Spaceflight News — Starship Shtuff (payloadspace.com) (americaspace.com) (twitter.com/ThePrimalDino) Short & Sweet — JAXA cyber attacked (payloadspace.com) — U.S. watchdog agency finds Artemis III in 2025 unlikely (gao.gov) (spacenews.com) — Gyroscope glitch halts Hubble operations (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History —  Dec 7, 1966: Launch of ATS-1, the first experimental geostationary satellite (en.wikipedia.org) (youtu.be) (science.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org) — Next week (12/12 - 12/18) in 2012: Digging up debris ..read more

Spaceflight News — Starliner Crewed Flight Test stays on schedule (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — Looking Towards the End of ISS (planetary.org) (spacenews.com) — Orion still on track (spacenews.com) — Ariane 6 hot firing test (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Danielle Rose has some neat space art (drose.studio) (spacey.space) — Jared Owen covers ISS construction (HT Lee youtu.be VIA discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 3 Dec, 2015. Launch of LISA Pathfinder (esa.int) (youtu.be) (nasa.gov) (spaceflight101.com) (PD ..read more

Spaceflight News — Starship Flight 2 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (twitter.com/thejackbeyer) (twitter.com/planet4589) — Posted after recording: a quick analysis of Starships acceleration curves (twitter.com/Space_Josiah) Short & Sweet — SaxaVord struggles to pay contractors (europeanspaceflight.com) — Sierra Space layoffs (cnbc.com) — Mars Helicopter completes back-to-back flights (twitter.com/nasajpl) This Week in Spaceflight History — 27 Nov, 1963: Launch of the first hydrolox rocket to orbit (en.wikipedia.org) (spacelaunchreport.com VIA web.arch ..read more

Spaceflight News — Rocket Lab Failure Analysis (spacenews.com) (space.com) (rocketlabusa.com) (PDF: q4cdn.com VIA en.wikipedia.org) Short & Sweet — Astra’s financial future (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — X-37B readies for first launch on Falcon Heavy (spaceflightnow.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Dinkinesh adds a moon (planetary.org) Interview -- Jake Teufert CTO and Chris Carella CCO, Benchmark Space Systems — We last talked to Chris Carella in episode 373 (theorbitalmechanics.com) — benchmarkspacesystems.com — linkedin.com/company/benchmark-space-systems  ..read more

Spaceflight News — Lucy flies past Dinkinesh and also Dinkinesh (nasa.gov) (lucy.swri.edu) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov VIA ntrs.nasa.gov) — Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied Lucy’s thrusters (l3harris.com) (PDF: amazonaws.com) Short & Sweet — Starship aims for mid-November launch (nasaspaceflight.com) — i-Space hops (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 12 Nov, 1995. Launch of STS-74, second Shuttle-Mir docking (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (PDF: spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com) (youtu.be) (nss.org) (wikiarchives.space) — Next week (11/14 - 11/20) in 1988: The cold wind blew but once ..read more

Spaceflight News — ABL Dusts Itself Off (spacenews.com) (harryohanley.substack.com) Short & Sweet — NASA struggles to open asteroid sample container (space.com) — Rocket Lab to return (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Blue Origin’s latest Blue Moon mockup (spacenews.com) — Canopée to ferry Ariane 6 (fosstodon.org/@AkaSci) — You can register to send your name with Europa Clipper (europa.nasa.gov) — Mike Stewart’s core rope memory reader (finally) debuted on CuriousMarc’s channel (youtube.com) — Aaron Sawdey: Crew Dragon engine inventory  (discord.com ..read more

Spaceflight News — Gaganyaan in-flight abort test (youtube.com) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (HT: Jatan’s Space PDF: gov.in) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) — Pad abort test (https://www.youtube.com) — Future human Indian Space ambitions (gov.in) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — PLD Test Launch (spacenews.com) — Two Vega payloads fail to deploy (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Shuttle astronaut mass allotments (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — October 28, 2009: Launch of the Ares I-X (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: ntrs.nasa ..read more

Spaceflight News — Psyche launch and mission preview (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (scitechdaily.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (microdevices.jpl.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — Spacewalk canceled due to Nauka leak (space.com) — QueSST to fly in 2024 (nasa.gov) This Week in Spaceflight History — 21 Oct, 2007. Soyuz TMA-10’s ballistic reentry (ruspace.blogspot.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (PDF: sma.nasa.gov) — Next week (10/24 - 10/30) in 2009: Nominal tumble ..read more

Spaceflight News — Tiangong’s expansion (hindustantimes.com) (cnn.com) — Northrop Grumman joins Starlab team (nasa.gov) — Orbital Reef may be abandoned (cnbc.com) Short & Sweet — Luna-25 failure “analysis” (spacenews.com) — Stoke Space gets more funding (spacenews) Interview -- Ben Reed, CTO Quantum Space — quantumspace.us  — linkedin.com/company/quantumspace-us/  — linkedin.com/in/ben-b-reed/  This Week in Spaceflight History — 11 Oct, 2000: STS-92, the100th shuttle mission (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov) (nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org) — Next week (10/17 - 10 ..read more

Spaceflight News — Electron suffers upper stage failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Stoke Space hops (spacenews.com) — Sierra Space does a burst test (spacenews) — China plans for lunar sample return (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — A big thanks to Unc’willy, Fonji, Chris S in particular for helping Ben track down and fix an issue with our Discord bot This Week in Spaceflight History —  29 September, 2004: Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne (en.wikipedia.org) (sma.nasa.gov) (erikmadaus.medium.com) (airbum.com) — Next week (10/10 - 10/16) i ..read more