The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Episode 413: Glob

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Luna-25/Luna-Glob delayed (space.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com)Short &a...

Episode 412: Rocket Suture-y

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Starliner Woes (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — We tracked down some info on P-213 and P-213LW fiberglass tape...

Episode 411: Cliff Confusion

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— HAKUTO-R failure analysis (HT deltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (ispace-inc.com) (spacenews.com) — Apollo s...

Episode 410: Sneeze Maneuver

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Blue Origin wins HLS contract (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (PDF: sam.gov ...

Episode 409: Carry a Big Stick

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— China’s spaceplane makes maneuvers (spacenews.com)— Kosmos-2562 makes maneuvers as well (twitter.com/planet4589) (russianspace...

Episode 408: Swedish Yeetfall

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Evolution Space becomes 9th private U.S. company to reach space (twitter.com/evolutionspace_) (parabolicarc.com)— UP Aerospace r...

Episode 407: Trenchless

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Starship update (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (americaspace.com)— We missed the point of the skydiving pebble story (discord.com...

Episode 406: SpaceXcavator

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Starship, destroyer of concrete (youtube.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/landru79) (HT Iain from MaxQ: twitte...

Episode 405: Niobium's Neat

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— SpaceX cuts costs (spacenews.com)— Starship launch license (spacenews.com)— Relativity pivots away from Terran-1 (spacenews.co...

Episode 404: Not Found

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Centaur explosion (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)  (twitter.com/torybruno) — The test stand can be seen in 3...

Episode 403: Virgin Deorbit

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Exploring Mars Together (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Seized assets in Kazakhstan threatens ...

Episode 402: Rainbow Shock Diamonds

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Relativity’s Terran-1 fails to reach orbit (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/thetimellis) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Priv...

Episode 401: Ring Around the Heatshield

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Stoke Space prepares for hopper landing trial (HT Andrew Z: twitter.com/stoke_space)  (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— NASA ...

Episode 400: Dramatic Dogleg

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— VV22 investigation (HT Sam: esa.int) (spacenews.com) (arianespace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— IBEX mission over...

Episode 399: DOWNLINK--D. Geoff Carter, PE

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— TROPICS-1 mishap investigation (HT Mike Stewart: astra.com)Short & Sweet— HST impacted by satellite trails (nature.com)— C...

Episode 398: Paint it Black

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Starship’s near future (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— NASA pla...

Episode 397: Loss of Cool

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Soyuz MS-22 leak images (HT deltaV: russianspaceweb.com VIA twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb)  — Eric Berger posted a compari...

Episode 396: Valentine Breakup

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Kosmos-2499 breakup (russianspaceweb.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (space.com)— Superheavy static fire (nasaspaceflight.com) (...

Episode 395: Salvage Mode

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— SSLV launch failure investigation completed (spacenews.com) (​isro.gov.in) — VTM separation was captured on video, but payl...

Episode 394: Partial Barber Pole

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— NASA Tests a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (nasa.gov) (PDF: mdpi.com) (Scott Manley: youtube.com) (ntrs.nasa.gov) — JAXA ...

Episode 393: Sequential Signal Loss

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— ABL failure analysis (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)Short & Sweet— NASA scales back ISS scientist program (sp...

Episode 392: Virgin Suborbital

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Soyuz MS-22 rescue (spacenews.com) (russianspaceweb.com)— Virgin Orbit failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (virginorbit.com)...

Episode 391: Galloping Gertie

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— LunaH-Map struggles to enter lunar orbit (spacewatch.global) (PDF: static1.squarespace.com VIA busek.com) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu...

Episode 390: Baby, It’s Coolant Outside

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— MS-22 coolant leak (arstechnica.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)Short & Sweet— Lockheed Martin performs habit...

Episode 389: The Emperor's New Alpaca

14 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— The finalists return - HLS2 (spacepolicyonline.com) (space.com) (spacepolicyonline.com)Short & Sweet— New Chinese rocket deb...

Episode 388: NASA Cuts Carbs

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis I Update — RS-25 analysis (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: nasa.gov VIA twitter.com/sciencepolicia) — Reached DRO hal...

