Episode 470: DOWNLINK--Martin Frederick
Martin is Northrop Grumman's Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs. He's also been an engineer at NASA Goddard and HQ for decades.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
-- Falcon 9 Return to Flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)
Short & Sweet
-- ABL Static fire failure (spacenews.com)
-- Starliner Debugging (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
-- The RAX bug was caused by differing clocks (youtube.com)
Interview -- Martin Frederick, Northrop Grumman Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs
-- Further reading:
-- JWST (northropgrumman.com)
-- TRMM (gpm.nasa.gov) (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov)
This Week in Spaceflight History
-- July 31, 1992: Launch of Atlantis on STS-46 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com)
-- EURECA was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-57 (theorbitalmechanics.com)
-- TSS-1 was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-75 (theorbitalmechanics.com)
-- Next week (8/6 - 8/12) in 1992: The zeroth argonaut.