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EPISODE · Mar 12, 2025 · 55 MIN

Episode 500: Quincentennial

from The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · host David Fourman, Ben Etherington, and Dennis Just

Spaceflight News— IM-2 lunar landing (intuitivemachines.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (intuitivemachines.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Voyager turns off further instruments (space.com)— A Falcon 9 loses a leg (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: ISS too clean (newsbreak.com) (cell.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 15 Mar, 1976. Launch of Lincoln Experimental Satellite 8 and 9 (LES-8 and -9) (skyrocket.de) (wikipedia.org) (ll.mit.edu)— Next week (3/18 - 3/24) in 1980: Wait nine years until “openness”

IM-2 made it to the surface, then things went sideways. Also, Voyager loses two instruments, and F9 loses a leg.

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Spaceflight News— IM-2 lunar landing (intuitivemachines.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (intuitivemachines.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Voyager turns off further instruments (space.com)— A Falcon 9 loses a leg...

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