Spaceflight News — 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.…

Spaceflight News — 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) Th…

Spaceflight News — 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…

Spaceflight News — 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…

Spaceflight News — 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) (leonarddavi…

Spaceflight News — 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 Orb…

Spaceflight News — 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.co…

Spaceflight News — 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…

Spaceflight News — 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. La…

Spaceflight News — 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: …

Spaceflight News — 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) …

Spaceflight News — 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 …

Spaceflight News — 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 Firs…

Thanks to Dennis O for naming this week’s episode! 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 — Fro…

Spaceflight News — 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.g…

Spaceflight News — 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 sp…

Spaceflight News — 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 Sp…

Spaceflight News — 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: jhua…

Spaceflight News — 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.…

Spaceflight News — 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.c…

Spaceflight News — 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…

Spaceflight News — 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…

Spaceflight News — 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 chunk…

Spaceflight News — 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…

Thanks to Dennis O for naming this week’s episode! 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 —…