Spaceflight News

— 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.

Spaceflight News

— 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.

Spaceflight News

— 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

Spaceflight News

— MS-22 coolant leak (arstechnica.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet

— Lockheed Martin performs habitat burst test (cnet.com) (lockheedmartin.com) (youtube.com)

— Zhuque-2 fails to reach orbit (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Chris Hofmann: Honeybee purchase (discord.com)

— Unc’ Willy and Csaba: Pyrophoric vs. hypergolic (discord.com) (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Dec 24, 1968. The Earthrise photograph was taken by Apollo 8 (en.wikipedia.org) (​​smithsonianmag.com) (nasa.gov) (thespaceaboveus.com)

— LM4 has an excellent archive of the radio recordings, with visuals! (youtube.com)

— A few weeks from now (1/10 - 1/16) in 2009: Tacoma Narrows at Mach 25

Spaceflight News

— The finalists return - HLS2 (spacepolicyonline.com) (space.com) (spacepolicyonline.com)

Short & Sweet

— New Chinese rocket debuts with a sea launch (nasaspaceflight.com)

— dearMoon crew revealed (americaspace.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— December 15, 1970: Landing of Venera 7, first spacecraft to return data from another planet (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceflightinsider.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (vpk.name)

— V7 was built on a 3MV bus (mentallandscape.com)

— Next week (12/20 - 12/26) in 1968: Just calm down.

Spaceflight News

— Artemis I Update

— RS-25 analysis (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: nasa.gov VIA twitter.com/sciencepolicia)

— Reached DRO halfway point on Nov 28 (spacenews.com)

— Departed DRO on Dec 2 (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Phantom Space Corp wins NASA launch task order (nasa.gov)

— Bluewalker-3 reaches full brightness on orbit (payloadspace.com) (iau.org)

— iROSA installation + power issue (nasaspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: ABL released a scrub summary (HT Sam: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Dec 7, 2010. AKATSUKI fails to enter Venusian orbit (PDF: arxiv.org) (PDF: lpi.usra.edu) (planetary.org) (jaxa.jp)

— Next week (12/13 - 12/19) in 1970: That’s a long way to go to hard boil an egg

Spaceflight News

— Artemis I progress (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov)

— NASA history report on Administrator James Webb released (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— China to test space-based solar power (spacenews.com)

— Canada to develop lunar rover for power generation (spacenews.com)

— ISRO tests Gaganyaan parachute system (isro.gov.in)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Dec 5, 2014: The launch of EFT-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (collectspace.com)

— The clue was taken from an interview with Sesame Street’s Elmo (youtube.com)

— Orion suffered more MMOD damage than models had predicted, resulting in changes to the vehicle for Artemis I (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com)

— Next week (12/6 - 12/12) in 2010. Feeling salty.

Spaceflight News

— Artemis I Launch (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (HT MCC: twitter.com/derekdotspace)

— SLS suffered slight hurricane damage prior to launch (spacenews.com)

— SLS still had LH2 leaks (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/ZachSellinger)

— A bad ethernet switch took down range assets (HT deltaV: twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)

— Post-launch photo opportunities were limited (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (twitter.com/wapodavenport)

— Artemis I Ride-alongs and little ‘uns (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (parabolicarc.com)

— CAPSTONE arrives at the Moon (spacenews.com)

— Orion completes TLI (spacenews.com) (youtu.be)

Short & Sweet

— Hermeus completes key test towards hypersonic aircraft (HT Czarified, Csaba: defenseone.com) (HT Czarified: youtube.com)

— Busy week of spacewalkin’ (space.com) (space.com) (space.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Japan formalizes its commitment (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Cygnus array jam photo (twitter.com/Space_Pete)

— Csaba: Real-time Artemis I tracker (nasa.gov) (eyes.nasa.gov)

— DeltaV: Rocket 4 Payload User’s guide (twitter.com/Astra)

Interview -- Margaret Weitekamp, Curator and Chair of the Space History department at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

— airandspace.si.edu 

— twitter.com/mgtwspace

— facebook.com/margaret.weitekamp.12

— Buy the book: (amazon.com) (barnesandnoble.com) (smithsonianbooks.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 27 Nov, 2012. The end of Falcon 9 Air’s development (flightglobal.com VIA 12ft.io) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Orbital designed Pegasus II “Thunderbolt” as a replacement (space.com)

— Next week (11/29 - 12/5) in 2014: [Audio clue]

Spaceflight News

— Cygnus Winged (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)  (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

— X-37B returns to Earth after record-breaking 900+ days in orbit (spaceforce.mil)

— China changes plans for Long March 9 (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)

— Artemis I gettin’ stormy (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: LOFTID was successful (nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Nov 17, 1967. Surveyor 6 does a brief flight from the lunar surface (nasa.gov) (PDF: sci-hub.se) (drewexmachina.com)

— Next week (11/22 - 11/29) in 2012: Jumping off a not-yet-dead Roc

Spaceflight News

— Rocket Lab’s Catch Me If You Can Wasn’t (parabolicarc.com) (businesswire.com) (theorbitalmechanics.com)

Short & Sweet

— Chinese Spaceplane Releases Object On-orbit (spacenews.com)

— Spaceplane Aurora Tested at Peenemünde (spacewatch.global)

— Fire Alarm Scrubs NG-18 Launch (nasaspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Practical Engineering’s look at Endeavor’s trip through LA (youtube.com)

— Vertical payload integration (youtube.com)

— Reflective Layer (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— November 11, 2013: Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer’s reentry (en.wikipedia.org) (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu) (spaceflight101.com)

— GOCE had sophisticated accelerometers (HT Colin: link.springer.com)

— Next week (11/15-11/21) in 1967: Actually, I thought it’d be right about this high at MECO.

