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 246: Cupola Virus
Spaceflight news
— Near-miss of IRAS and GGSE-4 (c4isrnet.com) (spacenews.com) (kiro7.com) (space.com)
— Image of post-conjunction trails (twitter.com/juliancd38)
— NASA selects first commercial-destination module for ISS (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Voyager 2 malfunction (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)
— JWST’s launch date will likely slip again. (arstechnica.com)
— CHEOPS takes big step towards coming online and taking data (sci.esa.int)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: Hi-Rise returns better imagery of the Schiaparelli crash (uahirise.org)
— Nick via email: skydiving parachutes have risers for reefing
This week in SF history
— February 5, 1947: the birth of Mary Cleave (wikipedia.org) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)
— Next week in 1965: Sitting behind a boilerplate.