wallace, Lead Propulsion Design Engineer and Mickael “Buzzy” Buswell, Primary Structures Engineer of Vaya Space

— Further reading: ABS 3D printed fuel grain studies at the University of Tennessee (sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net) (sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)

— Kineo and Buzzy

— linkedin.com/in/kineowallace

— twitter.com/kineo_wallace 

— instagram.com/buzzedwell

— Vaya Space

— Vayaspace.com

— twitter.com/vayaspace

— instagram.com/vayaspace

— facebook.com/VayaSpace

— linkedin.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

— June 4, 1996: The maiden launch of Ariane 5, flight V88 (en.wikipedia.org) (bugsnag.com) (mit.edu) (HT Csaba: hownot2code.com)

— Next week (6/7 - 6/13) in 2012: Making it harder for ourselves.

Spaceflight News

— OFT-2 (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)

— Debris shedding after booster sep T+3:00 (twitter.com/elizabethtinkg) (youtu.be)

— Two RCS thrusters and two OMAC thrusters shut down during the flight (twitter.com/lorengrush)

— Test Fest

— ABL Space fires upper stage engine (spacenews.com)

— Gilmour Space fires Phoenix engine (youtube.com)

— Relativity Space fires upper stage engines (youtube.com)

— ISRO fires human-rated solids for Gaganyaan (isro.gov.in)

Short & Sweet

— Voyager 1 returning bad telemetry (cnet.com)

— NASA investigates spacesuit water leaks (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— End to InSight mission… is in sight (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

— Ingenuity back in action (mars.nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— twitter.com/LauraForczyk: X-Bow is pronounced Crossbow. That threw me off at first, too.

— From the intro: Tim Dodd tours Starbase (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 May, 2000. First launch of Atlas III (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceflightnow.com)

— Engine contracts announced in 1996 (ARCHIVE: ilslaunch.com)

— A list of Atlas family specs (braeunig.us)

— A lovely history of Atlas by Scott Manley (youtube.com)

— Next week (5/31 - 6/6) in 1996: Domestically repurposed

Thanks to Deathkin for naming this week’s episode!

Spaceflight News

— Rocket 4.0 unveiling (spacenews.com)

— Chris Kemp asks “why can’t a couple of people launch a rocket?” (youtu.be)

— Astra announced a new UK launch site (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Astra is in the running for the TacRS-3 contract (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Axiom-1 putting strain on ISS (spacenews.com)

— Tianzhou-4 successfully reaches Chinese Space Station (spacenews.com)

— Non-GPS satellite slated for launch (spacenews.com)

— JWST final steps before science career (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) (blogs.nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Correction Burns

— Joel R. via email: Rover steering wheel, Shuttle drag chute

— Further reading: Mobility Performance of the Lunar Roving Vehicle: Terrestrial Studies - Apollo 15 Results (PDF: lpi.usra.edu)

— From the intro: Canoo taking on water? (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 19 May, 1961. First flyby of Venus, by Venera 1 (nasa.gov) (drewexmachina.com)

— Launched on a Molniya 8K78 (astronautix.com) 

— Next week (5/24 - 5/30) in 2000: Freshly imported

Spaceflight News

— Rocket Lab Helicopter Catch (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

— CAPSTONE’s up next (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Astroscale performs close approach (spacenews.com)

— Phantom Space makes big engine purchase (techcrunch.com)

— Russian rocket motor breaks apart on-orbit (space.com)

— Astra preparing for Canaveral launches (spacenews.com) (astra.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Lockheed Martin’s MAP docking port model (cad.onshape.com)

Interview – Awais Ahmed, CEO and Co-Founder, PIXXEL

— Shakuntala/TD-2 was one of the three demos, and it flew on Transporter-4 (pixxel.space)

— The AVIRIS program also collects hyperspectral data, but from a much lower altitude (aviris.jpl.nasa.gov) (avirisng.jpl.nasa.gov)

— Read more and get in contact:

— pixxel.space

— twitter.com/awaisahmedna

— twitter.com/PixxelSpace

— in.linkedin.com/in/awaisahmedna

— linkedin.com/company/pixxelspace

— contact@pixxel.space

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 13 May, 1992: Intelsat VI captured by the STS-49 crew (nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— The plan for capture and kickstage attachment (orbiter-forum.net) (capcomspace.net)

— Next week (5/17 - 5/23) in 1961: If a spacecraft falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it…

Spaceflight News

— Ligado stepping on GPS’ toes (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (fiercewireless.com)

Short & Sweet

— OSIRIS-REx mission extension announced (arizona.edu) (spacenews.com)

— SOFIA operations to end later this year (spacenews.com)

— AX-1, Crew-4 swap places (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 5 May, 1997. Maiden launch of Iridium satellites (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— A view of Iridium from the business side (PDF: jitm.ubalt.edu) (cnn.com)

— Next week in (5/10 - 5/16) 1992: Two’s company, three’s a record.

