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The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just

Every week we cover the latest spaceflight news, discuss past, current and future exploration efforts, and take a look at upcoming events. Tune in to hear about how humans get to space, how they stay in space and how unmanned craft reach farther and farther into the universe around us.

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00:43:24

Episode 313: Third Take on Venus

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/06/16

Spaceflight news— ESA spacecraft to join Venusian fleet (space.com) (esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org) (arxiv.org) — Jean-Luc Margot et al recently made rough measurements of Venus’ moment of inertia (youtube.com) (arxiv.org) — Planetary Society did a writeup on DAVINCI+ and VERITAS (planetary.org)Short & Sweet— First commercial deep-space antenna begins official operations in UK (twitter.com/esaoperations)— Relativity goes reusable (spacenews.com)— Two HLS contracts are one step closer

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01:08:33

Episode 312: Hot Take on Venus

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/06/09

Spaceflight news— Discovery 15 and 16 selected - we’re heading for Venus! (space.com) (spacenews.com)— NASA Presidential Budget Request (planetary.org)— House bill wants to designate space as critical infrastructure (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— South Korean rocket prepares for October test (theregister.com)— Axiom, SpaceX reach agreement to send three more private crews to ISS (cnet.com) (spacenews.com)— JWST launch update (spacenews.com)Interview -- Dr. Alessandro Patruno, Quaternion Books—

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01:04:20

Episode 311: SALSO Dancing

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/06/02

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

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00:40:11

Episode 310: Zhurong Roves

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/05/26

Spaceflight news— Zhurong rover dismounts from lander (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Rocket Lab failure analysis (spacenews.com) (rocketlabusa.com)— Crew-3 Finalized (americaspace.com)— SpaceShipTwo returns to the skies! (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Not catching is different than not recovering! (twitter.com/chairboy)— From the intro: Blue Ghost to fly on Falcon 9 (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 30 May, 1975: Founding of ESA (PDF: esa.int)

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01:05:35

Episode 309: Positive Thinking

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/05/19

Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab Recovery (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (rocketlabusa.com) — Scott Manley demonstrated the TVC angle on 2nd stage ignition (twitter.com/DJSnM)— SpaceX files for Starship orbital launch radio license (spacenews.com) — SPX may have competition for HLS (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— China successfully lands rover on Mars (spacenews.com)— Ariane 5 fairing issue may delay JWST(spacenews.com)— Russia announces two actors, Japanese billionaire, to fly to space station

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01:00:46

Episode 308: Lunar Twins

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/05/12

Spaceflight news— Awards, awards, awards — Eta Space - In-orbit cryogenic refueling (spaceref.com) — JPL - Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (cnet.com) (jpl.nasa.gov) — Loft Orbital - Edge computing on spacecraft (spacenews.com) — Northrop - Navigation payloads on Blackjack sats (spacenews.com) — Raytheon - Update NASA’s EO IT system (govconwire.com) (earthdata.nasa.gov) — Hughes and OneWeb - LEO-based Arctic internet (spacenews.com) — Isar Aerospace - Won ESA’s Boost! Award

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01:00:13

Episode 307: Fire Carried

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/05/05

Spaceflight news— Long March 5B set for uncontrolled re-entry (spacenews.com) — The module raised and is maintaining orbit (HT Colin: heavens-above.com) — The booster is slowly deorbiting (HT Mike: heavens-above.com) — Amateur video shows the booster in a 2.4 hz tumble (twitter.com/dfuji1)— BIG Ingenuity Update! — Flight 3 was a success (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — Flight 4 was a delayed success (space.com) (spacenews.com) — Ingenuity’s mission was extended

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00:48:53

Episode 306: What About IV?

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/04/28

Spaceflight news— Renewable Space Updates (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— ACES scrapped, but lives on in Centaur V (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/torybruno) — Centaur III features the optional Aft Bulkhead Carrier (PDF: ulalaunch.com)Short & Sweet— MOXIE operates for the first time on Mars (space.com)— Ingenuity flight 2 (mars.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (HT Colin in the chat: youtube.com)— OneWeb and Starlink cross paths (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 1 May, 1999

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01:11:12

Episode 305: Moon, Dear

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/04/21

Spaceflight news— HLS downselection - Starship chosen (PDF: nasa.gov) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) — HLS Base Period Source Selection occurred last year. (PDF: beta.sam.gov) — Berger/Davenport were assumed to be wrong by some. (twitter.com/lavie154) — NASA internally apologized for the leak. (twitter.com/joroulette) — The US Senate wasn’t happy this selection occurred before a new Administrator could be confirmed. (twitter.com/wapodavenport) — Dynetics was planning on using on-orbit

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00:44:38

Episode 304: WRT Raining, Pouring

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/04/14

Spaceflight news— ISS’s crew of ten (spacepolicyonline.com) (spacenews.com)— Rocket Lab to test booster recovery from space this May (rocketlabusa.com)— Two new Chinese spaceports planned (spacenews.com)— End-to-end testing of Lunar Gateway SEP system completed (americaspace.com)Short & Sweet— Space startup Phase Four wins government contract (spacenews.com)— Biden administration asks for 6.3% increase to NASA’s budget (spacepolicyonline.com)— JWST packs its sunshield in preparation for October

