Episode 316: DOWNLINK--Bill Britton, CCI

Spaceflight news

— Northrop Grumman signs HALO contract (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)

— A docking adapter is planned for HLS (PDF: nasa.gov)

Short & Sweet

— SKA endangered by megaconstellations (spacenews.com)

— Chinese Spacewalk (spacenews.com)

— JWST One Step Closer (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Blue not-so-subtly sub-tweets VG (twitter.com/blueorigin)

Interview -- Bill Britton, Director of the California Cybersecurity Institute at Cal Poly, SLO

— cci.calpoly.edu

— linkedin.com/in/wbritton

This week in SF history

— 15 Jul, 2009: The launch of Kibo (希望) exposed facility on STS-127 (space.skyrocket.de) (en.wikipedia.org) (Archive of kibo.jaxa.jp: web.archive.org)

— Kibo used to feature the Inter-orbit Communication System (directory.eoportal.org) (iss.jaxa.jp)

— Next week (7/20 - 7/26) in 1962: Where do pirates go to drink? An arr-bar.