Spaceflight news

— Renewable Space Updates (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— ACES scrapped, but lives on in Centaur V (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/torybruno)

— Centaur III features the optional Aft Bulkhead Carrier (PDF: ulalaunch.com)

Short & Sweet

— MOXIE operates for the first time on Mars (space.com)

— Ingenuity flight 2 (mars.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (HT Colin in the chat: youtube.com)

— OneWeb and Starlink cross paths (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— 1 May, 1999. Failure of the ABRIXAS X-ray telescope (adsabs.harvard.edu) (nature.com) (skyrocket.de) (sci-hub.se)

— Next week (5/4 - 5/10) in 1999: In hindsight it didn’t seem like it would work.