Spaceflight news

— Hubble back online (PDF: asd.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF: ses.gsfc.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (nasa.gov) (sciencemag.org)

Short & Sweet

— Astranis produces new batch of very small GEO satellites (spacenews.com)

— Funding secured for Beresheet 2 mission (ap.org)

— Raptor engine development ramping up (spaceflightinsider.com)

— ESA announces new kick stage for Ariane 6 rocket (esa.int)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Andrew Z via email: China commercial space infographic (twitter.com/rhZhao)

This week in SF history

— 22 Jul, 1962. Failed launch of Mariner 1 due to software typo (wiki) (vice.com)

— Next week (7/27 - 8/2) in 1985. Spain’s beautiful this time of year, but we ain’t going there today.