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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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00:44:20

Episode 273: Jupiter via SLS?

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/08/25

Spaceflight news— Europa Clipper might not fly on SLS (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Ball Aerospace successfully completes green-fueled smallsat mission. (smallsatnews.com)— Blue Origin delivers its lunar lander mockup. (spacenews.com)— SpaceX sets a reuse record. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Brian Kostka via email: there was an "iron lung" on Skylab!This week in SF history— 25 Aug, 2003. Launch of Spitzer Space Telescope (wikipedia.org) (irsa.ipac.caltech.edu)— Next week in

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01:52:51

Episode 272: DOWNLINK--Caty Pilachowski

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/08/19

Spaceflight news— Lucy on track for 2021 launch (americaspace.com)— Rocket Lab increases performance (spacenews.com) (PDF: rocketlabusa.com)— NASA to coordinate smallsat rideshares (spacenews.com)— Heat management becomes a new bottleneck in the smallsat era (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Dragon’s first commercial crew mission (spacenews.com)— A new industry seeks standardization (spacenews.com)— Ingenuity recharges its batteries on its trip to Mars (phys.org)Questions, comments, corrections—

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00:38:20

Episode 271: The Dominator

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/08/05

Spaceflight news— Mars Perseverance and Ingenuity on their way to Mars (spaceflightnow.com) (americaspace.com) — SHERLOC calibration target includes spacesuit samples (collectspace.com)— Crew Dragon is coming home (arstechnica.com)Short & Sweet— Airbus to build Mars sample return mission’s orbital element (spacenews.com)— Cause of Rocket Lab’s recent launch failure has been identified (spaceflightnow.com)— Hayabusa2 releases details on its extended mission (hayabusa2.jaxa.jp)Questions,

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00:31:38

Episode 270: A Little to The Left

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/07/28

Spaceflight news— Progress MS-15 encounters KURS docking issue (rocketrundown.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Astra will make another attempt at orbit (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Astra)— LauncherOne failure update (spacenews.com)— NASA still has concerns with Starliner (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— twitter.com/amyinorbit: STS-93 wasn’t aborted (youtube.com)This week in SF history— July 30 1980: Svetlana Savitskaya selected in the second group of female

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01:20:12

Episode 269: DOWNLINK--Kathryn Crowe

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/07/22

Spaceflight news— Dream Chaser trunk, Shooting Star, finds its own life (americaspace.com) (sncorp.com) (space.com)Short & Sweet— Hayabusa2 now has a sample return date! (spaceflightnow.com)— Florida’s Mk 2 Starship is being scrapped. (teslarati.com)— Crew Dragon planned to return in early August. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: the closest images ever taken to the Sun (americaspace.com)Interview-- Kathryn Crowe, NASA Human Landing System Deputy Lead for

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00:48:01

Episode 268: 80 Corrective Actions

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/07/14

Spaceflight news— Starliner has more work to do (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)— Starship construction update (HT Andrew Z: wccftech.com)Short & Sweet— X-ray space telescope’s launch date delayed. (spaceflightnow.com)— Cost overruns result in changes to Europa Clipper instruments. (spacenews.com)— NASA has new planetary protection directives. (spacenews.com)— NASA doesn’t own a Falcon 9. (americaspace.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Mentioned in the intro: 360° video front he first F9

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01:04:53

Episode 267: DOWNLINK--John Z. Kiss

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/07/08

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

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00:46:57

Episode 266: Demo-2 and the Spacewalks

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/06/30

Spaceflight news— Demo-2 and spacewalks (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)— Suborbital Crew (spacenews.com)— SpaceShip Two news (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— ISRO opens up spaceflight to the private sector. (deccanchronicle.com)— ULA completes wet dress rehearsal ahead of Perseverance launch (americaspace.com) (HT Andrew Z: twitter.com/TJ_Cooney)— SpaceX plans a booster recovery for a military satellite. (spacenews.com)— Canadarm3 contract signed (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 4 July,

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00:55:33

Episode 265: VIPER Will Zoot

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/06/24

Spaceflight news— Astrobotic to deliver VIPER rover to Moon (spaceflightinsider.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — Some instruments will fly on earlier CLPS payloads (geekwire.com) (nasa.gov)— Crew Dragon Endeavour is still nominal. (teslarati.com)Short & Sweet— Another trickle of Boeing Artemis HLS information (HT deltaV: washingtonpost.com)— Small launch company Astra to make new orbital attempt. (spacenews.com)— NRO awards Rocket Lab with back-to-back launches. (spacenews.com)Questions,

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00:36:38

Episode 264: Ad Astra Per Justitia

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/06/16

Spaceflight news— Loverro misconduct update (wsj.com via marketscreener.com) — Kathy Lueders selected to lead HEO Mission Directorate (twitter.com/JimBridenstine) (arstechnica.com)Short & Sweet— InSight’s mole is fully underground (livescience.com) (reddit.com/r/InSightLander) (twitter.com/InSightImageBot)— Northrup Grumman received contract to develop Gateway module (spaceflightnow.com)— Raytheon gets a DARPA contract. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert: Demo-2

