Spaceflight News— Lunar buggy selection (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov VIA sam.gov) (twitter.com/DubnHG1) (nikkei.com)Short & Sweet— Dragonfly mission officially confirmed (nasa.gov)— Mars Sample Revamp (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflig

Episode 455: Cabbage Ditch

9 days ago 29m 6s

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

Episode 454: Expendable Launchpad

16 days ago 47m 39s

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 Hist

Episode 453: Bleached?

23 days ago

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 tim

Episode 452: Sticky PEZ

1 month ago 40m 39s

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, Comme

Episode 451: DOWNLINK--Prof. Dante Lauretta

Mar 20th, 2024 47m 6s

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 Ce

Episode 450: Propane Rocket Accessories

Mar 13th, 2024 50m 34s

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.co

Episode 449: All Jacked Up

Mar 6th, 2024 34m 45s

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 (you

Episode 448: Remove Before Flight

Feb 28th, 2024 1h 1m

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) (sp

Episode 447: Meta Moon

Feb 21st, 2024 51m 18s

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

Episode 446: No Dana Only Zoozve

Feb 14th, 2024 54m 54s

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)Questi

Episode 445: E-CLPS

Feb 7th, 2024 41m 34s

Spaceflight News— CLPS’ second try (spacenews.com)— Collins completes Crew Capability Assessment (prnewswire.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Queqiao-2 readies for launch (cgtn.com)— First metal 3D printer in space reaches

Episode 444: The Little Helo That Could

Jan 31st, 2024

Spaceflight News— Ingenuity Down (HT deltaV: twitter.com/AndySaunders_1) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov)— Slim Upside-Down (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)(global.jaxa.jp)Short & Sweet— Redwire to provide elements of Blue Origin’s space tug (spa

Episode 443: SLIM Chances

Jan 24th, 2024 42m 12s

Spaceflight News— SLIM landing attempt (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (PDF: global.jaxa.jp)Short & Sweet— EUS heads to qualification (nasaspaceflight.com)— Ingenuity contact lost during fl

Episode 442: Lunar Otamatone

Jan 17th, 2024 44m 25s

Spaceflight News— Peregrine Failure (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/astrobotic)Short & Sweet— Lay-offs at JPL (spacenews)— Starship’s second flight failure explained (spacene

Episode 441: Future Tech Christmas

Jan 10th, 2024 1h 33m

Spaceflight News— NIAC 2024 Phase One (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— India launches X-ray space observatory (spaceflightnow.com)— Space station stories (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 12 January, 1997: Laun

Episode 440: 99 Landings and a Tough Ride

Jan 3rd, 2024 46m 54s

Spaceflight News— B1058 lost at sea (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/johnkrausphotos) (youtube.com) (ventusky.com) (twitter.com/edwards345) (spaceexplored.com)— Firefly malfunction (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— China completes launch pad at fi

Episode 439: A Period of Time

Dec 20th, 2023 39m 58s

Spaceflight News— China launches spaceplane for third time (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (youtube.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— Refractory Starship (nasaspaceflight.com)— iSpace hops again (spacenews.com)— Voyager 1 suffers commu

Episode 438: Serbatoi Mancanti

Dec 13th, 2023 50m 16s

Spaceflight News— Vega propellant tank mishap (arstechnica.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (eoportal.org) (PDF: arianespace.com) — AVUM 4th stage (“upper stage”) (Pic: eoportal.org)— Transporter-9 satellite deployment malfunction (spacenews.

Episode 437: Shtuff

Dec 6th, 2023 42m 45s

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)— Gyrosco

Episode 436: Boldly Going Nowhere

Nov 29th, 2023 58m 2s

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

Episode 435: Purple Flame

Nov 22nd, 2023 52m 9s

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 (twitt

Episode 434: DOWNLINK--Benchmark

Nov 15th, 2023 1h 36m

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

Episode 433: Dinkinesh and Dinkynesh

Nov 8th, 2023 58m 23s

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 f

Episode 432: DOWNLINK--Orbit Fab

Nov 1st, 2023 1h 28m

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: