The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight News

-- B1062 lost (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com)

Short & Sweet

-- Intuitive Machines selected for lunar South Pole mission (spacenews.com)

-- Stoke Space wins contract to prototype cargo delivery (satellitetoday.com) (stokespace.com)

-- Starliner wob wob (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: Europa Clipper (planetary.org)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 6 Sept, 1988: The troublesome landing of Soyuz TM-5 (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org)

-- Next week (9/10 - 9/16) in 2009: Stork with a smile

Spaceflight News

-- Starliner crew to return on Dragon (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

-- EscaPADE arrives in Florida (spacenews.com)

-- SLS gets bumped up a block (spacenews)

-- RFA first stage lost in test-firing anomaly (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (youtu.be)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 27 Aug, 1985. Launch of STS-51-I (PDF: nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (wikiarchives.space) (en.wikipedia.org)

-- Next week (9/3 - 9/9) in 1988: Shouldn’t have had that last cup of coffee

Spaceflight News

-- First polar-orbiting crewed mission announced (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)

Short & Sweet

-- New solid rocket game in town (breakingdefense.com) (spacenews.com)

-- Spaceport Rundown (flyingmag.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (cnbc.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From Espen Urkedal via email: Raptor 3 is not as incomplete as it looks (twitter.com/gwynne_shotwell)

Interview -- Rocket Lab’s Cristophe Mandy and Sarah Blyde

-- There’s also a brief appearance by Lane Cook, Senior Program Manager

-- Thank you so much to the Rocket Lab team for making their time and facility available to us!

-- rocketlabusa.com

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 24 Aug, 1958: The failed launch of Explorer 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)

-- Next week (8/27 - 9/2) in 1985: Big Astronaut, Little Astronaut

Spaceflight News

-- Megadebris? (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (slingshot.space)

Short & Sweet

-- NEOWISE ends operations (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com)

-- Starliner still stuck at Station (spaceflightnow)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From Upcoming Spaceflight Events:

-- JUICE Earth flyby #1 on Aug 19/20 (esa.int)

-- Online FAA meeting RE: Starship launch cadence on Aug 20 (faa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- August 15, 1969: Creation of ISRO (en.wikipedia.org) (britannica.com)

-- Next week (8/20 - 8/26) in 1958: Catching a second wind

Spaceflight News

-- ADRAS-J rendezvous (HT Zach: twitter.com/CRD2_JAXA) (astroscale.com) (PDF: astroscale.com VIA astroscale.com)

Short & Sweet

-- POLARIS spaceplane startup back on track (europeanspaceflight.com)

-- Dawn does docking (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- From the intro: JWST looks at Epsilon Indi A (nasaspaceflight.com)

-- Ryan R: TEA-TEB is a pre-mixed fluid (discord.com)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- 10 Aug, 1992. Launch of the first major oceanographic research satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon (en.wikipedia.org) (jpl.nasa.gov) (eoportal.org) (aviso.altimetry.fr)

-- T/P data is used in this sea level rise dashboard (climate.nasa.gov)

-- Next week (8/13 - 8/19) in 1969: This agency is ro-bust

Spaceflight News

-- Falcon 9 Return to Flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)

Short & Sweet

-- ABL Static fire failure (spacenews.com)

-- Starliner Debugging (spacenews.com)

Questions, Comments, Corrections

-- The RAX bug was caused by differing clocks (youtube.com)

Interview -- Martin Frederick, Northrop Grumman Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs

-- linkedin.com

-- Further reading:

-- JWST (northropgrumman.com)

-- TRMM (gpm.nasa.gov) (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov)

This Week in Spaceflight History

-- July 31, 1992: Launch of Atlantis on STS-46 (en.wikipedia.org)  (americaspace.com)

-- EURECA was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-57 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

-- TSS-1 was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-75 (theorbitalmechanics.com)

-- Next week (8/6 - 8/12) in 1992: The zeroth argonaut.

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