The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight News

-- NASA nixes VIPER (spacenews.com) (newscientist.com)

European Short & Sweet

-- Ariane 6 may carry crew (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- Europe announces RAMSES mission to Apophis (arstechnica.com) (esa.int)

-- Themis gets delayed (europeanspaceflight.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 29 Jul, 1999. Deep Space 1, NASA’s first S/C with ion propulsion, flies by asteroid 9969 Braille (en.wikipedia.org)

-- We interviewed DS-1’s chief mission engineer and deputy mission manager Marc Rayman in Episode 75 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

-- Ron Garret discussed the RAX bug in his talk The Remote Agent Experiment (youtube.com)

-- Next week (7/30 - 8/5) in 1992: We’ll hang on to this one, and come back for that one later

Spaceflight News

-- Falcon 9 Failure (spacenews.com)  (spaceflightnow.com)

-- Ariane 6 anomaly (europeanspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

-- Hyperbola-1 mishap (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Europa Clipper faces last-minute obstacle (space.com)

-- Dawn gets green light for spaceplane tests (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 17 July, 1977. First launch of a complete TKS spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (nasa.gov)

-- Next week (7/23 - 7/29) in 1999: Is that a grid of dots on that asteroid?

Spaceflight News

-- Luch (Olymp) 2 “caught” snooping (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (thespacereview.com)

Short & Sweet

-- The Poles make it to space! (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- ISRO announces major size increase to Indian space station (x.com/ISROSpaceflight)

Interview --  MSI-DFAT

-- We talked to:

-- Alex Carrella, VP Strategy & Growth

-- Bradley Hope, Business Manager

-- Max Myers, Systems Engineer/Lead Rigger

-- Before DFAT (and RFAT), we had feet. (youtube.com)

-- msidfat.com

-- linktr.ee/msidfat

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- July 12, 2001. Launch of Artemis GEO satellite (en.wikipedia.org) (esa.int) (PDF: esa.int)

-- Next week (7/16 - 7/22) in 1977: One month now, 312 months later

Spaceflight News

-- The Vulcan train is leaving the station (spacenews.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Starliner’s extended-er ISS stay (spacenews.com)

-- A not-so-static test fire (spacenews.com)

-- Resurs P1 breaks up (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: (americaspace.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 8 July, 1994. Launch of STS-65 (en.wikipedia.org)

-- Next week (7/9 - 7/15) in 2001: Spiraling into control

Spaceflight News

-- Long March 10 hot firing (spacenews.com) (weixin.qq.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Latest taikonaut class selected (space.com)

Short & Sweet

-- ESA gets involved in Vega C’s transfer (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- Ariane 6 gets dressed (spacenews.com)

-- Starliner’s extended ISS stay (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- Next week (7/1 - 7/8) in 1994: From rocket to lab

Spaceflight News

-- Starliner OFT (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)

-- Suni Williams gave a tour on orbit (HT Dennis O: youtube.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Chinese space plane proximity ops (sattrackcam.blogspot.com)

-- NASA selects companies to explore Mars Sample Return methods (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)

-- VOYAGER’S BACK!!! (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: ISS replicates War of the Worlds radio drama (space.com) (twitter.com/airplaneian)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 24 Jun, 1982. Soyuz T-6 carries Jean-Loup Chrétien, the first Frenchman, to Salyut 7 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de)

-- Next week (6/25 - 7/1) in 1983: Six seconds calls for vodka

Spaceflight News

-- Starship Test Flight 4 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (spacey.space/@spmttracker)

Short & Sweet

-- Vast plans for ESA (spacenews)

-- Chang’e-6 has its moon rocks (spacenews) (spacenews.com)

-- Hubble Hobble (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- RIP Bill Anders (apnews.com)

-- Traches: Relativity and Novas (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 11 June, 2008. Launch of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov)

-- Next week (6/18 - 6/24) in 1982: First wolf in space?

Spaceflight News

-- ThinkSubOrbital (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (sbir.gov) (sbir.gov)

Short & Sweet

-- Starliner scrub (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Indian startup Agnikul Notches launches first flight (payloadspace.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro:

-- Chang’e 6 landing (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Dear Moon canceled (spacenews.com)

-- Deathkin via discord.com: Centaur’s not a workhorse

-- Heads up for a recurrent nova! (planetary.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 8 June in 1959: Regulus Missile Mail (HT SciKyle: postalmuseum.si.edu)

-- Next week (6/11 - 6/17) in 2008: A salty Italian

Spaceflight News

-- More Starliner Delays (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: https://arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

-- U.S. accuses Russia of launching countersat weapon (spacenews.com) (payloadspace.com) 

-- Redwire wins award for European lunar lander’s robot arm (europeanspaceflight.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Bepi-Colombo power failure (esa.int)

-- Ryan R: Technology Connections talked about heterodyne radios (youtube.com VIA discord.com)

Interview --  Justin Fiaschetti, CEO and Co-Founder of Inversion

-- twitter.com/InversionSpace

-- inversionspace.com

-- linkedin.com

-- linkedin.com 

This Week in Spaceflight History

--  2 Jun, 2003. Launch of Mars Express (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (universetoday.com)

-- Next week (6/4 - 6/10) in 1959: A short-term version of the above

Spaceflight News

-- NASA Joins Rosalind Franklin Team (spacenews.com)

-- Unknown Russian sat launched (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Georgia scraps Spaceport Camden (actionnewsjax.com)

-- Starliner leaks Helium (spacenews)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 27 May, 1999: The launch of STS-96 (nasa.gov) (nss.org) (eoportal.org) (nasa.gov) (youtu.be)

-- Next week (5/28 - 6/3) in 2003: The last opportunity that was this good was 60,000 years ago