Episode 360: Thrust but Verify
Episode 360: Thrust but Verify
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— OFT-2 (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)
— Debris shedding after booster sep T+3:00 (twitter.com/elizabethtinkg) (youtu.be)
— Two RCS thrusters and two OMAC thrusters shut down during the flight (twitter.com/lorengrush)
— Test Fest
— ABL Space fires upper stage engine (spacenews.com)
— Gilmour Space fires Phoenix engine (youtube.com)
— Relativity Space fires upper stage engines (youtube.com)
— ISRO fires human-rated solids for Gaganyaan (isro.gov.in)
Short & Sweet
— Voyager 1 returning bad telemetry (cnet.com)
— NASA investigates spacesuit water leaks (space.com) (spacenews.com)
— End to InSight mission… is in sight (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)
— Ingenuity back in action (mars.nasa.gov)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— twitter.com/LauraForczyk: X-Bow is pronounced Crossbow. That threw me off at first, too.
— From the intro: Tim Dodd tours Starbase (youtube.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 24 May, 2000. First launch of Atlas III (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceflightnow.com)
— Engine contracts announced in 1996 (ARCHIVE: ilslaunch.com)
— A list of Atlas family specs (braeunig.us)
— A lovely history of Atlas by Scott Manley (youtube.com)
— Next week (5/31 - 6/6) in 1996: Domestically repurposed