The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

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: Cyg

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: info@sandroid.org— 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 -

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) (col

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 (russi

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/— ins

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.