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EPISODE · Jan 19, 2022 · 1H 2M

Episode 342: Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror... Mirror

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

Spaceflight news— JWST deployment — A detailed timeline is available from Jonathan McDowell (planet4589.org) — Hexapod actuators (PDF: esmats.eu) — A photo of an early actuator development unit (PDF, p2: sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)Short & Sweet— Chang’e 5 identifies water on the moon (space.com) (science.org)— Perseverance rover prepares to clear blocked sampling tube (nasa.gov)— SLS hoping for March launch (spacenews.com)— Orbit Fab signs deal to provide on-orbit fueling for Astroscale (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Follow up on that moon rock (twitter.com/AJ_FI)This week in Spaceflight history— January 20 1978, Maiden flight of the Progress spacecraft (wiki.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (spaceref.com)— Next week (1/25 - 1/31) in 1995. Get me my briefcase.

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JWST is slowly but surely lifting each of its mirrors up 12.5mm. Also, rovers found water where we expected, and rocks where we didn't.

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