Episode 275: First Light Flight

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

Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab secretly launches Photon spacecraft (techcrunch.com) (spacenews.com) (space.com)Short & Sweet— SpaceX sets a new record. (americaspace.com)— China launches a reusable spacecraft. (spacenews.com)— We have a Starship hop! (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)This week in SF history— 7 Sept, 1995. Launch of STS-69 (wikipedia.org) (sciencedirect.com) — Also had an alternate patch: Dog Crew II (spacepatches.nl) — Mach waves were visible during launch (youtube.com)

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Rocket Lab demos their on orbit capabilities with Photon. Also, lots of records for SpaceX, both orbital and hopping, and China's secret spaceplane.

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