Spaceflight News

— JWST cryocooler

— Alternative tube configurations include U-bend and coaxial (PDF p7: trc.nist.gov)

— Testing shows the cryocooler is TWICE as efficient as required! (nasa.gov)

— JWST’s radiators are coated with BIRB (PDF: indico.cern.ch)

Short & Sweet

— Curiosity’s wheels take a lickin’ but keep on tickin’ (cnet.com)

— InSight weathers a dust storm (spacenews.com) (reddit.com/r/InSightLander)

— Astra receives first Part 450 (twitter.com/Astra) (spacepolicyonline.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Uncle_Willy via Discord: four reasons why running Oxy-rich is bad

— BreakingTaps on YT made a JWST Hexapod Actuator model!!! More on this next week. (youtube.com)

Interview – Tupper Hyde, Chief Engineer at NASA's Goddard Center

— twitter.com/TupperHyde

— linkedin.com/in/tupperhyde

— nasa.gov/goddard

— etd.gsfc.nasa.gov

— Also discussed: the next generation of space telescopes is LUVOIR (en.wikipedia.org)

This week in Spaceflight history

—  February 10th 2009, The collision of Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (PDF: castor2.ca) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikibooks.org)

— Next week (2/15-2/21) in 2007: BC? More like BSee-you later!