Episode 332: Boo Origin and Spider Webbs
Recorded on the spookiest day of the year. Blue's CLD space station, JWST on track for launch, Russia's down for Dragon, and Hubble trouble.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— Orbital Reef announced (blueorigin.com) (orbitalreef.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)
— Other Commercial LEO Destination (CLD) proposals so far:
— Axiom Station (axiomspace.com)
— Nanoracks/Lockheed/Voyager’s Starlab (cnet.com)
— Sierra Space Station (sierraspace.com)
Short & Sweet
— James Webb Space Telescope prepares for launch (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)
— Russia gives Crew Dragon the green light (spacenews.com)
— Hubble Space Telescope returns to safe mode (cnet.com)
This week in SF history
— 8 November, 2011: Failed launch of Fobos-Grunt/Yinghuo-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)
— Next week (11/9 - 11-15) in 1970: Parietal eye in the sky