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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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00:42:43

Episode 254: XL to The Moon

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/04/01

Spaceflight news— Gateway Logistics Services Program awarded to SpaceX (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — Dragon XL (youtube.com) (twitter.com/Caspar_Stanley) — OIG is investigating NASA’s acquisition strategy (twitter.com/NASAOIG)— Crew Dragon Mk 3 Parachute Test (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— NASA files a request for new engines. (spacenews.com)— Astra suffers damage in pre-launch test. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Artemis-1 flight profile

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00:42:40

Episode 253: Lackluster

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/03/24

Spaceflight news— Artemis-1 Orion tests complete (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) — Ships to KSC March 23 (twitter.com/NASAKennedy) — Cubesat ridealongs (en.wikipedia.org)Short & Sweet— L3Harris wins NASA contract for LISA observatory. (nasa.gov) (Our interview on the LISA Pathfinder: theorbitalmechanics.com)— Long March 7A is unsuccessful. (spaceflightnow.com)— SpaceX launches Darksat, with lackluster results. (spacenews.com) (arxiv.org) (PDF: arxiv.org)Questions, comments, corrections—

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00:42:28

Episode 252: Non-Critical

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/03/18

Spaceflight news— RS-25 Testing (nasaspaceflight.com)— Gateway officially non-critical for Artemis landing (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceLogistics teams with DARPA on satellite servicing vehicle. (c4isrnet.com)— ExoMars gets delayed. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Law Loving via email on Musk and Bezos— Thanks to Emory Stagmer for the outro music! (twitter.com/VAXHeadroom)This week in SF history— March 18, 1965: The launch of Voskhod-2 (wikipedia.org) (airspacemag.com)—

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00:30:06

Episode 251: 61 Corrective Actions

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/03/10

Spaceflight news— Starliner update (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Last minute scrub costs Astra the DARPA Challenge (spaceflightnow.com)— DSCOVR resumes operations. (spaceflightnow.com)— SLS scheduling update (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Winning entry for the Mars 2020 naming contest (mars.nasa.gov)— Destin’s ULA tour (youtube.com) (youtube.com)This week in SF history— 14 March, 1934. Birth of Eugene Cernan (wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1965: No vacuum in a

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00:31:38

Episode 250: This Is Not the Plan

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/03/04

Spaceflight news— SpaceX plans a mobile service tower (twitter.com/Falcon9Block5) (space.com) — Starship SN-1 suffered pressure failure (twitter.com/JohnRand0061) (youtube.com)— Artemis changes? (arstechnica.com) — “This is not the plan.” says Bridenstine re Moon 2024 Mission Manifest (twitter.com/JimBridenstine)Short & Sweet— NASA's safety advisory panel finds Boeing didn't perform end-to-end software check prior to Starliner demo mission. (orlandosentinel.com) (twitter.com/ChabeliH)

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01:11:02

Episode 249: DOWNLINK--Laura Forczyk on her new book...

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/02/26

Spaceflight news— InSight’s HP3 to get a lil push (www.dlr.de) (twitter.com/NASAInSight) (mars.nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— JAXA going forward with sample return mission to Phobos. (spaceflightnow.com)— SpaceX has a date for a polar launch from the Cape. (teslarati.com)— CSLI, selects the next round of 18 smallsats to fly on ELaNa missions (nasa.gov)Questions, comments, corrections— Andrew Z via email: Interesting read about Space Shuttle software development (aviationweek.com) (PDF:

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00:48:00

Episode 248: Four Discoverers

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/02/18

Spaceflight news— Discovery Program selects four finalists (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— DAVINCI+ (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)— IVO (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org)— Trident (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (wikipedia.org) (HT Sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)— VERITAS (PDF: dlr.de) (wikipedia.org)— Abstracts for the other proposals (HT sam in the chat: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— JAXA selects partner for country’s first debris removal project

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01:31:26

Episode 247: DOWNLINK--Jason Batt

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/02/12

Spaceflight news— ASAP report on CST-100 Starliner (arstechnica.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)— Astra Space emerges from stealth mode (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (astra.com) (bloomberg.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceX likely to spinoff Starlink business. (bloomberg.com).— Cape Canaveral is getting a name change. (spaceflightnow.com)Interview -- Jason Batt, Editorial and Creative Director, 100 Year Starship— 100yss.org— One Sky project (space.com) (nationalgeographic.com)— Onliest, J Daniel Batt

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00:42:36

Episode 246: Cupola Virus

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/02/05

Spaceflight news— Near-miss of IRAS and GGSE-4 (c4isrnet.com) (spacenews.com) (kiro7.com) (space.com) — Image of post-conjunction trails (twitter.com/juliancd38)— NASA selects first commercial-destination module for ISS (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Voyager 2 malfunction (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)— JWST’s launch date will likely slip again. (arstechnica.com)— CHEOPS takes big step towards coming online and taking data (sci.esa.int)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro:

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00:33:41

Episode 245: More 'Splosions

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/01/29

Spaceflight news— Spaceway-1 batteries (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Firefly suffers an anomaly on the test stand. (spacenews.com) (space.com)— Solar Orbiter mission’s launch slips several days (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/torybruno)— Tethers Unlimited’s Terminator Tape is showing promise. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Andrew via email: Phantom Express (spacenews.com) — Scott Manley covered this as well, with more info on the AR-22, which is actually a

