Episode 494: Debris Cross-Range
Starship had a success and a dramatic failure. Also, ISRO gets docked, and RFA gets licensed.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Starship FT-7 (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (bsky.app/profile/derekdotspace.bsky.social) (space.com) (spacenews.com)
Short & Sweet
— ISRO successfully docks in space (spacenews.com)
— RFA granted license for vertical launch from UK (europeanspaceflight.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: New Glenn First Flight (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)
— DarthMooMoo: Varda launched on F9, not Electron (discord.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 22 Jan 1997: Space debris hits a person for the first and only time on record. (HT SciKyle: en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: deepblue.lib.umich.edu) (PDF: apps.dtic.mil) (foxnews.com)
— Next week (1/28 - 2/3) in 1994: Call before you come over