EPISODE · Apr 5, 2023 · 51 MIN
Episode 403: Virgin Deorbit
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight News— Exploring Mars Together (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Seized assets in Kazakhstan threatens Soyuz-5 program (nasaspaceflight.com)— Virgin Orbit Layoffs (spacenews.com) (qz.com)— Rosotics announces large-scale 3D printer (spacenews.com) (newatlas.com) (rosotics.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Tiangong has trash too (twitter.com/cnspaceflight)This Week in Spaceflight History— 5 April, 1963: A Pontiac Catalina tows M2-F1 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org) (projecthabu.com) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org)— Next week (4/11 - 4/17) in 2016: Storage on Orbit
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NASA outlines their future Mars plans. Also, Soyuz-5 threatened, Virgin Orbit layoffs, and an experimental metal printer.
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