The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Rocket Lab completes successful demonstration of mid-air capture. (rocketlabusa.com) (youtube.com) (spacenews.com) — Tim Dodd published a great interview with Peter Beck (youtu.be)Short & Sweet— Mars helicopter has been attached to NASA rover. (nasa.gov)— Starliner gets a second flight test. (spacenews.com)— Long March Fails to loft Nusantara Dua (spacenews.com) (spaceflightnow.com)— Masten Space Systems wins lunar lander award from NASA. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— Chris Hofmann: It’s not LOX vents that have flares, it’s Methane.— Ben Hallert and Chris Hofmann: Grasshopper didn’t explode, that was F9R dev (twitter.com/chairboy/)— Ben Hallert: “Starpopper” was the same thing as SN1. (twitter.com/chairboy)— Eric Blood via email: worm logo (PDF: nasa.gov)— Apollo 13: Home Safe viewing party — April 14, Tuesday at 7 p.m. Eastern — Join us on Discord and Watch2Gether! (discordapp.com) (watch2gether.com)This week in SF history— 16 April 1965: first five-engine te