Spaceflight News

— VirtualAGC posts their final moonshot LM software package (github.com/virtualagc) (ibiblio.org) (github.com/thewonderidiot) (youtube.com)

— Play with a virtual rope module (apolloguidance.computer)

— If you own a rope module, or know someone who does, please get in touch! The vAGC group is happy to keep donors anonymous. Contact Ron Burkey: info@sandroid.org

— Project Kuiper looking for a ride (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— NASA launch slips (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Polaris Dawn slips again (spacenews.com)

— Centaur causes a slip (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— LeonRunningMan (discord.com)

— Victus Nox contract was awarded two days before the launch. 

— More info on eSR19 (defenseindustrydaily.com)

— Andrew Z via email: EMU 2.0, or an EVA pod?

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2 Nov, 2000. Docking of Expedition 1, beginning our continuous human presence in space. (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (Space.com VIA web.archive.org)

— Next week (11/8 - 11/14) in 2013: Like Icarus, but in reverse

Spaceflight News

— ISS EVAs resumed (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— Back in March, Matthias Maurer had a leak in his suit (spacenews.com) (phys.org) (blogs.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Geotail in Jeopardy (space.com)

— ESA turns to SpaceX (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com)

— Tiangong nears completion (spacenews.com)

— Polaris Dawn mission scheduled for March 2023 (space.com)

— NASA orders three more Orion spacecraft (lockheedmartin.com)

Interview – Joel C. Sercel PhD, CEO of TransAstra

— TransAstra recently formed a partnership with Celestron (spacenews.com)

— transastra.com

— linkedin.com/in/joelsercel/

— twitter.com/JoelSercel 

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Oct 28, 2014: the failure of Cygnus Orb-3 (en.wikipedia.org) (everydayastronaut.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Kunetsov saved 80 NK-33s (HT Csaba: youtu.be)

— Next week (11/1 - 11/7) in 2000: Making a new home, then pulling Dennis away from it.

Spaceflight News

— Epsilon failure (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtu.be) (PDF: jaxa.jp)

— Skyrora failure (skyrora.com) (youtube.com)

— The Firefly Paradox (spacenews.com) (firefly.com) (twitter.com/seradata)

— Rockets showing up at places (bbc.com) (techcrunch.com)

Short & Sweet

— Lucy flyby (NSF via web.archive.org) (lucy.swri.edu) (twitter.com/LucyMission)

— TESS mission goes into safe mode (cnet.com)

— China launched ASO-S solar observatory (nasaspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 2008, Launch of Chandrayaan-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (eoportal.org) (pds.nasa.gov)

— NASA contributed the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar experiment (nasa.gov)

— Next week (10/25 - 10/31) in 2014: Swan song.

Spaceflight News

— Test Fest III

— Ariane 6 test fires upper stage engines (esa.int)

— Aerojet-Rocketdyne tests new solid motor (rocket.com) (PAYWALL: aviationweek.com)

— BE-4 full-duration firing (Video: twitter.com/torybruno)

— Stoke Space ring firing (ifiberone.com) (twitter.com/stoke_space) (MP4: uploads-ssl.webflow.com VIA stokespace.com/vision) (twitter.com/jenakuns) (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

— Ireland’s first satellite readies for launch (bbc.com) (eirsat1.ie)

— Crew-5 launches to Station (americaspace.com)

— Engineers regain control of CAPSTONE (spacenews.com)

Interview – UVic ORCASat team: Alex Doknjas, Project Manager and Biarki Weeks, Undergrad Technical Lead

— The team published a wonderful assembly timelapse (youtube.com)

— Orcasat.ca

— uvsd.ca

— youtube.com

— twitter.com/AlexDoknjas

— linkedin.com/in/alexander-doknjas-5b30b310b

— twitter.com/biarkiweeks

— linkedin.com/in/biarki-weeks-463a9579

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 11 October 1968: The launch of Apollo 7 (en.wikipedia.org) (collectspace.com)

— Next week (10/18 - 10/24) in 2008: Let’s start with a weather satellite

Spaceflight News

— DART (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/nasa) (twitter.com/LICIACube) (twitter.com/SenBillNelson) (researchgate.net)

— Transformational Solar Array experiment (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Testing begins for first ViaSat-3 (spacenews.com)

— Hubble may get a roboost (spacenews.com)

— Firefly reaches orbit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Oct 6, 1990. Launch of Ulysses spacecraft (esa.int) (PDF: adsabs.harvard.edu) (en.wikipedia.org)

— The Nutation Damper System was well described in a paper (nasa.gov)

— Next week (10/11 - 10/17) in 1968: Phoenix Rising