Spaceflight news

— Megaconstellations in the news

— Viasat asking for halt to building out Starlink (spacenews.com)

— Chinese Guowang constellation (spacenews.com)

— SATCON2 is coming up on July 12-16 (aas.org)

— New Frontiers 5 will be delayed (spacenews.com) (wiki)

Short & Sweet

— Mars helicopter lands safely despite computer glitch (space.com)

— Multiple new Lunar Rovers planned for coming years (space.com) (techcrunch.com) (spacenews.com)

— Tianzhou-2 docks with Chinese space station (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Etienne via email: book recommendation on corrosion (thriftbooks.com)

— Kickstarter for a book on Katherine Johnson (kickstarter.com)

— From the intro:

— ISS debris strike (cnet.com)

— On-orbit conjunction live data stream (astriacss.tacc.utexas.edu)

This week in SF history

— 4 Jun, 2012. NASA announces NRO’s donation of two Hubble-class space telescopes to the agency (wiki) (spaceflightnow.com) (PDF: science.nasa.gov)

— WFIRST DRM1 and 2 (PDF: roman.gsfc.nasa.gov) (roman.gsfc.nasa.gov)

— WFIRST-AFTA (PDF: roman.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF: iopscience.iop.org)

— SALSO produced multiple proposals for the second satellite via an RFI (exoplanets.nasa.gov) (thespacereview.com)

— Next week (6/8 - 6-14) in 1969. Shut it down. (But keep some of the camera parts.)