Spaceflight News

— Peregrine preparing for flight (spacenews.com) (astrobotic.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

Short & Sweet

— TDRS to be replaced (spacenews.com)

— Starlink books a flight (spacenews.com)

— Bad weather holds up Crew-4 (spacenews.com)

Interview – Daniel Bock, CEO and Co-Founder of Morpheus Space

— FEEP technology is a subset of ion propulsion (en.wikipedia.org) (VIA archive.org: morpheus-space.com)

— Some of Bock’s prior research (researchgate.net) (researchgate.net)

— Flown on UWE4 (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu)

— LISA Pathfinder also used FEEP propulsion (PDF: sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)

— linkedin.com

— twitter.com/DanMorpheus

— twitter.com/morpheusspace 

— morpheus-space.com

— facebook.com/MorpheusSpace

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Apr 29, 2002. Cancellation of the X-38 (nasa.gov) (astronautix.com) (nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Next week (3/5 - 9/5) in 1997: MORE TINFOIL!

Spaceflight News

— Artemis-1 Wet Dress Rehearsal(spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— WDR is deferring to Ax-1 landing (spacenews.com)

— Artemis rover (spacenews.com)

— RFI issued in August (nasa.gov) (sam.gov)

— Lockheed Martin, General Motors and MDA (spacenews.com)

— Northrop Grumman, Intuitive Machines, Michelin Tires, AVL, Lunar Outpost (spacenews.com)

— Venturi Astrolab (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Astranis Improvement (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— House Science Committee vs NTSB (spacenews.com)

— Astra Electric (spacenews.com)

— ULA puts in a big order (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— LeonRunningMan: LEASAT didn’t use a Minuteman-III motor, exactly (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  21 April 2013, Launch of Antares A-ONE, maiden flight of Antares (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (northropgrumman.com)

— Orbital Sciences contracted with Aerojet Rocketdyne to use modified NK-33’s. (PDF: lpre.de)

— Next week (4/26 - 5/2) in 2002: The end of a dream, to be chased by others.

Spaceflight News

-- 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

Spaceflight News

— Spinlaunch (space.com) (HT McMally: businesswire.com)

— SLS wet rehearsal modification (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— April 2nd, lightning strikes (nasa.gov)

— April 3rd, fan failures (nasa.gov)

— April 4th, vent and check valves (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— DARPA funds in-space manufacturing development (spacedaily.com)

— Spaceport Camden: Back from the grave? (news4jax.com)

— Warpspace comes to the U.S. (spacenews.com)

— Astroscale preparing to restart demonstration (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro

— Sentinel on Vega-C (spacenews.com)

— Axiom’s arrival (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Apr, 1985: the launch of STS-51-D with LEASAT-3 onboard (en.wikipedia.org) (hughesscgheritage.com)

— Further reading: Bold They Rise, The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986, by David Hitt and Heather R. Smith (nebraskapress.unl.edu)

— The successful deployment of LEASAT-4 (youtu.be)

— Ox grabbing LEASAT-3 (same video, different timecode) (youtu.be)

— Spinning LEASAT-3 before departure (same video) (youtu.be)

— Next week (4/19 - 4/25) in 2013: it’s not just a steak sauce.

Spaceflight News

— MSR delayed and split in half (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Northrup Grumman eyeing its own SLD contract (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (HT Andrew Z: twitter.com/wapodavenport)

— NG received six additional CRS-2 missions last month (govconwire.com)

Short & Sweet

— Crew Dragon production is ending (teslarati.com)

— Slingshot Aerospace gets USSF contract (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Andrew Z via email: nautical miles are actually useful!

