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Episode 209: DATA RELAY--Brazil Space
This week in SF history
— May 10, 1967. Famous M2-F2 crash (wikipedia.org)(check-six.com)
Spaceflight news
— Dragon was destroyed prior to SuperDraco firing (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— CRS-17 makes it to Station after several setbacks. (spaceflightinsider.com)
— Firefly successfully tests Alpha rocket's upper stage (arstechnica.com)
Data Relay: Brazilian Space Program
— Thanks to Anderson da Nova for researching and presenting this topic!
— twitter.com/DaSupaNova
— Unrelated, but fun resource discovered while researching (nakka-rocketry.net)
— "Smith Plan" resulted in the construction of 2 institutions; the ITA and the IPD (periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br) (fab.mil.br)
— Perspective paper (seer.cgee.org.br)
— Brazil’s first launch complex was CLBI (Barreira do Inferno Launch Center) (clbi.cta.br)
— Nike-Apache was the first rocket launched here (wikipedia.org)
— Sonda rocket family (I II, III, IV) (wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com)
— Sonda II was a new design (mtc-m12.sid.inpe.br)
— IAE (Aeronautics and Space Institute) (iae.cta.br)
— Alcantara Launch Center (CLA) (astronautix.com) (goo.gl/maps)
— Satellite Launching Vehicle (VLS) (wikipedia.org)
— Dove-OSCAR 17 (skyrocket.de)
— Data Collecting Satellite (SCD-1 and 2) - (inpe.br)
— SACI-2 spacecraft (skyrocket.de) (PDF: researchgate.net)
— Operation São Luis - VLS-1 disaster (PDF: aereo.jor.br)
— CBERS (wikipedia.org)
— Crewed space program (tecnoblog.net)
— Marcos Pontes was the first Brazilian in space! (twitter.com/astro_pontes)
— Contributions to the ISS (gizmodo.uol.com.br)
— Alcântara Cyclone Space (ACS) (parabolicarc.com)
— Launched Cylone-4 (npointercos.jp)
— Amazônia-1 (skyrocket.de)
— Programa Cruzeiro do Sul (pt.wikipedia.org)
— L75 Rocket Engine (researchgate.net)
— Heroes of the Brazilian Space Program who died in Aug 22nd 2003
— Amintas Rocha Brito
— Antonio Sergio Cezarini
— Carlos Alberto Pedrini
— Cesar Augusto Costalonga Varejão
— Daniel Faria Gonçalves
— Eliseu Reinaldo Moraes Vieira
— Gil Cesar Baptista Marques
— Gines Ananias Garcia
— Jonas Barbosa Filho
— José Aparecido Pinheiro
— José Eduardo De Almeida
— José Eduardo Pereira
— José Pedro Claro Peres Da Silva
— Luis Primon De Araujo
— Mário César De Freitas Levy
— Massanobu Shimabukuro
— Mauricio Biella De Souza Valle
— Roberto Tadashi Seguchi
— Rodolfo Donizetti De Oliveira
— Sidney Aparecido De Moraes
— Walter Pereira Junior
Questions, comments, corrections
— Lee Stevens via email: Starlink orbit advantages