Episode 223: DOWNLINK--Ella Atkins

from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just

This week in SF history— August 17, 1962: Carl Sagan advocates for sterilizing spacecraft (spacemedicineassociation.org) (PDF: pnas.org)Spaceflight news— Rocketlab reuse (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— First ion thruster use on a 1U cubesat (spacenews.com)Interview-- Ella Atkins— Thanks to IEEE for arranging this interview! (IEEE.org)— Dr. Atkins’ profile and CV (umich.edu)— (robotics.umich.edu)— (aiaa.org)

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Ella Atkins is an aerospace engineering professor who has a rich history studying and designing automated systems in space and in the air.

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