— From the intro: ISS seat swap negotiations (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 4 April, 1984: Launch of Challenger flight STS-41-C (youtube.com VIA nss.org) (nytimes.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (harvard.edu) (planet4589.org)

— A good book about Shuttle: The Space Shuttle Program: Technologies And Accomplishments by Davide Sivolella (vdoc.pub)

— MMU Users Guide indicates a proportional relationship between nominal “cruise” speed and length of travel (PDF p38: large.stanford.edu)

— Next week (4/12 - 4/18) in 1985: Swat that fly

Spaceflight News

— Second Artemis Lander (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— NASA opens 50-year-old lunar sample (cnet.com) (PDF: curator.jsc.nasa.gov)

— Astra’s successful launch had a not-secret-anymore customer (spacenews.com)

— Starship environmental review delayed… Again (spacenews.com)

— Arianespace and SPX adjust to missing Soyuz launches (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— April 4, 1968. The launch of Apollo 6 (en.wikipedia.org) (scribd.com) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ibiblio.org) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ibiblio.org)

— Further listening: Arin Cross’ Data Relay on combustion instability (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— Next week (4/5 - 4/11) in 1984: Pinky and the Brain… that he’s trying to fix.

Spaceflight News

— Artemis I Rollout (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— SpaceX sets two new records (spacenews.com)

— First all-cosmonaut Soyuz docks with station (spaceflight.com)

— China satellite launch includes demonstration third-stage (nasaspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: JWST progress (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 25 Mar, 1961: Launch of Korabl-Sputnik 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (theatlantic.com) (nasa.gov) (airandspace.si.edu)

— Next week (3/29 - 4/4) in 1968: Less than perfect, but successful, but a failure.

Spaceflight News

— Astra LV0008/ELaNA 41 failure analysis (spacenews.com) (astra.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— OSAM-1 completes critical design review (nasa.gov)

— China to commercialize Tiangong spacenews.com

— Soyuz embargo leaves many satellites grounded (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Gravitational submarines

— Matthew Bell (iopscience.iop.org)

— Andrew not-Z via email suggests Re-entry Vehicle Dynamics (google.com)

— Aaron Sawdey (twitter.com/sawdey) (en.wikipedia.org)

Interview – Zachary Tong, creator of Breaking Taps on Youtube

— youtube.com/c/BreakingTaps

— twitter.com/BreakingTaps

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Mar, 2003. The authorization of Project Prometheus (everyspec.com, alt: web.archive.org)

— Next week (3/22 - 3/28) in 1961: Ghost beetroot calls home.

Spaceflight news

— More Russian fallout

— Russia threatens OneWeb launch (spaceflightnow.com)

— OneWeb looking to non-Russian rockets (spacenews.com)

— eROSITA turned off on Russian Spektr-RG (space.com)

— ExoMars likely to be delayed (spacenews.com)

— South Korea worried about Russian launches (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Anahuac pleads guilty to selling tainted rocket fuel (justice.gov)

— Iranian launch failure (apnews.com)

— Post-recording, Iran successfully launched their second orbital payload. (reuters.com)

— SpaceX awarded 3 more commercial crew missions (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andrew Z via email: More sanctions considerations

— MMC in the chat: loss of ISS would free up money for the Moon.

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 13 March, 1985, Launch of Geosat (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: jhuapl.edu) (earth.esa.in)

— Next week (3/15 - 3/21) in 2003. Bringing fire to icy worlds.

Spaceflight news

— Sanctions on Russia

— Roscosmos pulled out of French Guiana (twitter.com/planet4589) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/nextspaceflight)

— NASA no longer involved in Venera-D? (spacenews.com)

— ISS is unlikely to be used as a pawn (reuters.com) (spacenews.com)

— ULA has enough RD-180s (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/torybruno) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/planet4589) (twitter.com/torybruno) (spacenews.com)

— Starliner uses Russian power converters (HT Ben Hallert: spacedaily.com)

— Post-Crimea sanctions were likely more impactful on the space industry (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Relativity qualifies rocket with structural test (satnews.com)

— Dream Chaser looking at landing in Japan (spacenews.com)

— China says moon impactor not Chang’e-5 (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 Mar, 2004. Launch of Rosetta (books.google.com) (sci-hub.se) (harvard.edu) (esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/8 - 3/14) in 2013: Watery potato

Spaceflight News

— JWST Alignment (PDF: spacefoundation.org) (HT deathkin: jwst-docs.stsci.edu)

— Follow JWST’s alignment progress on Where Is Webb? (jwst.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Chandra X-ray Observatory suspends operations (space.com)

