Episode 444: The Little Helo That Could
Ingenuity lands for the last time, and SLIM's nose is in the dirt. Also, Redwire/Blue Ring, reusable booster tests, and Rollin' Justin.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Ingenuity Down (HT deltaV: twitter.com/AndySaunders_1) (spacenews.com) (mars.nasa.gov)
— Slim Upside-Down (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)(global.jaxa.jp)
Short & Sweet
— Redwire to provide elements of Blue Origin’s space tug (spacenews.com)
— Two companies test reusable booster prototypes (space.com) (HT: Sam twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)
— ESA astronaut operates Earth-bound robots while on orbit (europeanspaceflight.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: Shuttle’s hatch lock (HT: deltaV, arstechnica.com) (spaceref.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— Feb 3, 1994: First launch of the H-II rocket (en.wikipedia.org)
— Next week (2/6 - 2/12) in 2000: First kleptoparasite in space