Spaceflight News

— Spinlaunch (space.com) (HT McMally: businesswire.com)

— SLS wet rehearsal modification (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— April 2nd, lightning strikes (nasa.gov)

— April 3rd, fan failures (nasa.gov)

— April 4th, vent and check valves (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— DARPA funds in-space manufacturing development (spacedaily.com)

— Spaceport Camden: Back from the grave? (news4jax.com)

— Warpspace comes to the U.S. (spacenews.com)

— Astroscale preparing to restart demonstration (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro

— Sentinel on Vega-C (spacenews.com)

— Axiom’s arrival (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 12 Apr, 1985: the launch of STS-51-D with LEASAT-3 onboard (en.wikipedia.org) (hughesscgheritage.com)

— Further reading: Bold They Rise, The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986, by David Hitt and Heather R. Smith (nebraskapress.unl.edu)

— The successful deployment of LEASAT-4 (youtu.be)

— Ox grabbing LEASAT-3 (same video, different timecode) (youtu.be)

— Spinning LEASAT-3 before departure (same video) (youtu.be)

— Next week (4/19 - 4/25) in 2013: it’s not just a steak sauce.