Episode 330: We Got Some Lucy Splainin' To Do
Lucy is off to the Jovian Trojians! Also, follow-up on Rocket 3.3's failure, a Brazilian solid motor, VG postponement, and China's solar observatory.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— Rocket 3.3 follow-up (spacenews.com) (astra.com)
— Lucy’s in the sky (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (americaspace.com) (planetary.org) (blog.ulalaunch.com)
Short & Sweet
— Brazil Space Agency successfully tests new rocket motor (avibras.com.br)
— Virgin Galactic gets postponed (spacenews.com)
— China launches nation’s first solar observatory (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Roton Revision
— Andy Z via email: Check out the WWI Le Rhone engine (youtu.be)
— Ben Hallert via Twitter: Autorotation is complicated and interesting enough to be more specific about. (twitter.com/chairboy) (twitter.com/chairboy) (youtube.com)
— From the intro: ISS takes another tumble (HT Andy Z: twitter.com/liamkennedy)
This week in SF history
— 19 Oct, 2014. Comet Siding Spring has closest approach to Mars (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (nasa.gov) (arxiv.org) (skyandtelescope.org)
— Next week (10/26 - 11/1) in 1961: Cluster thruster