Episode 417: Mind the Launch Gap
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast Hosted by David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight News — Au revoir, Ariane 5 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (Payload User’s Guide PDF: arianespace.com) — Two solids provide ~90% of Ariane 5’s thrust (esa.int) — ESA plans to lean on SpaceX launches (spacenews.com) — New test facility for Ariane 6 was built in 2019 (esa.int) Short & Sweet — Varda completes pharmaceutical manufacturing test on-orbit (arstechnica.com) — Lockheed Martin completes burst test of expandable habitat (spaceref.com) — Starlink interferes with radio astronomy (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 20 Jul, 2017: Sale of Apollo 11 bag for $1.8m (collectspace.com) (collectspace.com) (kansascity.com) (sothebys.com) — Next week (7/18 - 7/24) in 2011. Radio parasol.
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Ariane 5 completes a long career! Also, space drugs, a burst habitat, and new Starlink noise.
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