Episode 296: Spectre-2 Incoming

Spaceflight news— Starship SN9 update (spacenews.com) — Lots of leftover LOX visible on IR footage (youtube.com) — SN8’s FAA violation (spacenews.com)— Firefly wins CLPS contract (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov) — They will be flying the Blue Ghost lander and a number of science payloads (firefly.com) — Regolith Adherence Characterization (RAC) (Image at parabolicarc.com) — Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) (hou.usra.edu) — Lunar Instrumentation for Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) (today.ttu.edu) — Lunar PlanetVac (LPV) (parabolicarc.com) — Blue Ghost Payload User’s Guide (firefly.com) — Space Utility Vehicle will be the service module/kick stage to get BG to the moon (firefly.com)Short & Sweet— Dragon breaks a record (americaspace.com)— Nanoracks’ Bishop airlock powers on (houstonchronicle.com)— OSIRIS-REx to return home (americaspace.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: Koenigsmann retiring (HT Colin: cnbc.com)— Game night! — Come play Sea of Thieves with Dennis and Ben — Friday 4pm Eastern 1:00p Pacific — Meet on Discord (twitter.com/orbitalpodcast)This week in SF history— 10 Feb, 2001. Ammonia leak during STS-98 spacewalk (nasa.gov) (esa.int) (spacefacts.de) (science.ksc.nasa.gov) — The Early External Active Thermal Control was still being used during this mission (sae.org)— Next week (2/16 - 2/22) in 1990. Potato in the tailpipe