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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Episode 432: DOWNLINK--Orbit Fab
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/@AkaSci)
— You can register to send your name with Europa Clipper (europa.nasa.gov)
— Mike Stewart’s core rope memory reader (finally) debuted on CuriousMarc’s channel (youtube.com)
— Aaron Sawdey: Crew Dragon engine inventory (discord.com):
Interview -- Daniel Faber, CEO and Adam Harris, CCO of Orbit Fab
— Further reading
— Furphy on ISS (issnationallab.org)
— Analysis of a potential Orbit Fab shuttle/depot architecture (researchgate.net)
— orbitfab.com
— linkedin.com/in/adam-harris-363414a6
— linkedin.com/in/danielfaber
— linkedin.com/company/orbitfab
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 4 Nov, 2011: The end of Mars-500 (space.com) (wikipedia.org) (bbc.com)
— Next week (11/7 - 11/13) in 1995: Mission extension… of 4.7 m