Episode 318: Pure Guts Poker

Spaceflight news— Nauka Launched (spacenews.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) — Three sets of engines on Nauka (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) — Initial reports of issues (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) — A summary was written on Wikipedia quite early (en.wikipedia.org) — “Nothing irreparable” (twitter.com/katlinegrey) — An initial RCS burn was made to get to a safe orbit (twitter.com/katlinegrey) — First DKS firing reported by Anatoly Zak on July 23 (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) — Kurs was declared operational on the 25th (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) (twitter.com/katlinegrey) — We found this amateur imagery of the module delightful (twitter.com/ralfvandebergh)— Next Generation Arecibo Telescope (space.com) (arxiv.org)Short & Sweet— Falcon Heavy gets a new customer (spacenews.com)— China tests fairing recovery (nasaspaceflight.com)— Rocket Lab concluded its launch failure investigation (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 29 July, 1985. Launch and abort of STS 51-F (wiki) (PDF: jsc.nasa.gov) (americaspace.com)— Next week (7/2 - 8/2) in 1975: Luckily, crisis was not avoided