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Black Lives Matter

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/06/07

Some black voices and hashtags to amplify and listen to— twitter.com/astrotoya— twitter.com/astronaia— twitter.com/astro_eustice— twitter.com/_xPrecious— twitter.com/itsafronomics— #BlackAndStem— #BlackBirdersWeekFind local black-owned businesses— officialblackwallstreet.com/directory Learn about the problem— mappingpoliceviolence.org

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00:42:43

Episode 263: Flat Screen

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/06/02

Spaceflight news— Demo-2 mission: Endeavor docks with ISS (spacenews)(twitter.com/lorengrush) — A bell in Unity is rung twice to announce the arrival and departure of vehicles (twitter.com/planet4589) — A fantastic CollectSpace thread with lots of suit zipper images (collectspace.com) — Note that the A7L Apollo suit had the pressure zipper on the outside. The inside zipper was just to close the garment — Crew Dragon/Falcon 9 believed to have lower risk factor than Shuttle

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01:02:22

Episode 262: No Loverro Lost

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/05/26

Spaceflight news— Loverro quit! (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (arstechnica.com) (washingtonpost.com)— Crew Dragon launch prep (HT Andrew Z: nasaspaceflight.com) (planetary.org) (americaspace.com) — Commercial crew is an amazing deal. (planetary.org) — NASA & SpaceX: Journey to the Future to air May 25 at 9 p.m. PT/ET on Science and at 10 p.m. PT/ET May 26 on Discovery (deadline.com)Short & Sweet— WFIRST renamed after pioneering astronomer, Nancy Grace Roman (spacenews.com)—

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00:49:01

Episode 261: Pessimism Sandwich

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/05/19

Spaceflight news— Three-part NASA Lunar News — Plans for Gateway and Artemis undergo refinement (spacenews.com) — NASA advisory committee skeptical of 2024 landing goal (spacenews.com) — Artemis Accords (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— 3D printing had a good week. (cnbc.com) (upi.com)— First real task for Space Force is… on the ground. (spacenews.com)— SkySat to hitch a ride with Starlink. (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 19 May 2000: The launch of STS-101, the first

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01:08:13

Episode 260: DOWNLINK--Dan Hegel

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/05/12

Spaceflight news— China’s big Long March 5B (Chang Zheng 5B) flight— — The flight (spaceflightnow.com)— — The capsule landing (spaceflightnow.com)— — Flexible Inflatable Cargo Re-entry Vehicle (spaceflightnow.com)— — The unguided first-stage reentry (spaceflightnow.com)Short & Sweet— Next big step completed for Martian rover. (spaceflightnow.com)— SN4 takes a step towards flight (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk)Questions, comments, corrections— Email

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00:59:11

Episode 259: Human Moon Landers

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/05/05

Spaceflight news— NASA selects companies to develop Human Landing System (HLS) for Artemis (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) — Source Selection Statement (PDF: beta.sam.gov) — Scott Manley’s summary (youtube.com) — Excellent scaled image of all HLS’s, and Apollo’s LEM (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge) — Superheavy update (twitter.com/Kristennetten)— Prepping for Crew Dragon (spacenews.com) — Flag to be captured: (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)Short & Sweet— UAE Mars mission

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00:32:15

Episode 258: Firefly Payday

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/04/28

Spaceflight news— Firefly signs Launch Services Agreement with Spaceflight, Inc. (spacenews.com) (spaceflight.com) — Originally autogenously pressurized tanks (space.stackexchange.com) — Fire in Jan due to misconfigured software (youtube.com/watch) — Spaceflight Industries In process of being bought by Mitsui and Yamasa (techcrunch.com)Short & Sweet— Starliner requires more than a reflight to be fit for crew (HT Sam in the chat twitter.com/thesheetztweetz)— Dream Chaser gets its wings

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00:44:38

Episode 257: Ocean of Storms

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/04/22

Spaceflight news— Intuitive Machines selects lunar landing site (spacenews.com) — Nova-C’s publicity page (intuitivemachines.com) — Maps of Vallus Schröterie in Oceanus Procellarum (cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net)— SpaceX and Gateway Logistics Services (spacenews.com) (PDF: beta.sam.gov/) — Fan cross-section speculations (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— MEV-1 completes Intelsat-901 relocation. (spacenews.com)— SpaceX has a Demo-2 launch date. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)—

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00:37:57

Episode 256: Grappling Hook

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/04/14

Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab completes successful demonstration of mid-air capture. (rocketlabusa.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) — Tim Dodd published a great interview with Peter Beck (youtu.be)Short & Sweet— Mars helicopter has been attached to NASA rover. (nasa.gov)— Starliner gets a second flight test. (spacenews.com)— Long March Fails to loft Nusantara Dua (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)— Masten Space Systems wins lunar lander award from NASA. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments,

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01:23:22

Episode 255: DOWNLINK--Jordan Noone

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/04/07

Spaceflight News— Starship SN3 Collapse (space.com) (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — RIP Starship Mk1 (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) — RIP Starship SN1 (twitter.com/WyattJGeorge/) — Starship SN2’s thrust puck (https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/41761/what-is-a-thrust-puck-on-starship)— Jamestown Base considered for real (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) — Laura Forczyk poll: “What’s a reasonable new goal [for Artemis 3]?” (twitter.com/LauraForczyk)Short & Sweet— Virgin

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