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 379: Ramming Speed!
Spaceflight News
— DART (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/nasa) (twitter.com/LICIACube) (twitter.com/SenBillNelson) (researchgate.net)
— Transformational Solar Array experiment (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)
Short & Sweet
— Testing begins for first ViaSat-3 (spacenews.com)
— Hubble may get a roboost (spacenews.com)
— Firefly reaches orbit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— Oct 6, 1990. Launch of Ulysses spacecraft (esa.int) (PDF: adsabs.harvard.edu) (en.wikipedia.org)
— The Nutation Damper System was well described in a paper (nasa.gov)
— Next week (10/11 - 10/17) in 1968: Phoenix Rising