Episode 394: Partial Barber Pole
As chemical rockets near their theoretical limits, NASA decides to just rocket harder. Also, Starship's WDR, Lucy's new target and JunoCam's anomaly.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— NASA Tests a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (nasa.gov) (PDF: mdpi.com) (Scott Manley: youtube.com) (ntrs.nasa.gov)
— JAXA tested an RDRE in 2021 (futurism.com)
— China tested a CDRE January 2023 (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)
Short & Sweet
— Starship WDR (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)
— Lucy mission gets new target (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)
— JunoCam suffers significant anomaly during flyby (nasa.gov)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: NASA/DARPA NTP Collaboration (nasa.gov)
— Chris Hofmann: Ascent communications
This Week in Spaceflight History
— January 31, 1971. Launch of Apollo 14 (en.wikipedia.org) (hq.nasa.gov)
— Next week (2/7 - 2/13) in 2015: Penguin Paratrooper