EPISODE · Feb 16, 2022 · 51 MIN
Episode 346: Not Fairing Well
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight news— Astra failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Mysterious Moon Masher (twitter.com/sciguyspace) (projectpluto.com) (projectpluto.com)— James Webb is making adjustments (spacenews.com)— Starship testing may move to Florida (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)— BreakingTaps made an excellent video and 3D model of JWST’s hexapod actuator! (youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 17 Feb, 2007. Launch of THEMIS (en.wikipedia.org) (ucla.edu) — Constraints on the moon-bound trajectory were many (PDF: igpp.ucla.edu)— Next week (2/22-2/28) in 1996: This is why we keep the mezuzah rolled up
What this episode covers
Astra's latest launch went bad in an interesting way. Also, something headed towards the moon, something visible by JWST, something moving to Florida.
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