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Episode 75: DOWNLINK--Dr. Marc Rayman
- This week in SF history
- 1965 September 9: Birth of Sunita Lyn 'Suni' Williams
- Spaceflight news
- AMOS-6 followup
- Static fires have had payloads onboard for years. (reddit.com/r/spacex)
- Insurance was actually in effect after all (twitter.com/_elbertina) (www.globes.co.il)
- Bang before explosion (twitter.com/elonmusk)
- USLaunchReport recorded from a nearby tow yard? Lots of local sounds. (reddit.com/r/spacex)
- Op-ed worth reading (spacenews.com)
- Histories of other launch vehicles (reddit.com/r/spacex)
- AMOS-6 followup
- Questions, comments, corrections
- /u/symmetry81: N1 was a larger explosion
- Interview with Dr. Marc Rayman
- Mission overview, good photos (spaceflight101.net)
- Xenon tank (llis.nasa.gov)
- Beautiful photo of an engine (pddnet.com)
- Dawn journal (over 100 blog entries) (dawn.jpl.nasa.gov)
- twitter.com/nasa_dawn
- Unintended, third party appendix by Scott Manley: "Why Do Ion Thusters Use Xenon?" (youtube.com)
Internal diagram of Dawn
Diagram of Dawn's trajectory