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Jul 17, 2024 33 min

Episode 468: Upper Stage Downer

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

Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Ariane 6 anomaly (europeanspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Hyperbola-1 mishap (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Europa Clipper faces last-minute obstacle (space.com) -- Dawn gets green light for spaceplane tests (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 17 July, 1977. First launch of a complete TKS spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (nasa.gov) -- Next week (7/23 - 7/29) in 1999: Is that a grid of dots on that asteroid?

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Three different space companies had upper stage failures this week! Also, Europa Clipper's radiation struggle and Aurora's certification.

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