Spaceflight News

— Rocket Lab Helicopter Catch (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)

— CAPSTONE’s up next (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

— Astroscale performs close approach (spacenews.com)

— Phantom Space makes big engine purchase (techcrunch.com)

— Russian rocket motor breaks apart on-orbit (space.com)

— Astra preparing for Canaveral launches (spacenews.com) (astra.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Lockheed Martin’s MAP docking port model (cad.onshape.com)

Interview – Awais Ahmed, CEO and Co-Founder, PIXXEL

— Shakuntala/TD-2 was one of the three demos, and it flew on Transporter-4 (pixxel.space)

— The AVIRIS program also collects hyperspectral data, but from a much lower altitude (aviris.jpl.nasa.gov) (avirisng.jpl.nasa.gov)

— Read more and get in contact:

— linkedin.com/company/pixxelspace

This Week in Spaceflight History

— 13 May, 1992: Intelsat VI captured by the STS-49 crew (nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— The plan for capture and kickstage attachment (orbiter-forum.net) (capcomspace.net)

— Next week (5/17 - 5/23) in 1961: If a spacecraft falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it…

Episode 358: DOWNLINK--Awais Ahmed, PIXXEL

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast