Episode 314: Wet Trash Odor
Rocket Lab is sending Photon to Mars! Also, Tianhe is occupied, Hubble is stuck, and NEO Surveyor is progressing.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— Rocket Lab wins Mars mission (space.com) (hou.usra.edu)
— Characteristic energy, declination, right ascension of the departure asymptote vector (C3/DLA/RLA) were discussed in our interview with Mark Wallace. (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Short & Sweet
— Chinese crew reaches Tianhe space station module (spacenews.com)
— Faulty memory system halts Hubble operations (spacenews.com)
— NEO Surveyor moves forward (spacenews.com)
— Launcher announces development of orbital transfer vehicle (spacenews.com/)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: Bill Nelson agrees a second HLS contractor would be nice. (spacenews.com)
— An interstellar… big thing… is headed towards the solar system. (twitter.com/Astro_Wright) (twitter.com/TM_Eubanks)
— ROSA deployment videos were published this week. (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) (twitter.com/BoeingSpace)
This week in SF history
— 25 Jun, 1992: Launch of STS-50, the first Extended Duration Orbiter (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci-hub.do)
— Next week (6/29 - 7/5) in 1998: Not all hope is lost, it’ll return twice.