The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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

Spaceflight News — Shenzhou-19 reaches Tiangong (spaceflightnow.com) — Mirror platform for Tiangong (news.cgtn.com) (youtube.com) — Low-cost Tiangong cargo S/C (spacenews.com) — “Kinetica-2 [selected] as top launcher choice” (twitter.com/cas_space) — Crewed moon rover (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/YuqiiQian) Short & Sweet — Artemis heat shield chunks (spacenews.com) — Liquid water on Mars (nature.com VIA nasaspaceflight.com) (news.berkeley.edu) — California startup develops ABEP system (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — November 8, 2004: First launch of a Soyuz 2 carrier rocket (en.wikipedia.org) (v2rockethistory.com) — Next week (11/12 - 11/18) in 1981: 40% of the mission, 90% of the objectives.

Spaceflight News — Starship Flight 5 Review “Leaked” (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) (spacenews.com) (HT DennisO: x.com/StarshipGazer) Short & Sweet — Crew-8 post-landing medical issue (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) — Companies to bring commercial launch to Ireland (europeanspaceflight.com) — ACS-3’s a little crooked (space.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) — Mars Sample Revision (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Aerojet 260 solid rocket test (en.wikipedia.org) This Week in Spaceflight History — 3 Nov, 1994. Launch of STS-66 (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (nss.org) (youtu.be) — Next week (11/5 - 11/11) in 2004: A blind bowling ball

Thanks to Dennis O for naming this week’s episode! Spaceflight News — Intelsat 33e loses power and blows up (spacenews.com) (x.com/S4S_SDA) (reddit.com) Short & Sweet — Sirius Space hot fire (europeanspaceflight.com) — A Firefly to launch a Jackal (satellitetoday.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Ross Peterson: Super Heavy’s reentry heating — Taylor S Marks: ISS graveyard orbit (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 27 Oct, 1992. Launch of the Znamya 2 solar power antenna (en.wikipedia.org) (thespacereview.com) (qsl.net) (skypub.com VIA web.archive.org) — Next week (10/29 - 11/4) in 1994: holding the weight of LEO on your shoulders

Spaceflight News — Worries about ISS making a splash (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (space.com) Short & Sweet — X-37B to perform aerobraking maneuver (defenseone.com) — Rocket Lab wins Mars Sample Return concept award (spacenews.com) — Vast unveils details on Haven-1 (payloadspace.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Starship Flight Test 5 (youtu.be) (nasaspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — October 17, 1974: Founding of OTRAG (en.wikipedia.org) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) (bernd-leitenberger.de) — Next week (10/22 - 10/28) in 1992: To shreds, you say!

Spaceflight News -- Vulcan anomaly (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (spaceflightnow.com) (spacenews.com) (twitter.com/dwisecinema) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Voyager 2 turns off science instrument (inverse.com) -- Super bright Qianfan satellites (spacenews.com) -- NASA reduces rate of ISS leak (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- Unc’ Willy: Crossfield’s employer (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 8 Oct, 2012: The launch of CRS-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (nasaspaceflight.com) -- Next week (10/15 - 10/21) in 1974: The original SpaceX

Spaceflight News -- VIPER opinions (spacenews.com) (sam.gov) Short & Sweet -- Chinese lunar spacesuit revealed (cgtn.com) (space.com) -- Upper stage anomaly grounds Falcon 9 (space.com) (spacenews.com) -- MaiaSpace moves in (spacenews) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 2 Oct, 1921. Birth of Scott Crossfield (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: govinfo.gov) (magazine.washington.edu) -- Next week (10/8 - 10/14) in 2012: A boxy box delivery

Spaceflight News -- ISRO rising (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Iran successfully launches research satellite (almayadeen.net) -- Ariane 6 software fix (spacenews.com) -- Yutu 2 turns six (space.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Sirius Space will launch from Australia (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- Launch of Shenzhou 7 (神舟七号) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nescacademy.nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (youtube.com) -- Next week (10/1 - 10/7) in 1921: Flying with Michael Burnham

Spaceflight News -- Landspace lands (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) Short & Sweet -- New Glenn to attempt landing (HT Chris Radcliff: https://twitter.com/davill) -- Chang’e-6 extended mission (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Polaris Dawn spacewalk (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 22 Sep, 2006. Launch of Hinode (日の出) (nasa.gov) (eoportal.org) (esa.int) (en.wikipedia.org) -- Next week (9/24 - 9/30) in 2008: And then there were three

Spaceflight News -- BepiColombo insertion delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (esa.int) Short & Sweet -- EscaPADE DelAYED (spacenews.com) -- Starliner Returned (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) -- Vega’s final launch (satellitetoday.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Blue Origin’s new drone ship (HT DennisO: https://x.com/_mgde_) (space.com) -- Haragopal: Europa Clipper’s flying on Falcon Heavy, not New Glenn (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 10 Sept, 2009: The launch of HTV-1 (en.wikipedia.org) (humans-in-space.jaxa.jp) (PDF: nasa.gov) -- Next week (9/17 - 9/23) in 2006: Flying to where the Sun never rises

Spaceflight News -- B1062 lost (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (HT ArcadeEngineer: twitter.com) Short & Sweet -- Intuitive Machines selected for lunar South Pole mission (spacenews.com) -- Stoke Space wins contract to prototype cargo delivery (satellitetoday.com) (stokespace.com) -- Starliner wob wob (spacenews.com) (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (blogs.nasa.gov) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Europa Clipper (planetary.org) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 6 Sept, 1988: The troublesome landing of Soyuz TM-5 (russianspaceweb.com) (en.wikipedia.org) -- Next week (9/10 - 9/16) in 2009: Stork with a smile

