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Jul 31, 2024 1 hr 24 min

Episode 470: DOWNLINK--Martin Frederick

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

Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Return to Flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet -- ABL Static fire failure (spacenews.com) -- Starliner Debugging (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- The RAX bug was caused by differing clocks (youtube.com) Interview -- Martin Frederick, Northrop Grumman Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs -- linkedin.com -- Further reading: -- JWST (northropgrumman.com) -- TRMM (gpm.nasa.gov) (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov) This Week in Spaceflight History -- July 31, 1992: Launch of Atlantis on STS-46 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) -- EURECA was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-57 (theorbitalmechanics.com) -- TSS-1 was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-75 (theorbitalmechanics.com) -- Next week (8/6 - 8/12) in 1992: The zeroth argonaut.

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Martin is Northrop Grumman's Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs. He's also been an engineer at NASA Goddard and HQ for decades.

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