The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight News— Luna-25/Luna-Glob delayed (space.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com)Short & Sweet— Firefly and York both make acquisitions (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— Egypt to build space-monitoring station (africanews.space)This Week in Spaceflight History— 15th June, 1971: Launch of KH-9 Hexagon (en.wikipedia.org) (aiaa.zoom.us) (space.com)— Next week (6/20 - 6/26) in 1971: Tunguska 2.0

Spaceflight News— Starliner Woes (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) — We tracked down some info on P-213 and P-213LW fiberglass tapes. (PDF: hansford.hk) (PDF: nitto.com) (spacematdb.com)Short & Sweet— UAE gives details on asteroid mission (spacewatch.global)— Commercial deep-space radar (spacenews.com) (satellitetoday.com)— North Korean launch failure (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— VAXHeadroom: Soyuz roll rate (discord.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 8 June, 2007. Launch of STS-117 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (nss.org) (spaceflightnow.com) (spacecraftearth.com)— Next week (6/13 - 6/19) in 1971: A six-sided system

Spaceflight News— HAKUTO-R failure analysis (HT deltaV: twitter.com/DJSnM) (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (ispace-inc.com) (spacenews.com) — Apollo software modeled terrain to avoid this exact issue (PDF HT Mike: ibiblio.org)Short & Sweet— Virgin Orbit assets sold off (spacenews.com)— ESA folds out a new heat shield (HT Andrew Z: esa.int) (newatlas.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 1 Jun, 1970: Launch of Soyuz 9 (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (chessgames.com) (astronautix.com)— Next week (6/6 - 6/12) in 2007: Chonky boi

Spaceflight News— Blue Origin wins HLS contract (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (PDF: sam.gov VIA nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— CAPSTONE tests its navigation technology (nasa.gov)— End of Lunar Flashlight (spacenews.com)— Core of Roman Space Telescope completed (spaceref.com VIA 12ft.io)This Week in Spaceflight History — 23 May, 2016: Suborbital testflight of ISRO’s Reusable Launch Vehicle (vssc.gov.in) (delhidefencereview.com) (delhidefencereview.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (aerospace-technology.com)— Next week (5/30 - 6/5) in 1970: King to G8

Spaceflight News— China’s spaceplane makes maneuvers (spacenews.com)— Kosmos-2562 makes maneuvers as well (twitter.com/planet4589) (russianspaceweb.com)Short & Sweet— Plutonium Depletion (spacenews.com)— ULA prepares for more tests (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Vast and SpaceX shoot for first commercial space station (HT Andy Z.: techcrunch.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 16 May, 2011. Launch of STS-134 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nasaspaceflight.com) (lidarmag.com)— Next week (5/23 - 5/29) in 2016: Hex, one of five

Spaceflight News— Evolution Space becomes 9th private U.S. company to reach space (twitter.com/evolutionspace_) (parabolicarc.com)— UP Aerospace rocket rapidly RUDs (gizmodo.com) (youtube.com) — Incredible footage of payload separation was captured in 2015 (HT Stygarfield: reddit.com) (nasa.gov)— Swedish rocket lands in Norway (reuters.com)Short & Sweet— Dragonfly faces proposed 20% budget cut (spacenews.com)— New prospects for New Horizons (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Espen via email: Starship engine data loss, AFTS activation time— Andy Z via email: Starship separation flip— Anderson via DM: Sea launch vs pad reconstruction (HT VaxHeadroom: twitter.com/RyanHansenSpace)This Week in Spaceflight History— 13 May, 1998. AsiaSat-3’s lunar flyby (en.wikipedia.org)  (patents.google.com) (carlkop.home.xs4all.nl) (novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru VIA web.archive.org) — The DM-2M failure was caused by a duct failure between the gas generator and pump turbine (ilslaunch.com)— Next week (5/16 - 5/22) in 2011: Pass the baton

Spaceflight News— Starship update (twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) (americaspace.com)— We missed the point of the skydiving pebble story (discord.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— H3 failure analysis (twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin) (PDF: mext.go.jp)Short & Sweet— Hakuto-R likely in free-fall before loss of signal (HT Sam: twitter.com/ea4gpz) (space.com) (spacenews.com)— China’s space agency sets up lunar base organization (spacenews.com)— Astrobotic books a second Falcon Heavy (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Bob via email: Starship abort capability (youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Launch of LCS-1 (Lincoln Calibration Sphere) (en.wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com) (ieeexplore.ieee.org) (youtube.com)— Next week (5/9 - 5/15) in 1998: Around the elbow to get to the nose

