Spaceflight News

— Voyager is communicative! (blogs.nasa.gov)

— ESA debris removal mission finds a new target (satellitetoday.com)

Short & Sweet

— China releases a lunar landing update (spacenews)

— TESS enters safe mode… again (nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Dennis O: SOFIA clarifications (discord.com) (youtube.com)

— VAXheadroom shot SOFIA some footage in 2012 (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

Interview -- Jeff Williams, CEO/CTO Exum Instruments

— Jeff co-authored a paper that is a good primer on spectroscopy and Massbox (spectroscopyonline.com)

— exuminstruments.com 

— linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-williams-372118128  

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 9 Apr, 1999: Titan IVB (402) takes DSP-19 (USA 142) to GEO (astronautix.com) (klabs.org)

— 30 Apr, 1999. Titan IVB (401) takes Milstar-3 (USA 143) to GEO (washingtonpost.com) (PDF: direct.mit.edu VIA direct.mit.edu)

— Next week (5/7 - 5/13) in 1963: Not a good day for trypanophobics