Episode 485: Shuttle Sandwich
CRS-2 gets extended without competition. Also, ups and downs down under, a wooden satellite, and a Starship lookalike.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— CRS-2 extended (spacenews.com) (sam.gov)
Short & Sweet
— Gilmour ups and Bowen downs (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
— LignoSat to be deployed from ISS (popsci.com) (nanosats.eu)
— Long March 9: Starship (arstechnica)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: LEO safety study (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 12 Nov, 1981: The launch of STS-2 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)
— Next week (11/19 - 11/25) in 1970: LELO: Low-Earth “Lunar” Orbit