Spaceflight News— Starship, destroyer of concrete (youtube.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/landru79) (HT Iain from MaxQ: twitter.com/unrocket) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — Launch tower footage (HT Astro: reddit.com/r/space) — Liftoff footage (note debris impacting water) (twitter.com/SpaceX) — High speed footage from Tim Dodd x Consider Cosmos (twitter.com/Erdayastronaut) — Aborted launch attempt at the beginning of the week (spacenews.com) — Listener Sam spotted eight engines out, not six (discord.com) — Leaked (?) final frame before termination (discord.com) — NWS spotted the launch (twitter.com/NWSBrownsville) — “Aspiring” to have no diverter as of 2020 (twitter.com/elonmusk) — NSF forums user speaks about the loss of pad experts (HT Sam: forum.nasaspaceflight.com) — Canaveral Starship infrastructure also lacks flame diverter (twitter.com/Cosmic_Andrew1)Short & Sweet— Swedish astronaut may fly on Axiom mission to ISS (spacenews.com)— Rocket Lab to reuse flown engine (satellitetoday.com) (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Unc’ Willy: A skydiver encounters a rock, and Apollo 12 helps out (planetary.org)— Andrew Z: Lifting body footage — M2-F1 (youtube.com) — M2-F2 (youtube.com) — M2-F2, M2-F3, HL-10 (youtube.com) — X-24A (youtube.com) — X-24B (youtube.com) — Bonus: Soviet mini spaceplane Spiral MiG-105 (youtube.com) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Apr 28, 1985. The day before the launch of STS-51-B (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com) (wikiarchives.space) — An experiment transport bag was on auction (historical.ha.com)— Next week (5/2 - 5/8) in 1965: 2 score and 18 years and still going

Spaceflight News— SpaceX cuts costs (spacenews.com)— Starship launch license (spacenews.com)— Relativity pivots away from Terran-1 (spacenews.com) (techcrunch.com) (relativityspace.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: JUICE launch successful (nasaspaceflight.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 20 Apr, 2004: The launch of Gravity Probe-B (en.wikipedia.org) (web.archive.org) (einstein.stanford.edu) (dontpanicgeocast.com)— Next week (4/25 - 5/1) in 1985. Shuttle spelunkin’.

Spaceflight News— Centaur explosion (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace)  (twitter.com/torybruno) — The test stand can be seen in 3D on Google Maps (google.com)Short & Sweet— Artemis II crew announced (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— Dawn Aerospace completes successful spaceplane test flight (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com)— ISRO completes successful spaceplane test flight (isro.gov.in)— Bathwater By Any Other Name... (spacenews.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— April 16, 2016. Berthing of BEAM to ISS (en.wikipedia.org) (eoportal.org) (nasa.gov) (PDF: ttu-ir.tdl.org)— Next week (4/18 - 4/24) in 2004: Four crystal balls

Spaceflight News— Exploring Mars Together (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Seized assets in Kazakhstan threatens Soyuz-5 program (nasaspaceflight.com)— Virgin Orbit Layoffs (spacenews.com) (qz.com)— Rosotics announces large-scale 3D printer (spacenews.com) (newatlas.com) (rosotics.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Tiangong has trash too (twitter.com/cnspaceflight)This Week in Spaceflight History— 5 April, 1963: A Pontiac Catalina tows M2-F1 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org) (projecthabu.com) (dfrc.nasa.gov VIA web.archive.org)— Next week (4/11 - 4/17) in 2016: Storage on Orbit

Spaceflight News— Relativity’s Terran-1 fails to reach orbit (spaceflightnow.com) (twitter.com/thetimellis) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Private South Korean company launches suborbital rocket from Brazil (spacenews.com)— NS-23 anomaly identified (parabolicarc.com)— SWOT, key climate science satellite, instrument back online (space.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Aaron: toroidal aerospikes (discord.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 31 March, 1993. Launch of Progress M-17 from Baikonur (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: hq.nasa.gov)— Next week (4/4 - 4/10) in 1963: Tub in tow

Spaceflight News— Stoke Space prepares for hopper landing trial (HT Andrew Z: twitter.com/stoke_space)  (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— NASA announces $1B deorbit tug for ISS (spacenews.com)— Virgin Orbit’s operational pause (spacenews.com)— Axiom reveals the Artemis EVA suit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— March 24, 2006: The first launch of Falcon 1 (space.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org)— Next week (3/28 - 4/3) in 1993. Low-power mode.

Spaceflight News— VV22 investigation (HT Sam: esa.int) (spacenews.com) (arianespace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— IBEX mission overcomes computer glitch (space.com)— ISS dodges a satellite (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: H3’s first flight results (nasaspaceflight.com)Data Relay: STS-400— STS-400 (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) — Two gap fillers removed during EVA on STS-114 (spaceflightnow.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 14 March 1986: Giotto flies past 1P/Halley. (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) — Thanks to Peter for suggesting this topic (twitter.com/PeterMcMally)— Next week (3/21 - 3/27) in 2006: It’s fine. It’s in what we call a “storage orbit”

Spaceflight News— TROPICS-1 mishap investigation (HT Mike Stewart: astra.com)Short & Sweet— HST impacted by satellite trails (nature.com)— China’s secret spacewalk (spacenews.com)Interview -- D. Geoff Carter, PE— RollAide.com— artemis-space.comThis Week in Spaceflight History— Mar 9, 2008: The launch of the first ATV: Jules Verne (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: esa.int) (PDF: esa.int)— Next week (3/14 - 3/20) in 1986: Slap a renaissance painter.

