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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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00:27:31

Episode 214: Spitzering Nails

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/06/11

This week in SF history— 16 June 1963. Launch of Vostok 6 with Valentina Tereshkova (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Planned retirement of Spitzer (spaceflightnow.com) — Final GO, launched in 2003 at ~1:30am (boeing.mediaroom.com) — Private Funding (spaceflightnow.com) — Iconic image of Andromeda Galaxy (spitzer.caltech.edu) — Another iconic image, the Helix Nebula (spitzer.caltech.edu)Short & Sweet— ISS wants to go commercial (spacenews.com)— NASA tries new strategy for stuck

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01:09:28

Episode 213: DOWNLINK--Laura Forczyk answers...

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/06/04

This week in SF history— June 8, 1965: Launch of Luna 6 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Stratolaunch rumors (reuters.com)— OmegA failure (youtube.com) (space.com)Short & Sweet— All 60 Starlink satellites are doing well. (spacenews.com)— Hayabusa2 successfully deploys target marker after earlier aborted attempt (twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa)— An update on the Crew Dragon anomaly. (nasaspaceflight.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Let us know what you’d like to see in our RSS feed.— Buy a paper

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00:44:28

Episode 212: Cosmic Choo-Choo

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/05/28

This week in SF history— 26 May 1951. Birth of Sally Ride — Rogers Commission (wikipedia.org) (PDF: spaceflight.nasa.gov) — Columbia Accident Investigation Board (wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)Spaceflight news— Starlink deployment begins (spacenews.com) (youtu.be/riBaVeDTEWI) — N2YO is a good satellite tracking resource (n2yo.com) — Visibility concerns (vimeo.com) (twitter.com/Alex_Parker/) (twitter.com/cgbassa) — Auto-avoidance (ieee.org)— Hayabusa2 aborts second marker deployment

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00:35:39

Episode 211: Making a Mark

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/05/21

This week in SF history— May 25, 2008: Phoenix lands on Mars (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— SpaceX engages in internal competition (arstechnica.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Identifies Beresheet Lander’s Crash Site (www.planetary.org) (lroc.sese.asu.edu)— Landspace assembles a methalox engine. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Artur via email: I’m the son of one of those killed in the VLS disaster

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00:37:27

Episode 210: Free Two-Day to Luna

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/05/14

This week in SF history— May 15, 1963, launch of MA-9 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Dragon had a parachute failure (spacenews.com)— Blue Moon (spacenews.com) — Earlier articles (washingtonpost.com) (aviationweek.com)Short & Sweet— Virgin Galactic is coming to Spaceport America. (spacenews.com)— Sixty Starlink satellites to launch on Wednesday. (twitter.com/elonmusk)

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01:12:48

Episode 209: DATA RELAY--Brazil Space

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/05/07

This week in SF history— May 10, 1967. Famous M2-F2 crash (wikipedia.org)(check-six.com)Spaceflight news— Dragon was destroyed prior to SuperDraco firing (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— CRS-17 makes it to Station after several setbacks. (spaceflightinsider.com)— Firefly successfully tests Alpha rocket's upper stage (arstechnica.com)Data Relay: Brazilian Space Program— Thanks to Anderson da Nova for researching and presenting this topic! — twitter.com/DaSupaNova — Unrelated,

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00:32:06

Episode 208: MagneNOmeter

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/04/30

This week in SF history— May 5, 1961: Alan Shepard is first American launched into space on a suborbital flight (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Europa Clipper’s custom magnetometer is dead in the water (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — ICEMAG details (PDF: lpi.usra.edu)(adsabs.harvard.edu) — Galileo also had a magnetometer (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (wikipedia.org)Short & Sweet— Mars InSight Detects First Marsquake (jpl.nasa.gov)— Yutu-2 enters its fourth lunar day. (planetary.org)— Curiosity

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01:06:45

Episode 207: DOWNLINK--Keri Bean

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/04/23

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.

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00:26:37

Episode 206: Lithobrake Backup

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/04/16

This week in SF history— 15/16 April 1960: Luna E-3 no1 and no2 failures (wikipedia.org)(wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com) — Similar to successful Luna 3 mission (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Beresheet crashes on the moon (planetary.org)(spacenews.com)(spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— DARPA contest seeks to improve rapid launch capabilities (darpa.mil)— A successful test flight for Stratolaunch. (spaceflightnow.com) (youtube.com)— Rocketlab unveils Photon smallsat bus (spacenews.com)— Software

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01:04:31

Episode 205: DOWNLINK--SEDS UCF IREC III

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/04/09

This week in SF history— April 9, 1959, Mercury 7 announced (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Beresheet enters orbit (spacenews.com) — Landing details (technology.spaceil.com)Short & Sweet— Starliner gets delayed once again. (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— Hayabusa2 impactor successfully strikes asteroid’s surface (sciencenews.org) (planetary.org)— Starhopper hops (spacenews.com)Interview -- SEDS UCF IREC— Thanks to Pedro for coordinating this interview!— Thanks

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00:33:50

Episode 204: Space Skull

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/04/02

This week in SF history— 3 April 1973: launch of Salyut 2/Almaz 1 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Spacesuit issues interrupts first all-female EVA (spacenews.com) — EVA 52/53 briefing (youtube.com) — State-of-the-EMU audit (PDF: nasa.gov) — Laura Forczyk discussed how this issue is pervasive (twitter.com/LauraForczyk)Short & Sweet— First image of a piece of a Vulcan rocket revealed (arstechnica.com)— Mars Helicopter hovers (spaceflightinsider.com)— India performs an ASAT.

