Episode 342: Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror... Mirror
JWST is slowly but surely lifting each of its mirrors up 12.5mm. Also, rovers found water where we expected, and rocks where we didn't.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— JWST deployment
— A detailed timeline is available from Jonathan McDowell (planet4589.org)
— Hexapod actuators (PDF: esmats.eu)
— A photo of an early actuator development unit (PDF, p2: sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)
Short & Sweet
— Chang’e 5 identifies water on the moon (space.com) (science.org)
— Perseverance rover prepares to clear blocked sampling tube (nasa.gov)
— SLS hoping for March launch (spacenews.com)
— Orbit Fab signs deal to provide on-orbit fueling for Astroscale (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— Follow up on that moon rock (twitter.com/AJ_FI)
This week in Spaceflight history
— January 20 1978, Maiden flight of the Progress spacecraft (wiki.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (spaceref.com)
— Next week (1/25 - 1/31) in 1995. Get me my briefcase.