Spaceflight News— Starship’s near future (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk)Short & Sweet— NASA planning for first Gateway logistics mission (spacenews.com)— Beetlesat successfully deploys expandable antenna on orbit (spaceref.com) (beetlesat.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— March 2, 1995, Launch of STS-67, Endeavour (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceline.org) (astronautix.com)— Next week (3/7 - 3/13) in 2008: 20 million leagues above the sea (level)

Spaceflight News— Soyuz MS-22 leak images (HT deltaV: russianspaceweb.com VIA twitter.com/RussianSpaceWeb)  — Eric Berger posted a comparison to a confirmed MMOD strike (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) — Katya Pavlushchenko posted photos of orange stains on other Progresses (twitter.com/katlinegrey) — Uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 delayed (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/katlinegrey)— LauncherOne failure (virginorbit.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— H3 rocket aborts at pad (spacenews.com)— Plans for Starship comes back to shore (spacenews.com)— Blue Origin wins ESCAPADE contract (space.com)— Launcher’s orbital transfer vehicle fails on orbit (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Nate Perkins via email: RS-25 certification (youtube.com)— Biarki Weeks: ORCASat summary video (youtube.com VIA: discord.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 24 Feb, 2009. Loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (justice.gov) (llis.nasa.gov)— Next week (2/28 - 3/6) in 1995: Everyone get off the phone. I need to log into space.

Spaceflight News— Kosmos-2499 breakup (russianspaceweb.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (space.com)— Superheavy static fire (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT Ryan R: twitter.com/elonmusk) (spacenews.com) (HT Alex: youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Progress MS-21 leak (twitter.com/katlinegrey) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— Spaceport Camden saga continues (independent.co.uk)— Kuiper gets conditional approval (spacenews.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Feb 20, 1986: Launch of DOS-7, the Mir core module (russianspaceweb.com) (youtube.com) (en.wikipedia.org)— Next week (2/21 - 2/27) in 2009: Nothing some Wite-Out/Tipp-Ex can’t fix.

Spaceflight News— SSLV launch failure investigation completed (spacenews.com) (​isro.gov.in) — VTM separation was captured on video, but payload deployment is only seen as a timestamp on a status display. (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— NASA confident in A1 software (nasaspaceflight.com)— Peregrine has a new destination (spacenews.com)— Perseverance completes sample depot on Mars (​​cnet.com) — See also: The Milky Way as seen from Mars (reddit.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Feb 11, 2015: Launch of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (spaceflight101.com) (PDF: esa.int)— Next week (2/14 - 2/20) in 1986. More computers, more beds 😴

Spaceflight News— NASA Tests a Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (nasa.gov) (PDF: mdpi.com) (Scott Manley: youtube.com) (ntrs.nasa.gov) — JAXA tested an RDRE in 2021 (futurism.com) — China tested a CDRE January 2023 (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight)Short & Sweet— Starship WDR (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX)— Lucy mission gets new target (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)— JunoCam suffers significant anomaly during flyby (nasa.gov)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: NASA/DARPA NTP Collaboration (nasa.gov)— Chris Hofmann: Ascent communicationsThis Week in Spaceflight History— January 31, 1971. Launch of Apollo 14 (en.wikipedia.org) (hq.nasa.gov)— Next week (2/7 - 2/13) in 2015: Penguin Paratrooper

Spaceflight News— ABL failure analysis (HT Mike Stewart: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)Short & Sweet— NASA scales back ISS scientist program (spacenews.com)— JUICE is ready for Jupiter (spacenews.com)— Lucy’s Loose Limb (spacenews.com) (HT Brown Pau: blogs.nasa.gov)— ClearSpace raises funds for its first mission (spacenews)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Vulcan delivered to the Cape (twitter.com/SpaceFlorida)This Week in Spaceflight History— Jan 24, 1985: Launch of STS-51-C (en.wikipedia.org) (satelliteobservation.net)— Next week (1/31 - 2/6) in 1971: I re-read the specs, let’s give it another shot.

Spaceflight News— Soyuz MS-22 rescue (spacenews.com) (russianspaceweb.com)— Virgin Orbit failure (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (virginorbit.com) — Virgin Galactic recently restructured their leadership (spacenews.com) — Virgin Orbit is suffering financial woes (arstechnica.com)— ABL RS1 failure (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT Sam: twitter.com/ablspacesystems) (HT Sam: twitter.com/shaggrugg) (twitter.com/Harry__Stranger)Short & Sweet— Soyuz-OneWeb hostage negotiations underway (russianspaceweb.com)— JWST Killing It (spacenews.com) (HT DeltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust)— Starship approaches a launch date? (spacenews.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— January 22, 1968: Launch of Apollo 5 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ibiblio.org) — Destin of Smarter Every Day interviewed a U.S. Space and Rocket Center Docent and Apollo engineer (youtube.com) (youtube.com) — LEM study guides are a great resource for finding answers to systems questions. (ibiblio.org) (ibiblio.org)— Next week (1/24 - 1/30) in 1985. From Lunar Orion to Listening Orion.

