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Mar 19, 2025 43 min

Episode 501: MSR China

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

Spaceflight News — China’s Mars Sample Return open to International Cooperation (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Several Russian sats on the move (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (defence-blog.com) — X-37B lands after record-breaking mission (arstechnica.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: leaked starship photos: (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com) (HT The Orbital Index: reddit.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 18 Mar, 1980. Plesetsk launch pad disaster (plesetzk.ru) (russianspaceweb.com) (bbc.co.uk) (en.wikipedia.org) — Tangent on GRAU indices (en.wikipedia.org) — Next week (3/25 - 3/31) in 1972: Much closer, much easier, but 53 years late

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China invited foreign scientists to propose payloads to fly on their sample return mission, Tianwen-3. Also: Russian sat movements and X-37B returns.

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