Episode 374: Something Launches Soon

Spaceflight News

— Starship prep, Falcon repairs (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceexplored.com)

Short & Sweet

— Intelsat loses control of satellite (satellitetoday.com)

— Starship HLS demo will keep it simple (spacenews.com)

— Starliner CFT delay (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Sept 3, 2002: Discovery of Earth-orbiting asteroid J002E3 (en.wikipedia.org) (adsabs.harvard.edu) (spaceref.com) (PDF: ibiblio.org)

— Next week (9/6 - 9/12) in 1982: Second of three outcomes: shot before leaving Independence, successfully forded the river, died of dysentery.