This week in SF history
— August 30, 1931. Birth of Jack Swigert (wikipedia.org)
— Next week in 1914: You know what might have killed Swigert….
Spaceflight news
— Uncrewed Soyuz aborts docking. (spacenews.com)
— Second attempt delayed to free up a new docking port. (twitter.com/roscosmos)
Short & Sweet
— Astrobotic chooses ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to deliver its lunar lander (astrobotic.com)
— Sierra-Nevada selects ULA. (spacenews.com)
— Europa Clipper passes Key Decision Point-C (arstechnica.com)
Data Relay—Hot Structures
— Thanks to Ben Crews for researching and presenting this topic! (linkedin.com)
— X-15 Hardware Design Challenges (PDF: nasa.gov)
— NASA solicitation for research on hot structures (sbir.gov)
— Multifunctional Hot Structure (HOST) Heat Shield (techbriefs.com)
— Heat Shield Concepts and Materials for Reentry Vehicles (includes some familiar lifting-body vehicle form proposals!) (PDF: dtic.mil)
— Advances in Hot Structure Development (Brief with link to PDF: nasa.gov)
— Thermal-Structural Optimization of Integrated Tanks for RLV (embedded PDF: aiaa.org)
— Tim Dodd’s discussion on Starship transpiration cooling (youtube.com)
/— u/spacerfirstclass speculates on Spaceship’s use of hot structures. (reddit.com/r/spacex)