This week in SF history
23 April 1957: Vandenberg established (wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com)
Spaceflight news
Dragon 2 Capsule Explodes during testing (twitter.com/EmreKelly) (nasaspaceflight.com)
Scott Manley’s speculations (slightly outdated) (youtube.com)
A BFRC isn’t great. (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Seen on radar (twitter.com/GISRockstar)
Explosion video (twitter.com/Astronut099)
Unconfirmed reports indicated that the capsule was destroyed. (floridatoday.com/)
Short & Sweet
SpaceX loses a booster to rough seas (spaceflightnow.com)
An update on Beresheet (spaceflightnow.com)
Intelsat-29e is declared a total loss (spacenews.com)
Interview -- Keri Bean, Systems Engineer
A Delta IV Heavy lifts off from Vandenberg
SpaceXFleet’s annotated version of Michael Seely’s Arabsat-6 booster image.
