Episode 311: SALSO Dancing

Spaceflight news— Megaconstellations in the news — Viasat asking for halt to building out Starlink (spacenews.com) — Chinese Guowang constellation (spacenews.com) — SATCON2 is coming up on July 12-16 (aas.org)— New Frontiers 5 will be delayed (spacenews.com) (wiki)Short & Sweet— Mars helicopter lands safely despite computer glitch (space.com)— Multiple new Lunar Rovers planned for coming years (space.com) (techcrunch.com) (spacenews.com)— Tianzhou-2 docks with Chinese space station (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Etienne via email: book recommendation on corrosion (thriftbooks.com)— Kickstarter for a book on Katherine Johnson (kickstarter.com)— From the intro: — ISS debris strike (cnet.com) — On-orbit conjunction live data stream (astriacss.tacc.utexas.edu)This week in SF history— 4 Jun, 2012. NASA announces NRO’s donation of two Hubble-class space telescopes to the agency (wiki) (spaceflightnow.com) (PDF: science.nasa.gov) — WFIRST DRM1 and 2 (PDF: roman.gsfc.nasa.gov) (roman.gsfc.nasa.gov) — WFIRST-AFTA (PDF: roman.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF: iopscience.iop.org) — SALSO produced multiple proposals for the second satellite via an RFI (exoplanets.nasa.gov) (thespacereview.com)— Next week (6/8 - 6-14) in 1969. Shut it down. (But keep some of the camera parts.)