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EPISODE · Oct 23, 2024 · 54 MIN

Episode 482: Geostationary Explosive Orbit

from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host 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

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

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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...

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