Episode 300: Nikolas Trawny, Ph. D.

Spaceflight news

— Rocket Lab reveals Neutron, goes public (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (rocketlabusa.com)

Short & Sweet

— Starship burned down, fell over, and only then sank into the swamp (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

— SpaceX wins a contract (spacenews.com)

— Price changes announced for ISS and lunar mission (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— Perseverance update (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Ryan via email: Cut cables on Perseverance

— Ben Hallert: inclinometer vs gyro (twitter.com/chairboy)

— From the intro: Smarter Every Day looks at Mighty Eagle (youtube.com)

Interview: Nikolas Trawny, Ph.D., JPL GNC section

— ADAPT flight test (jpl.nasa.gov) (arc.aiaa.org) (nasa.gov)

— Mars 2020 LVS and TRN (science.nasa.gov)

— Dr. Trawny’s LinkedIn (linkedin.com)

This week in SF history

— 15 March, 1986: Soyuz T-15 docks with Mir, ahead of the first (and only) station-to-station equipment transfer. (spacefacts.de) (spacefacts.de)

— Soyuz-T still had an Igla approach system, not Kurs (svengrahn.pp.se)

— Next week (3/16 - 3/22) in 2007, This list goes up to eleven, or at least it should.