Episode 291: Loss of Legs

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

Spaceflight news— Landing Super Heavy (twitter.com/elonmusk) (reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge) — Scott Manley covered this technique (youtube.com) — Possible claw-on-cables steadying mechanism (youtube.com)— Small SN9 update (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— Long March 8 successfully debuts (spaceflightnow.com)— Protection of lunar heritage sites signed into law. (spacepolicyonline.com)This week in SF history— 7 Jan, 1985: launch of Sakigake (isas.jaxa.jp) (solarsystem.nasa.gov)— Next week (1/12 through 1/18) in 1997, Rip, or R.I.P.

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SpaceX wants to catch Starship using the launch tower, SN9 had a little tumble, LM8 spreads its wings and Lunar Heritage is signed into law.

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