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Episode 302: Debris Mayhem
Spaceflight news
— Bill Nelson to be nominated as next NASA head (spacenews.com) (whitehouse.gov)
— Debris mayhem
— Space Force would hire deorbiting satellites (spacenews.com)
— Astroscale’s demo will launch on the GK Launch Services rideshare Soyuz (spacenews.com)
— NOAA-17 broke up (spacenews.com) (HT Mike Stewart: archive.org)
Short & Sweet
— Chang’e 5 orbiter begins extended mission (spacenews.com)
— JWST on target for launch in October (spacenews.com) (theatlantic.com)
— Super Heavy is being stacked (teslarati.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— Capella releases dish deployment video (cnbc.com) (directory.eoportal.org)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Emory S. via Discord: on-orbit servicing thoughts
This week in SF history
— 24 Mar, 2006. HiRISE takes its first images of Mars (space.com) (newscientist.com) (mars.nasa.gov)
— Next week (3/30 - 4/5) in 1983. A little deeper pool.