EPISODE · Jan 29, 2020 · 33 MIN
Episode 245: More 'Splosions
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight news— Spaceway-1 batteries (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Firefly suffers an anomaly on the test stand. (spacenews.com) (space.com)— Solar Orbiter mission’s launch slips several days (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/torybruno)— Tethers Unlimited’s Terminator Tape is showing promise. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Andrew via email: Phantom Express (spacenews.com) — Scott Manley covered this as well, with more info on the AR-22, which is actually a refurbished/retooled SSME! (youtube.com)— Espen via email: second stage might have exploded above the water??? (youtube.com)This week in SF history— January 29, 2003: Launch of XSS-10 (space.skyrocket.de)— Next week in 1947: A woman’s place is preparing meals, cleaning windows and toilets…. on the Shuttle.
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A satellite is being quickly decommissioned so it won't explode, Firefly set fire to their test stand, and we discuss the in-flight abort 2nd stage.
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