Episode 387: Big Bird and Friends

30 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis I progress (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov)— NASA history report on Administrator James Webb released...

Episode 386: DOWNLINK--Margaret Weitekamp, Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis I Launch (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (HT MCC: twitter.com/derekdotspace) —...

Episode 385: PSLV: Pumpkin Spice Latte Vehicle

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Cygnus Winged (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)  (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)S...

Episode 384: Spaceplane, Spaceplane, Fire

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Rocket Lab’s Catch Me If You Can Wasn’t (parabolicarc.com) (businesswire.com) (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— Ch...

Episode 383: Begging for Rides and Ropes

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— VirtualAGC posts their final moonshot LM software package (github.com/virtualagc) (ibiblio.org) (github.com/thewonderidiot) (youtu...

Episode 382: DOWNLINK--Joel C. Sercel PhD, CEO of TransAstra

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— ISS EVAs resumed (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) — Back in March, Matthias Maurer had a leak in his suit (spacenews.com) (ph...

Episode 381: Spin-stabilized PR

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Epsilon failure (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtu.be) (PDF: jaxa.jp)— Skyrora failure (skyrora.com) (youtube.com)— ...

Episode 380: DOWNLINK--Alex Doknjas and Biarki Weeks

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Test Fest III — Ariane 6 test fires upper stage engines (esa.int) — Aerojet-Rocketdyne tests new solid motor (rocket.com...

Episode 379: Ramming Speed!

05 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— DART (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/nasa) (twitter.com/LICIACube) (twitter.com/SenBillNelson) ...

Episode 378: Next Gen Turkey

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Rocket Lab updates (satellitetoday.com) — There was a presentation for investors September 21 (youtube.com) (PDF: rocketlabus...

Episode 377: DOWNLINK--Araz Feyzi, Kayhan Space

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— CAPSTONE safe mode update (advancedspace.com) (advancedspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)Short & Sweet— SLD lander RFP (spacene...

Episode 376: Masten? Suits us!

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis I update (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Axiom selected for Artemis 3 space suit...

Episode 375: DOWNLINK--Jason Armstrong, Chris Craddock, Addie Dove

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis I — First attempt (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) ...

Episode 374: Something Launches Soon

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Starship prep, Falcon repairs (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceexplored.com)Short & Sweet— Intelsat loses c...

Episode 373: DOWNLINK--Chris Carella and Mahadevan Krishnan

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis III landing site candidates released (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) — Artemis I rolled out August 16 (nasaspaceflight.com...

Episode 372: Failure of a Logic

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis I lookahead (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Starlink hits bad weather (spacenews.com)— Antares gets ...

Episode 371: NIMBY

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Rocket 3 is dead, long live Rocket 4 (astra.com) (spacenews.com) (astra.com)Short & Sweet— Russian Satellite might be Snoopi...

Episode 370: OneViaEutelTelesat

03 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Helicopters join Mars Sample Return (cnet.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— Eutelsat/OneWe...

Episode 369: DOWNLINK--R. Matt Villarreal, Infinite Composites

27 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Wentian launched (nasaspaceflight.com) — An array of new research facilities is onboard (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight) — CZ...

Episode 368: We're JWST getting started

19 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— ABL static fire (spacenews.com)— Rocket Factory Augsburg static fire (rfa.space)— Superheavy FOOMPF (arstechnica.com) (spacene...

Episode 367: Going Ballistic

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— CAPSTONE’s gone. And now it’s back! (space.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (satellitetoday.com) — AS published a Bal...

Episode 366: From CAPSTONE to Skipping Stone

05 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— CAPSTONE (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (advancedspace.com) — Cislunar Autonomou...

Episode 365: 3.4 Leak Units

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— SLS WDR FIFI (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)— SRB Hydraulic Power Unit hot fire test was complete...

Episode 364: Tissue Paper Pineapple

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Lucy in the news with updates (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Starliner gets i...

Episode 363: A Surfeit of Hypergols

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Cargo Dragon leak (cnet.com) (space.com)— Ingenuity’s woes (cnet.com) (mars.nasa.gov) (PDF: arc.nasa.gov) — Martian winte...