Spaceflight News -- Starliner crew to return on Dragon (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet -- EscaPADE arrives in Florida (spacenews.com) -- SLS gets bumped up a block (spacenews) -- RFA first stage lost in test-firing anomaly (arstechnica.com) (spacenews.com) (europeanspaceflight.com) (youtu.be) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 27 Aug, 1985. Launch of STS-51-I (PDF: nasa.gov) (youtube.com) (forum.nasaspaceflight.com) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov) (wikiarchives.space) (en.wikipedia.org) -- Next week (9/3 - 9/9) in 1988: Shouldn’t have had that last cup of coffee

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! -- rocketlabusa.com 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

Spaceflight News -- Megadebris? (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (slingshot.space) Short & Sweet -- NEOWISE ends operations (space.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Starliner still stuck at Station (spaceflightnow) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From Upcoming Spaceflight Events: -- JUICE Earth flyby #1 on Aug 19/20 (esa.int) -- Online FAA meeting RE: Starship launch cadence on Aug 20 (faa.gov) This Week in Spaceflight History -- August 15, 1969: Creation of ISRO (en.wikipedia.org) (britannica.com) -- Next week (8/20 - 8/26) in 1958: Catching a second wind

Spaceflight News -- ADRAS-J rendezvous (HT Zach: twitter.com/CRD2_JAXA) (astroscale.com) (PDF: astroscale.com VIA astroscale.com) Short & Sweet -- POLARIS spaceplane startup back on track (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Dawn does docking (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: JWST looks at Epsilon Indi A (nasaspaceflight.com) -- Ryan R: TEA-TEB is a pre-mixed fluid (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 10 Aug, 1992. Launch of the first major oceanographic research satellite, TOPEX/Poseidon (en.wikipedia.org) (jpl.nasa.gov) (eoportal.org) (aviso.altimetry.fr) -- T/P data is used in this sea level rise dashboard (climate.nasa.gov) -- Next week (8/13 - 8/19) in 1969: This agency is ro-bust

Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Return to Flight (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet -- ABL Static fire failure (spacenews.com) -- Starliner Debugging (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- The RAX bug was caused by differing clocks (youtube.com) Interview -- Martin Frederick, Northrop Grumman Corporate Director, Civil Space Programs -- linkedin.com -- Further reading: -- JWST (northropgrumman.com) -- TRMM (gpm.nasa.gov) (trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov) This Week in Spaceflight History -- July 31, 1992: Launch of Atlantis on STS-46 (en.wikipedia.org) (americaspace.com) -- EURECA was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-57 (theorbitalmechanics.com) -- TSS-1 was also the subject of a TWSF about STS-75 (theorbitalmechanics.com) -- Next week (8/6 - 8/12) in 1992: The zeroth argonaut.

Spaceflight News -- NASA nixes VIPER (spacenews.com) (newscientist.com) European Short & Sweet -- Ariane 6 may carry crew (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Europe announces RAMSES mission to Apophis (arstechnica.com) (esa.int) -- Themis gets delayed (europeanspaceflight.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 29 Jul, 1999. Deep Space 1, NASA’s first S/C with ion propulsion, flies by asteroid 9969 Braille (en.wikipedia.org) -- We interviewed DS-1’s chief mission engineer and deputy mission manager Marc Rayman in Episode 75 (theorbitalmechanics.com) -- Ron Garret discussed the RAX bug in his talk The Remote Agent Experiment (youtube.com) -- Next week (7/30 - 8/5) in 1992: We’ll hang on to this one, and come back for that one later

Spaceflight News -- Falcon 9 Failure (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Ariane 6 anomaly (europeanspaceflight.com) (spaceflightnow.com) -- Hyperbola-1 mishap (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Europa Clipper faces last-minute obstacle (space.com) -- Dawn gets green light for spaceplane tests (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 17 July, 1977. First launch of a complete TKS spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (nasa.gov) -- Next week (7/23 - 7/29) in 1999: Is that a grid of dots on that asteroid?

Spaceflight News -- Luch (Olymp) 2 “caught” snooping (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) (thespacereview.com) Short & Sweet -- The Poles make it to space! (europeanspaceflight.com) -- ISRO announces major size increase to Indian space station (x.com/ISROSpaceflight) Interview -- MSI-DFAT -- We talked to: -- Alex Carrella, VP Strategy & Growth -- Bradley Hope, Business Manager -- Max Myers, Systems Engineer/Lead Rigger -- Before DFAT (and RFAT), we had feet. (youtube.com) -- msidfat.com -- linktr.ee/msidfat This Week in Spaceflight History -- July 12, 2001. Launch of Artemis GEO satellite (en.wikipedia.org) (esa.int) (PDF: esa.int) -- Next week (7/16 - 7/22) in 1977: One month now, 312 months later

Spaceflight News -- The Vulcan train is leaving the station (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet -- Starliner’s extended-er ISS stay (spacenews.com) -- A not-so-static test fire (spacenews.com) -- Resurs P1 breaks up (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: (americaspace.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 8 July, 1994. Launch of STS-65 (en.wikipedia.org) -- Next week (7/9 - 7/15) in 2001: Spiraling into control