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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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00:40:57

Episode 234: Irregular Nomenclature

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/11/05

This week in SF history— 29 October 1998: Launch of STS-95 (wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)— Next week in 1974: SolidaritySpaceflight news— Upgraded H3 rocket for lunar missions (spacenews.com) — H-IIA had a proposed asymmetric configuration as well as liquid boosters (HT Sam in the chat: b14643.de)Short & Sweet— Chang’e-5 to launch late next year (spacenews.com)— The X-37 sets another record. (spacenews.com)— NASA gives funding to look into extended mission to Pluto (americaspace.com)—

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00:36:43

Episode 233: IAC DC, 2019

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/10/29

Bit of a weird show this week! No news, tired hosts. We talk about our favorite things from this year’s International Astronautical Congress, and we promise more information later.This show is brought to you by just over one hundred supporters on Patreon (and direct monthly supporters using Bitcoin and Paypal!) We couldn’t have done this without you, and we are so thankful for your confidence in our ability to bring you educational and entertaining content.

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00:40:41

Episode 232: Full Panic Ensued

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/10/15

This week in SF history— October 17, 1956: Birth of Mae Jemison (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Battery replacement EVAs (americaspace.com)— Commercial crew update (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) — Eric Berger says "full panic has ensued" (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) — Dragon done in 10 weeks? (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— Virgin Orbit announces potential Martian cubesat missions. (theverge.com)— Stratolaunch is now under new ownership. (spacenews.com)— The Jason-2 mission has

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00:29:13

Episode 231: Fewer gyros, more problems

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/10/08

This week in SF history— 2000 October 9: HETE-2, first orbital launch from Kwajalein (wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1956: listen in for an audio clue.Spaceflight news— Plans in place to fix DSCOVR (spacenews.com) — We first reported on this on Ep 218 as a S&S (spacenews.com) — Faulty gyro? (twitter.com/simoncarn) — Triana engineers considered laser gyro failures (PDF: nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— NASA Mars 2020 tests descent stage separation (jpl.nasa.gov)— NASA issues request for

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00:41:44

Episode 230: Starship InSight

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/10/01

This week in SF history— October 1, 1958: NASA begins operations (wikipedia.org) (archives.gov)— Next week in 2000: Sometimes a good explosion is exactly what you needSpaceflight news— InSight scientists presents three new discoveries (americaspace.com) (copernicus.org) — Images show scoop packing down regolith around mole? (twitter.com)— Starship update (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (spaceflightnow.com) — Our interview with Tess Caswell on CDRA (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— NASA

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00:43:01

Episode 229: Somewhat Rectilinear

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/09/24

This week in SF history— September 27 2003: last flight of Ariane 5 G, launching E-Bird — First A5 flight, 1996, failed spectacularly (youtu.be) (wikipedia.org) (hownot2code.com) — Next week in 1958: Twelve pagesSpaceflight news— NASA planning on placing a cubesat in a Lunar near-rectilinear halo orbit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — Meanwhile some Congressfolk are suggesting killing Lunar Gateway altogether (arstechnica.com)Short & Sweet— Updates on Rocket Lab and Blue Origin launch

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00:33:55

Episode 228: Fired up

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/09/17

This week in SF history— 21 September 1968: Landing of zond 5 (wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com)— Next week in 2003: generic no longerSpaceflight news— H-IIB launch pad fire (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) (HT Sam in the chat: twitter.com/mageshiman1025)— NASA conducts ground test of the B330. (space.com) — Tour of B330 (Mars Transporter Testing Unit) and Olympus B2100 (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Tianhe passes final review, though delays are still likely (spacenews.com)— NASA’s LRO to take

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00:33:52

Episode 227: Successful Orbiter

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/09/10

This week in SF history— 12 September 1959: Launch of Luna 2 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Chandrayaan-2’s successful orbiter mission? (space.com) (reddit.com) — Doppler curves (twitter.com/cgbassa) — Lander crash site located (thehindu.com) (ndtv.com) — Aeolus dodges a Starlink. (space.com)Short & Sweet— Target marker operation and dress rehearsal postponed for Hayabusa2 (hayabusa2.jaxa.jp)— WFIRST passes PDR (spacenews.com)

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00:32:38

Episode 226: Duricrust

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/09/03

This week in SF history— 7 September 1914: Birth of James Van Allen (wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1962: cloud-based navigationSpaceflight news— Starhopper Completes Test Flight (spacenews.com) — Scott Manley’s excellent coverage (youtube.com) — More detailed photos (twitter.com/bocachicagal) — Updates from Elon Musk (twitter.com/elonmusk)— InSight mole update (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— The completed Rosalind Franklin rover displayed by Airbus engineers! (bbc.com)— Mars 2020

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00:52:42

Episode 225: DATA RELAY--Hot Structures

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/08/27

This week in SF history— August 30, 1931. Birth of Jack Swigert (wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1914: You know what might have killed Swigert….Spaceflight news— Uncrewed Soyuz aborts docking. (spacenews.com) — Second attempt delayed to free up a new docking port. (twitter.com/roscosmos)Short & Sweet— Astrobotic chooses ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to deliver its lunar lander (astrobotic.com)— Sierra-Nevada selects ULA. (spacenews.com)— Europa Clipper passes Key Decision Point-C

