EPISODE · Apr 19, 2023 · 51 MIN
Episode 405: Niobium's Neat
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight News— SpaceX cuts costs (spacenews.com)— Starship launch license (spacenews.com)— Relativity pivots away from Terran-1 (spacenews.com) (techcrunch.com) (relativityspace.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: JUICE launch successful (nasaspaceflight.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 20 Apr, 2004: The launch of Gravity Probe-B (en.wikipedia.org) (web.archive.org) (einstein.stanford.edu) (dontpanicgeocast.com)— Next week (4/25 - 5/1) in 1985. Shuttle spelunkin’.
What this episode covers
SpaceX reduces their niobium consumption, Relativity increases their engine count, and the coolest use of niobium ever.
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