Spaceflight News— LunaH-Map struggles to enter lunar orbit (spacewatch.global) (PDF: static1.squarespace.com VIA busek.com) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu)— Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) enters lunar orbit (space.com)— Hakuto-R M1 successfully completes second maneuver (spaceref.com) (ispace-inc.com VIA hobbyspace.com)— Chandrayaan-3 fully integrated (indiatoday.in) (indiatimes.com)Short & Sweet— China to expand Wenchang spaceport (spacenews.com)— Impulse Space has a mission (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Dennis is reading Dragonfly by Bryan Burrough (bryanburrough.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 14 Jan, 2009: Russian thruster firing shakes the ISS (spacenews.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nbcnews.com) (youtube.com)— Next week (1/17 - 1/23) in 1968: Fire in the hole

Spaceflight News— MS-22 coolant leak (arstechnica.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com)Short & Sweet— Lockheed Martin performs habitat burst test (cnet.com) (lockheedmartin.com) (youtube.com)— Zhuque-2 fails to reach orbit (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Chris Hofmann: Honeybee purchase (discord.com)— Unc’ Willy and Csaba: Pyrophoric vs. hypergolic (discord.com) (discord.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Dec 24, 1968. The Earthrise photograph was taken by Apollo 8 (en.wikipedia.org) (​​smithsonianmag.com) (nasa.gov) (thespaceaboveus.com) — LM4 has an excellent archive of the radio recordings, with visuals! (youtube.com)— A few weeks from now (1/10 - 1/16) in 2009: Tacoma Narrows at Mach 25

Spaceflight News— The finalists return - HLS2 (spacepolicyonline.com) (space.com) (spacepolicyonline.com)Short & Sweet— New Chinese rocket debuts with a sea launch (nasaspaceflight.com)— dearMoon crew revealed (americaspace.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— December 15, 1970: Landing of Venera 7, first spacecraft to return data from another planet (en.wikipedia.org) (spaceflightinsider.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (vpk.name) — V7 was built on a 3MV bus (mentallandscape.com)— Next week (12/20 - 12/26) in 1968: Just calm down.

Spaceflight News— Artemis I Update — RS-25 analysis (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: nasa.gov VIA twitter.com/sciencepolicia) — Reached DRO halfway point on Nov 28 (spacenews.com) — Departed DRO on Dec 2 (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Phantom Space Corp wins NASA launch task order (nasa.gov)— Bluewalker-3 reaches full brightness on orbit (payloadspace.com) (iau.org)— iROSA installation + power issue (nasaspaceflight.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: ABL released a scrub summary (HT Sam: twitter.com/ablspacesystems)This Week in Spaceflight History— Dec 7, 2010. AKATSUKI fails to enter Venusian orbit (PDF: arxiv.org) (PDF: lpi.usra.edu) (planetary.org) (jaxa.jp)— Next week (12/13 - 12/19) in 1970: That’s a long way to go to hard boil an egg

Spaceflight News— Artemis I progress (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasa.gov)— NASA history report on Administrator James Webb released (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— China to test space-based solar power (spacenews.com)— Canada to develop lunar rover for power generation (spacenews.com)— ISRO tests Gaganyaan parachute system (isro.gov.in)This Week in Spaceflight History— Dec 5, 2014: The launch of EFT-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) (youtube.com) (collectspace.com) — The clue was taken from an interview with Sesame Street’s Elmo (youtube.com) — Orion suffered more MMOD damage than models had predicted, resulting in changes to the vehicle for Artemis I (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com)— Next week (12/6 - 12/12) in 2010. Feeling salty.

Spaceflight News— Artemis I Launch (nasaspaceflight.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (HT MCC: twitter.com/derekdotspace) — SLS suffered slight hurricane damage prior to launch (spacenews.com) — SLS still had LH2 leaks (nasaspaceflight.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/ZachSellinger) — A bad ethernet switch took down range assets (HT deltaV: twitter.com/thesheetztweetz) — Post-launch photo opportunities were limited (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) (twitter.com/wapodavenport)— Artemis I Ride-alongs and little ‘uns (twitter.com/jeff_foust) (parabolicarc.com)— CAPSTONE arrives at the Moon (spacenews.com)— Orion completes TLI (spacenews.com) (youtu.be)Short & Sweet— Hermeus completes key test towards hypersonic aircraft (HT Czarified, Csaba: defenseone.com) (HT Czarified: youtube.com)— Busy week of spacewalkin’ (space.com) (space.com) (space.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)— Japan formalizes its commitment (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Cygnus array jam photo (twitter.com/Space_Pete)— Csaba: Real-time Artemis I tracker (nasa.gov) (eyes.nasa.gov)— DeltaV: Rocket 4 Payload User’s guide (twitter.com/Astra)Interview -- Margaret Weitekamp, Curator and Chair of the Space History department at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum— airandspace.si.edu — twitter.com/mgtwspace— facebook.com/margaret.weitekamp.12— Buy the book: (amazon.com) (barnesandnoble.com) (smithsonianbooks.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 27 Nov, 2012. The end of Falcon 9 Air’s development (flightglobal.com VIA 12ft.io) (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) — Orbital designed Pegasus II “Thunderbolt” as a replacement (space.com)— Next week (11/29 - 12/5) in 2014: [Audio clue]

