Spaceflight news

— ESA spacecraft to join Venusian fleet (space.com) (esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org) (arxiv.org)

— Jean-Luc Margot et al recently made rough measurements of Venus’ moment of inertia (youtube.com) (arxiv.org)

— Planetary Society did a writeup on DAVINCI+ and VERITAS (planetary.org)

Short & Sweet

— First commercial deep-space antenna begins official operations in UK (twitter.com/esaoperations)

— Relativity goes reusable (spacenews.com)

— Two HLS contracts are one step closer (spacenews.com)

This week in SF history

— Launch of Endeavor, STS-57 on June 21 1993 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (directory.eoportal.org)

— FARE (Fluid Acquisition and Resupply Experiment) looked like a sci-fi special effect (youtu.be)

— Next week (7/22 - 7/28) in 1992: It’s good to be home. Glad I packed an extra lunch!

Episode 313: Third Take on Venus

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast