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 457: DOWNLINK--Jeff Williams, Exum Instruments
Spaceflight News
— Voyager is communicative! (blogs.nasa.gov)
— ESA debris removal mission finds a new target (satellitetoday.com)
Short & Sweet
— China releases a lunar landing update (spacenews)
— TESS enters safe mode… again (nasa.gov)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Dennis O: SOFIA clarifications (discord.com) (youtube.com)
— VAXheadroom shot SOFIA some footage in 2012 (youtube.com) (youtube.com)
Interview -- Jeff Williams, CEO/CTO Exum Instruments
— Jeff co-authored a paper that is a good primer on spectroscopy and Massbox (spectroscopyonline.com)
— exuminstruments.com
— linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-williams-372118128
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 9 Apr, 1999: Titan IVB (402) takes DSP-19 (USA 142) to GEO (astronautix.com) (klabs.org)
— 30 Apr, 1999. Titan IVB (401) takes Milstar-3 (USA 143) to GEO (washingtonpost.com) (PDF: direct.mit.edu VIA direct.mit.edu)
— Next week (5/7 - 5/13) in 1963: Not a good day for trypanophobics