Episode 339: Season's Yeetings from JWST
A Superheavy/Starship/Raptor update, an Xmas eve launch for our favorite belated telescope, and Stoke Space's secret novel rocket.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— Superheavy (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— Raptor 2 will produce 230+ tons of thrust (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— McGregor will only perform Raptor 2 testing (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— B4/SN20 will be used for the orbital flight test (twitter.com/elonmusk)
— A guess about Starship stretching (reddit.com/r/spacex)
— Possible tank volumes (HT Birkeland: forum.nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
— JWST delayed (blogs.nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)
— Stoke Space receives funding (spacenews.com) (sbir.nasa.gov)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: PSP’s inside the Sun video (planetary.org) (youtube.com) (nasa.gov)
— Jon P via email: Apollo CM was a sphere section, not biconic. (en.wikipedia.org)
This week in SF history
— 24 Dec, 1979. First launch of Ariane 1, first of the Ariane family. (sci-hub.se) (sci-hub.se) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org)
— Next week (1/4 - 1/10) in 1973: Smash the scram button