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 —…

Spaceflight News — Worries about ISS making a splash (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (space.com) Short & Sweet — X-37B to perform aerobraking maneuver (defenseone.com) — Rocket Lab wins Mars Sample Return concept award (spacenews.com) — Vast unveils details on Haven-1 (payloadspace.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the in…

Spaceflight News -- Vulcan anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/dwisecinema) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Voyager 2 turns off science instrument (inverse.com) -- Super bright Qianfan satellites (spacenews.com) -- NASA reduces rate of ISS leak (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- …

Spaceflight News -- VIPER opinions (spacenews.com) (sam.gov) Short & Sweet -- Chinese lunar spacesuit revealed (cgtn.com) (space.com) -- Upper stage anomaly grounds Falcon 9 (space.com) (spacenews.com) -- MaiaSpace moves in (spacenews) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 2 Oct, 1921. Birth of Scott Crossfield (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: govinfo.gov) (…

Spaceflight News -- ISRO rising (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Iran successfully launches research satellite (almayadeen.net) -- Ariane 6 software fix (spacenews.com) -- Yutu 2 turns six (space.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Sirius Space will launch from Australia (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight Histor…

Spaceflight News -- Landspace lands (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) Short & Sweet -- New Glenn to attempt landing (HT Chris Radcliff: https://twitter.com/davill) -- Chang’e-6 extended mission (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Polaris Dawn spacewalk (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) This Week in Spacefligh…

Spaceflight News -- BepiColombo insertion delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (esa.int) Short & Sweet -- EscaPADE DelAYED (spacenews.com) -- Starliner Returned (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) -- Vega’s final launch (satellitetoday.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Blue Origi…

Spaceflight News -- B1062 lost (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com) Short & Sweet -- Intuitive Machines selected for lunar South Pole mission (spacenews.com) -- Stoke Space wins contract to prototype cargo delivery (satellitetoday.com) (stokespace.com) -- Starline…

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 -- …

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 incomp…

Spaceflight News -- Megadebris? (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (slingshot.space) Short & Sweet -- NEOWISE ends operations (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Starliner still stuck at Station (spaceflightnow) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From Upcoming Spaceflight Events: -- JUICE Earth flyby #1 on Aug 19/20 (esa.int) -- Online FAA meeting RE…

Spaceflight News -- ADRAS-J rendezvous (HT Zach: twitter.com/CRD2_JAXA) (astroscale.com) (PDF: astroscale.com VIA astroscale.com) Short & Sweet -- POLARIS spaceplane startup back on track (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Dawn does docking (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: JWST looks at Epsilon Indi A (nasaspaceflight.c…

Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Return to Flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet -- ABL Static fire failure (spacenews.com) -- Starliner Debugging (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- The RAX bug was caused by differing clocks (youtube.com) Interview -- Martin Frederick, Northrop…

Spaceflight News -- NASA nixes VIPER (spacenews.com) (newscientist.com) European Short & Sweet -- Ariane 6 may carry crew (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Europe announces RAMSES mission to Apophis (arstechnica.com) (esa.int) -- Themis gets delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 29 Jul, 1999. Deep Space 1, NASA’s first S/…

Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Ariane 6 anomaly (europeanspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Hyperbola-1 mishap (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Europa Clipper faces last-minute obstacle (space.com) -- Dawn gets green light for spaceplane tests (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 17…

Spaceflight News -- Luch (Olymp) 2 “caught” snooping (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (thespacereview.com) Short & Sweet -- The Poles make it to space! (europeanspaceflight.com) -- ISRO announces major size increase to Indian space station (x.com/ISROSpaceflight) Interview -- MSI-DFAT -- We talked to: -- A…

Spaceflight News -- The Vulcan train is leaving the station (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Starliner’s extended-er ISS stay (spacenews.com) -- A not-so-static test fire (spacenews.com) -- Resurs P1 breaks up (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: (americaspace.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 8 July, 1994. Lau…

Spaceflight News -- Long March 10 hot firing (spacenews.com) (weixin.qq.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) -- Latest taikonaut class selected (space.com) Short & Sweet -- ESA gets involved in Vega C’s transfer (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Ariane 6 gets dressed (spacenews.com) -- Starliner’s extended ISS stay (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) This Wee…

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 (sattrackca…

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: Relativit…