Spaceflight news
Perseverance launch slips again (spacenews.com)
Centaur has been repaired (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)
Short & Sweet
Rocket Lab suffers second-stage failure and loss of vehicle. (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/RocketLab)
ULA receives its first BE-4. (spacenews.com)
First indigenous-owned ground station to be built in Australia (satnews.com)
Interview: John Z. Kiss, Professor of Biology and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina Greensboro
UNC bio and publication list (biology.uncg.edu)
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Exploratory study ahead of sending Arabidopsis on CLPS (content.sciendo.com)
Feature article on Dr. Kiss’ work (researchmagazine.uncg.edu)
TedX talk “Someday We Will Live on Mars) (youtu.be)
Seedling Growth-2 (youtube.com)
Seedling Growth-3 (nasa.gov)
This week in SF history
7 July 1998: first orbital launch from a sub (en.wikipedia.org)
Based on R-29RM (en.wikipedia.org)
Next week in 1975: How long does it take an astronaut to flip a patch upside-down? 7.5 hours.
Perseverance’s Centaur dangling from a crane during repairs
Scott Manley’s graph of Pics Or It Didn’t Happen’s acceleration (click image for source)
Scott Manley’s graph of Pics Or It Didn’t Happen’s acceleration (click image for source)
Dr. Kiss in the lab, holding a Seedling Growth experiment
A seedling growth cartridge with hands for scale
Seedling Growth being prepared on Earth
Seedling Growth being handled on ISS
Arabidopsis growing in a Seedling Growth experiment
Shtil-1 before launch, possibly in a horizontal integration bay
Tubsat-N1
Drawing of Shtil-1’s upper stage
Tubsat-N
