Episode 278: DOWNLINK--Panagiotis Tsiotras

Spaceflight news— NASA science mission delays (spacenews.com) — JWST deployment tests are done! (nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— Blue Origin pursues space station development. (spacenews.com)— Price tag for on-orbit publicity photos. (spacenews.com)— ISS leak narrowed down to two modules. (businessinsider.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Andrew Z: Bishop grapple fixture placement (youtube.com) (PDF: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)— Andrew Z: HLS size comparison (twitter.com/brickmack)Interview -- Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras, IEEE Fellow and Professor and David and Andrew Lewis Chair, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology— Dr. Tsiotras helped design the ASTROS (Autonomous Spacecraft Testing of Robotic Operations in Space) lab at Georgia Tech (dcsl.gatech.edu)— Dr. Tsiotras is the director of the Dynamics and Control Systems Laboratory at Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering (dcsl.gatech.edu)— (LinkedIn)— IEEE Transmitter is a multimedia platform (transmitter.ieee.org)This week in SF history— 1 Oct, 2003. The formation of JAXA — Hideo Itokawa, “Dr. Rocket” was instrumental in Japan’s early rocketry research (researchgate.net) (global.jaxa.jp) — National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan (NAL) (jaxa.jp)— Next week in 2009: I would walk 1,496,225 kilometers/ and I would walk 1,496,225 more/ and I would walk 1496225 more/ just to be the satellite that walked 4,488,675 kilometers/ to fall down at your door.