EPISODE · Apr 7, 2021 · 50 MIN
Episode 303: Dramatic Concealed Conflagration
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight news— Failed data bus on Crew Dragon (HT Kevin Smith: blogs.nasa.gov)— SN11 landing failure (space.com) (twitter.com/Bojay_stellar) (twitter.com/TrevorMahlmann)Short & Sweet— Rocket Lab preparing for Moon Mission (twitter.com/RocketLab) (nasaspaceflight.com)— Everyday people in space (spaceflightnow.com)— NASA buys lunar gravity from Blue Origin (nasa.gov)— HLS award should be here soon (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: ingenuity deployed (space.com)Last week in SF history— 4 Apr, 1983: The launch of TDRS-A aboard STS-6 (space.nss.org) (spacefacts.de) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) — Footage of TDRS-E’s deployment in 1991 was shot with much better cameras (youtu.be)— Next week (4/13 - 4/19) in 2005: Bullseye?
What this episode covers
SN11 failed to slam into the ground... and rained down instead. Also, Rocket Lab to the Moon, Lunar gravity on New Shepard, and HLS downselect soon!
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