Episode 230: Starship InSight

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

This week in SF history— October 1, 1958: NASA begins operations (wikipedia.org) (archives.gov)— Next week in 2000: Sometimes a good explosion is exactly what you needSpaceflight news— InSight scientists presents three new discoveries (americaspace.com) (copernicus.org) — Images show scoop packing down regolith around mole? (twitter.com)— Starship update (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (spaceflightnow.com) — Our interview with Tess Caswell on CDRA (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— NASA awards a long-term contract to Lockheed Martin. (spacenews.com)— Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter delayed to 2022 (spaceflightnow.com)— NEO mission confirmed (spacenews.com)

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Starship, headed to Mars one day, got shown off to the public. Insight, already on Mars, learned some interesting things about the magnetosphere.

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