Episode 408: Swedish Yeetfall
A suborbital launch went off course and landed across borders. Also, a suborbital success, a suborbital failure, and new New Horizons science.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Evolution Space becomes 9th private U.S. company to reach space (twitter.com/evolutionspace_) (parabolicarc.com)
— UP Aerospace rocket rapidly RUDs (gizmodo.com) (youtube.com)
— Incredible footage of payload separation was captured in 2015 (HT Stygarfield: reddit.com) (nasa.gov)
— Swedish rocket lands in Norway (reuters.com)
Short & Sweet
— Dragonfly faces proposed 20% budget cut (spacenews.com)
— New prospects for New Horizons (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Espen via email: Starship engine data loss, AFTS activation time
— Andy Z via email: Starship separation flip
— Anderson via DM: Sea launch vs pad reconstruction (HT VaxHeadroom: twitter.com/RyanHansenSpace)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 13 May, 1998. AsiaSat-3’s lunar flyby (en.wikipedia.org) (patents.google.com) (carlkop.home.xs4all.nl) (novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru VIA web.archive.org)
— The DM-2M failure was caused by a duct failure between the gas generator and pump turbine (ilslaunch.com)
— Next week (5/16 - 5/22) in 2011: Pass the baton