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 255: DOWNLINK--Jordan Noone
Spaceflight News
— Starship SN3 Collapse (space.com) (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— RIP Starship Mk1 (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight)
— RIP Starship SN1 (twitter.com/WyattJGeorge/)
— Starship SN2’s thrust puck (https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/41761/what-is-a-thrust-puck-on-starship)
— Jamestown Base considered for real (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov)
— Laura Forczyk poll: “What’s a reasonable new goal [for Artemis 3]?” (twitter.com/LauraForczyk)
Short & Sweet
— Virgin Orbit selects site in Japan for horizontal launches. (spacenews.com)
— NASA selects SunRISE. (nasaspaceflight.com)
Interview: Jordan Noone, Cofounder/CTO, Relativity Space
— USC rocket propulsion lab (uscrpl.com)
— twitter.com/theJordanNoone
— twitter.com/Relativityspace
— relativityspace.com
This week in SF history
— March 7 1962: launch of OSO-1 (nasa.gov) (wikipedia.org) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)
— Next week in 1965: Five alive