Spaceflight news

— Astrobotic to deliver VIPER rover to Moon (spaceflightinsider.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

— Some instruments will fly on earlier CLPS payloads (geekwire.com) (nasa.gov)

— Crew Dragon Endeavour is still nominal. (teslarati.com)

Short & Sweet

— Another trickle of Boeing Artemis HLS information (HT deltaV: washingtonpost.com)

— Small launch company Astra to make new orbital attempt. (spacenews.com)

— NRO awards Rocket Lab with back-to-back launches. (spacenews.com)

Questions, comments, corrections

— From the intro: Crew Dragon reuse: (spacenews.com) (HT Ben Hallert: spaceflightnow.com)

This week in SF history

— June 25, 1997: Progress M-34 collides with Mir (history.nasa.gov) (books.google.com) (astronautix.com) (PDF: spaceflight.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)

— Ben Hallert’s excellent photoshop (twitter.com/chairboy)

— Next week in 2005: Smarter than a deformed copper disc

Episode 265: VIPER Will Zoot

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast