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Episode 323: Per Latus Ad Astra
Spaceflight news
— Rocket3.3 Exits Stage Right (astra.com) (space.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)
— Follows an abort on Friday called by the guidance system near T-0 (space.com)
— Jonathan McDowell guessed a “fatal problem” in the air (twitter.com/planet4589)
Short & Sweet
— 7GB of paperwork for HLS (twitter.com/joroulette) (spacenews.com) (businessinsider.com) (spacenews.com)
— Starlinks get lasers (spacenews.com)
— First test of Astroscale satellite capture technology (spacenews.com) (astroscale.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: A Shortfall of Gravitas struts its stuff (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)
This week in SF history
— 4 Sep 1968: Von Braun tests a suit in the NBS (facebook.com/SpaceWalkOfFame) (twitter.com/nasahistory) (books.google.com)
— Further reading: a collection of Von Braun’s daily notes (collectspace.com)
— Next week (9/7 - 9/13) in 2004: The end of the beginning and the beginning of the salvaging.