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Episode 324: Fireflyn’t
Spaceflight news
— Firefly Alpha launch failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (firefly.com)
— Scott Manley’s first takes included some “old fashioned pixel counting” (twitter.com/DJSnM) (twitter.com/DJSnM)
— Third-party photo coverage was fantastic (twitter.com/lavie154) (twitter.com/thejackbeyer) (twitter.com/nextspaceflight) (HT Sam: twitter.com/StarshipFairing)
— Keavon posted 4k video, but the tracking is rough (youtube.com)
— OptoData has fantastic tracking and exposure (youtube.com)
— NSF had great tracking and color saturation, from a different angle (youtube.com)
— Firefly’s deleted first cut montage (youtube.com)
— Firefly’s later “final cut” montage (youtube.com)
Short & Sweet
— New cracks discovered in ISS (space.com)
— Rocket Lab increases satellite component production (spacenews.com)
— Perseverance sample collection update (mars.nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (twitter.com/NASAPersevere)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: Virgin Galactic grounded (twitter.com/nickschmidle) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (spacenews.com)
This week in SF history
— 8 Sept, 2004. Sample return and crash of the Genesis capsule (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (PDF: nasa.gov) (esa.int) (springer.com)
— Next week (9/14 - 9/20) in 2013: Virginia is for lovers of space