Episode 349: Shrapnarelli
Ukrainians keep resisting, and sanctions on Russia continue to sanction. Also, tainted rocket fuel, Iranian launch failure, and more Commercial Crew.
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— More Russian fallout
— Russia threatens OneWeb launch (spaceflightnow.com)
— OneWeb looking to non-Russian rockets (spacenews.com)
— eROSITA turned off on Russian Spektr-RG (space.com)
— ExoMars likely to be delayed (spacenews.com)
— South Korea worried about Russian launches (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Anahuac pleads guilty to selling tainted rocket fuel (justice.gov)
— Iranian launch failure (apnews.com)
— Post-recording, Iran successfully launched their second orbital payload. (reuters.com)
— SpaceX awarded 3 more commercial crew missions (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Andrew Z via email: More sanctions considerations
— MMC in the chat: loss of ISS would free up money for the Moon.
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 13 March, 1985, Launch of Geosat (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: jhuapl.edu) (earth.esa.in)
— Next week (3/15 - 3/21) in 2003. Bringing fire to icy worlds.