— China reveals human spaceflight plans and communication with U.S. govt (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 22 Feb, 1996. The launch of Columbia, STS-75 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (youtu.be) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)

— Next week (3/1 - 3/7) in 2004: 5-7 = 46+21

Spaceflight news

— Astra failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Mysterious Moon Masher (twitter.com/sciguyspace) (projectpluto.com) (projectpluto.com)

— James Webb is making adjustments (spacenews.com)

— Starship testing may move to Florida (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)

— BreakingTaps made an excellent video and 3D model of JWST’s hexapod actuator! (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

—  17 Feb, 2007. Launch of THEMIS (en.wikipedia.org) (ucla.edu)

— Constraints on the moon-bound trajectory were many (PDF: igpp.ucla.edu)

— Next week (2/22-2/28) in 1996: This is why we keep the mezuzah rolled up

Spaceflight News

— JWST cryocooler

— Alternative tube configurations include U-bend and coaxial (PDF p7: trc.nist.gov)

— Testing shows the cryocooler is TWICE as efficient as required! (nasa.gov)

— JWST’s radiators are coated with BIRB (PDF: indico.cern.ch)

Short & Sweet

— Curiosity’s wheels take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’ (cnet.com)

— InSight weathers a dust storm (spacenews.com) (reddit.com/r/InSightLander)

— Astra receives first Part 450 (twitter.com/Astra) (spacepolicyonline.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Uncle_Willy via Discord: four reasons why running Oxy-rich is bad

— BreakingTaps on YT made a JWST Hexapod Actuator model!!! More on this next week. (youtube.com)

Interview – Tupper Hyde, Chief Engineer at NASA's Goddard Center

— twitter.com/TupperHyde

— linkedin.com/in/tupperhyde

— nasa.gov/goddard

— etd.gsfc.nasa.gov

— Also discussed: the next generation of space telescopes is LUVOIR (en.wikipedia.org)

This week in Spaceflight history

—  February 10th 2009, The collision of Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (PDF: castor2.ca) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikibooks.org)

— Next week (2/15-2/21) in 2007: BC? More like BSee-you later!

Spaceflight News

-- 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

Spaceflight news

— Shijian-21 does some space tuggin’ (spacenews.com)

— Last November, a new object, 2021-094C, appeared near SJ-21 (spacenews.com)

— USA 271 “buzzed” SJ-20 in August 2020 (breakingdefense.com)

— SJ-21 might be trying net or debris lasing tech (PDF: airuniversity.af.edu

— 1972 Incidents at Sea Agreement (US + USSR) (state.gov)

Short & Sweet

— NASA identifies cause of stuck solar panel on Lucy (spacenews.com)

— JMS is officially shut down (spacenews.com)

— Anomaly pauses Astroscale’s demo mission (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 7 Feb, 2008. Launch of STS-122 with Columbus module (en.wikipedia.org)

— ECO sensor system factsheet (PDF: nasa.gov)

— Launch damage included a lost LOMS stinger tile (PDF p18: nasa.gov, VIA spaceref.com)

— STS-93 is a good example of when the ECO fuel sensors might be a critical safety measure (TWSF: theorbitalmechanics.com)

— Next week (2/8 - 2/14) in 2009: 102.2 degrees and 77 protons.

Spaceflight News

— Artemis rescheduling (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Gamma ray observatory suffers anomaly in LEO (space.com)

— SpaceX wins a new contract (spacenews.com)

— Exomars to launch this year (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: ABL second stage anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

— From Upcoming Spaceflight Events: JWST Virtual Town Hall (stsci.edu)

Interview: Alex Lao, Kepler Communications

— linkedin.com

— Kepler.space

— twitter.com/KeplerComms

— CEO Mina Mitry wrote an article about the role of cubesats in space-based communication (spectrum.ieee.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 25 Jan, 1995. Launch of the SCIFER Sounding Rocket Experiment (PDF: sci-hub.se) (PDF: nasa.gov) (eucom.mil VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (2/1 - 2/7) in 2008: Failing Wet

Spaceflight news

— JWST deployment

— A detailed timeline is available from Jonathan McDowell (planet4589.org)

— Hexapod actuators (PDF: esmats.eu)

— A photo of an early actuator development unit (PDF, p2: sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)

Short & Sweet

— Chang’e 5 identifies water on the moon (space.com) (science.org)

— Perseverance rover prepares to clear blocked sampling tube (nasa.gov)

— SLS hoping for March launch (spacenews.com)

— Orbit Fab signs deal to provide on-orbit fueling for Astroscale (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Follow up on that moon rock (twitter.com/AJ_FI)

This week in Spaceflight history

— January 20 1978, Maiden flight of the Progress spacecraft (wiki.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (spaceref.com)

— Next week (1/25 - 1/31) in 1995. Get me my briefcase.

