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Episode 301: Service Update
Spaceflight news
— Ukrainian startup looks at in-orbit servicing (spacenews.com) (kursorbital.com)
— Northrup’s MEV-2 prepares for docking attempt with geostationary satellite (spacenews.com)
— Market analysis for on-orbit service demand by Northern Sky Research (nsr.com)
— CONFERS is working on docking standards (satelliteconfers.org)
Short & Sweet
— HST back online after software glitch (spacenews.com)
— Second hot fire of SLS core scheduled for Thursday (americaspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)
— China successfully launches Long March 7A (spacenews.com)
This week in SF history
— 21 Mar, 2007: Second launch of Falcon 1 (wikipedia.org) (space.com) (amazon.com)
— The second stage engine bell scraped the interstage during separation (youtube.com)
— Next week (3/23 - 3/29) in 2006: First sweep of a dusty surface