Spaceflight News

— HAKUTO-R failure analysis (HT deltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (ispace-inc.com) (spacenews.com)

— Apollo software modeled terrain to avoid this exact issue (PDF HT Mike: ibiblio.org)

Short & Sweet

— Virgin Orbit assets sold off (spacenews.com)

— ESA folds out a new heat shield (HT Andrew Z: esa.int) (newatlas.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 1 Jun, 1970: Launch of Soyuz 9 (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (chessgames.com) (astronautix.com)

— Next week (6/6 - 6/12) in 2007: Chonky boi