Spaceflight news

— JWST finishes deployment steps!

— Primary and Secondary mirror deployment (esmats.eu)

— Aft Deployed Instrument Radiator (PDF HT MMC: ttu-ir.tdl.org)

— Cross stitch (reddit.com/r/CrossStitch)

— Current estimate is 20 years worth of propellant (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/cbs_spacenews)

Short & Sweet

— Paragon acquires spacesuit manufacturer (spaceref.com)

— KSLV-2 failure is determined (spacenews.com)

— China’s robotic arm performs test on orbit (space.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: an expensive model (shop.blueorigin.com)

— Aaron Sawdey: Thermal power vs nuclear power (twitter.com/sawdey)

— Bill Boabab via email: JWST Aft Momentum Flap

— See also: no deployment cameras (nasa.gov)

— The observation strategy actually limits saturation by making observations in opposite attitudes (jwst-docs.stsci.edu)

— A not-incredibly related but often-cited paper is available (web.archive.org)

— A JWST science advisor gave an if-I-remember-correctly on this very question (HT deltaV: twitter.com/markmccaughrean)

This week in Spaceflight history

— 16 Jan, 1965: Gemini Simulated Off-The-Pad Ejection test 12 failure (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (astronautix.com)

— Next week (1/18 - 1/24) in 1978: Remove the seats, life support systems, heat shield, parachute, but let’s keep the crew rating.

Spaceflight news

— JWST launched (blogs.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Realtra’s VIKI cameras looked fantastic! (realtra.space) (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— Deployment explorer (webb.nasa.gov)

— Port mid-boom deployment was delayed due to cover switches (twitter.com/NASAWebb)

— Non-explosive pins were discussed in the pre-launch coverage (youtube.com) 

— Sunshade tensioning will be discussed in ep 341, as it was successfully completed the day this episode was published (twitter.com/NASAWebb)

Short & Sweet

- Tianhe avoids a pair of Starlinks spacenews.com)

— Sherpa goes green (spacenews.com)

— SLS is delayed by a computer problem (spacenews.com)

This week in Spaceflight History

— 5 Jan, 1973: Cancellation of the NERVA program (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)

— Next week (1/11 - 1/17) in 1965: No towah, moah problems

Spaceflight news

— Superheavy (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— Raptor 2 will produce 230+ tons of thrust (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— McGregor will only perform Raptor 2 testing (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— B4/SN20 will be used for the orbital flight test (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— A guess about Starship stretching (reddit.com/r/spacex)

— Possible tank volumes (HT Birkeland: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— JWST delayed (blogs.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

— Stoke Space receives funding (spacenews.com) (sbir.nasa.gov)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: PSP’s inside the Sun video (planetary.org) (youtube.com) (nasa.gov)

— Jon P via email: Apollo CM was a sphere section, not biconic. (en.wikipedia.org)

This week in SF history

— 24 Dec, 1979. First launch of Ariane 1, first of the Ariane family. (sci-hub.se) (sci-hub.se) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (1/4 - 1/10) in 1973: Smash the scram button

Short & Sweet

— Astra to launch next from Cape Canaveral (spacenews.com)

— SpaceX gets FCC approval for Starship launch, starts construction on launchpad (dailymail.co.uk) (spaceflightnow.com)

— NASA investigates Ingenuity helicopter’s transmission problem (cnet.com)

— SpaceX Crew-5 to fly with cosmonaut (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Rogozin)

This week in SF history

— 15 Dec, 1976. Launch of Kosmos 881 and Kosmos 882 (en.wikipedia.org) (1lib.us) (google.com/books)

— Next week (12/21 - 12/27) in 1979. Some vikings and their kitty cat.

