Episode 389: The Emperor's New Alpaca
HLS2 bids are in! Also, a new sea-launched rocket and a future rocket-launched Tim!
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— The finalists return - HLS2 (spacepolicyonline.com) (space.com) (spacepolicyonline.com)
Short & Sweet
— New Chinese rocket debuts with a sea launch (nasaspaceflight.com)
— dearMoon crew revealed (americaspace.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— December 15, 1970: Landing of Venera 7, first spacecraft to return data from another planet (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceflightinsider.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (vpk.name)
— V7 was built on a 3MV bus (mentallandscape.com)
— Next week (12/20 - 12/26) in 1968: Just calm down.