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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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01:22:21

Episode 194: DATA RELAY--Exotic Propulsion Methods

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/01/23

This week in SF history— 24 January, 1978. Kosmos 954 decayed over russia. (wikipedia.org) — This was a Upravlyaemy Sputnik Aktivnyy (Управляемый Спутник Активный) “Controlled Active Satellite” (wikipedia.org) — Wikipedia has a great list of nuclear reactors in space, including their fates (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Chang’e-4 enters Lunar night (spacenews.com) (cnn.com) — Scott Manley made a landing footage analysis video (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Relativity Space gets a launch

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00:28:38

Episode 193: Blinded by Overvoltage

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/01/15

This week in SF history— 19 Jan 2006: launch of New Horizons (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Further Hubble issues (universetoday.com) — Other instruments, including ACS are working fine (PDF: arizona.edu)Short & Sweet— Hayabusa2 releases date for first sample collection. (space.com)— Stratolaunch taxi test reaches 136 mph, almost takeoff speed. (geekwire.com)— SpaceX’s DM-1 mission delayed. (spacenews.com)— SpaceX to cut roughly 10 percent of its workforce. (spacenews.com)Questions,

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01:19:22

Episode 192: DATA RELAY--Sea Dragon

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/01/09

This week in SF history— 9 January 1990. Launch of STS-32 (wikipedia.org) — Syncom IV-F5/Leasat 5 used a “Frisbee” deployment (youtu.be) — LDEF, Long Duration Exposure Facility had a lot of experiments onboard (youtube.com)Spaceflight news— New Horizons rings in the new year! (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — Preliminary science results (sci-news.com)— OSIRIS-REx rings in the new year! (nasa.gov) — M3A originally “bounced” the spacecraft orbital direction (PDF: nasa.gov)Short &

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00:39:07

Episode 191: One Small Step For a Small Rover

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2019/01/01

This week in SF history— 2 January 2004: Stardust flies past Wild 2 (wikipedia.org) — Whipple shielding (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Chang’e 4 pre-landing summary (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceX on schedule for its first commercial interplanetary launch. (teslarati.com)— India to launch its own astronauts. (indiatimes.com)— Crewed Orion spacecraft passes critical design review. (nasaspaceflight.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Peter via email: cosmic background radiation is only

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00:40:37

Episode 190: Tin Can

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/12/25

This week in SF history— December 30, 1995, launch of Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov)Spaceflight news— More Starship photos and tweets. (teslarati.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Technical presentation promised (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Comparison to publicity photos (nasaspaceflight.com) — New metallurgy (twitter.com/elonmusk) (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— SpaceX reveals first completed Crew Dragon spaceship. (teslarati.com)— New Shepard is scrubbed until

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00:40:22

Episode 189: Rocket Surgery

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/12/18

This week in SF history— December 20 1999, STS-103, Hubble Servicing Mission 3A (wikipedia.org)(nasa.gov) — Aft shroud latches damaged by high temperatures (spacetelescope.org)(nasa.gov) — Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) (nasa.gov) — Solid State Recorder (PDF: nasa.gov)Spaceflight news— SpaceShipTwo (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) — Mark Stucky and C.J. Sturckow piloted the craft, and will get astronaut wings. (twitter.com/jackiewattles)— Soyuz hole investigated on spacewalk (space.com)

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00:36:10

Episode 188: Pirouette

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/12/11

This week in SF history— December 12, 1965: Gemini 6A launch abort (wikipedia.org) — AST: Why did Gemini use ejection seats? (youtube.com)Spaceflight news— Fun CRS-16 landing (spacenews.com) — Video — Land tracking (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Onboard (twitter.com/elonmusk) — John Kraus took some great photos, particularly of recovery (johnkrausphotos.com) — Core B1050 might be reused for an internal SpaceX mission (witter.com/elonmusk) — B1050 r/SPX wiki tracking

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00:16:35

Episode 187: Scarcely a One At All

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/12/02

This week in SF history— December 5, 2002, launch of TDRS-10 (wikipedia.org) — Built on the Boeing 601 chassis (wikipedia.org)Questions, comments, corrections— Richard Witherspoon via email: TAGSAM separation plane— Ben Hallert via email: Falcon Heavy and a handful of Falcon 9s have launched from 39A.— Meetup! (twitter.com/orbitalpodcast) — Wednesday the 5th, 6 pm at four peaks brewing company on 8th ave in Tempe.

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01:11:17

Episode 186: DOWNLINK--Richard Witherspoon

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/11/27

This week in SF history— 1 December 2000: Launch of STS-97 (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Virgin Orbit completes captive carry test flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— Crew Dragon’s Test Flight Scheduled (spacenews.com)— China Prepares for Lunar Lander (spacenews.com)— A Glimpse Into SpaceX’ Spaceship Testing (spacenews.com)— NASA picks a landing site for Mars 2020 Rover. (spaceflightnow.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Maximum Aerodynamic Pressure released by Tim

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00:31:50

Episode 185: Let it burn

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/11/20

This week in SF history— November 21 1960: Mercury MR-1’s very short flight (youtube.com) (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— SLS program may be voluntarily ended. (businessinsider.com) (nextbigfuture.com)— SpaceX will not be upgrading Falcon 9 second stage. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— The FCC approves four large satellite constellations. (spacenews.com)— Russia is looking into reusable rockets too. (parabolicarc.com)— OSIRIS-REx unfurls its sampling arm for first time en

