Episode 434: DOWNLINK--Benchmark

Spaceflight News

— Rocket Lab Failure Analysis (spacenews.com) (space.com) (rocketlabusa.com) (PDF: q4cdn.com VIA en.wikipedia.org)

Short & Sweet

— Astra’s financial future (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

— X-37B readies for first launch on Falcon Heavy (spaceflightnow.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

— From the intro: Dinkinesh adds a moon (planetary.org)

Interview -- Jake Teufert CTO and Chris Carella CCO, Benchmark Space Systems

— We last talked to Chris Carella in episode 373 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

— benchmarkspacesystems.com

— linkedin.com/company/benchmark-space-systems

— linkedin.com/in/jake-teufert-86b375133/

— linkedin.com/in/christopher-carella-innovate/

This Week in Spaceflight History

— Nov 15, 1988: The first and only launch of Buran (en.wikipedia.org) (buran.ru) (buran.ru) (buran-energia.com)

— Next week (11/21 - 11/27) in 1962: Clouds before Aurora