Spaceflight news

— Raptor issues (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (spaceexplored.com)

— Neutron, a 2050 rocket (youtube.com) (spacenews.com)

— Electron thermal protection system is aerogel/graphite composite! (HT Andrew Z: twitter.com/Peter_J_Beck)

Short & Sweet

— ESA tests tanks for its reusable launch vehicle (esa.int)

— Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin select future astronauts (spacenews.com)

— Northrop Grumman wins SLS booster contract (spacenews.com)

— Fatigue, debris, and rumors of debris (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Pangea tests an aerospike! (HT Andrew Z: youtube.com)

This week in SF history

— 10 Dec, 1974. Launch of Helios A, a West German/NASA collaboration (en.wikipedia.org) (bernd-leitenberger.de)

— Next week (12/14-12/20) in 1976: Two tickets, I mean, just one ticket to space, please!

Spaceflight news

— JWST bonk (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (esa.int) (youtube.com)

— The clamp came off “in a way that it was not designed to come off” (HT deltaV+Deathkin: twitter.com/wapodavenport)

Short & Sweet

— Japan to recruit astronauts for first time in 13 years (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Hubble makes a partial recovery (space.com)

— Rocket Lab to manufacture more spacecraft components (smallsatnews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Reusable satellites (smallsatnews.com)

This week in SF history

— 2 Dec, 1990. Launch of Soyuz TM-11 (sen.com) (spacefacts.de) (nytimes.com) (weathernews.jp)

— Next week (12/7-12/13) in 1974: Hitze und Geschwindigkeit.

Spaceflight news

— Astraaaaaa! (space.com) (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Astra issued an update after we recorded this episode (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)

Short & Sweet

— Tyvak wins contract for very low-earth orbit mission (spacenews.com)

— European startup tests aerospike engine (spacenews.com)

— Satellite maneuvers to avoid near collision around Moon (cnet.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— ThrustMe paper (nature.com)

— From the intro: ASAT test (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com) (HT Andrew Z: airforcemag.com)

Interview -- Matthew Kuhns, Head of R&D at Masten Space Systems

— Masten in-Flight Alumina Spray Technique (masten.aero)

— This study was a 2020 NIAC Phase I selection (nasa.gov) (researchgate.net)

— Tests were run on a modified car lift (youtube.com)

— The FAST concept is similar to the High Velocity Oxygen Fuel spray coating technique (sciencedirect.com)

— Find more about Matthew and Masten:

— linkedin.com

— matthewkuhns.com

— masten.aero

This week in SF history

— 26 Nov, 1965. Launch of Astérix, the first French satellite (pt deux?!) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (11/30 - 12/6) in 1990. The antihero.

Spaceflight News

-- 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

Spaceflight news

— SpinLaunch spins (spinlaunch.com) (cnbc.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com)

— Nike Sprint is one of several other “instastart” vehicles (HT Andy Z: youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Virgin Orbit to launch from Japan (spaceref.com)

— Amazon to launch first Kuiper satellites on ABL rocket (spacenews.com)

— South Korea to develop reusable launch vehicle (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert via twitter: 53 not 60 Starlinks (twitter.com/chairboy)

— ISS tour (HT Andrew Z: youtube.com)

This week in SF history

— November 16, 1973. The launch of Skylab 4 (bbc.com) (wiki.org) (youtube.com) (spacefacts.de) (nasa.gov)

— Episodes 59 and 60 of The Space Above Us focused on SL-4 (thespaceabove.us) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

— Next week (11/23 - 11/29) in 1965: Unmitigated gall in the face of invading Romans

Spaceflight news

— Blue lawsuit (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Dragons Passing in the Night (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Shijian-21 has a companion (spacenews.com)

— A Chinese Mars Sample Return Mission (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ben Hallert: Speaking of expandable space stations... (twitter.com/chairboy)

This week in SF history

— 9 Nov, 1970: Launch of the Orbiting Frog Otolith (wiki) (skyrocket.de) (scribd.com)

— Next week (11/16 - 11/22) in 1973: I refuse to work under these conditions, at least my stomach does.

Spaceflight news

— Orbital Reef announced (blueorigin.com) (orbitalreef.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)

— Other Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) proposals so far:

— Axiom Station (axiomspace.com)

— Nanoracks/Lockheed/Voyager’s Starlab (cnet.com)

— Sierra Space Station (sierraspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— James Webb Space Telescope prepares for launch (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)

— Russia gives Crew Dragon the green light (spacenews.com)

— Hubble Space Telescope returns to safe mode (cnet.com)

This week in SF history

— 8 November, 2011: Failed launch of Fobos-Grunt/Yinghuo-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (11/9 - 11-15) in 1970: Parietal eye in the sky