EPISODE · Jun 23, 2021 · 59 MIN
Episode 314: Wet Trash Odor
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab wins Mars mission (space.com) (hou.usra.edu) — Characteristic energy, declination, right ascension of the departure asymptote vector (C3/DLA/RLA) were discussed in our interview with Mark Wallace. (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— Chinese crew reaches Tianhe space station module (spacenews.com)— Faulty memory system halts Hubble operations (spacenews.com)— NEO Surveyor moves forward (spacenews.com)— Launcher announces development of orbital transfer vehicle (spacenews.com/)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: Bill Nelson agrees a second HLS contractor would be nice. (spacenews.com)— An interstellar… big thing… is headed towards the solar system. (twitter.com/Astro_Wright) (twitter.com/TM_Eubanks)— ROSA deployment videos were published this week. (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) (twitter.com/BoeingSpace)This week in SF history— 25 Jun, 1992: Launch of STS-50, the first Extended Duration Orbiter (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci-hub.do)— Next week (6/29 - 7/5) in 1998: Not all hope is lost, it’ll return twice.
What this episode covers
Rocket Lab is sending Photon to Mars! Also, Tianhe is occupied, Hubble is stuck, and NEO Surveyor is progressing.
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