Spaceflight News— Cygnus Winged (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com)  (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— X-37B returns to Earth after record-breaking 900+ days in orbit (spaceforce.mil)— China changes plans for Long March 9 (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com)— Artemis I gettin’ stormy (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: LOFTID was successful (nasa.gov)This Week in Spaceflight History— Nov 17, 1967. Surveyor 6 does a brief flight from the lunar surface (nasa.gov) (PDF: sci-hub.se) (drewexmachina.com)— Next week (11/22 - 11/29) in 2012: Jumping off a not-yet-dead Roc

Spaceflight News— Rocket Lab’s Catch Me If You Can Wasn’t (parabolicarc.com) (businesswire.com) (theorbitalmechanics.com)Short & Sweet— Chinese Spaceplane Releases Object On-orbit (spacenews.com)— Spaceplane Aurora Tested at Peenemünde (spacewatch.global)— Fire Alarm Scrubs NG-18 Launch (nasaspaceflight.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Practical Engineering’s look at Endeavor’s trip through LA (youtube.com)— Vertical payload integration (youtube.com)— Reflective Layer (youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— November 11, 2013: Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer’s reentry (en.wikipedia.org) (articles.adsabs.harvard.edu) (spaceflight101.com) — GOCE had sophisticated accelerometers (HT Colin: link.springer.com)— Next week (11/15-11/21) in 1967: Actually, I thought it’d be right about this high at MECO.

Spaceflight News— VirtualAGC posts their final moonshot LM software package (github.com/virtualagc) (ibiblio.org) (github.com/thewonderidiot) (youtube.com) — Play with a virtual rope module (apolloguidance.computer) — If you own a rope module, or know someone who does, please get in touch! The vAGC group is happy to keep donors anonymous. Contact Ron Burkey: [email protected]— Project Kuiper looking for a ride (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— NASA launch slips (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com)— Polaris Dawn slips again (spacenews.com)— Centaur causes a slip (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— LeonRunningMan (discord.com) — Victus Nox contract was awarded two days before the launch.  — More info on eSR19 (defenseindustrydaily.com)— Andrew Z via email: EMU 2.0, or an EVA pod?This Week in Spaceflight History— 2 Nov, 2000. Docking of Expedition 1, beginning our continuous human presence in space. (en.wikipedia.org) (en.wikipedia.org) (Space.com VIA web.archive.org)— Next week (11/8 - 11/14) in 2013: Like Icarus, but in reverse

Spaceflight News— ISS EVAs resumed (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) — Back in March, Matthias Maurer had a leak in his suit (spacenews.com) (phys.org) (blogs.nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— Geotail in Jeopardy (space.com)— ESA turns to SpaceX (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com)— Tiangong nears completion (spacenews.com)— Polaris Dawn mission scheduled for March 2023 (space.com)— NASA orders three more Orion spacecraft (lockheedmartin.com)Interview – Joel C. Sercel PhD, CEO of TransAstra— TransAstra recently formed a partnership with Celestron (spacenews.com)— transastra.com— linkedin.com/in/joelsercel/— twitter.com/JoelSercel This Week in Spaceflight History— Oct 28, 2014: the failure of Cygnus Orb-3 (en.wikipedia.org) (everydayastronaut.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (youtube.com) — Kunetsov saved 80 NK-33s (HT Csaba: youtu.be)— Next week (11/1 - 11/7) in 2000: Making a new home, then pulling Dennis away from it.

Spaceflight News— Epsilon failure (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtu.be) (PDF: jaxa.jp)— Skyrora failure (skyrora.com) (youtube.com)— The Firefly Paradox (spacenews.com) (firefly.com) (twitter.com/seradata)— Rockets showing up at places (bbc.com) (techcrunch.com)Short & Sweet— Lucy flyby (NSF via web.archive.org) (lucy.swri.edu) (twitter.com/LucyMission)— TESS mission goes into safe mode (cnet.com)— China launched ASO-S solar observatory (nasaspaceflight.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 2008, Launch of Chandrayaan-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (eoportal.org) (pds.nasa.gov) — NASA contributed the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar experiment (nasa.gov)— Next week (10/25 - 10/31) in 2014: Swan song.

