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Episode 160: DOWNLINK--Eric Blood
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 4 June, 2010. First launch of Falcon 9 (youtu.be)(wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Ariane 6 update (satelliteobservation.net/)
Short & Sweet
— NASA wants to buy rides on commercial lunar landers by the end of the year (spacenews.com)
— Bangabandhu-1 didn’t count for crew rating (spaceflightnow.com)
Interview: Eric Blood
— Eric’s profile (linkedin.com)
— LDSD overview (youtube.com)
— LDSD SFDT-1 debrief presentation (PDF: nasa.gov)
— BLDT, a predecessor to LDSD (researchgate.net)
— BLDT Test Report for Flight 4 (nasa.gov)
— SIAD rocket sled testing: (youtube.com)
— Parachute rocket sled testing (youtube.com)
— Parachute deployment via trailing ballute (nasa.gov)
— Summary of SFDT-1 Test: (nasa.gov)
— LDSD Parachute System overview (nasa.gov)
— Parachute performance during SFDT-1 (nasa.gov)