Spaceflight News

— Rocket Lab updates (satellitetoday.com)

— There was a presentation for investors September 21 (youtube.com) (PDF: rocketlabusa.com)

— The Archimedes Test Complex will be built at Stennis (businesswire.com)

— JWST instrument suffers anomaly (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— USSF to leave GEO (aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)

— Superheavy fires seven engines (cnet.com)

— Spinlaunch raises $71M (spacenews.com)

— ESA seeks money to stay in space race (thespacereview.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Descent module from Soyuz T-10a reused in T-15 (youtube.com VIA twitter.com/gopalsapparapu)

— See also Ep 300: DOWNLINK--Nikolas Trawny, Ph.D. (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— How did N2 get into the turbopump?

This Week in Spaceflight History

— September 29, 2011: Launch of Tiangong-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: english.cssar.cas.cn) (spaceflightnow.com) (spaceflight101.com)

— X37-B was possibly tasked to observe the station on orbit (bbc.com)

— Docking hardware was purchased from Russia (russianspaceweb.com)

— Next week (10/4 - 10/10) in 1990. It’s already a long enough trip without adding four years.

Spaceflight News

— CAPSTONE safe mode update (advancedspace.com) (advancedspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet

— SLD lander RFP (spacenews.com)

— NASA requests private missions (spacenews.com)

— ArianeGroup reveals reusable crewed vehicle for Ariane 6 (twitter.com/EuropeSpace360) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com/Melissandre_L)

— Morpheus Space raises funds (spacenews.com)

Interview – Araz Feyzi, Kayhan Space Co-Founder and CTO

— twitter.com/kayhanspace

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Sept 26, 1983: Pad Abort of Soyuz T-10A (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (americaspace.com) (PDF: starsem.com)

— Next week (9/27 - 10/3) in 2011: Wait two months for a robot, seven months for a human

Spaceflight News

— Artemis I update (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Axiom selected for Artemis 3 space suits (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— Astrobotic wins bid for Masten assets (HT deltaV: clickorlando.com) (HT deltaV: parabolicarc.com)

— CAPSTONE enters safe mode (HT deltaV: twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections Burns

— From the intro: Curiosity Curiosities

— Curiosity picks up rock in wheel (mars.nasa.gov VIA twitter.com/kevinmgill VIA cnet.com) 

— Flower shaped rock (mars.nasa.gov)

— Geoff via email: Is JWST able to see the DART impact on September 26?

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 13 September 2007: Announcement of the Google Lunar X Prize (en.wikipedia.org) (smithsonianmag.com) (xprize.org) (ispace-inc.com) (astrobotic.com)

— Next week (9/20 - 9/26) in 1983: Second birthday

Spaceflight News

— Artemis I

— First attempt (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com)

— Second attempt (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Future attempts (blogs.nasa.gov) (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight)

— Just for fun: AR Orion model (americaspace.com)

Short & Sweet

— ThrustMe and Astra make propulsion sales (spacenews.com) (smallsatnews.com) (spacenews.com)

— China proposes orbital nuclear reactor (space.com) (spacenews.com)

— South Korea seeks funding for ambitious lunar project (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Correction Burns

— Project TOMTOM: The Orbital Mechanics Think Of Missions

— Check Discord#snoopy to join in on the fun! (discord.com)

Interview -- Jason Armstrong, Director of Launch and Integration Services for TriSept; Chris Craddock, RocketStar CEO; Addie Dove, UCF Physics Professor and Walkabout the Galaxy co-host 

— Trisept.com

— twitter.com/rocketstarspace

— facebook.com/RocketStarSpace/

— instagram.com/RocketStarSpace/

— linkedin.com/company/rocketstar-llc

— RocketStar’s Youtube channel (youtube.com)

— Walkabout the Galaxy (sciences.ucf.edu)

— The Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education (ucf.edu)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 9 Sept, 1982. First and only successful launch of Conestoga (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

— Next week (9/13 - 9/19) in 2007: Sponsored in part by ad revenue.

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.