
Episode 343: DOWNLINK--Alex Lao
Alex Lao is an FPGA digital designer for Kepler Communications. Come learn with us about FPGAs, circuit design, software defined radio, and cubesats!
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Artemis rescheduling (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Gamma ray observatory suffers anomaly in LEO (space.com)
— SpaceX wins a new contract (spacenews.com)
— Exomars to launch this year (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: ABL second stage anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
— From Upcoming Spaceflight Events: JWST Virtual Town Hall (stsci.edu)
Interview: Alex Lao, Kepler Communications
— CEO Mina Mitry wrote an article about the role of cubesats in space-based communication (spectrum.ieee.org)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 25 Jan, 1995. Launch of the SCIFER Sounding Rocket Experiment (PDF: sci-hub.se) (PDF: nasa.gov) (eucom.mil VIA web.archive.org)
— Next week (2/1 - 2/7) in 2008: Failing Wet