Episode 407: Trenchless
Musk doubles down on the trench-free lifestyle. Also, Hakuto-R, a China-lead moonbase cooperative, and a ride for Griffin.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Starship update (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (americaspace.com)
— We missed the point of the skydiving pebble story (discord.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)
— H3 failure analysis (twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin) (PDF: mext.go.jp)
Short & Sweet
— Hakuto-R likely in free-fall before loss of signal (HT Sam: twitter.com/ea4gpz) (space.com) (spacenews.com)
— China’s space agency sets up lunar base organization (spacenews.com)
— Astrobotic books a second Falcon Heavy (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Bob via email: Starship abort capability (youtube.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— Launch of LCS-1 (Lincoln Calibration Sphere) (en.wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com) (ieeexplore.ieee.org) (youtube.com)
— Next week (5/9 - 5/15) in 1998: Around the elbow to get to the nose