EPISODE · Oct 4, 2023 · 55 MIN
Episode 428: Actual Human Ballast
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight News— Electron suffers upper stage failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtu.be)Short & Sweet— Stoke Space hops (spacenews.com)— Sierra Space does a burst test (spacenews)— China plans for lunar sample return (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— A big thanks to Unc’willy, Fonji, Chris S in particular for helping Ben track down and fix an issue with our Discord botThis Week in Spaceflight History— 29 September, 2004: Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne (en.wikipedia.org) (sma.nasa.gov) (erikmadaus.medium.com) (airbum.com)— Next week (10/10 - 10/16) in 2000: Four forbidden cough drops
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Electron experiences its third upper stage failure. Also Stoke Space performs an upper stage test hop, Sierra Space does a habitat module burst test, and China reveals plans to return lunar samples from the far side of the moon!
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