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 365: 3.4 Leak Units
Spaceflight News
— SLS WDR FIFI (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)
— SRB Hydraulic Power Unit hot fire test was completed successfully (PDF p107: klabs.org) (twitter.com/cbs_spacenews)
Short & Sweet
— Psyche launch delayed to 2023 (spacenews.com)
— Atoms for Space (space.com)
— Starlink interference from 5G (engadget.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Bill Baobab via email: Occultation techniques
— 90 Antiope was “richly” imaged using a multiple observer technique (PDF HT Bill: hal.archives-ouvertes.fr VIA hal.archives-ouvertes.fr)
— Lucy targets - occultation maps (swri.edu)
— 2022-03-27 Polymele occultation (swri.edu)
— From the intro: Cygnus reboosts (blogs.nasa.gov)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 28 June, 1979. Progress 7 brings first deployable telescope, KRT-10, to Salyut 6 (stackexchange.com) (ru.wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com) (spacefacts.de)
— Next week (7/5 - 7/11) in 1966: If a rocket explodes, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?