Spaceflight News — Last Delta IV heavy (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ulalaunch.com) (arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet — Relativity Space wins contract (spacenews) — Japan secures a moon landing (spacenews) — Max Space Modules (spacenews) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Csaba via Discord: SOIR means "evening" in French, pretty clever pun (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 19 Apr, 1975. Launch of Aryabhata satellite (lowyinstitute.org) (ursc.gov.in) (en.wikipedia.org) — Next week (4/23 - 4/29) in 2007: Looking at stars through a wall ..read more

Spaceflight News — Broken records and Starship’s near future (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — New Shepard Plans Crewed Flight (spacenews.com) — Lunar Rover Mk 2 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History —  April 11, 2006: Arrival of Venus Express at Venus (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int VIA sci.esa.int) — Next week (4/16 - 4/22) in 1975: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000 ..read more

Spaceflight News — Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com) — Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu) Short & Sweet — A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com) — A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 6 Apr, 1965: Launch of Intelsat I, the first commercial satellite in GEO (en.wikipedia.org) (boeing.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com VIA web.archive.org) — Next week (4/9 - 4/15) in 2006: The mission that went to hell ..read more

Spaceflight News — Starship IFT-3 (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Euclid spacecraft addresses ice-buildup on optics (asdnews.com) — Ariane 6 coming together (esa.int) — Soyuz aborts at the pad (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: launch escape slide (youtube.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 17 Mar, 2002. Launch of GRACE spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (esa.int) (skyrocket.de) (nasa.gov) — Next week (4/2 - 4/8) in 1965: Catching GEO worms ..read more

Interview — Professor Dante Lauretta — The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (hachettebookgroup.com) — facebook.com/AZAstrobiology — threads.net/@azastrobiology — instagram.com/azastrobiology — Thanks to Grand Central Publishing (twitter.com/GrandCentralPub) (instagram.com/grandcentralpub ..read more

Spaceflight News — Stoke Space focusing on first stage (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Tianhe’s solar arrays patched (space.com) — Stratolaunch tests Talon (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Starship Flight 3 on its way (spacenews.com) (space.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 16 Mar, 1966. Recovery of Veterok and Ugolyok, who to this day hold the record for longest canine spaceflight (Kosmos 110) (en.wikipedia.org) (ru.wikipedia.org) (veterok-ugolyok.gmik.ru) (astronaut.ru) — Next week (3/19 - 3/25) in 2017: Dry, wet, and lumpy ..read more

Spaceflight News — Last big IM-1 update (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) Short & Sweet — Orion has hatch problems (spacenews.com) — ISRO plans for Mars helicopter (indiatoday.in) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Varda landing footage (youtube.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 8 Mar, 2001. Launch of STS-102 (nss.org) (aiaa.org) — Next week (3/12 - 3/18) in 1966: A 154 day mission, but only for the passengers ..read more

Spaceflight News — IM-1 landing follow-up (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) Short & Sweet — ISRO completes human-rating of engine (isro.gov.in) — Software error responsible for Firefly’s off-nominal payload delivery (fireflyspace.com) (space.com) — Varda’s capsule returns (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Espen via email: IM-1’s fuel loading  This Week in Spaceflight History — 2 March 1965: Atlas Centaur AC-5 explosion (en.wikipedia.org) (science.nasa.gov) (ntrs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) — Next week (3/5 - 3/11) in 2001: The first ten-person spaceflight ..read more

Spaceflight News — IM-1 launch (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: intuitivemachines.com) Short & Sweet — H3 completes first successful launch (spacenews.com) — Voyager 1 still struggles to communicate (space.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — February 21 2008, Interception and destruction of USA-193 (thespacereview.com) (PDF: unoosa.org) (en.wikipedia.org) — Next week (2/27 - 3/4) in 1965: Technically, that was highly elliptical ..read more

Spaceflight News — Dream Chaser readies for first flight (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — Viasat-3 pushes forward (spacenews.com) — Lessons from Artemis 1 (spacenews.com) — X-37B’s orbit speculation (arstechnica.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — 2002 VE68 was officially named Zoozve! (alex-foster.com) (radiolab.org) (radiolab.org) This Week in Spaceflight History — 15 February, 1996: Failed launch of Intelsat 708 (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (thespacereview.com) (thespacereview.com) (smithsonianmag.com) (HT Dennis O: web.archive.org) — Next week (2/20 ..read more