Spaceflight News

— Rocket 3 is dead, long live Rocket 4 (astra.com) (spacenews.com) (astra.com)

Short & Sweet

— Russian Satellite might be Snooping In Orbit (space.com)

— Russia remains on Station (spacenews.com)

— Possible Secret Chinese spaceplane (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Real Engineering visited Spin Launch (HT Espen: youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Aug 14, 1959. Explorer 6 takes first image from Earth orbit (twitter.com/NASAhistory) (nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Next week (8/16 - 8/22) in 1993: Missing top