Spaceflight news

— Funding secured for NanoFEEP manufacturer Morpheus Space (spacenews.com) (HT Andrew Zdanowicz: defenseone.com)

— Liquid eyeliner demonstrates an effect similar to the Taylor Cones utilized in electrospray engines (HT Colin: hackaday.com)

Short & Sweet

— SLS takes a brief break. (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)

— Starliner's schedule falls further behind Crew Dragon’s. (investors.com) (spacenews.com)

— Russian space station module arrives at Baikonur. (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: InSight drills below the surface (twitter.com/NASAInSight)

Interview--Peter Beck, Founder and CEO of Rocket Lab

— twitter.com/rocketlab

This week in SF history

— 5 Sept, 1977. Launch of Voyager 1, and the final Titan IIIE launch (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org)

— Next week in 1995: Centenarian

Episode 274: DOWNLINK--Peter Beck

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast