EPISODE · Mar 5, 2025 · 40 MIN
Episode 499: Wicked Shimmy
from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just
Spaceflight News— Starship TF7 bounced to pieces (Paywall: aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Two payloads on IM-2 launch suffering problems on-orbit (spacenews.com)— Space capsule lands in Australia while first rocket readies to launch (spacenews.com) (abc.net.au)— Xona received contract to develop GPS alternative (insidegnss.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Blue Ghost lunar landing? (Spoiler: it did!) (space.com) (spacenews.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Feb 26, 1960: Failed launch of MiDAS 1 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nro.gov) (PDF: nro.gov)— Next week (3/11 - 3/17) in 1976: Two score and nine years ago
What this episode covers
Starship's last flight broke up due to resonant vibration. Also, two IM-2 issues, two Aussie space events, and two-enty million for Xona.
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