Episode 323: Per Latus Ad Astra

Spaceflight news

— Rocket3.3 Exits Stage Right (astra.com) (space.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)

— Follows an abort on Friday called by the guidance system near T-0 (space.com)

— Jonathan McDowell guessed a “fatal problem” in the air (twitter.com/planet4589)

Short & Sweet

— 7GB of paperwork for HLS (twitter.com/joroulette) (spacenews.com) (businessinsider.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starlinks get lasers (spacenews.com)

— First test of Astroscale satellite capture technology (​​spacenews.com) (astroscale.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: A Shortfall of Gravitas struts its stuff (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)

This week in SF history

— 4 Sep 1968: Von Braun tests a suit in the NBS (facebook.com/SpaceWalkOfFame) (twitter.com/nasahistory) (books.google.com)

— Further reading: a collection of Von Braun’s daily notes (collectspace.com)

— Next week (9/7 - 9/13) in 2004: The end of the beginning and the beginning of the salvaging.