Episode 362: Wet Hot American Dress Rehearsal Summer

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— xEVAS selection (nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (theverge.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Helicopter Hunkering (spacenews.com) (jp...

Episode 361: DOWNLINK--Vaya Space

01 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Psyche launch (sike!) (space.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)Short & Sweet— Airbus wins contract to build LISA (air...

Episode 360: Thrust but Verify

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— OFT-2 (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) — Debris shedding after booster sep T+3:00 (twitter.com/elizabethtin...

Episode 359: Venus is for Louvers

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks to Deathkin for naming this week’s episode!Spaceflight News— Rocket 4.0 unveiling (spacenews.com) — Chris Kemp asks “why can’t a c...

Episode 358: DOWNLINK--Awais Ahmed, PIXXEL

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Rocket Lab Helicopter Catch (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — CAPSTONE’s up next (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Astrosca...

Episode 357: On-Orbit Spare

03 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Ligado stepping on GPS’ toes (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (fiercewireless.com)Short & Sweet— OSIRIS-REx mission exte...

Episode 356: DOWNLINK--Daniel Bock, Morpheus Space

27 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Peregrine preparing for flight (spacenews.com) (astrobotic.com) (en.wikipedia.org)Short & Sweet— TDRS to be replaced (spacen...

Episode 355: Minecart on the Moon

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis-1 Wet Dress Rehearsal(spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — WDR is deferring to Ax-1 landing (spacenews.co...

Episode 354: Damp Dress Rehearsal

13 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Spinlaunch (space.com) (HT McMally: businesswire.com)— SLS wet rehearsal modification (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (spac...

Episode 353: Golden Sample Retriever

05 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— MSR delayed and split in half (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov)— Northrup Grumman eyeing its own SLD contract (spacenews.com) (nas...

Episode 352: A Nullage

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Second Artemis Lander (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— NASA opens 50-year-old lunar sample (cnet.com) (PDF: curator....

Episode 351: B-B-B-Borscht

23 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis I Rollout (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceX sets two new records (spacenews...

Episode 350: DOWNLINK--Zachary Tong

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Astra LV0008/ELaNA 41 failure analysis (spacenews.com) (astra.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— OSAM-1 completes crit...

Episode 349: Shrapnarelli

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— More Russian fallout — Russia threatens OneWeb launch (spaceflightnow.com) — OneWeb looking to non-Russian rockets (spac...

Episode 348: #0057B7 / #FFD700

02 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Sanctions on Russia — Roscosmos pulled out of French Guiana (twitter.com/planet4589) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter...

Episode 347: Another JWST Episode

23 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— JWST Alignment (PDF: spacefoundation.org) (HT deathkin: jwst-docs.stsci.edu) — Follow JWST’s alignment progress on Where Is...

Episode 346: Not Fairing Well

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Astra failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Mysterious Moon Masher (twitter.com/sciguyspace) (...

Episode 345: DOWNLINK--Dr. Tupper Hyde

09 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— JWST cryocooler — Alternative tube configurations include U-bend and coaxial (PDF p7: trc.nist.gov) — Testing shows the ...

Episode 344: Dirty Deeds Done in Geo

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Shijian-21 does some space tuggin’ (spacenews.com) — Last November, a new object, 2021-094C, appeared near SJ-21 (spacenews...

Episode 343: DOWNLINK--Alex Lao

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight News— Artemis rescheduling (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Gamma ray observatory suffers anomaly in LEO (space.com)— SpaceX wins a...

Episode 342: Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror... Mirror

19 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— JWST deployment — A detailed timeline is available from Jonathan McDowell (planet4589.org) — Hexapod actuators (PDF: esm...

Episode 341: Weaving a Webb

12 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— JWST finishes deployment steps! — Primary and Secondary mirror deployment (esmats.eu) — Aft Deployed Instrument Radiator...

Episode 340: JWST Goes Teakettle

05 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— JWST launched (blogs.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Realtra’s VIKI cameras looked fantastic! (...

Episode 339: Season's Yeetings from JWST

22 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Superheavy (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Raptor 2 will produce 230+ tons of thrust (twitter.com/elonmusk) — McGregor will onl...