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00:50:12

Episode 303: Dramatic Concealed Conflagration

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/04/07

Spaceflight news— Failed data bus on Crew Dragon (HT Kevin Smith: blogs.nasa.gov)— SN11 landing failure (space.com) (twitter.com/Bojay_stellar) (twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann)Short & Sweet— Rocket Lab preparing for Moon Mission (twitter.com/RocketLab) (nasaspaceflight.com)— Everyday people in space (spaceflightnow.com)— NASA buys lunar gravity from Blue Origin (nasa.gov)— HLS award should be here soon (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: ingenuity deployed

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00:46:24

Episode 302: Debris Mayhem

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/03/24

Spaceflight news— Bill Nelson to be nominated as next NASA head (spacenews.com) (whitehouse.gov)— Debris mayhem — Space Force would hire deorbiting satellites (spacenews.com) — Astroscale’s demo will launch on the GK Launch Services rideshare Soyuz (spacenews.com) — NOAA-17 broke up (spacenews.com) (HT Mike Stewart: archive.org)Short & Sweet— Chang’e 5 orbiter begins extended mission (spacenews.com)— JWST on target for launch in October (spacenews.com) (theatlantic.com)— Super Heavy is

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00:57:15

Episode 301: Service Update

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/03/17

Spaceflight news— Ukrainian startup looks at in-orbit servicing (spacenews.com) (kursorbital.com)— Northrup’s MEV-2 prepares for docking attempt with geostationary satellite (spacenews.com)— Market analysis for on-orbit service demand by Northern Sky Research (nsr.com) — CONFERS is working on docking standards (satelliteconfers.org)Short & Sweet— HST back online after software glitch (spacenews.com)— Second hot fire of SLS core scheduled for Thursday (americaspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)—

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01:30:11

Episode 300: Nikolas Trawny, Ph. D.

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/03/10

Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab reveals Neutron, goes public (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (rocketlabusa.com)Short & Sweet— Starship burned down, fell over, and only then sank into the swamp (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)— SpaceX wins a contract (spacenews.com)— Price changes announced for ISS and lunar mission (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— Perseverance update (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ryan via email: Cut cables on

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01:06:57

Episode 299: Dare Mighty Parachutes

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/03/03

Spaceflight news— Perseverance update! — Parachute message (twitter.com) — MATLAB solution (HT trbinsc in the chat: cdn.discordapp.com) — Make your own custom message! (sjwarner.github.io) — Perseverance photos and video (planetary.org) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) — Opportunity visited its heat shield’s crash site (HT Mike Stewart spaceref.com)— Dynetics completes preliminary design review for HLS lander (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)— NASA’s human

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00:48:10

Episode 298: Tango Delta

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/02/24

Spaceflight news— Perseverance has landed! (arstechnica.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (uahirise.org) — HiRISE managed to snap a photo of Perseverance under its parachute (uahirise.org) (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/HiRISE) — Interview with Ingenuity’s Operations Lead (HT Colin-in-the-chat: spectrum.ieee.org) — Ingenuity runs open source control software called f’ (github.com/nasa)Short & Sweet— China prepares to launch first segment of space station (spacenews.com)— SpaceX

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01:00:54

Episode 297: Fleet Arrival

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/02/17

Spaceflight news— Mars Hope and Tianwen-1 arrive — Great video from Tianwen-1 as it passes its first periareion (twitter.com/AJ_FI) — Tianwen-1 will lower to a reconnaissance/landing orbit, then two different science orbits. (twitter.com/PRCMarsRover) — Mars Hope sent back a fantastic image (bbc.com)Mars fleet arriving soon — Perseverance (americaspace.com) (everydayastronaut.com) — Ingenuity (jpl.nasa.gov) (jpl.nasa.gov) (mars.nasa.gov) — We previously talked to Ella Atkins about

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01:07:53

Episode 296: Spectre-2 Incoming

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/02/10

Spaceflight news— Starship SN9 update (spacenews.com) — Lots of leftover LOX visible on IR footage (youtube.com) — SN8’s FAA violation (spacenews.com)— Firefly wins CLPS contract (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) — They will be flying the Blue Ghost lander and a number of science payloads (firefly.com) — Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) (Image at parabolicarc.com) — Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) (hou.usra.edu) — Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal

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00:40:06

Episode 295: Storybook Titles

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/02/03

Spaceflight news— Starship, Elon, and the FAA — SN8 violated launch license (theverge.com) — SN9 had to contend with the outcome (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— Problems revealed for SXM-7 satellite in orbit. (spacenews.com)— Two more Dragon astronaut crews announced. (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)— Second Green Run Static Fire (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)Questions, comments, corrections— Chris Hofmann (via DM), Ben Hallert

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01:33:25

Episode 294: DOWNLINK--Panagiotis Tsiotras II

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2021/01/27

Spaceflight news— SLS Green Test hotfire followup (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceX buys offshore oil platforms to convert to spaceports. (chron.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— ThrustMe performs on orbit. (spacenews.com)— Starliner up and running? (spacenews.com) (HT Andrew Z: spaceflightnow.com)Interview--Dr. Panagiotis Tsiotras, IEEE Fellow and Professor and David and Andrew Lewis Chair, Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia

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