Spaceflight news

— Cause of ULA’s recent hot-fire abort has been identified. (americaspace.com) (twitter.com/torybruno)

— A “routine, ongoing trade study” has resulted in the possibility of a three-core Vulcan Super Heavy (twitter.com/torybruno)

— Astra’s Rocket 3.1 flight terminated during its first stage. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Astra)

Short & Sweet

— Juno eyes extended mission goals. (spacenews.com)

— Boeing to be investigated by independent ethics probe. (foxbusiness.com)

— NASA offers to buy commercially-obtained lunar samples. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/mastenspace)

— China’s mystery spacecraft returns to Earth. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek)

— Northrop Grumman cancels OmegA. (spacenews.com)

Interview--Baratunde Cola, Founder and CEO of Carbice Corporation

— A SBIR award was instrumental to getting the company up on their feet. (sbir.gov)

— Thermal camera footage of Carbice Carbon (youtube.com)

— Promo video (youtube.com)

— Carbice.com

Socials

— linkedin.com

— instagram.com/carbicemagic

— twitter.com/baratundecola

— twitter.com/carbice

This week in SF history

— 15 Sept, 1908. Birth of Abe Silverstein (en.wikipedia.org)

— Improved Wright R-3350 engine cooling by inserting baffles (PDF: apps.dtic.mil)

— Next week in 1999: What’s that in Pirate-Ninjas?