Spaceflight News

— The Riskiest Period of ISS’ Existence (spacenews.com)

— Enginefest

— Latitude (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Pangea Aerospace (europeanspaceflight.com)

— Venus Aerospace (prnewswire.com)

Short & Sweet

— Building destroyed in explosion at Northrop Grumman test site (space.com)

— Seat barter agreement extended through 2027 (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Unc’ Willy: “First flight” is a better term (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— April 24, 1970: Launch of Dong Fang Hong (astronautix.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (4/29 - 5/5) in 1979: Heading out for a three-month stay

Spaceflight News

— Confirming Isaacman (spacenews.com) (law.cornell.edu) (aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org)

— One of the Lunar Terrain Vehicles unveiled (lunaroutpost.com)

Short & Sweet

— New addition to DSN (space.com)

— DOD hires Astroscale (satellitetoday.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Jonathan McDowell retiring (archive.ph)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Apr, 2001. Maiden flight of GSLV Mk. I (a.k.a GSLV-D1) (isro.gov.in) (astronautix.com) (PDF: sci-hub.se)  (planet4589.org)

— Next week (4/22 - 4/28) in 1970: Is the national anthem really 20 days long?

Spaceflight News

— Two more PAMs (spacenews.com) (sam.gov)

Short & Sweet

— Fram2 launches and lands (arstechnica.com) (space.com)

— SpinLaunch turns to broadband (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Starliner shakeup (spaceflightnow.com)

— From Espen Urkedal: FTS vs VTS

This Week in Spaceflight History

— April 10, 1979: Launch (and early return) of Soyuz 33 (en.wikipedia.org) (blazingbulgaria.wordpress)

— Next week (4/15 - 4/21) in 2001: Stumbling 58 minutes short of the finish orbit

Spaceflight News

— Security Space (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)

Interview -- Joseph Marlin, Deputy Chief Engineer, Blue Ghost Lunar Program

— linkedin.com/in/josephmarlin

— fireflyspace.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Apr 4, 1983. Launch of STS-6 (americaspace.com)

— Next week (4/8 - 4/14) in 1979: Stumbling a mile before the finish line

Spaceflight News

— Still sticking with Starliner (spacenews.com) (aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starlab starts new phase (space.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— Blaise via email: SRTM gravity gradients

This Week in Spaceflight History

— March 31, 1972: Launch of Kosmos 482 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacereview.com) (leonarddavid.com)

— Next week (4/1 - 4/7) in 1983: Orbital structural test article

Spaceflight News

— China’s Mars Sample Return open to International Cooperation (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Several Russian sats on the move (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (defence-blog.com)

— X-37B lands after record-breaking mission (arstechnica.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: leaked starship photos: (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com) (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 18 Mar, 1980. Plesetsk launch pad disaster (plesetzk.ru) (russianspaceweb.com) (bbc.co.uk) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Tangent on GRAU indices (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week (3/25 - 3/31) in 1972: Much closer, much easier, but 53 years late

Spaceflight News

— IM-2 lunar landing (intuitivemachines.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (intuitivemachines.com) (youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

— Voyager turns off further instruments (space.com)

— A Falcon 9 loses a leg (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: ISS too clean (newsbreak.com) (cell.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 15 Mar, 1976. Launch of Lincoln Experimental Satellite 8 and 9 (LES-8 and -9) (skyrocket.de) (wikipedia.org) (ll.mit.edu)

— Next week (3/18 - 3/24) in 1980: Wait nine years until “openness”

Spaceflight News

— Starship TF7 bounced to pieces (Paywall: aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Two payloads on IM-2 launch suffering problems on-orbit (spacenews.com)

— Space capsule lands in Australia while first rocket readies to launch (spacenews.com) (abc.net.au)

— Xona received contract to develop GPS alternative (insidegnss.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Blue Ghost lunar landing? (Spoiler: it did!) (space.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Feb 26, 1960: Failed launch of MiDAS 1 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nro.gov) (PDF: nro.gov)

— Next week (3/11 - 3/17) in 1976: Two score and nine years ago

Spaceflight News

— Stoke Space reveals Andromeda 2 (stokespace.com)

Short & Sweet

— Long March 8A completes first flight (spacenews.com)

— Germany provides funds for new launch facility (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Blue Origin Layoffs (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 24 Feb, 1996. Launch of POLAR satellite (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (eyes.nasa.gov) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Next week (2/25 - 3/3) in 1960: The copper touch

Spaceflight News

— The most amazing little rocket that will have ever built (spacenews.com) (aas.org) (aas.org) (aas.org) (PDF: hou.usra.edu)

Short & Sweet

— Starbase Update (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Thales Alenia to build an airlock (europeanspaceflight.com)

Vast reschedules Haven-1 (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: ThrustMe pushes into US market (spacenews.com) (thrustme.fr)

— Unc’ Willy: Frustums, and NGLR (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 11 Feb, 2000: Shuttle Radar Topography Mission launched on STS-99 (en.wikipedia.org) (airandspace.si.edu VIA web.archive.org) (PDF: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

— Next week (2/18 - 2/24) in 1996: Goes where it says on the tin.