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 292: Ungoogleable
Spaceflight news
— NASA selects four small-scale missions to further develop (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)
— Pioneers program (science.nasa.gov)
— Aspera (news.arizona.edu)
— Pandora (twitter.com/elsisrad)
— StarBurst (twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ)
— PUEO - Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PDF: arxiv.org)
Short & Sweet
— Dynetics submits details for its HLS bid. (executivebiz.com)
— NASA extends Juno and InSight (nasa.gov)
— DARPA satellites damaged (HT Mike Stewart: spacenews.com)
This week in SF history
— 17th January, 1997: Loss of GPS-IIR-1 on Delta II (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)
— Richard Gariott’s interview on Off-Nom (HT Ben Hallert: youtube.com)
— Next week (1/19 through 1/25) in 1967: simulated launch, not-so-simulated conflagration