The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight News— Starship SN3 Collapse (space.com) (arstechnica.com) (twitter.com/elonmusk) — RIP Starship Mk1 (twitter.com/NASASpaceflight) — RIP Starship SN1 (twitter.com/WyattJGeorge/) — Starship SN2’s thrust puck (https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/41761/what-is-a-thrust-puck-on-starship)— Jamestown Base considered for real (spacenews.com) (PDF: nasa.gov) — Laura Forczyk poll: “What’s a reasonable new goal [for Artemis 3]?” (twitter.com/LauraForczyk)Short & Sweet— Virgin Orbit selects site in Japan for horizontal launches. (spacenews.com)— NASA selects SunRISE. (nasaspaceflight.com)Interview: Jordan Noone, Cofounder/CTO, Relativity Space— USC rocket propulsion lab (uscrpl.com)— twitter.com/theJordanNoone— twitter.com/Relativityspace— relativityspace.comThis week in SF history— March 7 1962: launch of OSO-1 (nasa.gov) (wikipedia.org) (PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov)— Next week in 1965: Five alive