Episode 391: Galloping Gertie
A moon mission mélange! Also, Wenchang expansion and Impulse Space on Transporter-9.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— LunaH-Map struggles to enter lunar orbit (spacewatch.global) (PDF: static1.squarespace.com VIA busek.com) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu)
— Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) enters lunar orbit (space.com)
— Hakuto-R M1 successfully completes second maneuver (spaceref.com) (ispace-inc.com VIA hobbyspace.com)
— Chandrayaan-3 fully integrated (indiatoday.in) (indiatimes.com)
Short & Sweet
— China to expand Wenchang spaceport (spacenews.com)
— Impulse Space has a mission (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Dennis is reading Dragonfly by Bryan Burrough (bryanburrough.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 14 Jan, 2009: Russian thruster firing shakes the ISS (spacenews.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nbcnews.com) (youtube.com)
— Next week (1/17 - 1/23) in 1968: Fire in the hole