The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

This week in SF history— August 30, 1931. Birth of Jack Swigert (wikipedia.org)— Next week in 1914: You know what might have killed Swigert….Spaceflight news— Uncrewed Soyuz aborts docking. (spacenews.com) — Second attempt delayed to free up a new docking port. (twitter.com/roscosmos)Short & Sweet— Astrobotic chooses ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to deliver its lunar lander (astrobotic.com)— Sierra-Nevada selects ULA. (spacenews.com)— Europa Clipper passes Key Decision Point-C (arstechnica.com)Data Relay—Hot Structures— Thanks to Ben Crews for researching and presenting this topic! (linkedin.com)— X-15 Hardware Design Challenges (PDF: nasa.gov)— NASA solicitation for research on hot structures (sbir.gov)— Multifunctional Hot Structure (HOST) Heat Shield (techbriefs.com)— Heat Shield Concepts and Materials for Reentry Vehicles (includes some familiar lifting-body vehicle form proposals!) (PDF: dtic.mil)— Advances in Hot Structure Development (Brief with link to PDF: nasa.gov)— Thermal-Structural Optimizat