Episode 508: North of Antarctica

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

Spaceflight News— Firefly Nozzle Anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Efforts continue to rescue Lunar Trailblazer (spacenews.com)— ISS avoids space debris (space.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Kosmos 482’s parachutes dangling out? (space.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— May 10, 1994: Last contact with the Clementine Spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (researchgate.net) (nap.nationalacademies.org) (klabs.org)— Next week (5/13 - 5/19) in 1973: It’s the final countdown

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Firefly has a nozzle issue. Also, a Lunar Trailblazer alternate mission, and an ISS debris avoidance.

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