Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.
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Episode 218: Low-flying Starlink
This week in SF history
— 10 July, 1992: Giotto flies past 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup (wikipedia.org)
— Ten instruments onboard (nature.com)
— Magnetometer experiment results (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu)
Spaceflight news
— Orion Abort test is a success (spacenews.com)
— Three Starlink satellites goes silent (spacenews.com)
— Jeff Bezos files with FCC for Kuiper constellation (geekwire.com)
Short & Sweet
— ExoMars 2020 suffers parachute problem (spacenews.com)
— DSCOVR is in safehold. (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Zdanowicz via email: Dragonfly - why not a helicopter?