Spaceflight News— Test Fest III — Ariane 6 test fires upper stage engines (esa.int) — Aerojet-Rocketdyne tests new solid motor (rocket.com) (PAYWALL: aviationweek.com) — BE-4 full-duration firing (Video: twitter.com/torybruno) — Stoke Space ring firing (ifiberone.com) (twitter.com/stoke_space) (MP4: uploads-ssl.webflow.com VIA stokespace.com/vision) (twitter.com/jenakuns) (arstechnica.com)Short & Sweet— Ireland’s first satellite readies for launch (bbc.com) (eirsat1.ie)— Crew-5 launches to Station (americaspace.com)— Engineers regain control of CAPSTONE (spacenews.com)Interview – UVic ORCASat team: Alex Doknjas, Project Manager and Biarki Weeks, Undergrad Technical Lead— The team published a wonderful assembly timelapse (youtube.com)— Orcasat.ca— uvsd.ca— youtube.com— twitter.com/AlexDoknjas— linkedin.com/in/alexander-doknjas-5b30b310b— twitter.com/biarkiweeks— linkedin.com/in/biarki-weeks-463a9579This Week in Spaceflight History— 11 October 1968: The launch of Apollo 7 (en.wikipedia.org) (collectspace.com)— Next week (10/18 - 10/24) in 2008: Let’s start with a weather satellite

Spaceflight News— DART (spacenews.com) (planetary.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/nasa) (twitter.com/LICIACube) (twitter.com/SenBillNelson) (researchgate.net) — Transformational Solar Array experiment (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— Testing begins for first ViaSat-3 (spacenews.com)— Hubble may get a roboost (spacenews.com)— Firefly reaches orbit (spacenews.com) (youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Oct 6, 1990. Launch of Ulysses spacecraft (esa.int) (PDF: adsabs.harvard.edu) (en.wikipedia.org) — The Nutation Damper System was well described in a paper (nasa.gov)— Next week (10/11 - 10/17) in 1968: Phoenix Rising

Spaceflight News— Rocket Lab updates (satellitetoday.com) — There was a presentation for investors September 21 (youtube.com) (PDF: rocketlabusa.com) — The Archimedes Test Complex will be built at Stennis (businesswire.com)— JWST instrument suffers anomaly (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— USSF to leave GEO (aviationweek.com) (spacenews.com)— Superheavy fires seven engines (cnet.com)— Spinlaunch raises $71M (spacenews.com)— ESA seeks money to stay in space race (thespacereview.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Descent module from Soyuz T-10a reused in T-15 (youtube.com VIA twitter.com/gopalsapparapu) — See also Ep 300: DOWNLINK--Nikolas Trawny, Ph.D. (theorbitalmechanics.com)— How did N2 get into the turbopump?This Week in Spaceflight History— September 29, 2011: Launch of Tiangong-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: english.cssar.cas.cn) (spaceflightnow.com) (spaceflight101.com) — X37-B was possibly tasked to observe the station on orbit (bbc.com) — Docking hardware was purchased from Russia (russianspaceweb.com)— Next week (10/4 - 10/10) in 1990. It’s already a long enough trip without adding four years.

Spaceflight News— CAPSTONE safe mode update (advancedspace.com) (advancedspace.com) (spaceflightnow.com)Short & Sweet— SLD lander RFP (spacenews.com)— NASA requests private missions (spacenews.com)— ArianeGroup reveals reusable crewed vehicle for Ariane 6 (twitter.com/EuropeSpace360) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com/Melissandre_L)— Morpheus Space raises funds (spacenews.com)Interview – Araz Feyzi, Kayhan Space Co-Founder and CTO— twitter.com/kayhanspaceThis Week in Spaceflight History— Sept 26, 1983: Pad Abort of Soyuz T-10A (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (americaspace.com) (PDF: starsem.com)— Next week (9/27 - 10/3) in 2011: Wait two months for a robot, seven months for a human

Spaceflight News— Artemis I update (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Axiom selected for Artemis 3 space suits (space.com) (spacenews.com)— Astrobotic wins bid for Masten assets (HT deltaV: clickorlando.com) (HT deltaV: parabolicarc.com)— CAPSTONE enters safe mode (HT deltaV: twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections Burns— From the intro: Curiosity Curiosities — Curiosity picks up rock in wheel (mars.nasa.gov VIA twitter.com/kevinmgill VIA cnet.com)  — Flower shaped rock (mars.nasa.gov)— Geoff via email: Is JWST able to see the DART impact on September 26?This Week in Spaceflight History— 13 September 2007: Announcement of the Google Lunar X Prize (en.wikipedia.org) (smithsonianmag.com) (xprize.org) (ispace-inc.com) (astrobotic.com)— Next week (9/20 - 9/26) in 1983: Second birthday

Spaceflight News— Artemis I — First attempt (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (americaspace.com) — Second attempt (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Future attempts (blogs.nasa.gov) (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) — Just for fun: AR Orion model (americaspace.com)Short & Sweet— ThrustMe and Astra make propulsion sales (spacenews.com) (smallsatnews.com) (spacenews.com)— China proposes orbital nuclear reactor (space.com) (spacenews.com)— South Korea seeks funding for ambitious lunar project (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Correction Burns— Project TOMTOM: The Orbital Mechanics Think Of Missions — Check Discord#snoopy to join in on the fun! (discord.com)Interview -- Jason Armstrong, Director of Launch and Integration Services for TriSept; Chris Craddock, RocketStar CEO; Addie Dove, UCF Physics Professor and Walkabout the Galaxy co-host — Trisept.com— twitter.com/rocketstarspace— facebook.com/RocketStarSpace/— instagram.com/RocketStarSpace/— linkedin.com/company/rocketstar-llc— RocketStar’s Youtube channel (youtube.com)— Walkabout the Galaxy (sciences.ucf.edu)— The Stephen W. Hawking Center for Microgravity Research and Education (ucf.edu)This Week in Spaceflight History— 9 Sept, 1982. First and only successful launch of Conestoga (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (youtube.com)— Next week (9/13 - 9/19) in 2007: Sponsored in part by ad revenue.

