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Episode 154: DOWNLINK--Tess Caswell
This week in SF history
-- 22 April 2010. USA-212/OTV-1, the first orbital launch of X-37 (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
-- BFR updates
-- Tooling spotlight (teslarati.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)
-- BFR: now a little longer (twitter.com/elonmusk)
-- ICPS back in business? (HT DeltaVof4point4: arstechnica.com)
Short & Sweet
-- CNBC reports the results of two different Zuma investigations (cnbc.com)
-- OTV 5 has been found (spaceflight101.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
-- /u/CapMSFC: the two different fairing drogue/parafoil designs will be tested side-by-side!
Interview -- Tess Caswell, Environmental and Thermal Operating Systems (ETHOS) flight controller
-- CDRA design (PDF: nasa.gov)
-- Water management (nmsu.edu)
-- twitter.com/caswelltess
-- finalfrontierscience.wordpress.com