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01:09:29

Episode 244: DOWNLINK--Silvia Alba

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/01/22

Spaceflight news— Crew Dragon In-flight Abort Test successful (youtube.com) — Beautiful views of in-air explosion (twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) (twitter.com/GregScott_photo) — Second stage and interstage survivedl (twitter.com/johnkrausphotos) (twitter.com/mike_deep) — Gorgeous shot of approaching fastboat (twitter.com/SpaceX)Short & Sweet— Dream Chaser on track for 2021 mission (spacepolicyonline.com)— Second all-woman spacewalk a success (space.com)Interview -- Silvia Alba, Visual

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00:30:12

Episode 243: Ad Astra Per DARPA

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/01/15

Spaceflight news— Astra Space obtains launch permits — Three polar launches from Kodiak (apps.fcc.gov) (www.faa.gov) — DARPA launch from Wallops (apps.fcc.gov) — Challenge seeks two launches from different locations with little foreknowledge of payload (darpalaunchchallenge.org — Downselected to only candidate (spectrum.ieee.org)Short & Sweet— Virgin Galactic’s second spaceship passes important milestone. (satellitetoday.com)— Another lunar lander is in the running.

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01:08:36

Episode 242: DOWNLINK--Dr. Martin Elvis

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2020/01/08

Spaceflight news— ISRO confirms plans for Chandrayaan-3 (spacenews.com) — Chandrayaan-2 imagery (nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— SpaceX plans a moveable tower for pad 39A (spaceflightnow.com)— Christina Koch breaks a record (spaceflightnow.com)— Early signs of the Clean Space age: Iridium announces willingness to pay for third party cleanup of failed satellites (spacenews.com)Interview: Dr. Martin Elvis, Senior Astrophysicist, Center for Astrophysics and Smithsonian— harvard.edu/~elvis— Simulated

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00:45:52

Episode 241: Clock Kerfuffle

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/12/24

Spaceflight news— Starliner OFT (nasaspaceflight.com) (collectspace.com) — IR video (twitter.com/NASA) — Re-entry video from the ground (twitter.com/MrTutskey)Short & Sweet— Omega has a payload. (spaceflightinsider.com)— ULA selected to launch next GOES mission. (satellitetoday.com)— SpaceX announces yet another Starlink launch. (teslarati.com)This week in SF history— December 23, 1968. Apollo 8 enters Lunar SOI (wikipedia.org)— Two weeks ahead in 2015: running out of juice

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00:27:51

Episode 240: Nightingale

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/12/17

Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab inaugurates LC 2 at Wallops. (spacenews.com) — Reuse footage from Running Out of Fingers (youtu.be)— OSIRIS-Rex landing site selected (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— A new European rocket gets funding. (parabolicarc.com)— SLS core stage is complete (spacenews.com)— Vector files for chapter 11. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Art in aerospace?This week in SF history— 18 December 1973: Launch of the Orion 2 space telescope onboard Soyuz 13

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01:14:49

Episode 239: DOWNLINK--Kyla Edison

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/12/11

Sorry about the links not working! Squarespace knows about the issue, but still hasn’t fixed it. Visit theorbitalmechanics.com/show-notes/kyla-edison for links and photos! Spaceflight news— First results from Parker Solar Probe! (nasa.gov) (nature.com)Short & Sweet— Running Out of Fingers successfully tests key elements of rocket reuse (techcrunch.com)— Huntsville gets a new solid rocket motor maker (rocket.com)Interview— Kyla Edison— Geology and Material Science Technician for PISCES Hawaii—

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00:30:56

Episode 238: Moon Prep

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/12/04

Sorry there are no links in this episode! Squarespace has broken that feature. Please visit theorbitalmechanics.com/show-notes/moon-prep for links and photos.Spaceflight news— RS-25 integrationShort & Sweet— Orion capsule ships to Ohio for testing— Australian company 3D prints large rocketQuestions, comments, corrections— Tempe meetup! — 5 pm Sunday, December 8th — tempe.laboccapizzeria.com — S. Mill Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281This week in SF history— December 4, 1945, Birth of Roberta

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01:23:50

Episode 237: DOWNLINK--Elena Zorzoli Rossi

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/11/27

Spaceflight news— Starship overpressure explosion (spacenews.com) — Rumors on 4Chan, via Reddit and NSF forum (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge)(forum.nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— Some insights into failed lunar landings have come out. (spacenews.com)— Starliner rolls out. (americaspace.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Congrats to our Soonish giveaway winners!Interview— After the interview, Spacety reported a successful firing of I2T5! (spacenews.com)— Elena Zorzoli Rossi, lead

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00:43:18

Episode 236: Panel jettison

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/11/20

Spaceflight news— Spacewalk to repair AMS (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — AMS overview (nasa.gov) — Footage from the EVA — The cover is detached from the restraint clip (youtu.be) — Jettisoning the cover (youtu.be) — Chris Cassidy shows off a zip tie cutter/capture device (youtu.be)Short & Sweet— Hayabusa2 departs Ryugu (japantimes.co.jp)— SpaceX completes Crew Dragon Static Fire tests (spacenews.com)— Launcher gets funding from the Air Force. (spacenews.com)Questions,

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01:07:39

Episode 235: DOWNLINK--Andrew Rader

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/11/12

Spaceflight news— Starliner pad abort test complete (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) — Chute failure caused by misplaced pin (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceX’s Mark 3 parachutes are almost ready to go! (spacenews.com)— China tests gridfins (spacenews.com)— The ISS may see reduced crew for 6 and a half months. (spacenews.com)Interview: Andrew Rader, author, Beyond the Known— andrew-rader.com— twitter.com/marsrader— (amazon.com)This week in SF history— 15 November

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