Spaceflight news

— Starship, Elon, and the FAA

— SN8 violated launch license (theverge.com)

Short & Sweet

— Problems revealed for SXM-7 satellite in orbit. (spacenews.com)

— Two more Dragon astronaut crews announced. (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)

— Second Green Run Static Fire (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

Questions, comments, corrections

— Chris Hofmann (via DM), Ben Hallert (twitter.com/chairboy): SLS Core Stage tanking limits (twitter.com/NASA_SLS) (blogs.nasa.gov)

— The nine-tank mistake might be traced back to a press call (clickorlando.com)

This week in SF history

— Next week (2/9 - 2/15) in 2001: Do you smell that? No?

Episode 295: Storybook Titles

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast