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Episode 13: DOWNLINK--Steve Pestana
- Spaceflight news
- MexSat crashes (NSF)
- Pre-launch processing of vehicle was cut short (RussianSpaceWeb)
- Will raise price of ILS costs (TASS)
- Progress M-26M fails to boost ISS due to software issue (SF101)
- Tried again with 4 instead of 8 engines, success (TASS)
- MexSat crashes (NSF)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- /u/dragonhunter21 and @nerobro: Redstone before Atlas
- /u/zay_k: Launch failures by percentage
- /u/porterhorse: 8 second underburn on a 5 second mission doesn’t make much sense
- /u/Zay_K: why is ISS so low?
- Ben Honey, Attitude Determination and Control Officer (responsible for Motion Control Systems)
- twitter.com/spaceguy87
- rocketsfromcassiopeia.com
- DOWNLINK--Steve Pestana
- @stevexe