Episode 471: Rubber Baby Whipple Bumper

Spaceflight News

-- ADRAS-J rendezvous (HT Zach: twitter.com/CRD2_JAXA) (astroscale.com) (PDF: astroscale.com VIA astroscale.com)

Short & Sweet

-- POLARIS spaceplane startup back on track (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- Dawn does docking (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: JWST looks at Epsilon Indi A (nasaspaceflight.com)

-- Ryan R: TEA-TEB is a pre-mixed fluid (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 10 Aug, 1992. Launch of the first major oceanographic research satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon (en.wikipedia.org) (jpl.nasa.gov) (eoportal.org) (aviso.altimetry.fr)

-- T/P data is used in this sea level rise dashboard (climate.nasa.gov)

-- Next week (8/13 - 8/19) in 1969: This agency is ro-bust