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Oct 23, 2024 54 min

Episode 482: Geostationary Explosive Orbit

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

Thanks to Dennis O for naming this week’s episode! Spaceflight News — Intelsat 33e loses power and blows up (spacenews.com) (x.com/S4S_SDA) (reddit.com) Short & Sweet — Sirius Space hot fire (europeanspaceflight.com) — A Firefly to launch a Jackal (satellitetoday.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Ross Peterson: Super Heavy’s reentry heating — Taylor S Marks: ISS graveyard orbit (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 27 Oct, 1992. Launch of the Znamya 2 solar power antenna (en.wikipedia.org) (thespacereview.com) (qsl.net) (skypub.com VIA web.archive.org) — Next week (10/29 - 11/4) in 1994: holding the weight of LEO on your shoulders

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We just lost a satellite up in GEO! Also, Sirius Space takes another step and Firefly picks up another contract.

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