Episode 384: Spaceplane, Spaceplane, Fire
Rocket Lab's latest catch attempt was aborted. Also, China's spaceplane, POLARIS' spaceplane, and an expensive fire alarm.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Rocket Lab’s Catch Me If You Can Wasn’t (parabolicarc.com) (businesswire.com) (theorbitalmechanics.com)
Short & Sweet
— Chinese Spaceplane Releases Object On-orbit (spacenews.com)
— Spaceplane Aurora Tested at Peenemünde (spacewatch.global)
— Fire Alarm Scrubs NG-18 Launch (nasaspaceflight.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Practical Engineering’s look at Endeavor’s trip through LA (youtube.com)
— Vertical payload integration (youtube.com)
— Reflective Layer (youtube.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— November 11, 2013: Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer’s reentry (en.wikipedia.org) (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu) (spaceflight101.com)
— GOCE had sophisticated accelerometers (HT Colin: link.springer.com)
— Next week (11/15-11/21) in 1967: Actually, I thought it’d be right about this high at MECO.