Episode 325: Wandering Fragment
Senators, satellites, and spacecraft (oh my!) A potential NASA budget, a Starlink correction, nuclear sats, a JWST launch delay, and smoke in Zvezda.
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— NASA and the Giant Budget Reconciliation (spacenews.com)
— Starlink antennas again (spacenews.com)
— Thanks to Ben Hallert for the TCM! (twitter.com/chairboy)
— Chang’e 5 returned to the Moon (spacenews.com)
— Trajectory animation (twitter.com/coastal8049)
— Possible TCM Sunday 9/12, or maybe not (https://twitter.com/coastal8049)
Short & Sweet
— DOD wants to go nuclear (spacenews.com) (diu.mil)
— James Webb Space Telescope launch pushed to December (space.com) (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)
— Smoke detected in Zvezda module (reuters.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Anonymous source: Different ranges have different fts requirements. Federal ranges have fts handled by the space wing. Commercial range - kodiak - uses white sands missile range on contract as flight safety
— Asif Sadiqi’s book “Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration 1958-2016” is free for download! (twitter.com/historyasif)
This week in SF history
— 18 Sept, 2013. Cygnus Demo mission launches (nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org)
— Orbital Sciences (now NG) won their CRS contract in 2008. (spaceflight101.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)
— Next week (9/21 - 9/27) in 2011: You ares on fire!