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Episode 129: DOWNLINK--Eliécer Hernández
- This week in SF history
- October 19, 1967: Mariner 5 zips past Venus (wikipedia.org)
- Spaceflight news
- Elon Musk AMA (HT /u/johnabbe for the summary: reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)
- BFS testing will start suborbital (reddit.com/r/space)
- SPX is working on ISRU (reddit.com/r/space)
- BFS can throttle so deep “it won’t hoverslam” (reddit.com/r/space)
- Raptor thrust reduction (reddit.com/r/space/)
- BFS control thrusters (reddit.com/r/space)
- Header tanks are nice bc they’ll be insulated from solar heating (reddit.com/r/space)
- Heat shields will mount directly to the tank (reddit.com/r/space)
- A new metal alloy for LOX pumps. (reddit.com/r/space)
- Elon Musk AMA (HT /u/johnabbe for the summary: reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)
- Interview: Eliécer Hernández, VRSS-2 Program System Engineer
- Specs on VRSS-2 (skyrocket.de)
- abae.gob.ve