Spaceflight News

— 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

Spaceflight News

— 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

Spaceflight News

— 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

Spaceflight News

— 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.

Spaceflight News

— 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.

Spaceflight News

— 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)

Spaceflight News

— 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 😴

Spaceflight News

— 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

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