Spaceflight news

— NASA selects four small-scale missions to further develop (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

— Pioneers program (science.nasa.gov)

— Aspera (news.arizona.edu)

— Pandora (twitter.com/elsisrad)

— StarBurst (twitter.com/Dr_ThomasZ)

— PUEO - Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PDF: arxiv.org)

Short & Sweet

— Dynetics submits details for its HLS bid. (executivebiz.com)

— NASA extends Juno and InSight (nasa.gov)

— DARPA satellites damaged (HT Mike Stewart: spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 17th January, 1997: Loss of GPS-IIR-1 on Delta II (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

— Richard Gariott’s interview on Off-Nom (HT Ben Hallert: youtube.com)

— Next week (1/19 through 1/25) in 1967: simulated launch, not-so-simulated conflagration