Episode 355: Minecart on the Moon
SLS got rolled back to the VAB, and we look at the Artemis rover RFI. Also, Astranis' gimbal, NTSB's purview, Astra's ion engine, and ULA's big order.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Artemis-1 Wet Dress Rehearsal(spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
— WDR is deferring to Ax-1 landing (spacenews.com)
— Artemis rover (spacenews.com)
— RFI issued in August (nasa.gov) (sam.gov)
— Lockheed Martin, General Motors and MDA (spacenews.com)
— Northrop Grumman, Intuitive Machines, Michelin Tires, AVL, Lunar Outpost (spacenews.com)
— Venturi Astrolab (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Astranis Improvement (spacenews.com) (en.wikipedia.org)
— House Science Committee vs NTSB (spacenews.com)
— Astra Electric (spacenews.com)
— ULA puts in a big order (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— LeonRunningMan: LEASAT didn’t use a Minuteman-III motor, exactly (discord.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 21 April 2013, Launch of Antares A-ONE, maiden flight of Antares (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (northropgrumman.com)
— Orbital Sciences contracted with Aerojet Rocketdyne to use modified NK-33’s. (PDF: lpre.de)
— Next week (4/26 - 5/2) in 2002: The end of a dream, to be chased by others.