Episode 500: Quincentennial
IM-2 made it to the surface, then things went sideways. Also, Voyager loses two instruments, and F9 loses a leg.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— IM-2 lunar landing (intuitivemachines.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (intuitivemachines.com) (youtube.com)
Short & Sweet
— Voyager turns off further instruments (space.com)
— A Falcon 9 loses a leg (spacenews.com)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— From the intro: ISS too clean (newsbreak.com) (cell.com)
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 15 Mar, 1976. Launch of Lincoln Experimental Satellite 8 and 9 (LES-8 and -9) (skyrocket.de) (wikipedia.org) (ll.mit.edu)
— Next week (3/18 - 3/24) in 1980: Wait nine years until “openness”