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Episode 121: It's not their fault!
- This week in SF history
- 19 August 1964. Launch of Syncom-3 (wikipedia.org)
- Spaceflight news
- Rocket Lab releases analysis of “It’s a Test” (rocketlabusa.com) (spaceflightnow.com)
- Mayak cubesat fails to deploy (spaceflight101.com)
- Sam Moore in the chat pointed out some other passive satellites (skyrocket.de) (wikipedia.org)
- Short & Sweet
- The Japanese H-2A set to launch on August 12th has been grounded. (spaceflightnow.com)
- The world’s first quantum communication between a satellite and ground station (spaceflightinsider.com)
- An appropriate XKCD (HT Nefa35: xkcd.com)
- Questions, comments, corrections
- twitter.com/space_mace: If someone else hasn't beat me to it, correction burn: One SCA for spare parts for SOFIA, 2nd display @ space center Houston (7 parts to move from Ellington)
- Michael Abdilla via email: just wondering if you’d care to share your audio secrets with me.