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Nov 6, 2024 37 min

Episode 484: Runaway Ramp

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

Spaceflight News — Shenzhou-19 reaches Tiangong (spaceflightnow.com) — Mirror platform for Tiangong (news.cgtn.com) (youtube.com) — Low-cost Tiangong cargo S/C (spacenews.com) — “Kinetica-2 [selected] as top launcher choice” (twitter.com/cas_space) — Crewed moon rover (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/YuqiiQian) Short & Sweet — Artemis heat shield chunks (spacenews.com) — Liquid water on Mars (nature.com VIA nasaspaceflight.com) (news.berkeley.edu) — California startup develops ABEP system (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — November 8, 2004: First launch of a Soyuz 2 carrier rocket (en.wikipedia.org) (v2rockethistory.com) — Next week (11/12 - 11/18) in 1981: 40% of the mission, 90% of the objectives.

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A pile of space news out of China. Also, Orion's heat shield (no news), liquid water on Mars, and an air-breathing ion engine.

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