Episode 338: Junk in the Frunk

14 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Short & Sweet— Astra to launch next from Cape Canaveral (spacenews.com)— SpaceX gets FCC approval for Starship launch, starts construction on ...

Episode 337: Oh, Craptor…

08 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Raptor issues (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (spaceexplored.com)— Neutron, a 2050 rocket (youtube.com) (spacenews...

Episode 336: Bad Vibrations

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— JWST bonk (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (esa.int) (youtube.com) — The clamp came off “in a way that it was not designed to com...

Episode 335: DOWNLINK--Matthew Kuhns, Masten Space Systems

24 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Astraaaaaa! (space.com) (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org) — Astra issued an update after we recorded this episode (twitter.c...

Episode 334: Dizzy

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— SpinLaunch spins (spinlaunch.com) (cnbc.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) — Nike Sprint is one of several othe...

Episode 333: #1 Concern

10 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Blue lawsuit (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Dragons Passing in the Night (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)—...

Episode 332: Boo Origin and Spider Webbs

03 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Orbital Reef announced (blueorigin.com) (orbitalreef.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) — Other Commercial LEO Destinat...

Episode 331: DOWNLINK--The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill

27 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Starliner investigation continuation continues (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)Short & Sweet— Lucy solar array issue (space...

Episode 330: We Got Some Lucy Splainin' To Do

20 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Rocket 3.3 follow-up (spacenews.com) (astra.com)— Lucy’s in the sky (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (americ...

Episode 329: DOWNLINK--Kevin Rice

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Artemis funding (spacenews.com)— Starliner stuff — Valves (spacenews.com) — Reassigned crew (spacenews.com) (spacepoli...

Episode 328: Employee-Rich Combustion

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Blue Origin’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week — Blue experienced morale issues related to remote work (cnbc.com)...

Episode 327: DOWNLINK--Othniel C. Mbamalu, Advanced Rockets Corp.

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Short & Sweet— Space Operations Mission Directorate and Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate split (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.c...

Episode 326: Martian Alps

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— First Perseverance sample collection (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) — “Where Is The Rover” map, featuring Ingenuit...

Episode 325: Wandering Fragment

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— NASA and the Giant Budget Reconciliation (spacenews.com)— Starlink antennas again (spacenews.com) — Thanks to Ben Hallert f...

Episode 324: Fireflyn’t

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Firefly Alpha launch failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (firefly.com) — Scott Manley’s first takes included some “ol...

Episode 323: Per Latus Ad Astra

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Rocket3.3 Exits Stage Right (astra.com) (space.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) — Follows an abort on Friday called by the gu...

Episode 322: DOWNLINK--John E Ward

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Blue Origin lawsuit, and exodus — Lawsuit filed against NASA on Aug 19 (theverge.com) (spacenews.com) — > 11 key empl...

Episode 321: Liftoff

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— 2018 Soyuz leak turns into a whodunnit (arstechnica.com) (HT DeltaV: arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/KathyLueders)— Starliner Dest...

Episode 320: DOWNLINK--Danny Gleeson

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Astra readies for next orbital launch (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Astra) (spacenews.com)— Super Heavy Starship stacked! (twitte...

Episode 319: Nauka Goes For a Spin

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Nauka Arrives (spaceflightnow.com) (space.com) — Investigation of the issue (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) — Amazing foot...

Episode 318: Pure Guts Poker

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Nauka Launched (spacenews.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) — Three sets of engines on Nauka (twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb) ...

Episode 317: Youngest, Oldest, Richest

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Hubble back online (PDF: asd.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF: ses.gsfc.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (nasa.gov) (sciencemag.org)Short & Sweet—...

Episode 316: DOWNLINK--Bill Britton, CCI

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Northrop Grumman signs HALO contract (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) — A docking adapter is planned for HLS (PD...

Episode 315: Dovin McCallister

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Transporter-2 payloads (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (geekwire.com) (PDF: fcc.report)Short & Sweet— ...

Episode 314: Wet Trash Odor

23 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab wins Mars mission (space.com) (hou.usra.edu) — Characteristic energy, declination, right ascension of the departur...