Episode 338: Junk in the Frunk
Astra gets a new home, Starship inches towards launch, Ingenuity data loss, and an astronaut swap.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Short & Sweet
— Astra to launch next from Cape Canaveral (spacenews.com)
— SpaceX gets FCC approval for Starship launch, starts construction on launchpad (dailymail.co.uk) (spaceflightnow.com)
— NASA investigates Ingenuity helicopter’s transmission problem (cnet.com)
— SpaceX Crew-5 to fly with cosmonaut (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/Rogozin)
This week in SF history
— 15 Dec, 1976. Launch of Kosmos 881 and Kosmos 882 (en.wikipedia.org) (1lib.us) (google.com/books)
— Next week (12/21 - 12/27) in 1979. Some vikings and their kitty cat.