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Nov 15, 2023 1 hr 36 min

Episode 434: DOWNLINK--Benchmark

from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast Hosted by David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just

Spaceflight News — Rocket Lab Failure Analysis (spacenews.com) (space.com) (rocketlabusa.com) (PDF: q4cdn.com VIA en.wikipedia.org) Short & Sweet — Astra’s financial future (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — X-37B readies for first launch on Falcon Heavy (spaceflightnow.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Dinkinesh adds a moon (planetary.org) Interview -- Jake Teufert CTO and Chris Carella CCO, Benchmark Space Systems — We last talked to Chris Carella in episode 373 (theorbitalmechanics.com) — benchmarkspacesystems.com — linkedin.com/company/benchmark-space-systems — linkedin.com/in/jake-teufert-86b375133/ — linkedin.com/in/christopher-carella-innovate/ This Week in Spaceflight History — Nov 15, 1988: The first and only launch of Buran (en.wikipedia.org) (buran.ru) (buran.ru) (buran-energia.com) — Next week (11/21 - 11/27) in 1962: Clouds before Aurora

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