Episode 420: Tipping Point
NASA issued its latest Tipping Point awards to 11 companies with promising technologies. Also, HALO, Sierra Space, and Voyager 2.
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— 2023 Tipping Point selections (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (PDF: nasaprs.com)
— Blue Origin’s Blue Alchemist separates regolith into several important base materials (blueorigin.com)
— We talked to Kyla Edison about sintering regolith (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Short & Sweet
— HALO’s added cost (spacenews.com)
— Sierra Space builds a better engine (spacenews.com)
— Contact with Voyager 2 lost, thought to be temporary (arstechnica.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 5 Aug, 2011. Launch of Juno (en.wikipedia.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu)
— Next week (8/8 - 8/14) in 1962: The Gemini before Gemini