Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.
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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…
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Spaceflight News -- ThinkSubOrbital (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (sbir.gov) (sbir.gov) Short & Sweet -- Starliner scrub (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) -- Indian startup Agnikul Notches launches first flight (payloadspace.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: -- Chang’e 6 landin…
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Episode 461: DOWNLINK--Justin Fiaschetti
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Spaceflight News -- More Starliner Delays (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: https://arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet -- U.S. accuses Russia of launching countersat weapon (spacenews.com) (payloadspace.com) -- Redwire wins award for European lunar lander’s robot arm (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Com…
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Spaceflight News -- NASA Joins Rosalind Franklin Team (spacenews.com) -- Unknown Russian sat launched (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) Short & Sweet -- Georgia scraps Spaceport Camden (actionnewsjax.com) -- Starliner leaks Helium (spacenews) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 27 May, 1999: The launch of STS-96 (nasa.gov) (nss.org) …
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Episode 459: DOWNLINK--Adam Higginbotham
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Spaceflight News — Chang’e-6 mission underway (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nature.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Starliner delayed (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) — Long March 6C makes first flight (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com) — Neutron debut slips into 2025 (payloadspace.com) Questio…
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Spaceflight News — Artemis I Lessons (spacenews.com) (PDF: oig.nasa.gov VIA oig.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — Thunder from down under (abc.net.au) (abc.net.au) (southernlaunch.space) — JAXA’s SLIM survives third lunar night (japantimes.co.jp) This Week in Spaceflight History — May 9, 1963: Launch of West Ford 2 (PDF: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov VIA orbi…
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Episode 457: DOWNLINK--Jeff Williams, Exum Instruments
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Spaceflight News — Voyager is communicative! (blogs.nasa.gov) — ESA debris removal mission finds a new target (satellitetoday.com) Short & Sweet — China releases a lunar landing update (spacenews) — TESS enters safe mode… again (nasa.gov) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Dennis O: SOFIA clarifications (discord.com) (youtube.com) — VAXheadroom sho…
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Spaceflight News — Lunar buggy selection (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov VIA sam.gov) (twitter.com/DubnHG1) (nikkei.com) Short & Sweet — Dragonfly mission officially confirmed (nasa.gov) — Mars Sample Revamp (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Unc Willy: Cape launch complexes (discord.com) This Week…
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Spaceflight News — Last Delta IV heavy (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ulalaunch.com) (arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet — Relativity Space wins contract (spacenews) — Japan secures a moon landing (spacenews) — Max Space Modules (spacenews) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Csaba via Discord: SOIR means "evening" in Fre…
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Spaceflight News — Broken records and Starship’s near future (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — New Shepard Plans Crewed Flight (spacenews.com) — Lunar Rover Mk 2 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — April 11, 2006: Arrival of Venus Express at Venus (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int VIA sci.…
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Spaceflight News — Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com) — Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu) Short & Sweet — A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com) — A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spa…
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Spaceflight News — Starship IFT-3 (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Euclid spacecraft addresses ice-buildup on optics (asdnews.com) — Ariane 6 coming together (esa.int) — Soyuz aborts at the pad (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: launch escape slide (youtube.com) This Week in Spaceflight Histor…
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Episode 451: DOWNLINK--Prof. Dante Lauretta
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Interview — Professor Dante Lauretta — The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (hachettebookgroup.com) — facebook.com/AZAstrobiology — threads.net/@azastrobiology — instagram.com/azastrobiology — Thanks to Grand Central Publishing (twitter.com/GrandCentralPub) (instagram.com/grandcentralpub)…
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Spaceflight News — Stoke Space focusing on first stage (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Tianhe’s solar arrays patched (space.com) — Stratolaunch tests Talon (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Starship Flight 3 on its way (spacenews.com) (space.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 16 Mar, 1966. Recovery of Veterok and Ugolyok, who …
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Spaceflight News — Last big IM-1 update (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) Short & Sweet — Orion has hatch problems (spacenews.com) — ISRO plans for Mars helicopter (indiatoday.in) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Varda landing footage (youtube.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 8 Mar, 2001. Launch of STS-102 (nss.org) (aiaa.org) — N…
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Spaceflight News — IM-1 landing follow-up (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) Short & Sweet — ISRO completes human-rating of engine (isro.gov.in) — Software error responsible for Firefly’s off-nominal payload delivery (fireflyspace.com) (space.com) — Varda’s capsule returns (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Espen via email:…
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Spaceflight News — IM-1 launch (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: intuitivemachines.com) Short & Sweet — H3 completes first successful launch (spacenews.com) — Voyager 1 still struggles to communicate (space.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — February 21 2008, Interception and dest…
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Spaceflight News — Dream Chaser readies for first flight (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — Viasat-3 pushes forward (spacenews.com) — Lessons from Artemis 1 (spacenews.com) — X-37B’s orbit speculation (arstechnica.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — 2002 VE68 was officially named Zoozve! (alex-foster.com) (radiolab.org)…
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Spaceflight News — CLPS’ second try (spacenews.com) — Collins completes Crew Capability Assessment (prnewswire.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com) Short & Sweet — Queqiao-2 readies for launch (cgtn.com) — First metal 3D printer in space reaches ISS (europeanspaceflight.com) — Orbit raising raising questions (spacenews.com) This Week in Spacefli…
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Spaceflight News — Ingenuity Down (HT deltaV: twitter.com/AndySaunders_1) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov) — Slim Upside-Down (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)(global.jaxa.jp) Short & Sweet — Redwire to provide elements of Blue Origin’s space tug (spacenews.com) — Two companies test reusable booster prototypes (space.com) (HT: Sam twitter.com/CNSpacef…
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Spaceflight News — SLIM landing attempt (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (PDF: global.jaxa.jp) Short & Sweet — EUS heads to qualification (nasaspaceflight.com) — Ingenuity contact lost during flight 72, regained (mars.nasa.gov) (npr.org) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Peregri…
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Spaceflight News — Peregrine Failure (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/astrobotic) Short & Sweet — Lay-offs at JPL (spacenews) — Starship’s second flight failure explained (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Early demo of a starship game, complete wit…
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Spaceflight News — NIAC 2024 Phase One (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — India launches X-ray space observatory (spaceflightnow.com) — Space station stories (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 12 January, 1997: Launch of Atlantis on STS-81 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (freshairarchive.org) —…
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Episode 440: 99 Landings and a Tough Ride
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Spaceflight News — B1058 lost at sea (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/johnkrausphotos) (youtube.com) (ventusky.com) (twitter.com/edwards345) (spaceexplored.com) — Firefly malfunction (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — China completes launch pad at first commercial spaceport (cgtn.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 3 Jan, 1999: The launch of Deep…
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Spaceflight News — China launches spaceplane for third time (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (youtube.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — Refractory Starship (nasaspaceflight.com) — iSpace hops again (spacenews.com) — Voyager 1 suffers communication anomaly (space.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 19 Dec, 1976. The launch of the first…
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