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Episode 300: Nikolas Trawny, Ph. D.
Spaceflight news
— Rocket Lab reveals Neutron, goes public (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (rocketlabusa.com)
Short & Sweet
— Starship burned down, fell over, and only then sank into the swamp (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— SpaceX wins a contract (spacenews.com)
— Price changes announced for ISS and lunar mission (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
— Perseverance update (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Ryan via email: Cut cables on Perseverance
— Ben Hallert: inclinometer vs gyro (twitter.com/chairboy)
— From the intro: Smarter Every Day looks at Mighty Eagle (youtube.com)
Interview: Nikolas Trawny, Ph.D., JPL GNC section
— ADAPT flight test (jpl.nasa.gov) (arc.aiaa.org) (nasa.gov)
— Mars 2020 LVS and TRN (science.nasa.gov)
— Dr. Trawny’s LinkedIn (linkedin.com)
This week in SF history
— 15 March, 1986: Soyuz T-15 docks with Mir, ahead of the first (and only) station-to-station equipment transfer. (spacefacts.de) (spacefacts.de)
— Soyuz-T still had an Igla approach system, not Kurs (svengrahn.pp.se)
— Next week (3/16 - 3/22) in 2007, This list goes up to eleven, or at least it should.