Episode 469: Runk
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast Hosted by David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight News -- NASA nixes VIPER (spacenews.com) (newscientist.com) European Short & Sweet -- Ariane 6 may carry crew (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Europe announces RAMSES mission to Apophis (arstechnica.com) (esa.int) -- Themis gets delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 29 Jul, 1999. Deep Space 1, NASA’s first S/C with ion propulsion, flies by asteroid 9969 Braille (en.wikipedia.org) -- We interviewed DS-1’s chief mission engineer and deputy mission manager Marc Rayman in Episode 75 (theorbitalmechanics.com) -- Ron Garret discussed the RAX bug in his talk The Remote Agent Experiment (youtube.com) -- Next week (7/30 - 8/5) in 1992: We’ll hang on to this one, and come back for that one later
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VIPER is being sold for parts. Also, a crewed Ariane 6, a mission to Apophis, and a Themis delay
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