The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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

Spaceflight News -- Long March 10 hot firing (spacenews.com) (weixin.qq.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) -- Latest taikonaut class selected (space.com) Short & Sweet -- ESA gets involved in Vega C’s transfer (europeanspaceflight.com) -- Ariane 6 gets dressed (spacenews.com) -- Starliner’s extended ISS stay (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- Next week (7/1 - 7/8) in 1994: From rocket to lab

Spaceflight News -- Starliner OFT (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/cbs_spacenews) (twitter.com/SciGuySpace) -- Suni Williams gave a tour on orbit (HT Dennis O: youtube.com) Short & Sweet -- Chinese space plane proximity ops (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) -- NASA selects companies to explore Mars Sample Return methods (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) -- VOYAGER’S BACK!!! (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: ISS replicates War of the Worlds radio drama (space.com) (twitter.com/airplaneian) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 24 Jun, 1982. Soyuz T-6 carries Jean-Loup Chrétien, the first Frenchman, to Salyut 7 (en.wikipedia.org) (spacefacts.de) -- Next week (6/25 - 7/1) in 1983: Six seconds calls for vodka

Spaceflight News -- Starship Test Flight 4 (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtube.com) (spacey.space/@spmttracker) Short & Sweet -- Vast plans for ESA (spacenews) -- Chang’e-6 has its moon rocks (spacenews) (spacenews.com) -- Hubble Hobble (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- RIP Bill Anders (apnews.com) -- Traches: Relativity and Novas (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 11 June, 2008. Launch of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (en.wikipedia.org) (nasa.gov) -- Next week (6/18 - 6/24) in 1982: First wolf in space?

Spaceflight News -- ThinkSubOrbital (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) (spacenews.com) (youtube.com) (sbir.gov) (sbir.gov) Short & Sweet -- Starliner scrub (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) -- Indian startup Agnikul Notches launches first flight (payloadspace.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: -- Chang’e 6 landing (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) -- Dear Moon canceled (spacenews.com) -- Deathkin via discord.com: Centaur’s not a workhorse -- Heads up for a recurrent nova! (planetary.org) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 8 June in 1959: Regulus Missile Mail (HT SciKyle: postalmuseum.si.edu) -- Next week (6/11 - 6/17) in 2008: A salty Italian

Spaceflight News -- More Starliner Delays (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: twitter.com/jeff_foust) (spacenews.com) (HT deltaV: https://arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet -- U.S. accuses Russia of launching countersat weapon (spacenews.com) (payloadspace.com) -- Redwire wins award for European lunar lander’s robot arm (europeanspaceflight.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections -- From the intro: Bepi-Colombo power failure (esa.int) -- Ryan R: Technology Connections talked about heterodyne radios (youtube.com VIA discord.com) Interview -- Justin Fiaschetti, CEO and Co-Founder of Inversion -- twitter.com/InversionSpace -- inversionspace.com -- linkedin.com -- linkedin.com This Week in Spaceflight History -- 2 Jun, 2003. Launch of Mars Express (en.wikipedia.org) (russianspaceweb.com) (universetoday.com) -- Next week (6/4 - 6/10) in 1959: A short-term version of the above

Spaceflight News -- NASA Joins Rosalind Franklin Team (spacenews.com) -- Unknown Russian sat launched (sattrackcam.blogspot.com) (russianspaceweb.com) Short & Sweet -- Georgia scraps Spaceport Camden (actionnewsjax.com) -- Starliner leaks Helium (spacenews) This Week in Spaceflight History -- 27 May, 1999: The launch of STS-96 (nasa.gov) (nss.org) (eoportal.org) (nasa.gov) (youtu.be) -- Next week (5/28 - 6/3) in 2003: The last opportunity that was this good was 60,000 years ago

Spaceflight News — Chang’e-6 mission underway (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (nature.com) (spacenews.com) Short & Sweet — Starliner delayed (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (spacenews.com) — Long March 6C makes first flight (cgtn.com) (spacenews.com) — Neutron debut slips into 2025 (payloadspace.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: Zubrin opinion piece on MSR (spacenews.com) Interview -- Adam Higginbotham — Preorder Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space (simonandschuster.com) — adamhigginbotham.com — twitter.com/HigginbothamA This Week in Spaceflight History — 14 May, 2009: Launch of Herschel Space Observatory (en.wikipedia.org) (cosmos.esa.int) (planetary.org) — Next week (5/21 - 5/27) in 1999: Putting schoolchildren to work

Spaceflight News — Artemis I Lessons (spacenews.com) (PDF: oig.nasa.gov VIA oig.nasa.gov) Short & Sweet — Thunder from down under (abc.net.au) (abc.net.au) (southernlaunch.space) — JAXA’s SLIM survives third lunar night (japantimes.co.jp) This Week in Spaceflight History — May 9, 1963: Launch of West Ford 2 (PDF: orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov VIA orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov) (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci-hub.se) (stuffin.space) — Next week (5/14 - 5/20) in 2009: The first space telescope

