The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

Spaceflight news— Near-miss of IRAS and GGSE-4 (c4isrnet.com) (spacenews.com) (kiro7.com) (space.com) — Image of post-conjunction trails (twitter.com/juliancd38)— NASA selects first commercial-destination module for ISS (nasa.gov) (spacenews.com)Short & Sweet— Voyager 2 malfunction (voyager.jpl.nasa.gov)— JWST’s launch date will likely slip again. (arstechnica.com)— CHEOPS takes big step towards coming online and taking data (sci.esa.int)Questions, comments, corrections— From the intro: Hi-Rise returns better imagery of the Schiaparelli crash (uahirise.org)— Nick via email: skydiving parachutes have risers for reefingThis week in SF history— February 5, 1947: the birth of Mary Cleave (wikipedia.org) (historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov)— Next week in 1965: Sitting behind a boilerplate.