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 453: Bleached?
Spaceflight News
— Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com)
— Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu)
Short & Sweet
— A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com)
— A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 6 Apr, 1965: Launch of Intelsat I, the first commercial satellite in GEO (en.wikipedia.org) (boeing.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com VIA web.archive.org)
— Next week (4/9 - 4/15) in 2006: The mission that went to hell in 5 months