Spaceflight News

Vulcan Centaur delays (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

Short & Sweet           

— China begins constructing VLEO constellation (spacewatch.global)

— LandSpace wins the race (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Janus canceled (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— An NSF tour of Astra’s rocket factory (youtube.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Jul, 2011. Launch of Spektr-R radio telescope (russianspaceweb.com) (wiki)

— Zenit-3M/Fregat-SB (SB - “сбрасываемые баки” or “drop tanks”) (space.skyrocket.de)

Next week (7/25 - 7/31) in 2014: He was born in Belgium, and then again in Italy.