Episode 379: Ramming Speed!
DART DID THE THING! Also, ViaSat-3 tests a thing, Hubble might get the thing done to it, and Firefly also does the thing.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— DART (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/nasa) (twitter.com/LICIACube) (twitter.com/SenBillNelson) (researchgate.net)
— Transformational Solar Array experiment (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)
Short & Sweet
— Testing begins for first ViaSat-3 (spacenews.com)
— Hubble may get a roboost (spacenews.com)
— Firefly reaches orbit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— Oct 6, 1990. Launch of Ulysses spacecraft (esa.int) (PDF: adsabs.harvard.edu) (en.wikipedia.org)
— The Nutation Damper System was well described in a paper (nasa.gov)
— Next week (10/11 - 10/17) in 1968: Phoenix Rising