EPISODE · Feb 1, 2023 · 48 MIN
Episode 394: Partial Barber Pole
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight News— NASA Tests a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (nasa.gov) (PDF: mdpi.com) (Scott Manley: youtube.com) (ntrs.nasa.gov) — JAXA tested an RDRE in 2021 (futurism.com) — China tested a CDRE January 2023 (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)Short & Sweet— Starship WDR (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)— Lucy mission gets new target (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)— JunoCam suffers significant anomaly during flyby (nasa.gov)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: NASA/DARPA NTP Collaboration (nasa.gov)— Chris Hofmann: Ascent communicationsThis Week in Spaceflight History— January 31, 1971. Launch of Apollo 14 (en.wikipedia.org) (hq.nasa.gov)— Next week (2/7 - 2/13) in 2015: Penguin Paratrooper
What this episode covers
As chemical rockets near their theoretical limits, NASA decides to just rocket harder. Also, Starship's WDR, Lucy's new target and JunoCam's anomaly.
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