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Episode 208: MagneNOmeter
This week in SF history
— May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard is first American launched into space on a suborbital flight (wikipedia.org)
Spaceflight news
— Europa Clipper’s custom magnetometer is dead in the water (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
— ICEMAG details (PDF: lpi.usra.edu)(adsabs.harvard.edu)
— Galileo also had a magnetometer (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (wikipedia.org)
Short & Sweet
— Mars InSight Detects First Marsquake (jpl.nasa.gov)
— Yutu-2 enters its fourth lunar day. (planetary.org)
— Curiosity memory issue is partially solved (planetary.org) (planetary.org)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Ben Hallert: Roll-away assembly building at Vandenberg was repurposed for Delta! (twitter.com/chairboy)