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01:19:49

Episode 203: DOWNLINK--Erika Hamden

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/03/27

This week in SF history— 28 March, 1986: ISEE-3/ICE Comet Halley Distant Flyby (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Crew Dragon is close, but not quite ready for human flight (and other SPX news) (spacenews.com) — Pre-launch presser (github.com) — Tested heat shield (engadget.com) — Hopper tests (spacenews.com) (nextbigfuture.com)Short & Sweet— Beresheet is on course for the moon (spacenews.com)— The ISS gets some fresh batteries (spaceflightnow.com)— NASA engineers still unclear on why

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00:22:32

Episode 202: Kick an SLS while it's down

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/03/19

This week in SF history— 23 March, 1965: Launch of Gemini 3 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— SLS missions transferred to commercial launchers (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) — Cute graphic of Orion on various launchers (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge) — Infographic illustrating cargo capacity vs Orion mass (HT: DeltaVof4point3: reddit.com/r/spacex)Short & Sweet— SABRE rocket engine passes preliminary design review (esa.int)— Chang’e 4 mission enters its third lunar night

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Episode 201: DOWNLINK--Anthony Scodary

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/03/12

This week in SF history— March 17, 1958 the US Naval Research Laboratory launched Vanguard 1 (wikipedia.org) — Thanks to another Ben for the assist (twitter.com/chairboy)Spaceflight news— Hayabusa2 touches down on Ryugu (planetary.org) (planetary.org)(hayabusa2.jaxa.jp) — Sampling Process (hayabusa2.jaxa.jp) (youtube.com) (PDF: hayabusa2.jaxa.jp) — Status blog (hayabusa2.jaxa.jp)Short & Sweet— Crew Dragon returns safely (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)— EELV comes to

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00:34:37

Episode 200: Bicentepisode

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/03/05

This week in SF history— 5 March, 1931. Birth of Jerrie Cobb (wikipedia.org)— March, 1931. Ruth Rowland Nichols set the women's world altitude record. (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— DM-1! — Globe plushie (celestialbuddies.com) — Docking (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) (youtube.com) — David Saint-Jacques and Oleg Kononenko entering Crew Dragon capsule for 1st time (twitter.com/SpaceflightNow) — Were Super Dracos installed? (space.stackexchange.com)Short & Sweet—

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01:15:30

Episode 199: DATA RELAY--Hypergolics

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/02/27

This week in SF history— 2004 February 26. First ISS EVA with no one inside (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Beresheet prepares to land on the Moon (planetary.org) — PS this booster will be the one used for the in-flight abort (americaspace.com)Short & Sweet— Despite issues, Soyuz successfully deploys EgyptSat-A (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb/)— Another successful test flight for Virgin Galactic. (spaceflightnow.com)— Hayabusa2’s first sampling! (engadget.com)Questions,

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00:38:47

Episode 198: 45.16 kilometers

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/02/19

This week in SF history— February 21, 1964: The birth of Scott Kelly (wikipedia.org)— February 21, 1964: The birth of Mark Kelly (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Saying Goodbye to Opportunity (americaspace.com)(spacenews.com)(youtube.com) — Close call in 2005 (newscientist.com) — Superlatives (wikipedia.org) — Possible Deep sleep issue (twitter.com/elakdawalla)Short & Sweet— Fourteen more days of night for Chang’e-4. (spacenews.com)— RS-25 testing resumes at NASA Stennis

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01:11:45

Episode 197: DATA RELAY--Composite Materials

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/02/12

This week in SF history— February 14, 2000: NEAR-Shoemaker enters orbit of Eros (wikipedia.org) — Anomaly analysis (PDF near.jhuapl.edu)Spaceflight news— MarCO satellites are now silent (spacenews.com) (jpl.nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— ISS suffers another leak, but this time of the messy, non-dangerous type (nasaspaceflight.com)— NASA seeks a human-rated lunar lander. (spaceflightinsider.com)— Updated Shape Model of 2014 MU69 surprises planetary scientists (arstechnica.com)Questions, comments,

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00:35:49

Episode 196: This Engine's Got Gas

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/02/05

This week in SF history— 7 February 2001: The launch of Destiny on Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-95 — WORF patch is awesome (collectspace.com)Spaceflight news— NASA Making Renewed Efforts to Contact Mars Rover Opportunity (spacenews.com)Raptor update— Scott Manley points out Merlin has come a long way (youtube.com) (b14643.de) — Photos from Elon (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— Blue Origin gets another customer (spaceflightinsider.com)— ABL Space Systems gets more competitive

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01:09:26

Episode 195: DATA RELAY--Spacecraft Navigation

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/01/30

This week in SF history— January 31, 1961: Mercury MR-2 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Starship Hopper's nose cone knocked over by heavy winds. (brownsvilleherald.com)Short & Sweet— Commercial crew swaps an astronaut. (spacenews.com)— Blue Origin is coming to Alabama. (spacenews.com)— Hubble’s primary camera is back online.(spaceflightnow.com)Questions, comments, corrections— By-line mixup, Chris Bush vs Ben McPheronData Relay: Spacecraft Navigation— Thanks to Ben McPheron for researching and

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