Episode 428: Actual Human Ballast
Electron suffers an upper stage failure
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Electron suffers upper stage failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (youtu.be)
Short & Sweet
— Stoke Space hops (spacenews.com)
— Sierra Space does a burst test (spacenews)
— China plans for lunar sample return (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— A big thanks to Unc’willy, Fonji, Chris S in particular for helping Ben track down and fix an issue with our Discord bot
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 29 September, 2004: Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne (en.wikipedia.org) (sma.nasa.gov) (erikmadaus.medium.com) (airbum.com)
— Next week (10/10 - 10/16) in 2000: Four forbidden cough drops