Spaceflight News— Starship prep, Falcon repairs (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spaceexplored.com)Short & Sweet— Intelsat loses control of satellite (satellitetoday.com)— Starship HLS demo will keep it simple (spacenews.com)— Starliner CFT delay (spacenews.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Sept 3, 2002: Discovery of Earth-orbiting asteroid J002E3 (en.wikipedia.org) (adsabs.harvard.edu) (spaceref.com)  (PDF: ibiblio.org)— Next week (9/6 - 9/12) in 1982: Second of three outcomes: shot before leaving Independence, successfully forded the river, died of dysentery.

Spaceflight News— Artemis III landing site candidates released (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) — Artemis I rolled out August 16 (nasaspaceflight.com)— Russian spacewalk cut short (nasaspaceflight.com) (cnet.com)Short & Sweet— Northrop Grumman to start astronaut training program (northropgrumman.com)— Starship gets commercial satellite customer (spacenews.com)— Spaceplane buddies (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Correction Burns— Masten bankruptcy bids… whole or piecemeal? (spacenews.com)— Espen Urkedal via email: SLS FTS batteries?Interview - Chris Carella, Benchmark Space Systems and Mahadevan Krishnan, AASC— benchmarkspacesystems.com— aasc.spaceThis Week in Spaceflight History— 29th August 2001, Maiden launch of H-IIA (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: mhi.com)  — Two payloads were onboard: VEP-2 and LRE (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com)— Next week (8/30 - 9/5) in 2002. That’s no moon. That’s some of Huntington Beach’s finest work.

Spaceflight News— Artemis I lookahead (planetary.org) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Starlink hits bad weather (spacenews.com)— Antares gets a domestic upgrade (spacenews.com) (space.com)— SSLV falls short (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: a bid for Masten Space’s assets (parabolicarc.com)This Week in Spaceflight History—  21 Aug, 1993. Communication with Mars Observer lost (en.wikipedia.org) (web.archive.org) (msss.com) (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov) (PDF: spacese.spacegrant.org)— Next week (8/23 - 8/29) in 2001: When east meets west, it’s a good thing.

Spaceflight News— Rocket 3 is dead, long live Rocket 4 (astra.com) (spacenews.com) (astra.com)Short & Sweet— Russian Satellite might be Snooping In Orbit (space.com)— Russia remains on Station (spacenews.com)— Possible Secret Chinese spaceplane (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Real Engineering visited Spin Launch (HT Espen: youtube.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— Aug 14, 1959. Explorer 6 takes first image from Earth orbit (twitter.com/NASAhistory) (nasa.gov) (youtube.com)— Next week (8/16 - 8/22) in 1993: Missing top

Spaceflight News— Helicopters join Mars Sample Return (cnet.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasa.gov)Short & Sweet— Eutelsat/OneWeb merger (spacenews.com)— Masten Space Files for Bankruptcy (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/jeff_foust)— OSIRIS-REx shows asteroids surfaces age quickly (nasaspaceflight.com)— SLS for Artemis, SLS for commercial launches (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: a pair of reentries — CZ-5B (twitter.com/W0lverineupdate) (vxtwitter.com/KadekDwiArista) (twitter.com/Drizzle78878087) — Dragon (twitter.com/MarcusHouse)This Week in Spaceflight History— August 2, 1993: Titan IV loss of vehicle on ascent (en.wikipedia.org) (thespacereview.com) (spaceline.org) — Pratt and Whitney had a list of known problems with grain restrictor (PDF: gobluechase.files.wordpress.com)— Next week (8/9 - 8/15) in 1959. Partial power picture.

Spaceflight News— Wentian launched (nasaspaceflight.com) — An array of new research facilities is onboard (twitter.com/CNSpaceflight) — CZ-5B may experience an uncontrolled reentry (twitter.com/TheSpaceGal)Short & Sweet— Impulse and Relativity announce joint mission to Mars (nasaspaceflight.com)— Nancy Grace has a ride to space (spacenews.com)— First private company to launch from French Guiana (isaraerospace.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Gopal via Discord: BE-4 reuse plans (discordapp.com) (twitter.com)— Unc' Willy via Discord: Titan II bwooop (discordapp.com) (youtu.be)Interview – R. Matt Villarreal, Founder and CEO of Infinite Composites— infinitecomposites.com— twitter.com/infinite_c_t— twitter.com/mattvillarreal — linkedin.com/company/infinite-composites — linkedin.com/in/rmattvillarreal— instagram.com/infinitecomposites— facebook.com/infinitecompositesThis Week in Spaceflight History— July 28 1961: NASA invitation to bids for Apollo prime contract (astronautix.com) (PDF HT Mike Stewart: ia800308.us.archive.org VIA archive.org) — Ep 220 featured the LEM contract (thanks The Greek!) (theorbitalmechanics.com)— Next week (8/2 - 8/8) in 1993: Space is dangerous, and another word for space is gap.

