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Episode 91: 48 Batteries
- This week in SF history
- 12 January 1986. STS-61-C, return of Columbia after STS-9 near disaster, first flight of many modifications including SILTS (spaceflight.nasa.gov)
- Image from SILTS (space.stackexchange.com)
- Kimberly Maxwell tells a story about STS-9 (twitter.com/marssciencegrad)
- Watch Tim Dodd recreate this mission in KSP (youtube.com)
- Spaceflight news
- EVA-38 begins battery updates (nasaspaceflight.com)
- JSpOC says all clear on high probability collision. (spaceflight101.com)
- SOCRATES (Satellite Orbital Conjunction Reports Assessing Threatening Encounters in Space) (celestrak.com)
An image of the left wing (top) and OMS pod (bottom) of a shuttle, taken during re-entry by SILTS.