Episode 473: DOWNLINK--Rocket Lab's EscaPADE Team
When a pair of cubesats lost their place as a ridealong, NASA asked Rocket Lab to give them a glowup!
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
-- First polar-orbiting crewed mission announced (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)
Short & Sweet
-- New solid rocket game in town (breakingdefense.com) (spacenews.com)
-- Spaceport Rundown (flyingmag.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (cnbc.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
-- From Espen Urkedal via email: Raptor 3 is not as incomplete as it looks (twitter.com/gwynne_shotwell)
Interview -- Rocket Lab’s Cristophe Mandy and Sarah Blyde
-- There’s also a brief appearance by Lane Cook, Senior Program Manager
-- Thank you so much to the Rocket Lab team for making their time and facility available to us!
This Week in Spaceflight History
-- 24 Aug, 1958: The failed launch of Explorer 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov)
-- Next week (8/27 - 9/2) in 1985: Big Astronaut, Little Astronaut