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Episode 446: No Dana Only Zoozve
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) (radiolab.org)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 15 February, 1996: Failed launch of Intelsat 708 (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (thespacereview.com) (thespacereview.com) (smithsonianmag.com) (HT Dennis O: web.archive.org)
— Next week (2/20 - 2/26) in 2008: And it’s picked off at the 380,000 yard line!