Episode 346: Not Fairing Well
Astra's latest launch went bad in an interesting way. Also, something headed towards the moon, something visible by JWST, something moving to Florida.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight news
— Astra failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
Short & Sweet
— Mysterious Moon Masher (twitter.com/sciguyspace) (projectpluto.com) (projectpluto.com)
— James Webb is making adjustments (spacenews.com)
— Starship testing may move to Florida (spacenews.com)
Questions, comments, corrections
— From the intro: (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com)
— BreakingTaps made an excellent video and 3D model of JWST’s hexapod actuator! (youtube.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 17 Feb, 2007. Launch of THEMIS (en.wikipedia.org) (ucla.edu)
— Constraints on the moon-bound trajectory were many (PDF: igpp.ucla.edu)
— Next week (2/22-2/28) in 1996: This is why we keep the mezuzah rolled up