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Episode 358: DOWNLINK--Awais Ahmed, PIXXEL
Spaceflight News
— Rocket Lab Helicopter Catch (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
— CAPSTONE’s up next (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Astroscale performs close approach (spacenews.com)
— Phantom Space makes big engine purchase (techcrunch.com)
— Russian rocket motor breaks apart on-orbit (space.com)
— Astra preparing for Canaveral launches (spacenews.com) (astra.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: Lockheed Martin’s MAP docking port model (cad.onshape.com)
Interview – Awais Ahmed, CEO and Co-Founder, PIXXEL
— Shakuntala/TD-2 was one of the three demos, and it flew on Transporter-4 (pixxel.space)
— The AVIRIS program also collects hyperspectral data, but from a much lower altitude (aviris.jpl.nasa.gov) (avirisng.jpl.nasa.gov)
— Read more and get in contact:
— pixxel.space
— twitter.com/awaisahmedna
— twitter.com/PixxelSpace
— in.linkedin.com/in/awaisahmedna
— linkedin.com/company/pixxelspace
— contact@pixxel.space
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 13 May, 1992: Intelsat VI captured by the STS-49 crew (nasa.gov) (youtube.com)
— The plan for capture and kickstage attachment (orbiter-forum.net) (capcomspace.net)
— Next week (5/17 - 5/23) in 1961: If a spacecraft falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it…