The Orbital Mechanics Podcast

This week in SF history— 18 July 1980: first successful launch of SLV, lofting Rohini RS-1 to orbit. (wikipedia.org)(wikipedia.org)Spaceflight news— Chandrayaan-2 summary (planetary.org)(wikipedia.org)— InSight Lander’s heat probe is stuck. (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— First Starhopper test hop coming up (spacenews.com)— Firefly partners up to build a lunar lander. (spacenews.com)— Tiangong-2 is ready to deorbit. (spacenews.com)Questions, comments, corrections— RPG night scheduled! (patreon.com) — Friday August 30 at 5.30pm PT/8.30pm ET — Same setting, new game! (Risus)