Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.
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Episode 325: Wandering Fragment
Spaceflight news
— NASA and the Giant Budget Reconciliation (spacenews.com)
— Starlink antennas again (spacenews.com)
— Thanks to Ben Hallert for the TCM! (twitter.com/chairboy)
— Chang’e 5 returned to the Moon (spacenews.com)
— Trajectory animation (twitter.com/coastal8049)
— Possible TCM Sunday 9/12, or maybe not (https://twitter.com/coastal8049)
Short & Sweet
— DOD wants to go nuclear (spacenews.com) (diu.mil)
— James Webb Space Telescope launch pushed to December (space.com) (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)
— Smoke detected in Zvezda module (reuters.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Anonymous source: Different ranges have different fts requirements. Federal ranges have fts handled by the space wing. Commercial range - kodiak - uses white sands missile range on contract as flight safety
— Asif Sadiqi’s book “Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration 1958-2016” is free for download! (twitter.com/historyasif)
This week in SF history
— 18 Sept, 2013. Cygnus Demo mission launches (nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org)
— Orbital Sciences (now NG) won their CRS contract in 2008. (spaceflight101.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)
— Next week (9/21 - 9/27) in 2011: You ares on fire!