Episode 361: DOWNLINK--Vaya Space
Hybrid rockets have never gone to orbit, and Vaya wants to change that. Learn with us about pyrolysis, plastic propellant, and horizontal 3D printing!
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Psyche launch (sike!) (space.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)
Short & Sweet
— Airbus wins contract to build LISA (airbus.com)
— China prepares for next crewed launch (spacenews.com) (cnet.com)
— Starliner, Present and Future (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
Interview – Kineo Wallace, Lead Propulsion Design Engineer and Mickael “Buzzy” Buswell, Primary Structures Engineer of Vaya Space
— Further reading: ABS 3D printed fuel grain studies at the University of Tennessee (sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net) (sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net)
— Kineo and Buzzy
— linkedin.com/in/kineowallace
— Vaya Space
This Week in Spaceflight History
— June 4, 1996: The maiden launch of Ariane 5, flight V88 (en.wikipedia.org) (bugsnag.com) (mit.edu) (HT Csaba: hownot2code.com)
— Next week (6/7 - 6/13) in 2012: Making it harder for ourselves.