Spaceflight News
— Rocket Lab updates (satellitetoday.com)
— There was a presentation for investors September 21 (youtube.com) (PDF: rocketlabusa.com)
— The Archimedes Test Complex will be built at Stennis (businesswire.com)
— JWST instrument suffers anomaly (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— USSF to leave GEO (aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)
— Superheavy fires seven engines (cnet.com)
— Spinlaunch raises $71M (spacenews.com)
— ESA seeks money to stay in space race (thespacereview.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Descent module from Soyuz T-10a reused in T-15 (youtube.com VIA twitter.com/gopalsapparapu)
— See also Ep 300: DOWNLINK--Nikolas Trawny, Ph.D. (theorbitalmechanics.com)
— How did N2 get into the turbopump?
This Week in Spaceflight History
— September 29, 2011: Launch of Tiangong-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: english.cssar.cas.cn) (spaceflightnow.com) (spaceflight101.com)
— X37-B was possibly tasked to observe the station on orbit (bbc.com)
— Docking hardware was purchased from Russia (russianspaceweb.com)
— Next week (10/4 - 10/10) in 1990. It’s already a long enough trip without adding four years.