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Episode 223: DOWNLINK--Ella Atkins
This week in SF history
— August 17, 1962: Carl Sagan advocates for sterilizing spacecraft (spacemedicineassociation.org) (PDF: pnas.org)
Spaceflight news
— Rocketlab reuse (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (youtube.com)
Short & Sweet
— First ion thruster use on a 1U cubesat (spacenews.com)
Interview-- Ella Atkins
— Thanks to IEEE for arranging this interview! (IEEE.org)
— Dr. Atkins’ profile and CV (umich.edu)
— (robotics.umich.edu)
— (aiaa.org)