Spaceflight News— ABL static fire (spacenews.com)— Rocket Factory Augsburg static fire (rfa.space)— Superheavy FOOMPF (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) — Post-fire images/video show apparent sheet metal blow-outs (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) — New, possibly replacement, engines arrived at the pad (twitter.com/NicAnsuini) — Going forward, SPX won’t be doing simultaneous spin-starts (twitter.com/elonmusk)— Ariane 6 ground support equipment (esa.int) (spacedaily.com)Short & Sweet— New robotic arm for ISS (spacenews.com)— Rogozin moves on (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (meduza.io)— CAPSTONE completes second TCM (advancedspace.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Dennis: Parmitano’s leak was caused by tap water (youtube.com)— From the intro: JWST beauty shots (flickr.com) (PDF HT MMC: stsci.edu) (HT MMC: youtube.com/jwstobserver)This Week in Spaceflight History— 24 July, 1992. Launch of the Geotail spacecraft (PDF: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com VIA ​​wiley.com) (jaxa.jp) (eoportal.org) — The unusual HEO orbit used is viewable on SatelliteXplorer (HT SciKyle: geoxc-apps.bd.esri.com)— Next week (7/26 - 8/1) in 1961: Twelve Prime

Spaceflight News— CAPSTONE’s gone. And now it’s back! (space.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (satellitetoday.com) — AS published a Ballistic Lunar Transfer cheat-sheet (PDF: amazonaws.com VIA advancedspace.com) — TCM-1C may not be necessary (nasa.gov) (advancedspace.com)Short & Sweet— Minotaur II explodes (thehill.com) (noozhawk.com)— X-37B beats own record on orbit (space.com)— Starship 24 readies for flight (interestingengineering.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/SpaceX) (twitter.com/SpaceX)This Week in Spaceflight History— 16th July, 2013: Luca Parmitano’s leaky suit on EVA-23 (PDF: nasa.gov) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) — The water separator drum holes were blocked with mineral deposits (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) — Airlock Cooling Loop Recovery ion beds were implicated (PDF: ttu-ir.tdl.org) — EMU was developed with on-orbit rescue in mind. (PDF: nescacademy.nasa.gov)— Next week (7/19 - 7/25) in 1992: Electro-coccyx.

Spaceflight News— CAPSTONE (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) (advancedspace.com) — Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System (CAPS) (advancedspace.com) (PDF: hou.usra.edu) (PDF: mstl.atl.calpoly.edu)Short & Sweet— Aerospace firm to build launch complex in Maine (bangordailynews.com)— Perseverance wind sensor damaged (space.com)— Two out of two xEVAS ain’t bad! (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov)This Week in Spaceflight History— 5 Jul, 1966. Launch of AS-203 (en.wikipedia.org) (drewexmachina.com) (youtube.com) (hq.nasa.gov)— Next week (7/12 - 7/18) in 2013: No alarms and no surprises, except the one

Spaceflight News— SLS WDR FIFI (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF)— SRB Hydraulic Power Unit hot fire test was completed successfully (PDF p107: klabs.org) (twitter.com/cbs_spacenews)Short & Sweet— Psyche launch delayed to 2023 (spacenews.com)— Atoms for Space (space.com)— Starlink interference from 5G (engadget.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Bill Baobab via email: Occultation techniques — 90 Antiope was “richly” imaged using a multiple observer technique (PDF HT Bill: hal.archives-ouvertes.fr VIA hal.archives-ouvertes.fr) — Lucy targets - occultation maps (swri.edu) — 2022-03-27 Polymele occultation (swri.edu)— From the intro: Cygnus reboosts (blogs.nasa.gov)This Week in Spaceflight History— 28 June, 1979. Progress 7 brings first deployable telescope, KRT-10, to Salyut 6 (stackexchange.com) (ru.wikipedia.org) (astronautix.com) (spacefacts.de)— Next week (7/5 - 7/11) in 1966: If a rocket explodes, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Spaceflight News— Lucy in the news with updates (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) (youtube.com)Short & Sweet— Starliner gets its first crew (spacenews.com)— ISS performs debris avoidance maneuver (nasa.gov)— Markusic steps down as CEO of Firefly (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— From the intro: Perseverance sees something shiny (planetary.org)This Week in Spaceflight History— June 27, 1982: Launch of Columbia, STS-4 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de)  — This was one of the Scotchguard flights (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (twitter.com/DrPhiltill) — Ejection seats were installed (and enabled) for only a handful of early Shuttle flights (PDF: nasa.gov) — Neither SRB was recovered (core.ac.uk) (aero-news.net) — Science payload included MLR (ntrs.nasa.gov)— Next week (6/28 - 7/4) in 1979: Really big eye-in-the-sky.