Episode 388: NASA Cuts Carbs
Artemis is officially homeward-bound! Also, Phantom Space ridesharing, Bluewalker full deployment, and iROSA installation.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Artemis I Update
— RS-25 analysis (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: nasa.gov VIA twitter.com/sciencepolicia)
— Reached DRO halfway point on Nov 28 (spacenews.com)
— Departed DRO on Dec 2 (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— Phantom Space Corp wins NASA launch task order (nasa.gov)
— Bluewalker-3 reaches full brightness on orbit (payloadspace.com) (iau.org)
— iROSA installation + power issue (nasaspaceflight.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: ABL released a scrub summary (HT Sam: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— Dec 7, 2010. AKATSUKI fails to enter Venusian orbit (PDF: arxiv.org) (PDF: lpi.usra.edu) (planetary.org) (jaxa.jp)
— Next week (12/13 - 12/19) in 1970: That’s a long way to go to hard boil an egg