Spaceflight news

— NASA science mission delays (spacenews.com)

— JWST deployment tests are done! (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Blue Origin pursues space station development. (spacenews.com)

— Price tag for on-orbit publicity photos. (spacenews.com)

— ISS leak narrowed down to two modules. (businessinsider.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andrew Z: Bishop grapple fixture placement (youtube.com) (PDF: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)

— Andrew Z: HLS size comparison (twitter.com/brickmack)

Interview -- Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras, IEEE Fellow and Professor and David and Andrew Lewis Chair, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

— Dr. Tsiotras helped design the ASTROS (Autonomous Spacecraft Testing of Robotic Operations in Space) lab at Georgia Tech (dcsl.gatech.edu)

— Dr. Tsiotras is the director of the Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory at Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering (dcsl.gatech.edu)

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— IEEE Transmitter is a multimedia platform (transmitter.ieee.org)

This week in SF history

— 1 Oct, 2003. The formation of JAXA

— Hideo Itokawa, “Dr. Rocket” was instrumental in Japan’s early rocketry research (researchgate.net) (global.jaxa.jp)

— National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) (jaxa.jp)

— Next week in 2009: I would walk 1,496,225 kilometers/ and I would walk 1,496,225 more/ and I would walk 1496225 more/ just to be the satellite that walked 4,488,675 kilometers/ to fall down at your door.