Episode 405: Niobium's Neat
SpaceX reduces their niobium consumption, Relativity increases their engine count, and the coolest use of niobium ever.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— SpaceX cuts costs (spacenews.com)
— Starship launch license (spacenews.com)
— Relativity pivots away from Terran-1 (spacenews.com) (techcrunch.com) (relativityspace.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: JUICE launch successful (nasaspaceflight.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 20 Apr, 2004: The launch of Gravity Probe-B (en.wikipedia.org) (web.archive.org) (einstein.stanford.edu) (dontpanicgeocast.com)
— Next week (4/25 - 5/1) in 1985. Shuttle spelunkin’.