Episode 439: A Period of Time
China's undisclosed reusable spacecraft has lifted off to spend "a period of time" on orbit. Also, Starship refurbishment, iSpace hop, & Voyager bug.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— China launches spaceplane for third time (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (youtube.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
— Refractory Starship (nasaspaceflight.com)
— iSpace hops again (spacenews.com)
— Voyager 1 suffers communication anomaly (space.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 19 Dec, 1976. The launch of the first KH-11 Kennen/Keyhole satellite (en.wikipedia.org) (space.skyrocket.de) (npr.org)
— Two weeks from now (1/2 - 1/8) in 1999: Secondary failures