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…

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…

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…

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) …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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)…

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 …

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…

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:…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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) —…

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…

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…

Spaceflight News — Vega propellant tank mishap (arstechnica.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (eoportal.org) (PDF: arianespace.com) — AVUM 4th stage (“upper stage”) (Pic: eoportal.org) — Transporter-9 satellite deployment malfunction (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Iran successfully launches bio-capsule (payloadspace.com) — Chinese methalox rocket pro…

Spaceflight News — Starship Shtuff (payloadspace.com) (americaspace.com) (twitter.com/ThePrimalDino) Short & Sweet — JAXA cyber attacked (payloadspace.com) — U.S. watchdog agency finds Artemis III in 2025 unlikely (gao.gov) (spacenews.com) — Gyroscope glitch halts Hubble operations (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — Dec 7…

Spaceflight News — Starliner Crewed Flight Test stays on schedule (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — Looking Towards the End of ISS (planetary.org) (spacenews.com) — Orion still on track (spacenews.com) — Ariane 6 hot firing test (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Danielle Rose has some …

Spaceflight News — Starship Flight 2 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (twitter.com/thejackbeyer) (twitter.com/planet4589) — Posted after recording: a quick analysis of Starships acceleration curves (twitter.com/Space_Josiah) Short & Sweet — SaxaVord struggles to pay contractors (europeanspaceflight.com) — Sierr…

Spaceflight News — Rocket Lab Failure Analysis (spacenews.com) (space.com) (rocketlabusa.com) (PDF: q4cdn.com VIA en.wikipedia.org) Short & Sweet — Astra’s financial future (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — X-37B readies for first launch on Falcon Heavy (spaceflightnow.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Dinkinesh adds a moon (p…

Spaceflight News — Lucy flies past Dinkinesh and also Dinkinesh (nasa.gov) (lucy.swri.edu) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov VIA ntrs.nasa.gov) — Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied Lucy’s thrusters (l3harris.com) (PDF: amazonaws.com) Short & Sweet — Starship aims for mid-November launch (nasaspaceflight.com) — i-Space hops (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight Histo…

Spaceflight News — ABL Dusts Itself Off (spacenews.com) (harryohanley.substack.com) Short & Sweet — NASA struggles to open asteroid sample container (space.com) — Rocket Lab to return (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Blue Origin’s latest Blue Moon mockup (spacenews.com) — Canopée to ferry Ariane 6 (fosstodon.org/@A…

Spaceflight News — Gaganyaan in-flight abort test (youtube.com) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (HT: Jatan’s Space PDF: gov.in) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) — Pad abort test (https://www.youtube.com) — Future human Indian Space ambitions (gov.in) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — PLD Test Launch (spacenews.com) — Two Vega payloads fail to deploy (eur…

Spaceflight News — Psyche launch and mission preview (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (scitechdaily.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (microdevices.jpl.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — Spacewalk canceled due to Nauka leak (space.com) — QueSST to fly in 2024 (nasa.gov) This Week in Spaceflight History — 21 Oct, 2007. Soyuz TMA-10’s ballistic …

Spaceflight News — Tiangong’s expansion (hindustantimes.com) (cnn.com) — Northrop Grumman joins Starlab team (nasa.gov) — Orbital Reef may be abandoned (cnbc.com) Short & Sweet — Luna-25 failure “analysis” (spacenews.com) — Stoke Space gets more funding (spacenews) Interview -- Ben Reed, CTO Quantum Space — quantumspace.us — linkedin.com/company/qu…

Spaceflight News — Electron suffers upper stage failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Stoke Space hops (spacenews.com) — Sierra Space does a burst test (spacenews) — China plans for lunar sample return (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — A big thanks to Unc’willy, Fonji, Chris S in particular for hel…

Spaceflight News — Dawn Aerospace discusses future plans (parabolicarc.com) Short & Sweet — Artemis-II gets its engines (nasaspaceflight.com) — Firefly launches Victus Nox (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Stoke Space test fires (twitter.com/stoke_space) This Week in Spaceflight History — 22 Sep, 1981. Colombia spil…

Spaceflight News — Aditya-L1 studyin’ the Sun (space.com) (eoportal.org) (PDF: iiap.res.in) Short & Sweet — Starship stands corrected (spacenews.com) — MaiaSpace tests cryogenic second stage (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Apollo LOX tanks (twitter.com/DrPhiltill) This Week in Spaceflight History — 15 Se…

Spaceflight News — OSIRIS-REx prep (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — New Frontiers competition delayed (spacenews.com) — Ariane 6 hot-fire test delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) — Otter Pup detumbled! (payloadspace.com) (twitter.com/StarfishSpace) This Week in Spaceflight History — 9 Sept, 2006: The launch of STS-1…

Spaceflight News — Chandrayaan-3 landing (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (isro.gov.in) (indianexpress.com VIA 12ft.io) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Starship Booster 9 static fire (with deluge) (twitter.com/SpaceX) Interview -- IEEE Senior Member David Witkowski — Further reading: Public Wifi Blueprint (PDF: …

Spaceflight News — Luna-25 (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com/katlinegrey) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (Paywall: russianspaceweb.com) Short & Sweet — Starship booster coronation (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX) — Intuitive Machines has a launch date (spacenews.com) — Russia explores reusable first-stage (aviationweek.com) Questions, Comm…

Spaceflight News — Lunar Flashlight failure (spacenews.com) (PDF: mstl.atl.calpoly.edu VIA web.archive.org) (PDF: ssdl.gatech.edu) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu) Short & Sweet — Boeing aiming for six Starliner flights to ISS (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — NASA test-fires Mars Ascent Vehicle’s motor (space.com) — To Artemis three or not to t…

Spaceflight News — Astra Layoffs (spacenews.com) (cnbc.com) Short & Sweet — Starship Activities (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Cygnus gets an upgrade (spacenews.com) — Airbus and Voyager announce commercial space station plans (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 11 and 12 Aug, 1962: The launc…

Spaceflight News — 2023 Tipping Point selections (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (PDF: nasaprs.com) — Blue Origin’s Blue Alchemist separates regolith into several important base materials (blueorigin.com) — We talked to Kyla Edison about sintering regolith (theorbitalmechanics.com) Short & Sweet — HALO’s added cost (spacenews.com) — Sierra Space builds a bet…