Spaceflight News

— Au revoir, Ariane 5 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (Payload User’s Guide PDF: arianespace.com)

— Two solids provide ~90% of Ariane 5’s thrust (esa.int)

— ESA plans to lean on SpaceX launches (spacenews.com)

— New test facility for Ariane 6 was built in 2019 (esa.int)

Short & Sweet

— Varda completes pharmaceutical manufacturing test on-orbit (arstechnica.com)

— Lockheed Martin completes burst test of expandable habitat (spaceref.com)

— Starlink interferes with radio astronomy (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 20 Jul, 2017: Sale of Apollo 11 bag for $1.8m (collectspace.com) (collectspace.com) (kansascity.com) (sothebys.com)

— Next week (7/18 - 7/24) in 2011. Radio parasol.