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00:35:19

Episode 224: Downward Vector

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/08/20

This week in SF history— August 21, 1959. Little Joe 1 failure (pao.ksc.nasa.gov) (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Linkspace hover test (spacenews.com)— ESA confirms second Exomars parachute test has failed (spacenews.com)— Vector Launch closes its doors (spacenews.com) (PDF: vector-launch.com)Short & Sweet— OSIRIS-REx mission selects candidate sampling sites (nasa.gov)— Robonaut returns to Station. (https://spacenews.com/robonaut-to-return-to-iss/)— BEAM to stay on ISS (spacenews.com)— Virgin

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Episode 223: DOWNLINK--Ella Atkins

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/08/14

This week in SF history— August 17, 1962: Carl Sagan advocates for sterilizing spacecraft (spacemedicineassociation.org) (PDF: pnas.org)Spaceflight news— Rocketlab reuse (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— First ion thruster use on a 1U cubesat (spacenews.com)Interview-- Ella Atkins— Thanks to IEEE for arranging this interview! (IEEE.org)— Dr. Atkins’ profile and CV (umich.edu)— (robotics.umich.edu)— (aiaa.org)

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00:32:46

Episode 222: Heat Sunk

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/08/06

This week in SF history— 9 August 2005: Landing of STS-114 (wikipedia.org)(space.com)Spaceflight news— Cause of GOES-17 satellite issue identified by NOAA+NASA (satellitetoday.com, nasa.gov) — Issue first publicly declared in May 2018 (arstechnica.com) — GOES-West live data (goes.noaa.gov)Short & Sweet— Elon Musk to give update on Starship in three weeks (arstechnica.com)— OneWeb opens for production in Florida. (spaceflightinsider.com)— EDRS shows off its abilities. (parabolicarc.com)

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00:24:57

Episode 221: Soul Source

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/07/30

This week in SF history— 30 July 2008, first full firing of a Falcon 9 with all nine engines (spacex.com)Spaceflight news— NASA issues rare sole source contract to NGIS (spacenews.com, fbo.gov)Short & Sweet— Starhopper hopped (twitter.com/elonmusk) (youtu.be)— Blue Origin fires its BE-7 lunar lander engine (geekwire.com)— Lightsail-2 successfully deploys its sail and sends back imagery (planetary.org)

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Episode 220: DOWNLINK--Ron Burkey

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/07/24

This week in SF history— 25 July 1962: Statement of work issued for LEM (hq.nasa.gov)Spaceflight news— Crew Dragon Explosion Conclusion (spaceflightinsider.com)Short & Sweet— Eight key space observatories renewed (nasa.gov)— Starhopper static fire (nasaspaceflight.com)Interview-- Ron Burkey— Virtual AGC (ibiblio.org)— Java port (svtsim.com)— Scanned original documents (archive.org)— Transcribed code (github.com)

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00:28:21

Episode 219: Future Imperfect

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/07/16

This week in SF history— 18 July 1980: first successful launch of SLV, lofting Rohini RS-1 to orbit. (wikipedia.org)(wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Chandrayaan-2 summary (planetary.org)(wikipedia.org)— InSight Lander’s heat probe is stuck. (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— First Starhopper test hop coming up (spacenews.com)— Firefly partners up to build a lunar lander. (spacenews.com)— Tiangong-2 is ready to deorbit. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— RPG night scheduled

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00:31:53

Episode 218: Low-flying Starlink

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/07/10

This week in SF history— 10 July, 1992: Giotto flies past 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup (wikipedia.org) — Ten instruments onboard (nature.com) — Magnetometer experiment results (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu)Spaceflight news— Orion Abort test is a success (spacenews.com)— Three Starlink satellites goes silent (spacenews.com) — Jeff Bezos files with FCC for Kuiper constellation (geekwire.com)Short & Sweet— ExoMars 2020 suffers parachute problem (spacenews.com)— DSCOVR is in safehold.

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01:00:20

Episode 217: Ms. Tree Snags the Fly!

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/07/03

This week in SF history— July 2, 1952: birth of Linda Godwin (wikipedia.org) — STS-37 (wikipedia.org) — STS-59 (wikipedia.org) — STS-76 (wikipedia.org) — STS-108 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Dragonfly (planetary.org) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (jhuapl.edu)— Falcon Heavy successfully flies STP-2 mission (spacenews.com) (teslarati.com) — Center core TVC failure (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Ms. Tree caught half a fairing (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/)Questions, comments,

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00:50:22

Episode 216: Look to Windward

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/06/26

This week in SF history— 28 June 1969. First flight of Black Arrow (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Upcoming non-Earth science missions — 2019 — Chandrayaan-2 (wikipedia.org) — Spektr-RG (wikipedia.org) — CHEOPS (wikipedia.org) — Chang’e 5 (wikipedia.org) — Lunar Scout / MX-1E (wikipedia.org) — 2020 — Solar Orbiter (wikipedia.org) — PROBA-3 (wikipedia.org) — Aditya-L1 (wikipedia.org) — Exomars (wikipedia.org/Rosalind_Franklin,

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00:44:10

Episode 215: Shibboleth

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/06/18

This week in SF history— 22 June 1978. Discovery of Pluto’s moon Charon by John Christy (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Psyche review/preview (spacenews.com) — Just passed Key Decision Point C (PDF: nasa.gov) — Multispectral Imager is based on MSL’s Mastcam, MAHLI, and MARDI (hou.usra.edu) — Deep space laser communication demo (wikipedia.org)Short & Sweet— India’s Chandrayaan-2 has launch date (theprint.in)— India has plans for its own space station. (parabolicarc.com)— SOFIA

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