Spaceflight News — Voyager is communicative! (blogs.nasa.gov) — ESA debris removal mission finds a new target (satellitetoday.com) Short & Sweet — China releases a lunar landing update (spacenews) — TESS enters safe mode… again (nasa.gov) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Dennis O: SOFIA clarifications (discord.com) (youtube.com) — VAXheadroom shot SOFIA some footage in 2012 (youtube.com) (youtube.com) Interview -- Jeff Williams, CEO/CTO Exum Instruments — Jeff co-authored a paper that is a good primer on spectroscopy and Massbox (spectroscopyonline.com) — exuminstruments.com — linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-williams-372118128 This Week in Spaceflight History — 9 Apr, 1999: Titan IVB (402) takes DSP-19 (USA 142) to GEO (astronautix.com) (klabs.org) — 30 Apr, 1999. Titan IVB (401) takes Milstar-3 (USA 143) to GEO (washingtonpost.com) (PDF: direct.mit.edu VIA direct.mit.edu) — Next week (5/7 - 5/13) in 1963: Not a good day for trypanophobics

Spaceflight News — Lunar buggy selection (spacenews.com) (PDF: sam.gov VIA sam.gov) (twitter.com/DubnHG1) (nikkei.com) Short & Sweet — Dragonfly mission officially confirmed (nasa.gov) — Mars Sample Revamp (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Unc Willy: Cape launch complexes (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 26 Apr, 2007. First flight of SOFIA (en.wikipedia.org) (747sp.com) (HT Colin: youtube.com) — Next week (4/30 - 5/6) in 1999: Taped too tightly

Spaceflight News — Last Delta IV heavy (spacenews.com) (americaspace.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) (PDF: ulalaunch.com) (arstechnica.com) Short & Sweet — Relativity Space wins contract (spacenews) — Japan secures a moon landing (spacenews) — Max Space Modules (spacenews) Questions, Comments, Corrections — Csaba via Discord: SOIR means "evening" in French, pretty clever pun (discord.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 19 Apr, 1975. Launch of Aryabhata satellite (lowyinstitute.org) (ursc.gov.in) (en.wikipedia.org) — Next week (4/23 - 4/29) in 2007: Looking at stars through a wall

Spaceflight News — Broken records and Starship’s near future (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com) Short & Sweet — New Shepard Plans Crewed Flight (spacenews.com) — Lunar Rover Mk 2 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — April 11, 2006: Arrival of Venus Express at Venus (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int VIA sci.esa.int) — Next week (4/16 - 4/22) in 1975: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000

Spaceflight News — Orbital Reef Rundown (nature.com) (PDF: star.spaceops.org VIA star.spaceops.org) (genesisesi.com) — Artemis 3 now has 3 experiments (nasa.gov) (hou.usra.edu) Short & Sweet — A Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine flies for first time (HT Andrew Z: autoevolution.com) — A Nascent Solution For Voyager 1 (spacenews.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 6 Apr, 1965: Launch of Intelsat I, the first commercial satellite in GEO (en.wikipedia.org) (boeing.com) (space.skyrocket.de) (astronautix.com VIA web.archive.org) — Next week (4/9 - 4/15) in 2006: The mission that went to hell in 5 months

Spaceflight News — Starship IFT-3 (spacenews.com) (twitter.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Euclid spacecraft addresses ice-buildup on optics (asdnews.com) — Ariane 6 coming together (esa.int) — Soyuz aborts at the pad (spacenews.com) Questions, Comments, Corrections — From the intro: launch escape slide (youtube.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 17 Mar, 2002. Launch of GRACE spacecraft (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: nasa.gov) (esa.int) (skyrocket.de) (nasa.gov) — Next week (4/2 - 4/8) in 1965: Catching GEO worms

Interview — Professor Dante Lauretta — The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System (hachettebookgroup.com) — facebook.com/AZAstrobiology — threads.net/@azastrobiology — instagram.com/azastrobiology — Thanks to Grand Central Publishing (twitter.com/GrandCentralPub) (instagram.com/grandcentralpub)

Spaceflight News — Stoke Space focusing on first stage (nasaspaceflight.com) (youtu.be) Short & Sweet — Tianhe’s solar arrays patched (space.com) — Stratolaunch tests Talon (spacenews.com) (spacenews.com) — Starship Flight 3 on its way (spacenews.com) (space.com) This Week in Spaceflight History — 16 Mar, 1966. Recovery of Veterok and Ugolyok, who to this day hold the record for longest canine spaceflight (Kosmos 110) (en.wikipedia.org) (ru.wikipedia.org) (veterok-ugolyok.gmik.ru) (astronaut.ru) — Next week (3/19 - 3/25) in 2017: Dry, wet, and lumpy