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Episode 232: Full Panic Ensued
This week in SF historyOctober 17, 1956: Birth of Mae Jemison (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight newsBattery replacement EVAs (americaspace.com)Commercial crew update (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)Eric Berger says "full panic has ensued" (twitter.com/SciGuySpa
Episode 231: Fewer gyros, more problems
DSCOVR's safehold seems to be connected to a gryo, but there's a fix coming down the line.
Episode 230: Starship InSight
Starship, headed to Mars one day, got shown off to the public. Insight, already on Mars, learned some interesting things about the magnetosphere.
Episode 229: Somewhat Rectilinear
NASA wants to put a cubesat in a near-rectilinear halo orbit. Also, lots of updates on private space launch facilities.
Episode 228: Fired up
H-IIB had a literal fire lit under its butt, and more info about Bigelow's expandable space stations.
Episode 227: Successful Orbiter
Chandrayaan-2's lander made it to the surface a little sooner than planned. Also, more Hayabusa2 news and WFIRST inches towards reality.
Episode 226: Duricrust
Insight is slowly getting closer to a successful mole deployment, and Starhopper showed off its stuff!
Episode 225: DATA RELAY--Hot Structures
Why have a structure with a heat shield on top, when you could just make a structure that does both jobs?
Episode 224: Downward Vector
Linkspace successfully hovers, Exomars struggles with parachutes, and Vector Launch closes its doors.
Episode 223: DOWNLINK--Ella Atkins
Ella Atkins is an aerospace engineering professor who has a rich history studying and designing automated systems in space and in the air.