Spaceflight News

— ABL failure analysis (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)

Short & Sweet

— NASA scales back ISS scientist program (spacenews.com)

— JUICE is ready for Jupiter (spacenews.com)

— Lucy’s Loose Limb (spacenews.com) (HT Brown Pau: blogs.nasa.gov)

— ClearSpace raises funds for its first mission (spacenews)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Vulcan delivered to the Cape (twitter.com/SpaceFlorida)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Jan 24, 1985: Launch of STS-51-C (en.wikipedia.org) (satelliteobservation.net)

— Next week (1/31 - 2/6) in 1971: I re-read the specs, let’s give it another shot.