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EPISODE · Mar 17, 2021 · 57 MIN

Episode 301: Service Update

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

Spaceflight news— Ukrainian startup looks at in-orbit servicing (spacenews.com) (kursorbital.com)— Northrup’s MEV-2 prepares for docking attempt with geostationary satellite (spacenews.com)— Market analysis for on-orbit service demand by Northern Sky Research (nsr.com) — CONFERS is working on docking standards (satelliteconfers.org)Short & Sweet— HST back online after software glitch (spacenews.com)— Second hot fire of SLS core scheduled for Thursday (americaspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)— China successfully launches Long March 7A (spacenews.com)This week in SF history— 21 Mar, 2007: Second launch of Falcon 1 (wikipedia.org) (space.com) (amazon.com) — The second stage engine bell scraped the interstage during separation (youtube.com)— Next week (3/23 - 3/29) in 2006: First sweep of a dusty surface

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For this slow news week, we talk about two commercial on-orbit servicing efforts, and the state of the industry. Also, HST, SLS and CZ-7A!

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