Science:Natural Sciences
Spaceflight news
— Long March 5B set for uncontrolled re-entry (spacenews.com)
— The module raised and is maintaining orbit (HT Colin: heavens-above.com)
— The booster is slowly deorbiting (HT Mike: heavens-above.com)
— Amateur video shows the booster in a 2.4 hz tumble (twitter.com/dfuji1)
— BIG Ingenuity Update!
— Flight 3 was a success (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
— Flight 4 was a delayed success (space.com) (spacenews.com)
— Ingenuity’s mission was extended (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Virgin Orbit to launch out of Brazil (smallsatnews.com)
— Blue Origin and Dynetics protest HLS award (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
— Nelson confirmed as NASA Administrator (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Ben Hallert: ACES details (twitter.com/chairboy)
— ACES had on-orbit refueling (arstechnica.com)
— Centaur V has a hydrolox RCS… Peroxide was a typo! (twitter.com/torybruno)
This week in SF history
— 5 May, 1999: The failed second flight of Delta III (spacelaunchreport.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (astronautix.com)
— Investigation concluded the combustion chamber was breached (spaceflightnow.com) (PDF HT Mike: orbireport.com)
— Next week (5/11 - 5/17) in 1963: *balloon squeak*
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