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01:14:14

Episode 184: DATA RELAY--Mars InSight

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2018/11/13

This week in SF history— November 14, 1933. The birth of Fred Wallace Haise Jr. (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Lucy passes key decision point C (americaspace.com) — Project life cycle (PDF: nasa.gov)— SpaceX will fly mini BFR ship as second stage for F9. (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Scott Manley did a great overview/speculation video (youtube.com)Data Relay: NASA Mars InSight— Thank you to Richard Durden for presenting this topic. (twitter.com/rkdurden)— InSight press kit is very

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00:33:39

Episode 183: Case Closed

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/11/06

This week in SF history— November 5, 2013: Launch of Mangalyaan (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Dawn’s dead (spacenews.com) — We talked to mission manager Marc Rayman on episode 75 (theorbitalmechanics.com)— MS-10 was failure caused by a bent pin (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) — Scott Manley has slow-mo analysis (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— OSIRIS-REx captures first view of Bennu. (astronomynow.com)— Starman is now beyond Mars. (space.com)

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00:28:46

Episode 182: Astronomia Nova

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/10/30

This week in SF history— October 24, 1957: Beginning of the Dyna-Soar program (wikipedia.org)(astronautix.com)Spaceflight news— Soyuz will resume crewed flight in December. (spaceflightnow.com)Short & Sweet— Hubble up and running. (nasa.gov)(spacenews.com)— Landspace falls short of orbit. (spacenews.com)— Kepler is in safe mode (spacenews.com) — Post-recording note: Kepler has officially been retired. (twitter.com/NASAKepler)Questions, comments, corrections— Chris Hofmann via DM: Astra Rocket

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00:32:16

Episode 181: Oxygen the Enemy

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/10/23

This week in SF history— Oct. 26, 2004. Cassini’s first Titan flyby (nasa.gov)Spaceflight news— Soyuz update (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT: Sam Moore russianspaceweb.com)Short & Sweet— Hubble Space Telescope nears operational status (twitter.com/TodLauer)— Paul Allen passes away. (spacenews.com)— Rocket Lab has selected a U.S. launch site. (nasaspaceflight.com)— Astra Space Rocket 2 licensed for launch soon (PDF: faa.gov)Questions, comments, corrections— Ben Hallert, via email: Soyuz

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01:42:27

Episode 180: DATA RELAY--Saturn V Umbilicals

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/10/17

This week in SF history-- October 18, 1963, first flight of a cat (gizmodo.com) (youtu.be)-- Véronique AG1 is a V-2 derivative with detachable fins (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news-- Soyuz MS-10 fails during second stage flight (nasaspaceflight.com)(youtube.com) -- Primary cause: Soyuz-FG first stage separation failure (JPG: wikipedia.org) (spaceflightinsider.com) -- “Lower part of first stage disintegrated” (http://tass.com/science/1025675) -- D booster at fault

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01:19:39

Episode 179: DATA RELAY--Combustion Instability

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/10/09

This week in SF history— October 12, 1977, ALT-15, first flight of Shuttle without tail cone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approach_and_Landing_Tests)Spaceflight news— MASCOT successfully lands on Ryugu’s surface (http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/mascot-landing-on-ryugu-successful.html) — Wonderful images of — Its shadow (planetary.s3.amazonaws.com) — a 3-frame movie of its descent (planetary.org) — a nice image of both the rover/hopper and its shadow

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00:58:00

Episode 178: DATA RELAY--Power Generation

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/10/02

This week in SF history— 7 September 1958 First flight of Black Knight (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Vector patents propylene engine (arstechnica.com) — Fuel stats (yarchive.net)Short & Sweet— ULA selects the BE-4 for Vulcan first stage (spaceflightinsider.com)— Stratolaunch releases some info about its new engine (spacenews.com)— SpaceX will send another company’s robots to the Moon in 2021 (futurism.com)Data Relay: Power Generation with Chris Bush— Solar Power — Cubesat panels can be

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00:50:33

Episode 177: 1/80,000 G

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/09/25

This week in SF history— 29 September 1945: Von Braun arrives in the US (apesinspace.co)(wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— MINERVA-2 touches down on Asteroid Ryugu (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/haya2e_jaxa) — Hayabusa cat tribute (youtube.com) — Approach GIF (twitter.com/tariqjmalik) — Diagram of interior rotating mass (spaceflight101.com)— TESS gets to work (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceX and Boeing say they both meet NASA crew safety requirements. (spacenews.com)— Crewed

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00:49:45

Episode 176: Delta Done

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/09/18

This week in SF history— September 18–19, 1980, Damascus Missile Disaster (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— BFR announcement (youtube.com) — dearmoon.earthShort & Sweet— PD Aerospace announces a new spaceplane with “hybrid” engine. (japantimes.co.jp)— Orion parachute test is a success. (parabolicarc.com)— Delta II has launched for the last time. (spacenews.com)

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00:37:37

Episode 175: A Little Shimmy

The Orbital Mechanics Podcast ·

2018/09/11

This week in SF history— 1962 September 11 - NASA Astronaut Training Group 2 “The New Nine” selected (wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— SLS ML rolled out to the pad (nasaspaceflight.com)— Exos launch post analysis (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Shizuoka University and several partner universities to test “mini” space elevator prototype STARS-Me (japantimes.co.jp) (cnet.com) (wikipedia.org)— Kepler resumes science mission. (spacenews.com)— ISS leak was caused by a drill, not MMOD

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