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 434: DOWNLINK--Benchmark
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 (planetary.org)
Interview -- Jake Teufert CTO and Chris Carella CCO, Benchmark Space Systems
— We last talked to Chris Carella in episode 373 (theorbitalmechanics.com)
— benchmarkspacesystems.com
— linkedin.com/company/benchmark-space-systems
— linkedin.com/in/jake-teufert-86b375133/
— linkedin.com/in/christopher-carella-innovate/
This Week in Spaceflight History
— Nov 15, 1988: The first and only launch of Buran (en.wikipedia.org) (buran.ru) (buran.ru) (buran-energia.com)
— Next week (11/21 - 11/27) in 1962: Clouds before Aurora